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Aaron Taylor-Johnson may very well be the following James Bond, based on British tabloid newspaper The Solar.
CNN
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Rumors surrounding the following James Bond have been shaken and stirred after the British tabloid “The Solar” revealed a narrative saying 33-year-old British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson had been supplied the function of 007.
The Solar reported, citing an unnamed supply, that “Bond is Aaron’s job, ought to he want to settle for it. The formal supply is on the desk, and they’re ready to listen to again.”
CNN has reached out to Eon Productions and Taylor-Johnson’s workforce for remark.
The Taylor-Johnson rumors come after years of hypothesis on who will take the enduring function after Daniel Craig’s remaining run as Bond in 2021’s “No Time to Die.”
A supply with data of the scenario tells CNN that Johnson has not been forged as Bond.
And, BBC Information reviews {that a} “manufacturing insider” mentioned there isn’t any reality to the rumors about Taylor-Johnson’s casting.
Taylor-Johnson, 33, first broke by way of as a mainstream actor after his function within the 2008 teen comedy “Angus, Thongs and the Good Snogging,” based on IMDB. He achieved even larger success after his breakthrough in 2010’s “Kickass.”
In 2017, he received a Golden Globe for Greatest Supporting Actor for his function in “Nocturnal Animals,” a 2016 neo-noir directed by designer Tom Ford.
Different actors who’ve been floated for the function embrace British actor Henry Cavill and Irish actor and up to date Oscar for Greatest Actor winner Cillian Murphy.
Murphy even just lately was given a thumbs up by former Bond, Pierce Brosnan. “Cillian would do a powerful job as James Bond on His Majesty’s Secret Service,” Brosnan instructed the BBC.
There has additionally been hypothesis for years that Idris Elba was a contender to be the primary black James Bond, with the actor saying he felt “tremendous complimented” by the recommendations.
He mentioned he was flattered, however acknowledged some weren’t joyful he was being thought-about.
“People who weren’t joyful concerning the thought made the entire thing disgusting and off-putting as a result of it grew to become about race,” Elba mentioned on the “Smartless” Podcast in 2023. “It grew to become about nonsense dude, and I obtained the brunt of it.”
It’s unclear when an official announcement can be made or when manufacturing of the following chapter within the storied sixty-plus-year franchise will start.
Final 12 months, James Bond movie producer Michael G. Wilson, of Eon Productions instructed Deadline, “There’ll at all times be a Bond.”