The fall-out of Danny Boyle's decision to walk away from directing Bond 25 is still rumbling on, with one of the main after-effects being a shock to the film's scheduling.

The Hollywood Reporter has suggested the film will miss its 25 October 2019 release date and instead be pushed back by a year to late 2020.

However, that might be a bit premature. Deadline reports insiders as saying that Bond 25 can still make its original release date if a replacement for Boyle is found in the next 60 days.

These same insiders also reckon that an approach has already been made to Dallas Buyers Club's director Jean-Marc Vallee, while they also floated the possibility of Edgar Wright taking the helm. David Mackenzie, who directed Hell Or High Water, and Yann Demange, who did '71 and White Boy Rick, are also reportedly on the shortlist.

There were a couple of other interesting details from the Hollywood Reporter's story too. The initial explanation for the split between Bond and Boyle was a "creative difference" over the casting of Tomasz Kot as a Russian villain, but in the Reporter's telling, it was a clash over a script by Boyle's longtime collaborator John Hodge.

Hodge, who also wrote Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, Trance and T2: Trainspotting, had put together a draft script after Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who've written all of Daniel Craig's Bond films, wrote an initial draft. However, apparently the Bond camp weren't as into Hodge's draft as Boyle was, and he walked.