The next James Bond film—the 25th installment in the classic espionage franchise—is reportedly using the working title Shatterhand. That’s according to Production Weekly, a resource that provides production data to industry professionals. Representatives for the film have not yet confirmed that this is the working title.

Then again, Shatterhand is a Bond reference—so its use here is at least plausible. The purported title refers to Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, the alias of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a villainous character in Ian Fleming’s 1964 novel You Only Live Twice. Blofeld has popped up in several Bond films over the years, including Diamonds Are Forever, and was most recently portrayed by Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz in Spectre, released in 2015. Spoiler alert: Blofeld makes it out alive at the end of the film, so perhaps this new title alludes to the fact that Waltz will make a return in Bond 25? The franchise could do worse than featuring another Waltz-Daniel Craig showdown. But all this is just guesswork at the moment, as Waltz is not yet listed as a cast member in the upcoming movie.

There have been myriad reports about the upcoming film’s struggle with casting a new villain. When director Danny Boyle was still attached to co-write and direct the film, one of his reported sticking points with Bond producers is that he wanted Polish actor Tomasz Kot (Cold War) to play a Russian bad guy. But producers reportedly wanted to go a different route, even disagreeing with the choice to feature a modern-day Cold War in the film’s plot. Boyle ended up leaving the project entirely last August, with producers Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, and Craig later citing “creative differences,” a classic catchall, as the reason for his exit.

The film will now be directed by True Detective alum Cary Fukunaga. He’s kept mum on the details of the upcoming film, though he has said he would be open to having Waltz and actor Ben Whishaw, who played Q, return to the fold. “Those are two extraordinary actors, so if there is space for them in the story, I would absolutely want them there. But I don’t know yet what it’s going to be,” Fukunaga said.

As of now, it’s still unclear whether Shatterhand is a real title, or just a red herring meant to throw plot sniffers off the movie’s tail. If this is what the movie ends up being called, though, it would follow the recent Bond trend of using a single, slinky S-word as the title (Skyfall! Spectre!). It is also, thankfully, a much, much better title than Quantum of Solace—with all due respect to both quantum and solace.

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