Aaron has said in the past, like 15 years ago that he wouldn’t want to be James Bond. He also said recently that he doesn’t want to do one action movie after another. I don't think he would be able to handle the press attention. The only way I could see him accept the role is if Nolan is directing, as he said that he wants to work with him again. It seems like his team are going along with the speculation for PR purposes.

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I think the last great Bond film was The World Is Not Enough. All the other Bond films since then have been rubbish or very average or not really a Bond film like they should be. It’s fine to move with the times and update the films ever now and then but to take away all The trademarks that make Bond Bond you are just left with just another action film. Why is Barbara Broccoli so abscess in doing more film and theatre productions with Craig when she should either be making more Bond films with a new Bond actor or handing over the next Bond film to another family member to make.

I hate to tell you this guy is bomb just dead. That means the franchise is dead and my heart goes out to you guys, but come on you have to accept reality. The bond is never coming back, and even if he did, he would be in the form of a woman, not a man because that no time to die guess what bond had a daughter except a son

I believe this will be the most disappointing character assignment

Man - very depressing video - and you are exactly right. Barbara is obviously completely uninterested in doing another Bond film right now. Probably has higher ( Academy Award ) aspirations. They killed him off in NTTD and that was that. It seems like,to Barbara and Eon, that finale was a lot more final than any of us wanted it to be. We have not even heard about a possible SCRIPT, no less any official word on casting or a director. They have clearly done absolutely NOTHING. I just don’t understand why she doesn’t just sell. There are SO many people in Hollywood that would just LOVE to get their hands on Bond, and I’m sure they would pay her whatever she wants. Right now, as Bond fans, this really is our only hope….

Henry Cavil.

Who gives a flying fuck

Hopefully Qatari money is bringing back Craig as 007 under the guise of an Othello remake? Crazier things have happened. Craig doing Shakespeare seems beneath him, no disrespect Shakespeare fans. People are finally going back to theaters, they want what's familiar, EON is just flushing money down the drain by waiting. No Time isn't so final it can't be retconned, just have Q show up in the cold open on whatever island Bond lives on, jab Bond in the neck with the antidote to his super virus and go from there.

I dunno about this assessment. As far as I can remember the Directors had input but not the final say in the casting choice. Originally Brosnan was selected for The Living Daylights, but he couldn’t get out of his contract on Remington Steele. The show’s producers offered to share him with EON. But they declined and Timothy Dalton was cast as bond and I believe it was Cubby Broccoli who had the final word on that decision. In short the choice is made by a committee, that being The Studio, Producers and Director. The Broccoli’s have always had the strongest influence on the choice. I think Arron Taylor Johnson is a curious choice actually, at first I wasn’t sure. Then I saw him in Bullet Train where you can see how versatile he really is.

Let Bond RIP

Well 007 died from Timothy walked away from the roll

A script needs to be written first before a director can be hired. Nobody has been hired to write script yet. Even when that does happen, it would take a full year for a writer to produce a decent enough draft of the script for EON to then be able to show to prospective directors.

I think it’s the case

finding another to match Daniel Craig is hard. we'll hv to wait another decade :(

I’ve wondered if the rumours about Taylor Johnson is a way to try luring in Nolan or David Leitch in for 26 since both like to reuse actors & ATJ has worked well with both in the past.

Personally, I hope he never is. Not my choice I'm afraid.

Please NO! He has the voice of a prepubescent boy; that is NOT Bond. Yes actors can modulate their voices but that would come off as contrived.

I think that's a spot on assessment.

They will make it lame and gay

If they cast him then Bond is Dead nobody wants to see a wimpy beta soy boy as 007 they should have made a deal with Henry Cavill before Craig did No Time To Die but they are stupid. Henry is the perfect new Bond he's by far the best choice.

Yeah, I don't really see it either, to me Henry Cavil is the obvious choice

He definitely has the most unique look from all the other contenders. 1:12 but yeah your right though

please dont make james bond gay!!

While they search for a new long term Bond, give us a one off with Henry Cavill starring and Tarantino directing.

I totally agree with this . I do not think any progress is being made on even looking at. possible actors for the James Bond role. All that is really happening is names of whatever popular actors are available at the moment are being listed on betting sites. The producers seem to be tired and uninterested in making a new Bond film anytime soon. James Bond fans are getting frustrated because the constant delay keeps putting a new. 007 adventure further and further away. Every year passing with nothing going on adds at least another two or three years of seeing a completed movie. Thanks for the informative insightful videos about the progress but at this point I think fans are feeling 007 may be a thing of the past.

Ehh. Let her. We got 25 movies to rewatch. Even if she does reverse gears and carry on with the series it’ll have to be reinvented again. Maybe we need more time or another regime anyway. Maybe Othello will be good. I’m not worried.

Agree with everything you say.

I don't think Bond can be resurrected.

