28 Years Later director Danny Boyle has opened up about the one regret he has about quitting James Bond.
Back in 2018, the director suddenly departed the 25th James Bond movie, with producers citing "creative differences" as the reason behind his exit.
The film would eventually see Cary Joji Fukunaga take over as director, with the 2021 movie No Time to Die marking Daniel Craig's last appearance as 007.
Earlier this year it was announced that Amazon MGM Studios had taken creative control of the Bond franchise with Broccoli and Wilson stepping aside.
Asked by Business Insider if the news meant he would ever return to the Bond franchise as a director, Boyle said: "That ship has sailed."
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Speaking about his departure from the film, Boyle said he regretted that a script by his longtime collaborator John Hodge, who previously penned scripts for Shallow Grave, The Beach and both Trainspotting films, never saw the light of day.
"The thing I regret about that is the script was really good," Boyle explained. "John Hodge is a wonderful writer."
According to Boyle, James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson weren't as impressed with the script as the director was.
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"I don't think they appreciated how good that script was, and because they didn't, we moved on, and that's the way it should be," Boyle said.
Previously speaking about leaving the Bond film, Boyle told Empire: "We were working very, very well, but [the producers] didn't want to go down that route with us.
"So we decided to part company, and it would be unfair to say what it was because I don't know what Cary [Fukunaga] is going to do."
He continued: "What John and I were doing, I thought, was really good. It wasn't finished, but it could have been really good."
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