{"id":627662,"date":"2026-06-08T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627662\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:49:09","slug":"idris-elba-dont-try-to-make-james-bond-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627662\/","title":{"rendered":"Idris Elba: ‘Don’t try to make James Bond woke’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The search for the next 007 officially began last month<\/a>, after years of anticipation and speculation about who will take over from Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n

Auditions have been taking place in recent weeks, according to Hollywood outlet Variety, external<\/a>, and the statement signals the beginning of the end of the long wait for a new James Bond.<\/p>\n

“While we don’t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process, we’re excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time is right,” Amazon added.<\/p>\n

It’s been five years since the release of No Time To Die, Craig’s final film as the famous spy.<\/p>\n

The studio has already announced that the next movie will be directed by Dune’s Denis Villeneuve and written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.<\/p>\n

Variety reported that Nina Gold, one of Hollywood’s leading casting directors, who has worked on the Paddington, Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Mamma Mia! franchises, is conducting the search for a new lead actor.<\/p>\n

Rumoured possibles for the role include Callum Turner – who recently married Dua Lipa – Henry Cavill and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The search for the next 007 officially began last month, after years of anticipation and speculation about who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627662","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\/627662","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=627662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}