{"id":103565,"date":"2025-08-23T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103565\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:38:11","slug":"austin-butler-is-taking-himself-out-of-the-running-to-play-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103565\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler is taking himself out of the running to play James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Butler has previously worked with Denis Villeneuve, who will be directing the next “James Bond” installment, on the “Dune” franchise. <\/p>\n

Butler says he “loves” the idea of reuniting with the filmmaker to take on the titular character, but he doesn’t know if it’s a “good idea” as the part should go to a Brit.<\/p>\n

The “Elvis” star was chatting with Sam Thompson on the Hits Radio Breakfast Show, he said, “I love that man but no calls as far as James Bond goes but I don’t think that would be a good idea [for me to play Bond], I’m an American, I can do an accent but that would be kind of sacrilegious.”<\/p>\n

However, the 34-year-old actor said he’s open to another role in the film, “Villain? That would be alright! I’d do that.”<\/p>\n

The Oscar-nominated actor’s statement echoes what Glen Powell had to say<\/a> about the possibility of he playing ‘Bond.’ <\/p>\n

In June, it was revealed that Villeneuve will direct the highly anticipated follow-up to 2021’s “No Time To Die.”<\/p>\n

He said in a statement, \u201cSome of my earliest movie-going memories are connected to 007. I grew up watching James Bond films with my father, ever since Dr. No with Sean Connery. I\u2019m a die-hard Bond fan. To me, he\u2019s sacred territory. I intend to honor the tradition and open the path for many new missions to come. This is a massive responsibility, but also, incredibly exciting for me and a huge honor.”<\/p>\n

We are eagerly awaiting the announcement of who the next “James Bond” will be! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Butler has previously worked with Denis Villeneuve, who will be directing the next “James Bond” installment, on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[9069,21825,7106,88,1506,37117,206,69061,69060,69059],"class_list":["post-103565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-american","tag-austin-butler","tag-denis-villeneuve","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-james-bond","tag-movies","tag-no-time-to-die","tag-oscar-nominated","tag-villain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}