The most, optimistic? Reason I can think is he got the plot from an intern who saw it on a note he was made to photocopy, and Baz has added total bollocks around it to not give his source away.
Possible. Then again, the whole reasoning about Waller-Bridge being the one writer who can make this accessible⌠Either they really talked themselves into that hype or it is just a mishmash of different leaked things.
Maybe Baz was just bored at work.
As are we.
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Quite.
Then you all have my permission to leave work early as today has already been won by the Mail Online comment below.
I think Iâll give it a miss. If Ian Fleming didnât write it then itâs not James Bond!
Much to mull over in that, not least that if this is the comment-emitterâs stance - and it may be a noble one - then they cannot be giving anything a miss as they have never seen a Bond film anyway.
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Made my day. Iâm off. 
The curse of the Sony leak: with SPECTRE, it was fairly easy to report about a film in the making, with tons of e-mails and a couple of leaked script drafts at hand. Eon learned their lesson and are running a tight ship with this one. Everyoneâs long standing Sony insiders have no access to valid information any more, and I guess that most possible new insiders have already been shown the Spanish Inquisitionâs soft cushions.
The result is that even Baz is clutching at straws in order to keep up his reputation as a good and reliable source and that the production of B25 has ssome kind of a retro feeling to it - from the times before the interweb.
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PWB on her work:
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To cut it down to just what she says
Thereâs been a lot of talk about whether or not [the Bond franchise] is relevant now because of who he is and the way he treats women,â she said. âI think thatâs bollocks. I think heâs absolutely relevant now. It has just got to grow. It has just got to evolve, and the important thing is that the film treats the women properly. He doesnât have to. He needs to be true to this character.â
On Daniel Craig;
âWhen I saw his Bond for the first time, there was a wryness to his performance that I really loved,â she said. âSo, I was really excited about writing dialogue for him. I mean, the script was there. Itâs already there. I think itâs unfair to say that Iâm writing the script.â
So PWB herself contradicts Baz âscoopâ with thatâŚ
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ââŚand the important thing is that the film treats the women properly. He doesnât have to. He needs to be true to this character.â
Strikes me as a sensible perspective.
More sensible than the articleâs reference to Johanna Hardwood; there you were, thinking Holly Goodhead was obscene.
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Wading into this fantastic thread on my way to work , Genetics, aging 007, doe eyed new Bond lady, throw in a few horses, a velour tracksuit and a quiche- BINGO ! our ( mine and perhaps maybe OrionâsâŚ) Wish comes true! AVTK in the sun. Splendid
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Very sensible
âMawr pawar!â
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All I can say to that is thank god they hired her. I can imagine itâs tricky for a man to feel he can get away with writing misogyny these days, and fatally waters it down.
This quote shows that PWB doesnât think that she needs to tow any gender-politics line. I imagine much of her rewrites will be to add the controversial stuff previous writers were afraid to (I can hope, canât I)
Out of interest, what has changed exactly or do you think has been fatally watered down because of men being afraid of upsetting people?
Nobody can know unless they read all the drafts.
I think hiring Waller-Bridge was a very shrewd move - not because she is an excellent writer (she is not IMO) but because her involvement will work as a shield against accusations of misogyny. Just like hiring Haggis (at that time) in order to suggest Bond has prestige now.
I love Python references.
It occurred to me that Bamigboye may have been briefed to deliver his last but one article (the one about the production being bent for hellâŚ) come what may, regardless of access to sources. Now his working relationship with the powers that be is likely not what it used to be.
Meanwhile âone of the studios involved in the 007 filmâ seems to be more approachable to him than the actual production. Weâll see how many scoops he will come up with in the future.
That notion kinda makes me feel pity for Baz. How many bridges will he have burnt by towing the company line? You canât very well say no to your boss, but his work relies on trust and healthy relationships, which an article like that was sure to destroy.
Iâm not saying it happened this way. Only there seems to be a significant drop of first rate information Bamigboye has been able to report.