The 39-year-old from Jersey made a big announcement on his Instagram page about playing Superman, but a shake-up at Warner Bros meant he was dumped from the role when director and DC Studios co-chair James Gunn revealed he would be writing a new movie focusing on a younger version of the superhero. They are thinking about what direction they want to take and they haven’t called me to be part of that conversation.”Ĭavill has long been one of the front-runners to don the famous tux, but his hopes of playing the super spy seemed to be over when he quit his role in The Witcher to reprise his role as Superman – or so he thought. When asked by the Radio Times this year whether he would be interested in playing Bond, he said: “It’s difficult to answer that question. His chances of landing the Bond role may also have improved with his performance in Rogue Agent in which he played fake MI5 agent Robert Hendy-Freegard who uses a false identity to kidnap victims for money. The 37-year-old Londoner, who grew up in North Yorkshire, has proved himself as a versatile actor in recent years, playing an Anglican vicar/amateur sleuth in the ITV hit show Grantchester and starring in the crime drama McMafia as Alex Godman, the son of a Russian mafia boss living in London.
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Norton returned with a bang as psychopath Tommy Lee Royce in the award-winning BBC police drama Happy Valley for which he was nominated for a Bafta in the first series in 2015. More recently he played military commander Ives in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi and spy thriller Tenet, assassin Tangerine in David Leitch’s Bullet Train and the title role in upcoming American superhero flick Kraven the Hunter, based on the Marvel Comics character.īut what really got tongues wagging was Taylor-Johnson’s screen test for the role at Pinewoods Studio in September which reportedly impressed Bond franchise boss Barbara Broccoli. The 32-year-old Englishman rose to prominence as John Lennon in the 2009 film Nowhere Boy and seven years later won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a psychopathic drifter in Tom Ford’s thriller Nocturnal Animals. Here we take a look at some of the names linked with the role and their next James Bond odds.
Jessica O’Reilly of Ladbrokes said: “Taylor-Johnson’s all the rage with 007 punters right now and it looks like he could be finally unveiled as the new James Bond soon.” The Bullet Train and Kick-Ass star was 5/2 with Happy Valley actor James Norton earlier in the month, but has since been slashed to 15/8. Norton remains at 5/2, while Henry Cavill is still in the top three at 3/1. Next James Bond odds: Happy Valley star Norton still 5/2Īaron Taylor-Johnson is once again the outright favourite at 15/8 to replace Daniel Craig as the world’s most famous spy.
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