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WHO WILL BE THE NEXT JAMES BOND?

Finding the next 007 is always a high-stakes game of shadows and speculation, but the rumor mill is currently at a fever pitch. With Amazon MGM now holding the creative reins, the search has shifted toward a “fresh face” to lead the franchise into a new era. While veterans like Henry Cavill and Idris Elba remain fan favorites, producers are reportedly hunting for a British actor in his late 20s or early 30s who can commit to a full decade of missions. The word is that the search will officially intensify this year, in 2026, with an announcement potentially arriving by the fall.

The Frontrunners & Rumors

  • Aaron Taylor-Johnson: Still the heavy favorite at the bookies. Rumors persist that he’s already had a “secret audition” or has a deal waiting in the wings.
  • Callum Turner: A “red-hot” contender whose name surged to the top recently. Some whispers suggest he’s already been telling friends the role is his.
  • David Jonsson: Emerging as a top “fresh face” pick following his standout performance in Alien: Romulus.
  • The Creative Team: Director Denis Villeneuve (Dune) is the most cited name to helm the reboot, working from a script by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders).

For now, let’s look back at 60+ years of 007 movies:

Dr. No (1962)

  • Director: Terence Young
  • Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Ursula Andress (Honey Ryder), Joseph Wiseman (Dr. No), Bernard Lee (M), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny), Peter Burton (Major Boothroyd/Q)
  • Plot: Bond investigates a missing agent in Jamaica, uncovering a secret base where a scientific genius sabotages U.S. space launches.

From Russia with Love (1963)

  • Director: Terence Young
  • Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Daniela Bianchi (Tatiana Romanova), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Bernard Lee (M), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny), Robert Shaw (Red Grant)
  • Plot: 007 is lured into a trap involving a Russian cipher machine and a SPECTRE assassin.

Goldfinger (1964)

  • Director: Guy Hamilton
  • Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore), Gert Fröbe (Auric Goldfinger), Harold Sakata (Oddjob), Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond tracks a gold-obsessed tycoon who plans to irradiate Fort Knox to make his own gold reserves more valuable.

Thunderball (1965)

  • Director: Terence Young
  • Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Claudine Auger (Domino Derval), Adolfo Celi (Emilio Largo), Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q)
  • Plot: SPECTRE hijacks two atomic bombs; Bond heads to the Bahamas to find the warheads before major cities are held for ransom.

Casino Royale (1967) – Non-EON

  • Director: Multiple
  • Cast: David Niven (Sir James Bond), Ursula Andress (Vesper Lynd), Orson Welles (Le Chiffre), John Huston (M), Barbara Bouchet (Moneypenny), Geoffrey Bayldon (Q)
  • Plot: A satirical spy spoof where many agents use the name “James Bond” to confuse the enemy organization SMERSH.

You Only Live Twice (1967)

  • Director: Lewis Gilbert
  • Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Mie Hama (Kissy Suzuki), Donald Pleasence (Ernst Stavro Blofeld), Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond fakes his death and heads to Japan to stop SPECTRE from triggering a war between the US and USSR.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

  • Director: Peter R. Hunt
  • Cast: George Lazenby (James Bond), Diana Rigg (Tracy di Vicenzo), Telly Savalas (Blofeld), Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond falls in love while hunting Blofeld in the Swiss Alps, who is planning a biological warfare attack.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

  • Director: Guy Hamilton
  • Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Jill St. John (Tiffany Case), Charles Gray (Blofeld), Putter Smith & Bruce Glover (Mr. Kidd & Mr. Wint), Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond investigates a diamond smuggling ring, leading him to a Las Vegas recluse and a satellite weapon.

Live and Let Die (1973)

  • Director: Guy Hamilton
  • Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Jane Seymour (Solitaire), Yaphet Kotto (Kananga), Julius Harris (Tee Hee), Bernard Lee (M), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny) (Note: Q does not appear in this film)
  • Plot: Bond takes on a Caribbean dictator and a drug lord using Voodoo to protect their heroin empire.

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

  • Director: Guy Hamilton
  • Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Britt Ekland (Mary Goodnight), Christopher Lee (Scaramanga), Hervé Villechaize (Nick Nack), Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: 007 is targeted by the world’s most expensive assassin, Francisco Scaramanga, in a duel over solar technology.

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

  • Director: Lewis Gilbert
  • Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Barbara Bach (Anya Amasova), Curd Jürgens (Stromberg), Richard Kiel (Jaws), Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond teams up with a Soviet agent to stop a megalomaniac from destroying the world to create a city under the sea.

Moonraker (1979)

  • Director: Lewis Gilbert
  • Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Lois Chiles (Holly Goodhead), Michael Lonsdale (Hugo Drax), Richard Kiel (Jaws), Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: A mission to find a hijacked space shuttle takes Bond into orbit to stop a plot to wipe out humanity.

