Los Angeles, Nov 11: Oscar winner Halle Berry may be joining the exalted ranks of secret agent superheroes -- becoming the star of the first movie ever spun off from the James Bond film series, one of the great moneymakers in Hollywood history. Fueled by a series of weekend interviews, talk swirled around Hollywood on Monday that Berry, who plays the beautiful but dangerous U.S. agent Jinx in the latest Bond caper, "Die Another Day," may be headed for her own spinoff movie.
Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Berry herself confirmed to interviewers over the weekend that the idea was being seriously considered. The Website Zap2it quoted Bond series producer Barbara Broccoli as saying, "There are talks about it. We are considering it." And celebrity cable network E! Entertainment quoted Berry as telling its reporter that if a spinoff movie was planned, "I would do it in a heartbeat."
Berry made similar comments in some other interviews promoting the film but added cautions in others. She said she was currently developing four to five projects.
"What happens in this town is when you start talking about a project, when you are thinking about if you want to be involved, all of the sudden it's in the paper that you are doing it," she said.
"That's how it goes. It's out of my control," she added.

Berry did say she loved playing Jinx, who both rivals Bond and works with him to catch a villain whose evil plan threatens the balance of world power in "Die Another Day."
Bureau Report