James Bond Calendar 2023 - Month to a View Planner 30cm x 30cm - Official Merchandise

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He's veeeeery young. But my god: Paul Mescal is veeeeeery good. He was nominated for his first Oscar this year at 27 years old for Aftersun, and he's about as yearned-for as any man under 30 on the planet. He also appears to be just a lovely boy, and an Esquire cover star. If Craig's Bond was a craggy, hard-boiled, careworn interpretation, there's no harder an about-turn than going to the internet's soft-centred boyfriend. With the sun finally set on Daniel Craig’s franchise-altering tenure as James Bond, fans of the storied spy franchise are clamoring to know who will be the next performer to step into 007’s stylish shoes. But the answer is far from obvious, and it’s an awfully crowded field of candidates. (After all, if you’re a British heartthrob with a certain degree of notoriety, chances are you’re in the running for the role.) But where you fall in the taxonomy of Bond wannabes is bigger than just fan chatter—in fact, it’s the subject of an entire cottage industry of gamblers and betting houses, who have been gaming the odds on who will succeed Craig ever since he announced his departure.

When British actor Damson Idris was stopped on the red carpet for the season five premiere of US crime drama Snowfall in February 2023 (it’s good! Give it a watch!), Hip Hollywood put it to him that he’d make a perfect successor to Daniel Craig. He seemed excited by the thought. Actors who have portrayed the titular character in the James Bond films include Sean Connery (six films, not counting the non-Eon film Never Say Never Again), George Lazenby (one film), Roger Moore (seven films), Timothy Dalton (two films), Pierce Brosnan (four films), and Daniel Craig (five films).On that note, another 'probs not' to file alongside Elba's, although more cryptic, came from Jamie Dornan recently. Being very buff and Irish he's occasionally mentioned in dispatches from the front lines of the Who Will Be The Next Bond trenches, but talking to the Radio Times about his new spy thriller Heart of Stone, he said: " I love doing it, but you know – I've said this sort of thing before – I wouldn't want to do that movie after movie after movie." He also told Digital Spy that its female-led story was "much more where we need to be headed at the moment, after decades and decades of male-drive spy thrillers". So, unless there's a pretty severe about-turn in the Bond universe, it sounds like he's counting himself out too.) If he gets the role, the magnificently-haired Londoner would represent the most luxuriantly-maned Bond since Brosnan. And the rumour mill has had him firmly in the running since McMafia and War and Peace first introduced the UK’s living rooms to him. Most of his best work so far has been on the stage or small screen – he’s currently playing a proper wrong’un in the BBC’s crime series Happy Valley – although he put in an eye-catching performance in 2020’s Stalin-era journalism drama Mr Jones . 5. Tom Hardy

But Boyle still thinks the series has a bright future (even if he doesn’t see himself being involved in it), and he suggested two actors who could take over Daniel Craig in the role. One is Robert Pattinson – someone who has been suggested many times before – and the other is Paapa Essiedu, the award-winning actor from Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You and Alex Garland’s Men. Boyle had seen him perform in the play A Number at the Old Vic a few days previously, and put him forward as a potential candidate. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. There are many ways to celebrate Global James Bond Day. You can binge your favorite films in the franchise, read a James Bond novel, make a playlist of James Bond theme songs, or even host a James Bond-themed party for your family and friends. And don’t forget to post about the holiday on social media with the hashtag #GlobalJamesBondDay to spread the word!Remind me with Google Calendar Perhaps most importantly, you also need to be in tune with the era in which the new Bond exists. Whoever it is will have to do the same scene for their audition: the one in From Russia With Love where Bond suspects an intruder has come for him in his hotel room, only to find it's Tatiana Romanova trying to put her moves on him.Euphoria's Nate Jacobs is one of the hottest young actors around and the other Aussie Bond George Lazenby has been through a bit of a critical renaissance over the last few years – not least within the Bond universe itself, having been given his flowers about 50 years late in all the nods and references in No Time To Die. So could it be time for another tall man from Down Under to endure a barrage of red-top headlines mashing Bond iconography with laboured puns about kangaroos, shrimps and barbies? He had no idea whether he was still in the Bond higher-ups' minds. "But I think the role’s fantastic and I’d love to throw my oversized hat into the ring again if they are! It’d be nice to see a Scottish Bond again." Sure enough, bookies have Cavill at 5/2 second favourite to put those reloadable arms into service for King and Country.