{"id":224384,"date":"2025-06-29T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224384\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:09:10","slug":"who-should-play-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224384\/","title":{"rendered":"Who should play James Bond?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s big news is that, after endless speculation, Amazon\/MGM have finally chosen a new director<\/a> to helm the first James Bond movie that will be produced under their banner \u2013 and it\u2019s Quebec-born Denis Villeneuve. Easily the highest profile Bond director ever, Villeneuve has directed some of the most acclaimed movies in recent years, including Sicario, Blade Runner 2049, Arrival, Prisoners, and Dune Part I & II. It\u2019s certainly a signal that the studio aims to keep 007 on the big screen, and one can expect Villeneuve to craft an epic film.<\/p>\n

However, the next big decision to come will be who is going to slip into 007\u2019s tux and wield the iconic Walther PPK. Guys like Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Henry Cavill are considered the favourites, but it was recently revealed that the studio is aiming for a much younger Bond<\/a>, preferably an actor under thirty, which seems to shut them out. Ditto Idris Elba, one of the classic \u201calmost Bonds\u201d, who is widely seen as too old to now play the role (although I\u2019m not so sure they have to go super young to play Bond).<\/p>\n

So, who do YOU think should play 007? Take the poll and let us know. I\u2019m curious to see who you all think should take on the part. Maybe someone here has a totally out-of-left-field idea? My thought is that the guy chosen to play Bond is going to be someone none of us has considered, although one thing is for sure\u2014with a guy like Villeneuve directing, he can have his pick of the biggest stars out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s big news is that, after endless speculation, Amazon\/MGM have finally chosen a new director to helm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,627,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-224384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-james-bond","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114767525515680920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}