Sony Emails Reveal New Bond Movie SPECTRE Is Way Over Budget

When hackers broke into Sony's computer system, they stole a ton of information including emails from MGM president Jonathan Glickman, as MGM is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Those internal memos contain some juicy information regarding the next James Bond film, Spectre. Most alarming, Glickman is worried about the film's immense budget. He says it currently "sits in the mid $300Ms," and wants the producers to cut it down to $250 million. CNN came across these emails and has this bit of additional info, "The shooting period already costs $50 million more than the previous film, Skyfall."

Glickman provided some suggestions to bring down the budget:

• Villa in Rome? It's a nighttime scene, so try doing it in London instead.
• There's fighting on a train! Again! But use fewer carriages -- three instead of four.
• Forget the dramatic finale in the rain. It'll lower the cost of visual/special effects.
• Earn an extra $6 million by showing "the more modern aspects" of Mexico to maximize "the Mexican incentive." (The makers of Spectre are getting paid to film there.)

The emails also show that director Sam Mendes wants to cast Andrew Scott (who plays villain Dr. Moriarty in the Sherlock TV show) as Bond's intelligence agency boss, "C." And MGM can afford it, because they can pay Scott $1 million less than they were going to pay Chiwetel Ejiofor.

A few more tidbits: There's a "lesbian bad lady." And yes, we will meet Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the evil genius behind the creepy, secret transnational organization SPECTRE.

A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.