An enormous growth within the iconic franchise may very well be right here quickly.
Pleasure is constructing across the subsequent chapter within the James Bond franchise, as insiders reveal when manufacturing may start for the all new 007. The seek for the subsequent undercover agent has been ongoing ever since No Time To Die introduced an finish to Daniel Craig’s model of the character, killing him off and leaving the enduring position formally vacant.
Now the franchise, which has been purchased by Amazon MGM Studios, is coming into a brand new period. Reviews have confirmed that Dune director Denis Villeneuve has been employed to helm the subsequent instalment, working from a script which will probably be penned by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
Whereas the studio has but to announce who will tackle the main position as Bond, sources counsel the search has been narrowed all the way down to eight contenders. Senior reporter for the American publication Deadline, Justin Kroll, gave his ideas on when the subsequent undercover agent will probably be revealed.
Showing on the My Mother’s Basement podcast, Kroll hinted that the announcement everybody’s ready for could also be imminent. He said: “I’m predicting summer time, if I needed to be a betting man. As a result of I believe manufacturing will seemingly begin [at the] finish of this 12 months/prime of subsequent.”
He continued: “Clearly, it may very well be slightly sooner, however from all the things folks have stated since I’ve been again, Bond is extra seemingly center of the 12 months than first quarter.”
If Kroll’s prediction is correct, followers could not have to attend for much longer for the subsequent 007.
Among the many eight potential stars reportedly being thought of for the main position, actor Callum Turner is claimed to be main the pack. Based on to a supply, who spoke to the Each day Mail, Turner who’s Dua Lipa’s fiancé, is already appearing like the subsequent Bond.
It was reported that the Eternity star has been “blabbing throughout city” about touchdown the enduring position, he’s assured that his license to kill is already within the publish.
A supply near the Unbelievable Beasts actor, stated: “He’s been blabbing throughout city. Callum is the brand new Bond, it has been confirmed. Everybody in his circle is speaking about it. It’s the worst-kept secret going.”
They completed: “Dua is over the moon for Callum. She’s been saying she’d like to report the Bond theme.”
Insiders counsel that if Turner does take up the position of 007, the producers may safe a two-for-one deal by having pop star Dua write the opening and shutting songs for the movie.
Though till an official assertion is made, Turner’s position as Bond stays hypothesis.
Different well-known faces nonetheless reportedly in rivalry embrace 28 Years Later star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who had beforehand been thought of the front-runner and was even pictured in entrance of the digicam for potential Bond scenes. Taylor-Johnson additionally signed a sponsorship take care of Omega, the watch model carefully related to 007.
When requested about the potential for taking up the position in 2024, he responded cryptically: “I simply give attention to the issues I can have in my fingers proper now.”
Moreover Tom Holland, Henry Cavill, Jacob Elordi, Jack Lowden, James Norton, Harris Dickinson and Theo James are all within the working to play Bond.
