When Amazon bought the legendary Hollywood studio MGM for $8.5 billion again in 2022, they discovered themselves within the James Bond enterprise, because the Bond franchise was arrange at MGM – they usually wished to begin making Bond films as rapidly as attainable. Sadly, artistic disagreements between Amazon MGM Studios and producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, who inherited the Bond franchise from unique producer Albert R. Broccoli, slowed down the method. So, earlier this 12 months Amazon paid off Wilson and Broccoli (reported value: one other $1 billion) to allow them to acquire artistic management over the franchise for the foreseeable future, hiring Amy Pascal of Pascal Photos and David Heyman of Heyday Movies to provide the subsequent Bond movie. Now, they should discover an actor to play James Bond. There are many rumors floating round, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson being the main target of among the most intense ones – however apparently the position has not been forged simply but. And business scooper Daniel Richtman hears there’s one other Aaron within the working, as Aaron Pierre is rumored to be one of many actors being thought-about for Bond.
Pierre’s earlier credit embrace taking part in Dev-Em on 20 episodes of the DC / Syfy present Krypton, Caesar within the Prime Video miniseries The Underground Railroad, and Malcolm X on 8 episodes of the Hulu / Disney+ collection Genius. He was additionally Mid-Sized Sedan in M. Evening Shyamalan’s Previous, offered the voice of Mufasa in Mufasa: The Lion King, and caught plenty of optimistic consideration for his efficiency within the Netflix film Insurgent Ridge. Developing, he’ll be seen taking part in the Inexperienced Lantern named John Stewart within the DC / HBO collection Lanterns.
There was hypothesis that the Amazon takeover may open the door to Bond fan Christopher Nolan lastly attending to make a Bond film, as he calls for “final cut” on his movies and Nolan getting remaining reduce on a Bond film was by no means going to occur beneath Broccoli’s watch… however Nolan is presently busy engaged on the epic fantasy movie The Odyssey, which is more likely to preserve him tied up till subsequent summer season (the movie has a July 17, 2026 launch date), and Amazon didn’t pay $1 billion to allow them to twiddle their thumbs whereas ready over a 12 months for Nolan’s schedule to clear up, particularly after they’ve already been sitting on the Bond franchise for 3 years. So the producers are on the lookout for another person to take the helm. It was strongly rumored that Heyman’s best choice for director could be Kids of Males director Alfonso Cuarón, who he labored with on Gravity and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (And Cuarón has mentioned that Prisoner of Azkaban was “the best experience making a film I ever had.”) For some time, it appeared possible that Cuarón, who has mentioned that he was provided the prospect to make one other Bond film “ages ago,” would find yourself making this film, however more moderen rumors indicated that he had ended up passing on the mission (simply as he handed on Bond earlier than).
We’ll should preserve ready to see who will find yourself directing the brand new James Bond film, and who will find yourself being the most recent actor to play 007. Within the meantime, tell us: what do you consider the thought of Aaron Pierre taking part in James Bond?
