Next James Bond announcement – Unveiling of new 007 rumoured to be in just a few weeks

Elliott Page!

not the guy from bridgerton we hope, aaron taylor johnson will win we pray..

It's going to be Aaron.

Aaron

Aaron is the big-dick guy, right?

Big dick and helium voice, that's the one.

I hope it's not Aaron

George Santos

They've been teasing this shit for years. I've stopped caring.

ATJ will be a monumental fail as 007, because everybody who would go to see Bond knows Aaron is married to Jocasta and might pluck out his own eyes any day now.

r8, the producers have already contacted me! I am now the new James Bond.

Aaron!

R12, we could use a gay James Bond!

R10 they're already laying the groundwork for a divorce with the Joey King cheating rumors.

Idris Elba

Surprise, its Andrea Riesborough!!!

R13, I think you mean a James Bond who is non-hetero-normative.

Aaron Taylor Johnson looks like midwestern American white trash to me. I thought of Scott Stapp when I saw him. I have a hard time buying him as cool and classy Bond. He has B-Movie written all over his face.

idris elbow

Idris would’ve been great a decade ago. He’s aged out now. Still sexy, but past his peak.

Agree with r18

Even Richard Madden would be better than Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Scott Stapp trash and Aaron Taylor-Johnson trash are descended from the same family tree. The only difference is the accent. ATJ's father is a civil engineer so he doesn't exactly come from hard knocks, but I'd bet anything they were new to the middle class. Mom was a stage mommy early on.

He was very good as a working class mercenary in Bullet Train.

I hope they don't pick that overrated black dude from Bridgerton.

ATJ would be a disastrous choice! I pray they don’t pick him.

Laverne Cox!

Bradley James?

Who gives a shit?

R28, you're late, sweety. That response has been used.

Just remember reading that someone was musing about a guy's looks and said that people aren't ugly, just poor. Meaning, throw a lot of money at someone, for makeup, lighting, fitness, and endless takes, and you can turn almost anyone into a passable action star. This franchise will be protected at all costs as if it were the King of England staring.

They will pick a handsome white man. We will all groan because he won't be this or that in our fantasy version of Bond. They will create a good first movie, as they did with Craig, and the most of us will fall in line.

I do look forward to a new Bond. Though I hope they at least let him be a man. I'm not interested in a female Bond, considering the type of action he always gets into a woman would get her ass kicked in a bond type hand to hand combat.

Call me crazy, but I see Bond in the seated man in the tux.

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R25 "I pray they don’t pick him."

You seem oddly invested in this. You'd actually pray about something so stupid?

[quote] I hope they don't pick that overrated black dude from Bridgerton.

I hope they do pick him.

But I'm sure they hire somebody who was on nobody's short list. It really depends on where they want to take the character.

^ I think it would be more interesting if they pick someone totally out of left field, instead of Aaron Taylor Johnson or someone like that

I really hope they consider asking Dev Patel or Henry Golding. Hell, I rather have Bill Nighy than that non-acting ass ATJ.

I’ll be happy with either Aaron Taylor Johnson or Henry Golding.

Hunter Biden

Dev Patel would be an intriguing choice. I'd like that. I can buy him as badass and smooth womanizer in the same movie. I like Henry Golding, but I always found the roles he played quite vanilla (with one exception). So I am not sure he can keep up with the take-no-hostage character Bond.

This just in straight from Chat GPT:

"London, UK - It is with great excitement that we announce Boris Johnson as the new face of the legendary British spy, James Bond. The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will bring his charm and charisma to the iconic role in the upcoming film.

Johnson, known for his quick wit and leadership skills, is the perfect fit for the suave and sophisticated Bond. With his proven track record and unique blend of humor and intelligence, audiences are sure to be entertained and thrilled.

Production for the new Bond film will begin later this year, with Johnson at the forefront. This announcement marks a new era for the Bond franchise and we can't wait for audiences to see what Johnson has in store for the legendary spy.

Stay tuned for more updates and get ready for a Bond like you've never seen before. #NewBond #BorisJohnson007"

The Bridgerton fellow utterly killed any chances he had with the dreary wooden performance he gave in The Grey Man.

What about James Norton?

Richard Madden would be another excellent choice!

