The world’s most famous super-spy is preparing for his next mission, as the casting process for the new James Bond gets underway.<\/p>\n
The successful actor would be the seventh official actor to play Ian Fleming’s secret agent in the franchise’s 64-year history, stepping into the tuxedo worn by the likes of Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and, most recently, Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n
“The search for the next James Bond is underway,” the studio said in a statement. <\/p>\n
“While we don\u2019t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process, we\u2019re excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time is right.”<\/p>\n
Last year, it was announced that Dune director Denis Villeneuve would direct the next Bond film, a follow-up to Craig’s final outing in 2021’s No Time to Die.<\/p>\n
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight would pen the script for the film, tentatively titled Bond 26.<\/p>\n
Speculation about who will next order their martini ‘shaken, not stirred’ has been swirling for years, with the likes of A-listers Idris Elba, Henry Cavill and Cillian Murphy floated as potential successors.<\/p>\n
Others reportedly tipped to be in the running for the role were British actors Callum Turner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Harris Dickinson, and Australian star Jacob Elordi.<\/p>\n
Last year it was announced that creative control of the series was being handed off from longtime producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli to Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world’s most famous super-spy is preparing for his next mission, as the casting process for the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69,1745],"class_list":["post-430089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}