{"id":158697,"date":"2025-09-25T02:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158697\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:28:06","slug":"james-bond-26-reportedly-wants-to-cast-an-unknown-young-british-male-actor-as-next-007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158697\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond 26 Reportedly Wants to Cast an Unknown, Young, British Male Actor as Next 007"},"content":{"rendered":"

If this latest report is accurate, you can forget about Henry Cavill<\/a> or Idris Elba<\/a> being the next James Bond.<\/p>\n

According to Deadline<\/a>\u2019s sources, the filmmakers are looking to cast a \u201cfresh face\u201d as 007 in James Bond 26<\/a>, specifically an unknown male British actor in their late 20s to early 30s. <\/p>\n

This \u201cfresh face\u201d criteria would rule out a number of oft-rumored \u201cnext James Bond\u201d candidates<\/a>, including Tom Holland<\/a>, Taron Egerton<\/a>, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Although there were recent reports about unknown English actor Scott Rose-Marsh<\/a> screen-testing as 007 for Bond 26 director Denis Villeneuve<\/a>, Deadline\u2019s source claims \u201cthe casting process has not begun and it won\u2019t until Denis finishes the [third] Dune movie<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

The source says it\u2019s possible that the next Bond could be played by a non-white actor, though \u201cit\u2019ll come down to this: Are they right for Bond? Are they right for the story that Villeneuve and screenwriter [Steven] Knight will be telling?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Next James Bonds Who Never Played 007\"\"<\/p>\n

Deadline emphasizes that Bond 26 will not be a continuation of where No Time to Die left the saga with the death of Daniel Craig\u2019s James Bond<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a new Bond, a new start, a fresh everything,\u201d the site\u2019s source claims.<\/p>\n

James Bond 26 begins filming in 2027 for a 2028 release date.<\/p>\n

Bond 26 is the first 007 film for Amazon MGM Studios<\/a> and under the stewardship of new producers David Heyman and Amy Pascal<\/a>, who took over from Bond franchise producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If this latest report is accurate, you can forget about Henry Cavill or Idris Elba being the next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-158697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}