James Norton is cute and a decent actor, but I'm sorry, he has all the charisma of a piece of plywood. They may as well cast Joe Alwyn if they're going that boring.

I don't think he has any less charisma than Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Mark Strong Strong would have made a fantastic Bond, but he’s now aged out and I don’t think they allow bald guys to play Bond. He has everything needed for the role.

R38 I’ve been I love with Dev since Slumdog. He’s such a solid actor and so handsome. I could just see heads explode at the thought of an Asian Bond, cue the boycotts.

Andrea Riseborough

Cris Pannullo

I have a feeling it's going to be someone not even on the radar or well-rumored... or it's going to be a choice that will piss everyone off.

As long as it's not Aaron Taylor-Johnson

It's too bad Gilbert Gottfried died so young.

Edna May Oliver

Mario Cantone

r53, Actually I would much prefer Mario Cantone as James Bond rather than ATJ. That bitch is funny! 😂

Beatrice Lillie.

Sam Smith IS James Bond in...

"Butterball"

It will be a transgender

ATJ has a big fat juicky cock, u dont think he got as far as he did on talent do ya, he will be bond, cute and hung wins the day.

I hear it will be Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Anya Taylor-Joy, with a song by none other than Taylor Swift.

The Taylors of our culture.

R57 is the trans-obsessed troll

New article

R61 LOL did James Norton's publicist write that?

If it's ATJ, I'm in for his entire run as 007.

Dev Patel? He looks like a nerdy puppy dog. He’s not suave either.

[quote] it's going to be a choice that will piss everyone off.

Impossible to imagine a choice that will not fulfill that prophecy.

God, Mark Strong! That voice. Would’ve been perfect. Good looking and has that touch of menace.

Watched Fleming, a fictionalization of Ian Fleming’s time with Naval Intelligence. It was pretty good and it did make me wonder about Dominic Cooper as James Bond. He’s the right age and a good actor. He’s the same height as Daniel Craig, less a half inch.

My money is on Tom Hardy.

If they're going for younger with the next Bond why are so many guesses here over the age of 50?

R68, in their minds, they're 34

R69 yes you're right: to the average DLer 59yo Mark Strong is basically 35.

Oliver Jackson Cohen

I could see OJC as more of a Bond villain.

In 2020, Forbes.com asked OJC if he wanted to be James Bond. (He didn't exactly say no, but he also didn't say yes.)

[quote] Forbes: There’s been a lot of speculation which actor will be cast to take on James Bond in that franchise. Do you have any desire to play the iconic spy?

[quote] Jackson-Cohen: I’m too emotional. Would you have Bond cry the whole time?

[quote] Forbes: This is 2020.

[quote] Jackson-Cohen: (laughing) Yeah, we can have a woke Bond.

Elliot Page

[quote] It will be a transgender

Hardly. It took them forty years to turn Bond blond. And even that caused an outcry. No, at best they make Bond an open minded straight man who has enough self-esteem to flirt heavily with every gender - more or less openly. Remember, the movies need to make money around the entire world. Europe, USA, China and at some point Russia again. You know, it will happen. They will write for a character who is welcome in all those countries. A character who is cutting-edge in the US, is way too far off in lots of other lucrative markets.

Tom Hardy is 45. Is that too old? I think Daniel Craig was 39 when CR came out.

Tom Hardy is too damn short and kinda on the stocky side.

James. Happy Valley has been huge. It has it sown up.

Some fag.

Richard Madden

R73 you must see how that was a big yes with a heavy side of English self deprecation. Be serious. He wants it as much as any other 25-45yo white British actor does.

They all want it. It will make them rich and famous. They all want to appear too cool to be seen to want it.

Tom Hardy 10 years ago. He’s done nothing in the last few years.

Yeah, and Tom Hardy isn't good-looking enough now.

If only Orlando Bloom were younger; he’s buff and charming.

Laurence Olivier would be a great Bond. Is he still available? As a forty-something?

[quote] Tom Hardy 10 years ago. He’s done nothing in the last few years.

Probably because no one wants to see him after watching him in a bizarre minutes-long explosive diarrhea shitting scenes while wearing diapers in Capone. That killed his entire career, let alone his chances for Bond.

Tom Burke, please.

Where has this gorgeous actor been all my life? I just discovered him via "C.B. Strike" hidden away on HBOMax; is it a limited series? I am so dreading running out of episodes stateside!