My guess is finding an actor who'll sign a multi-picture contract. Such as, a 3 picture deal with an option for a 4th. Chances are their looking for a semi-unknown actor in his mid-30's, who'll sign on the dotted line and EON gets him on the cheap.

The only time a ‘new’ James Bond was cast without the director being involved was when David Picker at UA got Connery to sign for DAF 🤓

Another example of a director having a say in casting is Peter Hunt and OHMSS. There are photos of him working with Bond contenders during their screen tests.

Wow

Taylor Johnson wil be 50 by the time another Bond film gets the go ahead.

This just does not look good at all for James Bond's movie future at all. I am also thinking they have not even looked at any actors for the 007 role at all. Someone would have signed a contract and been announced by now. Gone are the days of making a new James Bond film every few years. I also think most Bond fans did not like 007 being killed off in "No Time To Die" .... perhaps the character is gone now.

They changed the James Bond character. Character of James Bond is. A. Narcissist. The character

I think Daniel Craig. Destroyed. James Bond. They've written themselves into. To a corner. That's why you're not going to see a James Bond movie for a long. Don't know what to do. What is James Bond supposed to do raise a. Raise a daughter. And he's still a secret. It makes absolutely no sense. What is she supposed to be some sort of a teenager. Trained by James Bond and. M l 6. There's just no coming back from. They make the new James Bond movie. He is dead. And he. A daughter. That's what's going to be in the back of. Everybody's mind

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Wow, I just hate Barbara Broccoli even more now.

No Time to Die was an insult to Ian Fleming's creation! Insult to Bond fans!.I don't trust Barbara Broccoli! She certainly didn't take care or have the love of the franchise as her father Cubby Broccoli! No respect, Barbara! She isn't even thinking of making the next Bond film, nor do I trust her with the multi billion franchise, anymore! ✌😊❤

I think there's a few reasons they haven't started pre-production for Bond 26 yet. Firstly, there might be a lot of behind the scenes stuff with Amazon that we don't know about. Could be logistics or even creative differences. We also have to remember that Broccoli and Wilson will be planning for the future. They're in their 60s and 80s respectively, and they won't be doing this forever. I know Greg Wilson has been taking a more hands on role and I suspect they're taking advantage of this gap to get him into that position. I suspect they have a loose, but long term plan as well. We've had a 007 reality show, and a new video game is coming up at some point in the next year or two. EON have actually been involved with both (again, specifically Greg), and I suspect the video game's release could be a way of getting new/younger fans onboard before a film. It'd potentially help the hype for Bond. Another big reason is the general state of the film industry. I can see why they wouldn't necessarily want to rush into it considering how a few big franchise films have underperformed recently. We're also in the aftermath of the writer's/actor's strikes. Fewer projects are being green-lit as readily, especially in the UK, and a large number of crew are either out of work or are leaving the film industry. Not to say Bond 26 won't get the go ahead or will lack crew, but I reckon they want to make sure they've got their ideas nailed down beforehand and it'll be a film which can resonate with audiences. They might also want to wait as the industry recalibrates itself a bit before officially committing to this project. Also, creatively, this will effectively be another Bond reboot and it's a tricky task this time round. Unlike in 2005 there's no rival franchise like Bourne which is outperforming Bond or they can take inspiration from (the closest is Mission Impossible, but even then the last one flopped and they never outperform Bond financially anyway). The Craig films were very successful, and unlike Brosnan's last films they don't have the specific overarching criticisms about being a 'silly' or using too many gadgets or whatever. Some fans might want a 'lighter' Bond film, but even that's a minority, and the last Bond film had its share of lightheartedness. Basically there's no obvious direction they can go (this is why they've talked quite a bit about this being a 'reinvention' film). We know EON do plan out these big ideas prior to starting pre-production, and we simply don't know what has been done in this capacity (also worth noting they approach actors and directors often years prior to auditions/deals). There's likely even more reasons. But effectively they have a tricky creative task at a pretty critical time in the movie business (and indeed at a critical time for EON). I know people want to see a new Bond film soon, and it's easy to criticise EON for doing non-Bond projects in this downtime (let's be honest, few of us care about Craig's Othello. Not to say it'll be bad, just not in my interest). But I don't see any evidence of producers who have lost interest, and if anything those projects point to filmmakers who want to keep their company going and aren't going to settle for over saturating film/television with Bond spin offs that are comparatively weaker than the main product (I'm looking at you, Star Wars). We know there's still a lot of interest in Bond even when the last film effectively killed off that version of the character (just look at the reaction to the Aaron Taylor Johnson rumours). James Bond will return :) not to worry.

I think that B. Broccoli would rather do anything except make a Bond film and to think that in the '60s her father and his partner H.Saltzman made a Bond film every year and Saltzman even found the time to produce the Ipcress File and it's two sequels