![]() ![]() That would suggest that we're quite a few years from the next one, but speculation abounds regardless, and not just on the guy in front of the camera. The director's chair over on the Pinewood lot remains empty for Bond 26, with the hotly-anticipated next 007 instalment still yet to get a new Bond and even a script, according to Broccoli at the BAFTAs in February. Could the next Bond be directed by… Phoebe Waller-Bridge? It might be a tactical red herring, but this would serve to suggest that the same criteria is being used in the search for Bond 7. He hadn't dome any huge commercial film at all, really - Layer Cake I suppose was the most popular, should we say, of the things he had done prior to Bond, but he wasn't a hugely well-known actor.” A certain audience had heard of Daniel Craig, but much more the kind of independent cinema audience. ![]() Sean Connery wasn't - nobody had ever heard of him. “Pierce as known, but that was basically from television. “Timothy Dalton was known, but he was known as a Shakespearean actor, really,” she said. More interestingly, McWilliams made a point of highlighting that most Bond actors are relatively unknown before they get the double-O job. According to McWilliams, younger actors were looked at with the Bond search that eventually culminated in the selection of Daniel Craig, but for the aforementioned reasons they “kind of scrubbed that idea and went back to the drawing board and started again.” ![]()
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