British Elba!

Ben Barnes!

Tom Burke is a good actor

Some people are calling James Norton a frontrunner due to Happy Valley

Lucien Laviscount Is reportedly in the running.

Lucien Laviscount sounds like a French pimp

[quote] Lucien Laviscount Is reportedly in the running.

Link to the reports, please? Don't want to sound negative, but the Bond production has a habit to 'leak' names of candidates just for gaslighting everybody. In other words, if you read somebody's name as being in the running, it's almost a disqualifying marker.

R8, 😆 Fuck you beat me to it.

Google is your friend R95.

DID HE FUK MADAME BROCCOLI TO GIT DA JOB? LOL HA HA HEE HEE TO THE FUNNY FARM WE GO.....

R93 why did you post a photo of Rege-Jean Page with a post about Lucien Laviscount?

R88 & R91, Tom Burke did a full frontal scene with DL fave Julian Morris in "Donkey Punch" (2008).

Viola Davis wearing a strap on.

Lucien. Meh.

Jack Lowden

R103 he's my pick. He would be great, and he's the right age.

He's a really good actor, too

He is a really good actor and has done a few good lead roles in smaller projects - exactly at the point in his career where this type of role could benefit him and vice versa.

Aidan Turner. I'd say he would be a great choice. And the first Bond actor I would actually find sexy. None of the previous Bonds were my type, not even Connery.

Aiden Turner would have been great 5-10 years ago, but he's too old for the part now. The next Bond will be 30-35.

I'd like to see Nick Hoult get it--he's the perfect age, great look, and a sense of humor that could capture the sardonic wit of Bond. But he's too well-known.

Aidan Turner is 39.

His audition for Bond was playing Philip Lombard in "And Then There Were None" and I think he was great:

None of the suggestions seem right at all. Truth is the Daniel Craig era has fucked up the franchise irreparably. He was a big departure from the established archetype, and everyone loved him, and he was great, and the man for the zeitgeist - but now they've got a nasty catch 22 on their hands - do they cast according to the old debonair, suave, velvety Bond type; or the gruff, rugby player, believably former-SAS Daniel Craig type??

Craig was in the role far too long because they took too long to get his films made. He should have been out by 2016. The zeitgeist has since devolved into this bizarro streaming hellscape where leading men have gone utterly extinct, and now people don't even know how to fancast the role properly - either STILL stuck on the zombified antiracist meme of goofy grandad Idris, or some virginal Shondaland twink of colour ... fuckin hell.

Also Craig's era, the actual films outside of his popular stint, was a total fuck up after Casino Royale. Bond films should be episodic - they tried to create arcs over multiple films - somehow didn't learn from the failure of Quantum in this respect, and success of Skyfall in this respect... and went back for more miserable retroactive 'emotion' in Spectre... and ridiculously doubled-down for No Time by retreading Vesper AND dumping a child on him AND killing him off... Jesus. Did they forget they were going to want us all back in the cinema after three years with a new man in the role???

The role is a proper poisoned chalice now.

I predict a short lived stint for whoever it is. The role is due that... people gloss over Lazenby and Dalton.

^ You sound like someone who always knows better.

Fact is that people always assumed that the Bond franchise would be dead whenever a recast was due. They always thought that the New Bond Actor is a miscast. And they ALWAYS think that the Bond character is outdated. Until the next movie comes out.

I think it'll be James Norton. He went from playing the vicar in Grantchester to playing a vicious thug in Happy Valley. Boy's got chops and he's gorgeous.

Who is the insane poster claiming Tom Burke can act? He's like a stick of wood - no facial expressions, terrible voice. And the harelip doesn't help.

Another article on ATJ as Bond.

Aaron Taylor Johnson will make for a horrid Bond. I’ve said it before, his vibe is creepy and his acting reads as too antiheroic and too effeminate (not a bad thing for a character actor, in general)—even the lazy weaselly smirk that’s always on his face is eminently slappable. He started his career in these type of roles, and that’s what he ought to stick with.

He needs to play a Bond villain or a villainous Bond girl, if anything.

Timothy Dalton was the best Bond after Moore.

R85 Orblando, taking capability aside, is simply too camp and effeminate, even with age and weight on him, and esconsced as he is in the boring middle-aged father & husband years of his life.

