{"id":263944,"date":"2025-11-15T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263944\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:13:12","slug":"callum-turner-emerges-as-new-007-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263944\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Turner Emerges As New 007 Favourite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/callum-turner-emerges-as-new-007-favourite.jpg\" data-caption=\"Apple TV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/callum-turner-emerges-as-new-007-favourite.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"callum-turner-emerges-as-new-007-favourite\"\/><\/a>Apple TV<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in years, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is no longer the public frontrunner to play the next James Bond \u2013 at least according to multiple online bookmakers and <a href=\"https:\/\/timeandtidewatches.com\/next-james-bond-odds-might-surprise-you-friday-wind-down\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Time &amp; Tide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKick Ass\u201d and \u201cBullet Train\u201d actor Taylor-Johnson, who signed a deal with Omega watches back in May, was touted as a serious frontrunner back when the franchise was still in the hands of its long-running producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. <\/p>\n<p>After creative control of the franchise was sold off to Amazon and then Denis Villeneuve was installed as director of the first film, speculation died down as the director was busy with \u201cDune: Part Three\u201d and wasn\u2019t expected to begin considering casting until well into 2026.<\/p>\n<p>With that third \u201cDune\u201d having recently wrapped filming and 2026 quickly approaching, potential new Bond casting talk has begun again with Johnson having long remained the favourite\u2026 until now.<\/p>\n<p>35-year-old British actor Callum Turner, known for roles in \u201cFantastic Beasts,\u201d \u201cMasters of the Air,\u201d and \u201cThe Boys in the Boat,\u201d has reportedly emerged as the new frontrunner with the highest odds at a 27.6% chance compared to Taylor-Johnson at 26.3%.  Henry Cavill, Theo James, Jack Lowden and Harris Dickinson also remain on the list with much smaller odds.<\/p>\n<p>There has been zero indication of any actual casting talk from Amazon, Villeneuve or the franchise\u2019s new producers David Heyman and Amy Pascal at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The speculation from the bookmakers comes as the franchise made headlines earlier this week when a report at <a href=\"https:\/\/radaronline.com\/p\/james-bond-writers-twist-resurrection-headache-amazon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radar Online<\/a> claimed writer Steven Knight and his team are \u201d tearing their hair out\u201d over Bond\u2019s death in \u201cNo Time to Die\u201d and they \u201care now stuck trying to find a believable way to resurrect him\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>They even quote author Anthony Horowitz, who wrote three Bond books, who echoed the sentiment: \u201cIf I was asked tomorrow to write the script, I wouldn\u2019t be able to do it. Where would you start?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report is being seen as, frankly, baffling, as it has been widely accepted that Villeneuve\u2019s film will be a reboot that won\u2019t fit into any pre-existing continuity and could well take place in a whole different time period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV For the first time in years, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is no longer the public frontrunner to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-263944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263944","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=263944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}