Following the shock information that Amazon has taken full inventive management over James Bond, with long-term Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson stepping again, the query on everybody’s lips is: who must be the following 007?
That’s the query Amazon boss Jeff Bezos requested his followers on X / Twitter, and the reply was loud and clear.
Sure, some are calling for the likes of Venom star Tom Hardy, the MCU’s Idris Elba, Professor X actor James McAvoy, Magneto actor Michael Fassbender, and Kraven’s Aaron Taylor-Johnson (who was beforehand rumored to be prime of the record) to be given the function. However the clear fan-favorite is Henry Cavill.
It didn’t take lengthy after Bezos’ tweet for Henry Cavill to pattern on-line, and that’s due to the sheer variety of James Bond fans calling for the Superman and Witcher actor to take over the place Daniel Craig left off.
Some at the moment are questioning whether or not Cavill’s odds of taking part in the world’s most well-known spy have risen now Amazon is pulling all of the strings. Cavill signed on to star in and produce Amazon’s hotly anticipated Warhammer 40,000 challenge. May he additionally signal on to star as Bond?
In fact, Cavill famously auditioned to play James Bond throughout casting for 2006’s On line casino Royale (and you’ll even see that audition on-line). On line casino Royale director Martin Campbell has known as the audition “great,” however the then 23-year-old Cavill misplaced out to Daniel Craig as a result of he was deemed too younger.
Throughout a 2023 interview with The Specific, Campbell stated of Cavill: “He regarded nice within the audition. His appearing was great. And look, if Daniel didn’t exist Henry would have made a superb Bond. He regarded terrific, he was in nice bodily form… very good-looking, very chiseled. He simply regarded just a little younger at the moment again then.”
“It was finally right down to, and that is what I’ve been informed, it was simply right down to me and Daniel, and I used to be the youthful possibility,” stated Cavill in an interview with Josh Horowitz.
“They clearly went with Daniel and I believe it was a tremendous option to go along with Daniel. I in all probability wasn’t prepared on the time and I believe Daniel did an unbelievable job over the previous motion pictures, so I’m blissful they made that alternative.”
It’s no secret that 007’s producers have been looking out for the following James Bond after Daniel Craig left the franchise behind with No Time to Die. However might Cavill now play Bond? “By the point Daniel acquired to [No Time To Die] actually he was at an age the place another would have been too previous for him,” added Campbell.
“I believe they signal on for 3 Bonds, I’m not completely 100% sure of that. I do know with Pierce [Brosnan] he needed to signal on to a few once we did him. So, that’s going to take, what, six years of your life possibly? I believe Daniel [had] the identical deal. And the following man’s going to have to do this.
“Henry’s 40, so by the point he’s completed the third one he’s going to be 50. Something past that’s two, three years per Bond. He’s in good condition Henry, he’s a great man. He did very properly within the audition, however paradoxically, he was too younger.”
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