{"id":433936,"date":"2026-01-24T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:07:10","slug":"is-callum-turner-the-frontrunner-to-be-next-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433936\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Callum Turner the Frontrunner to Be Next James Bond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid img-aspect-3by2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/954d9b7e8a2e4f578c4fa80dab1adc35_md.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                      Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Seven actors have played iconic British spy James Bond, banking $8 billion at the box office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, there are several stars rumored to be in the running to become the next 007.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFantastic Beasts\u201d and \u201cMasters of the Air\u201d star Callum Turner has quickly emerged as a frontrunner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>British papers are reporting he\u2019s been telling friends it\u2019s a done deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And Callum\u2019s fianc\u00e9e Dua Lipa would make a great Bond girl\u2026 or could do a cool new theme song!<\/p>\n<p>Idris Elba, Jonathan Bailey, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Reg\u00e9-Jean Page, \u201cBabygirl\u201d star Harris Dickinson, and \u201cIndustry\u2019s\u201d Harry Lawtey are other Brits, whose names have also been thrown into the ring as the next possible Bond.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no announcement on the next Bond, but we know that \u201cDune\u201d filmmaker Denis Villeneuve is set to direct and \u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d creator Steven Knight is writing.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Craig has been playing the iconic character for 20 years, but he bid farewell to the franchise after the 2021 film \u201cNo Time to Die.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Seven actors have played iconic British spy James Bond, banking $8 billion at the box office.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,29194,447,134,30108],"class_list":{"0":"post-433936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-callum-turner","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-james-bond"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}