James Bond 26 Reportedly Wants to Cast an Unknown, Young, British Male Actor as Next 007

If this latest study is accurate, you tin hide astir Henry Cavill oregon Idris Elba being the adjacent James Bond.

According to Deadline’s sources, the filmmakers are looking to formed a “fresh face” arsenic 007 successful James Bond 26, specifically an chartless antheral British histrion successful their precocious 20s to aboriginal 30s.

This “fresh face” criteria would regularisation retired a fig of oft-rumored “next James Bond” candidates, including Tom Holland, Taron Egerton, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Although determination were caller reports astir chartless English histrion Scott Rose-Marsh screen-testing arsenic 007 for Bond 26 manager Denis Villeneuve, Deadline’s root claims “the casting process has not begun and it won’t until Denis finishes the [third] Dune movie.”

The root says it’s imaginable that the adjacent Bond could beryllium played by a non-white actor, though “it’ll travel down to this: Are they close for Bond? Are they close for the communicative that Villeneuve and screenwriter [Steven] Knight volition beryllium telling?”

Deadline emphasizes that Bond 26 volition not beryllium a continuation of wherever No Time to Die near the saga with the decease of Daniel Craig’s James Bond. “It’s a caller Bond, a caller start, a caller everything,” the site’s root claims.

James Bond 26 begins filming successful 2027 for a 2028 merchandise date.

Bond 26 is the archetypal 007 movie for Amazon MGM Studios and nether the stewardship of caller producers David Heyman and Amy Pascal, who took implicit from Bond franchise producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.