'He isn’t some kid out of high school that you can bring in and start off,' said Wilson. We do have a proper iron rule here too: nobody over 40 is getting near the role. He’s probably been in the SAS or something.' He’s a person who has been through the wars, so to speak. 'But trying to visualise it doesn’t work. ' We’ve tried looking at younger people in the past,' Wilson said. Some clues have been dropped though.īack in September 2022 Wilson said at a BFI event celebrating 60 years since Bond made his debut in Dr No that they're looking for someone around the same age as Daniel Craig was when he became Bond. So we're a long, long way away from a photocall with some dashing young chap wearing a tux. 'I think these movies reflect the time they are in, and there’s a big, big road ahead reinventing it for the next chapter and we haven’t even begun with that,' she said. Barbara Broccoli – Cubby's daughter, and the head of the franchise along with Michael G Wilson – told the Guardian that as of November 2023 the process of picking Craig's successor still hasn't started.
You might as well get the Ouija board out to ask the spirit of Cubby Broccoli what he reckons. The question turns to who will be the next James Bond now he's swapped his Walther PPK for a P45.Īnd really: who knows. No Time To Die came and went, and it's now more than two years since Daniel Craig was banged out of MI6.