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

  • Director: John Glen
  • Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Carole Bouquet (Melina Havelock), Julian Glover (Kristatos), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny) (Note: M does not appear; Chief of Staff Bill Tanner takes the lead)
  • Plot: Bond must recover a communication device from a sunken ship before the Soviets get it.

Octopussy (1983)

  • Director: John Glen
  • Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Maud Adams (Octopussy), Louis Jourdan (Kamal Khan), Robert Brown (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: 007 uncovers a rogue Soviet general’s plan to detonate a nuclear bomb at a US Air Force base.

Never Say Never Again (1983) – Non-EON

  • Director: Irvin Kershner
  • Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Kim Basinger (Domino Petachi), Klaus Maria Brandauer (Largo), Edward Fox (M), Pamela Salem (Moneypenny), Alec McCowen (Q/Algernon)
  • Plot: A loose remake of Thunderball featuring an older Bond returning to active duty to retrieve stolen nuclear weapons.

A View to a Kill (1985)

  • Director: John Glen
  • Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Tanya Roberts (Stacey Sutton), Christopher Walken (Max Zorin), Grace Jones (May Day), Robert Brown (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond faces off against a psychopathic industrialist who wants to destroy Silicon Valley to corner the microchip market.

The Living Daylights (1987)

  • Director: John Glen
  • Cast: Timothy Dalton (James Bond), Maryam d’Abo (Kara Milovy), Jeroen Krabbé (Koskov), Robert Brown (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Caroline Bliss (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond assists in a Soviet defection but finds himself caught in a massive arms deal involving diamonds and drugs.

Licence to Kill (1989)

  • Director: John Glen
  • Cast: Timothy Dalton (James Bond), Carey Lowell (Pam Bouvier), Robert Davi (Sanchez), Benicio del Toro (Dario), Robert Brown (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Caroline Bliss (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: After a personal attack on Felix Leiter, Bond goes rogue to take down a brutal South American drug kingpin.

GoldenEye (1995)

  • Director: Martin Campbell
  • Cast: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Izabella Scorupco (Natalya Simonova), Sean Bean (Alec Trevelyan), Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp), Judi Dench (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Samantha Bond (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: 007 must stop a former friend and ally who plans to use a satellite weapon to collapse the world’s financial system.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

  • Director: Roger Spottiswoode
  • Cast: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Michelle Yeoh (Wai Lin), Jonathan Pryce (Elliot Carver), Judi Dench (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Samantha Bond (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond tries to stop a media mogul from inciting a war between China and the UK to gain exclusive broadcasting rights.

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

  • Director: Michael Apted
  • Cast: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Denise Richards (Christmas Jones), Sophie Marceau (Elektra King), Judi Dench (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Samantha Bond (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond is assigned to protect an oil heiress and must prevent a nuclear explosion in the waters of Istanbul.

Die Another Day (2002)

  • Director: Lee Tamahori
  • Cast: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Halle Berry (Jinx), Toby Stephens (Gustav Graves), Rick Yune (Zao), Judi Dench (M), John Cleese (Q), Samantha Bond (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: After being imprisoned in North Korea, Bond investigates a diamond mogul with a space-based laser.

Casino Royale (2006)

  • Director: Martin Campbell
  • Cast: Daniel Craig (James Bond), Eva Green (Vesper Lynd), Mads Mikkelsen (Le Chiffre), Judi Dench (M) (Note: Q and Moneypenny do not appear)
  • Plot: A reboot showing Bond’s first mission as a 00, centered on a high-stakes poker game against a terrorist financier.

Quantum of Solace (2008)

  • Director: Marc Forster
  • Cast: Daniel Craig (James Bond), Olga Kurylenko (Camille), Mathieu Amalric (Dominic Greene), Judi Dench (M)
  • Plot: Bond seeks revenge for a personal loss while uncovering a shadow organization seizing control of water resources.

Skyfall (2012)

  • Director: Sam Mendes
  • Cast: Daniel Craig (James Bond), Javier Bardem (Silva), Judi Dench (M), Ralph Fiennes (Gareth Mallory/M), Ben Whishaw (Q), Naomie Harris (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: Bond’s loyalty to M is tested when a cyberterrorist from her past launches a personal attack against MI6.

Spectre (2015)

  • Director: Sam Mendes
  • Cast: Daniel Craig (James Bond), Léa Seydoux (Madeleine Swann), Christoph Waltz (Blofeld), Dave Bautista (Mr. Hinx), Ralph Fiennes (M), Ben Whishaw (Q), Naomie Harris (Moneypenny)
  • Plot: A cryptic message leads Bond to uncover the global criminal organization known as SPECTRE.

No Time to Die (2021)

  • Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
  • Cast: Daniel Craig (James Bond), Léa Seydoux (Madeleine Swann), Rami Malek (Safin), Ralph Fiennes (M), Ben Whishaw (Q), Naomie Harris (Moneypenny), Lashana Lynch (Nomi)
  • Plot: Bond leaves retirement to rescue a scientist, leading to a confrontation with a villain armed with dangerous nanobot technology.

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