It'll be interesting to see how, or if, EON will respond to this rumor as it becomes more widespread.
They'll ignore it like they've always done. And this one is not as big a rumour as on previous productions.
They're laughing at this right now given how utterly dumb the idea is...Indeed, they're licking their chops at how they're gonna line their pockets given all this free publicity.
When you get free publicity, you let it ride all the way to the bank.
They'll probably ignore it now, but if the rumor keeps growing and doesn't eventually go away, then at some point, probably a future press conference, they'll most likely be asked to address it by the media.
I'm not willing, though, to dismiss the rumor yet. While it's most likely untrue, it's not completely out of the question. Who would have thought that, prior to preproduction on QoS, that EON would be able to get a quality director in the league of Marc Forster. I think that once such quality filmmakers are brought on board, that high quality actors are more than likely soon to follow. While I doubt that we'll see Pacino in QoS, I can't say that I'd be particularly shocked if this turned out to be true, either, considering the direction that EON is taking the franchise and the amount of credibility that names like Haggis and Forster bring to the franchise.
