The next James Bond could be a prequel to an unknown young British actor

Denis Villeneuve will look at the cast after the shooting of Dune 3.

Bond 26 took a first big step with the recruitment of a director, Denis Villeneuve, announced last June. But the question of the new interpreter of 007 is still pending. And if you don’t know your identity right away, your robot portrait is taking shape a little more.

After DeadlineVilleneuve will only tackle the casting of its James Bond until next year, after having finished the production of Dune Part 3. But the sources of reporter Baz Bamigboye, generally very well informed, already know that the Canadian director wants one “new face“To slip into the shoes of the famous secret agent.

James Bond will always be a man, not necessarily white but certainly not American (forget the Timothée Chalamet and other Austin Butler). Production wants precisely a Briton. 007 Being an agent of His Majesty, we can assign the role to an actor coming from a country of the Commonwealth, like the Australian George Lazenby who played Bond once in In the secret service of His Majesty (1969). But this possibility therefore seems to be dismissed.

The idea is therefore to find an unknown and rather young actor, aged at the maximum of about thirty years. Exit the Tom Hardy (47), Idris Elba (53) and other Henry Cavill (42). To tell the truth, if we follow the criteria revealed by Deadline 99% of the names that have circulated since the departure of Daniel Craig, in 2021, in the trash can be throwed in the trash.

In addition, production is looking for a james leaping physically, even downright threatening: “It doesn’t matter who it is, we have to say that he can kill us with bare hands in an instant. It has to take your eyes off as soon as we see it.“”

As for the script, Baz has also recovered info on the story that Steven Knight will tell. The creator of Peaky Blinders looked into the first novels of Ian Flemming and he could return to the origins of Bond, a young commander of the Royal Navy, before his recruitment by the MI6. But the script is still being written and it is far too early to say that the next leap will be a prequel.

Finally, the calendar also takes shape. The casting of the new leap will be done next year, the shooting will take place in 2027 and the cinema release would therefore intervene in 2028. Probably in November, a niche often used by James Bond films in the past.