Like ATJ, he is better suited to supporting or non-heroic roles. He can sparkle as a villain and seems to prefer playing them, he’s just rarely cast that way. Conversely, his biggest heroic part (in POTC) was overshadowed by two other actors, let’s not forget.

The Moore Bond movies, though, were execrable.

George Lazenby made the mistake of his life by quitting.

Orlando Bloom comes across like an unhinged pub fly in some of his interviews. He's quite hilarious.

They should go for James Norton. So good in Happy Valley. He might not want it of course. .

It will be a black guy

They should cast choking hazard Sean Lamont.

The next and last entry in the instalment should be Bond's death. Abeg we put this character and franchise out of its misery.

I agree, r123, but poseurs keep writing Bond novels and screenplays without me! I wrote only 12 novels and a few novellas!

R121, After last Sunday, it might be an Asian guy.

I was thinking maybe Jamie Dornan. He was great in The Tourist. Might make a good Bond.

Not really a Dornan fan but he would make a better Bond than ATJ

Awww, Jamie's a love; there's no hint of Bond's hard cruelty about him.

Watch Jamie Dornan playing a cruel serial killer in The Fall.

Love Dornan. He's a good actor but he's also very smart and witty and every time he gets interviewed - like by Graham Norton - he's really funny.

Bruce Villanch

Making Aaron Taylor-Johnson's non acting ass the next James Bond will be a monumental mistake.

Is Ben Aldridge in the running?

R129, I meant to watch and forgot it and everything about it, apparently!

Jamie Dornan proved he has the physicality. I was surprised.

But I prefer a tall bond. He should be tall and white ethnicity and a reasonable sell as Swiss/British. I'm a purist. The character is not Asian or Black and the character is not Jewish.

R130, For you:

Why wasn't Gerald Butler ever given a shot as the rumour went? Too shit an actor?

R138. That and too old.

He's only a couple of years younger than Craig.

Just a few weeks, huh? Watch this drag on for another year, if not longer.

I hope it's Lip from USA Shameless.

James Norton

R133 He’s too obviously gay.

Geez, by the time they get around to announcing this most of these guys will be 75 years old

Liking the Jamie Dornan suggestion but he's probably not buff enough for the modern James Bond "himbo" requirements. Dornan would be compelling.

R125, Best not have any Bond WW II background then!

Speaking of Dornan, I hope there's a second series of The Tourist. It was excellent.

This Git

because I shouldn't have linked to LPSG, and because it bears repeating, here's that choking hazard Sean Lamont gif again.

[quote]The next and last entry in the instalment should be Bond's death.

The last installment WAS Bond's death. Keep up.

It really is an open secret

R149, yeah, Sean Lamont has a huge uncut cock. His wife is lucky.

R147 agreed! Here I thought I was the only one watching.

I can't believe people still care about or watch James Bond movies.

If it's Aaron Taylor Johnson, they'll have to do something about his voice. They dubbed Lazenby for most of his picture.

Dub Aaron Taylor Johnson with Benedict Cumberbatch's voice

You could do that in the old days.

R154 the Daniel Craig Bond films made multiple billions at the box office, collectively. People still definitely care.

Isn't it time to update James Bond? I say it's time for the first gay James Bond.

Dornan is totally buff. I guess people didn't see The Tourist.

In what direction do they want to go with the franchise? If it were up to me, I would make Bond join SPECTRE, because they turn out to be the good guys fighting the corruption of the British Intelligence establishment. Like Mr. Robot.

Why, r159? Just make up a new, original character. If a character in a novel is changed so substantially, then how can he or she be considered to be that same character?

Don't we have a thread at DL where some OP complains about a Charles Dickens novel getting a woke update adaption? "Hollywood" (the film industry in general) loves to change original source material.

Maybe the next actor playing James Bond will actually be a heterosexual.

r163 No one is changing the source material, you ignorant asshole. They're all adaptations to a different medium. The fuck were you doing when the rest of us were at school?

R165, are you here for the methadone program?

R165, You clearly did not view the David Niven "Casino Royale." The move from novel to film---the media---had nought to do with the execrable "adaptation." The "source material" was, indeed, changed.

Did you enjoy the TV adaptation of Casino Royale?

I don't think they have to explain anything.

