AICN is reporting that apparently all development on the latest James Bond film has been stopped and the project is dead — this coming after an announcement back in April that the production was on indefinite hold. If [the $4-billion-in-debt MGM] can’t get a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Frost/Nixon scribe Peter Morgan off the ground, then things seem very dire indeed. That would make two huge films guaranteed to make money — three if you factor in that The Hobbit is going to be told in two parts — that the company appears to be incapable of making.