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Bond … James Bond will remain male, per Ian Fleming’s original character, and—importantly—he’ll be British. Deadline reports that Denis Villeneuve will officially begin the search for the next James Bond once he wraps Dune: Part Three next year. So who’s gonna be the new 007? Well, we know who it won’t be.
Sources stress that Villeneuve and his collaborators, including producers David Heyman and Amy Pascal, are looking for a “fresh face” in his late 20s or early 30s. The ideal candidate is described in Fleming’s words as “a blunt instrument” and “an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened”—a figure whose lethality comes first. Not exactly an ideal leading man, though, but we digress. What does this mean? Well…
That means a lot of popular names are instantly out of the running. Timothée Chalamet, Austin Butler, Glen Powell, Jacob Elordi, and others who don’t hail from the British Isles aren’t eligible. Sorry, y’all. And older favorites like Tom Hardy (47), Idris Elba (53), and Henry Cavill (42) no longer fit the direction Villeneuve is leaning toward. Even younger fan picks like Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jack Lowden will be 37 by the time filming begins in 2027—perhaps too old for what they want to do.
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