Just reboot the franchise. No need for continuity or any links with Craig's work. Or time travel bullsh*t like with The Flash.

Just DO IT.

I only care enough to say I don't care.

Should be James Norton

R168, I'm an Old Frau, but even I was only 4 years old in 1954! So heretofore I've not known of this adaptation. I will pursue!

My disappointment is made manifold always when crucial scenes involving card games are omitted or radically altered.

It's another beatup.

"There’s the fact that, just a month ago, producer Barbara Broccoli told reporters that no script exists for the next James Bond film, and no casting decisions have been made whatsoever, and that it will probably be two or three years before any sort of casting announcements are made."

The producers are not the youngest anymore. Have they mentioned any succession plans? That whole franchise can go down the drain if someone takes over who doesn't understand the movies' DNA.

Barbara Broccolli has one child: a daughter who is a budding producer, director, writer. Michael G. Wilson, her half-brother has two sons who are producers. Michael is 81, but Babs is only 62, and still very much in the game.

It's pretty unique: EON is the only family company holding such a valuable film franchise. (Rami Malek said that his script was delivered to his hotel like a pizza by Babs herself.) Because they don't have anyone standing over them, they can do what they like, such as holding out during Covid for almost a year for the right time to release No Time To Die in theatres, despite the enormous interest charges on the production financing, which ended up being over a 100 million I think!

A tall man with some elegance and a hard masculine face.

IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK!???

it will be a pale skinned black man, checks all the boxes.

How do we feel about Paul Mescal?

r179 🤡🤢🤮🤮🤮🤪🤡💩

R179 were you not just screaming “ENOUGH” on the thread you stole that link from?

Bond has been done to death. It's become boring.

Please let it be Lizzo

[quote] Please let it be Lizzo

Instead of 007 it will be 700 lbs.

That mook ain't gonna be James Bond, you nitwit referencing some Irish birdcage liner at r179.

I think Babs is crazy if she doesn't do a screen test with Joe Alwyn.

Joe Alwyn is one of the most boring, generic, uncharismatic men I've ever seen.

Alwyn is too boyish looking.

Will they show his big appendage in the 1st movie or wait until later in the series?

They’re gonna show his big appendage.

On Casino Royale’s 70th Anniversary, James Bond’s Casting Director Reveals Why Henry Cavill And Sam Heughan Lost Out On The Film Adaptation.

Has Hunter Biden’s penis commented?

^ It can't comment because it's in my mouth right now

Who cares?

R186 he can’t act. At all. Plus he’s just a big miscast all together.

Is there any other choice?

A Hispanic Bond? That would piss off the loyalists in a big way

R45, Sean Connery was balding and wore a variety of unconvincing hair pieces when he was the original Bond. He was still the sexiest Bond to ever play the role. I agree about Mark Strong, he is a terrific actor.

Dan Stevens please.

Dan Stevens would actually be an excellent choice!

Dan Stevens doesn't really project "alpha male"

Dan Stevens is 40, so perfect age for a current movie, but not exactly the age they apparently want for the next 10 to 15 years of movies.

R83, r87, Hardy's bank account would beg to differ

According to Variety, it will be a 'relative unknown' -

Has Aidan Turner's career cooled?

[quote] According to Variety, it will be a 'relative unknown' -

Ouch!

Debbie McWilliams the chief caster, who is about to retire and be replaced by her young niece Jemima, is a lovely character. She's let spill in interviews that she found Kukunaga trying, and also that American agents have such a poor opinion of British projects – even Bond – they sometimes don't pass on UK casting agent calls to their actors. It was only when McWilliams cornered Rami Malek at a preview screening that he learnt they'd been trying to reach him. That seems incredible given actors would crawl over broken glass to play a Bond villain, but according to McWilliams, Hollywood agents are obsessed with landing their actors a lucrative multi-movie franchise i.e. Marvel.

Typo. Fukanaga!

[quote]Hollywood agents are obsessed with landing their actors a lucrative multi-movie franchise i.e. Marvel.

I am so sick of Marvel, superhero movies, comic book movies, etc. How many more of them do we need? It is destroying what's left of any pretense to art in film anymore.

r208, the problem is greed and the people humoring these blatant cash grabs.

R208, r 209, Agree 100%. I'm a DC fan from ca 1955, collect even now, and STILL don't want these "CU" movies.