{"id":908781,"date":"2026-11-07T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/908781\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:38:09","slug":"james-bond-casting-robert-pattinson-nicholas-hoult-tested-for-007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/908781\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond Casting: Robert Pattinson, Nicholas Hoult Tested for 007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/james-bond\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-bond\" data-tag=\"james-bond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Bond<\/a> casting rumors heat up, a couple more A-list actors have entered the mix: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/robert-pattinson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robert-pattinson\" data-tag=\"robert-pattinson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Pattinson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/nicholas-hoult\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicholas-hoult\" data-tag=\"nicholas-hoult\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Hoult<\/a> were among the stars who screen-tested to play the new 007. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBoth British actors certainly have the acting pedigree to play the suave spy, taking up the mantle after Daniel Craig\u2019s 15-year run. They also have a keen awareness of what it takes to work in major franchise fare: Pattinson stars as Batman for DC Studios and is an alum of both the \u201cTwilight\u201d and \u201cHarry Potter\u201d franchises; meanwhile, Hoult plays Lex Luthor in DC\u2019s Superman movies and starred in the 2010s \u201cX-Men\u201d prequel trilogy. He next stars in the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/amazon-mgm-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amazon-mgm-studios\" data-tag=\"amazon-mgm-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon MGM Studios<\/a> movie \u201cHow to Rob a Bank,\u201d in theaters on Nov. 13. Pattinson also has the Denis Villeneuve factor on his side, after starring in the filmmaker\u2019s upcoming epic \u201cDune: Part Three.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLast year, Amazon MGM Studios tapped Villeneuve as the franchise\u2019s next director, with \u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d creator Steven Knight hired to write the script. Getting Bond 26 off the ground has been a top priority for the property\u2019s new stewards, producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSince then, nearly every 30-something British actor\u2019s name has been bandied about in the U.K. and U.S. press, with rumored top contenders including Callum Turner, Josh O\u2019Connor and Jack Lowden. Variety has learned that Harry Styles has had discussions about the part, and Theo James, 41, also hasn\u2019t been ruled out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPierce Brosnan, the Bond of the \u201990s, recently gave his stamp of approval to Turner, while Gary Oldman threw his weight behind Lowden, his \u201cSlow Horses\u201d co-star. (Oldman also claimed that the next James Bond has already been picked, but no official casting announcement has been made.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAmazon declined to comment on the casting rumors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As James Bond casting rumors heat up, a couple more A-list actors have entered the mix: Robert Pattinson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12779,88,37117,5419,48125],"class_list":["post-908781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-entertainment","tag-james-bond","tag-nicholas-hoult","tag-robert-pattinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908781","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=908781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}