{"id":385513,"date":"2026-01-23T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385513\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:08:12","slug":"next-james-bond-newly-oscar-nominated-rising-star-in-007-casting-talks-films-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385513\/","title":{"rendered":"Next James Bond \u2013 Newly Oscar-nominated rising star \u2018in 007 casting talks\u2019 | Films | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been five years since Daniel Craig exploded himself out of the James Bond<\/a> film franchise in No Time To Die.<\/p>\n

Since then, Eon Productions has sold its entire 007 creative control to Amazon MGM Studios in a near $1 billion deal.<\/p>\n

David Heyman and Amy Pascal are producing the Bond reboot and have hired Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to pen the script, which will be directed by Denis Villeneuve.<\/p>\n

And now, by the sounds of multiple sources, the latter is in serious consideration.<\/p>\n

According to scooper Roger Friedman<\/a>: \u201cRumours are Elordi\u2019s had meetings with the producers and director Denis Villeneuve.\u201d This was corroborated with World of Reel<\/a>, who reported today: \u201cBack in October, I had a well-placed source telling me that Amazon\/MGM was quietly pushing for Elordi to be the next Bond, though no formal offer has been sent out, and that Elordi was likely to have a screen test in 2026 \u2014 the usual tuxedo fitting and action scene\u2026 Villeneuve is expected to have a say in the matter, and so far there\u2019s been no indication of pushback on his part in terms of Elordi\u2019s casting. In fact, if we take today\u2019s reporting, it seems as though Elordi privately met with the filmmaker. A final decision is supposed to be made on the next 007 actor in mid-2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Australian hunk starred in Saltburn, played Elvis Presley<\/a> in Priscilla and is set to act opposite Margot Robbie in Wuthering Heights next month as Heathcliff. If that wasn\u2019t enough, Elordi received his first Oscar nomination today for playing Frankenstein\u2019s monster in Gulliermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein. If cast he would be the youngest Bond and first Aussie to take up the Licence to Kill since as 29-year-old George Lazenby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been five years since Daniel Craig exploded himself out of the James Bond film franchise in No…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,1826,145748,5453,2839,145747,33357,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-385513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-jacob-elordi","tag-jacob-elordi-james-bond","tag-james-bond","tag-movies","tag-next-james-bond","tag-oscars","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385513","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=385513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}