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As famous as Dickinson is now? yes absolutely!
That said, I can easily imagine Amazon wanting an ‘unknown’ being very much an early days plan. Something conceptual almost. A bit like in ‘62 where some model was chosen from a Bond casting competition EON ran, and they realised the guy couldn’t act. They might strike gold and have a situation like when Chris Hemsworth (who then was relatively unknown from what I understand) was cast as Thor, or Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, but it requires the right actor. In practice if a more established actor came along and stood out (in the mould of Craig’s pre Bond career anyway) I don’t think they’d say no.
As an aside, I really wish someone would tell Josh Horowitz that a good interviewer shuts up when your interviewee is talking, they don’t constantly say “yeah… yeah… yeah” all the way though. He’s annoyed me for a while with that! :)
What you think is the reason that he is one of the contenders?
Villeneuve is making Dune 3. They can't rush things without the director.
Yep, it's time for Bond fans to strap in, we're in it for the long haul. There's multiple factors pointing to the fact that progress is going to be slow and tedious. They are better off waiting until the usual October/November 2028 release at this point.
That’s hyperbole in the extreme, chill out. This isn’t an Eon film anymore, so the old Eon “rules” don’t apply. Eon had a tradition of cranking these huge tentpole blockbusters through on a time-crunch: as little as 11 months from the start of principal photography to cinema release. That came from one of Cubby Broccoli’s old rules about fast, instinctual editing; which meant filmmakers had maybe six weeks to cut the film and another four to finish sound and lock picture. Pretty much every director in the modern Bond era hated that pressure cooker schedule.
Amazon is operating on a different model, basically the same production timelines as other contemporary blockbusters. Look at their own The Thomas Crown Affair reboot: principal photography started July 2025 and it’s scheduled for March 2027. Or Masters of the Universe: shooting began January 2025, releasing June 2026. That’s an 18 to 24 month cycle, which is totally standard for action, superhero fare.
So no, waiting until late 2028 isn’t comfortable. If Bond is aiming for a 2027 release, filming would need to start in spring 2026 and since they’ve only just locked a writer and haven’t officially unveiled Bond yet, that’s clearly not happening. A spring 2027 shoot makes much more sense. Which means we’ll probably find out who the new 007 is sometime in the next 6–9 months as they need that element locked in early 2026. I’d bet by the Oscars or CinemaCon next year the name’s out.
Things are moving quickly just not on the old Eon crash-schedule. They’re moving at the normal pace for blockbuster filmmaking today. In the meantime, watch the trailer for Amy Pascal and David Heyman's next film. Imagine the trailer of Bond 26 saying: "FROM THE PRODUCERS OF JAY KELLY" Lol.
Also, another shout out to Jacob Elordi
That looks like it could be good, thank you. I had heard about it but didn't realise it was like that. Heyman's worked with Baumbach before, fingers crossed it's as good as it looks (feels like it could go either way).
A bit like the pope: whoever enters the Conclave as pope leaves as cardinal.
Heh! I've not heard that before, that's a good one.
I don't know why you get so worked up about release dates. At least we know for certain now it's coming.
Then it will finally come out, and you'll hate it so much you won't be able to call it by its name.
Lol. This is true @Mendes4Lyfe I'm afraid @George_Kaplan is spot on! You might end up calling it Bond 26 forever :D
There is simply more baggage to the role when casting James Bond. I don't buy that Villenueve would just tap any movie star to play the role, nor the producers.
I think they're in a Craig-type situation where the other actors have to compete against Dickinson.
He's not my favorite, but I can't imagine there will be many surprises.
Sometimes what's meant to happen happens.
Yes, he's the frontrunner and now it's just a process of making sure there is no diamond in the rough. Villeneuve picked the obvious choice for Dune, we're headed for a similar situation. People think that because Craig wasn't the obvious choice, that Amazon are somehow compelled to do the same thing again, but in reality most of the Bond actors were quite obvious choice before they were picked.
I’m not sure that’s accurate. Connery, Lazenby, Dalton, and Craig didn’t really stick out as “obvious choices” - only Moore and Brosnan fit that criteria.
EON was so opaque that now Amazon tells us what they're looking for and we don't believe it.
Well, they've not said anything about it publicly from what I understand, and it's all being conveyed second hand through journalists and Dealine articles. We actually have contradicting information at the current time (neither Dickinson, Elordi, nor Holland are unknowns, and yet they're apparently on Amazon's wishlist.... but they want an unknown... hmm...)
We don't know anything. We won't know anything until later.
They want a young actor, about 30 years old and British.
I just don't think we know anything honestly. I'd guess not even the people making this film know fully who the next Bond will be at the current time.
Nah, we pretend we don't know because we don't like what we know. :D
Except for Holland, none of them are really Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, or Idris Elba.
Ok :)) I can only speak for myself but I'd be interested if Harris Dickinson were the next Bond. I just don't think it's a given at all. It's in the realm of possibility, but I wouldn't say it's a certainty.
I think Dickinson and Elordi have the right level of fame and experience for Bond. I think it's a given the Bond actor can't be connected simultaneously to another big IP, but that leaves a lot of scope for many potential actors. I'm personally unsure they can find some wonderful early 30s unknown (ie who's only done a couple of supporting movie roles prior but maybe has a theatrical career) but even that's not impossible either.
I still would put Dalton in that Moore and Brosnan list.