After making known that Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Arrival) will be the director of the next installment of the franchise James Bond –the first under the seal of Amazon MGM Studios – One of the following steps will be to find its protagonist, since the study wants to set foot in the accelerator to the movie number 26 of Bond, as it foresees a premiere by 2028.
According to reports from the Variety medium, Amazon has a Three candidates on your desire list to become The new agent 007: Jacob Elordi (Euphoria), Tom Holland (saga Spider-Man) y Harris Dickinson (Babygirl).
Amazon wishes to sign a British actor under 30 years. Elordi is Australian, but sources clarify that this would not be a problem for study.
Other actors that have previously been spoken as possible contestants to take the place of Daniel Craig as 007, such is the case of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Henry Cavill and Idris Elba, would be out of the contest because they are 35, 42 and 52 years, respectively.
Villeneuve, originally from Canada, was chosen by Amazon MGM Studios as director of the next film James Bond, putting other directors such as Edward Berger, Edgar Wright, Paul Knight and Jonathan Nolan. It is said that Mexican Alfonso Cuarón was another candidate, and the favorite of producer David Heyman, although Cuarón chose to retire from the competition to focus on other projects.
The agreement with Villeneuve is for a single delivery of Bond. It has not been agreed to direct a sequel and will not have the last word in the definitive cut of the feature film. Sam Mendes was the last director to take care of two films consecutively (Skyfall y Spectre).
At the moment the production start date is unknown. After assuring Villeneuve as director, The search will concentrate on the screenwriter who will work side by side with Villeneuvey In the protagonist.
Amazon MGM Studios also has a list of possible scriptwriters. One of them, according to Fuentes, is Jonathan Nolan (Fallout, Westworld, Interstellar).
Villeneuve will be the executive producer, along with Tanya Lapointe – his partner and wife – with Amy Pascal and David Heyman as producers.
The new bond will mark Delivery number 26 of the long -lived spy franchise 007. It will be the first film from No Time to Die (2021) directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who also became the farewell of Daniel Craig as agent 007.
It will also be the first Bond film after the acquisition that Amazon made of MGM Studios, the original study of the Bond franchise. With a mega agreement valued at $ 8,450 million, Amazon acquired MGM in 2022. It became the most ambitious strategy of Amazon within the entertainment industry, and its second largest acquisition at a general level, after the purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 for $ 13.7 billion dollars.
With the acquisition of MGM Studios, Amazon expanded and reinforced its catalog of the then Amazon Studios and Prime Video, as MGM had approximately 4,000 movies and 17,000 television programs
In February of this year, it was announced that Amazon MGM Studios would obtain the creative control of the future deliveries of James Bond, with the departure of the franchise producers, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.
Villeneuve is now in the preparations for the start of the filming of the third installment of the saga Duneentitled Dune: Messiahwhich will begin this summer.
Source: https://cine3.com/jacob-elordi-tom-holland-harris-dickinson-candidatos-amazon-james-bond/
