Who should be the next James Bond? A few out-of-the-box ideas

NEW YORK — The bond, James Bond, market is heating up. For almost a year, Denis Villeneuve has been on tap to direct the next 007 installment, the first since Daniel Craig exited the role . Producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman have been lined up since March 2025. The big missing piece: Who’ll play the guy in the tux? The casting process — the first that isn’t being overseen by the Broccoli family, which relinquished creative control to Amazon MGM last year — has been typically secretive. That hasn’t stopped rampant speculation about who’ll be the next Bond. The oddsmakers have a few favorites, among them Callum Turner, Jacob Elordi and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. But our task here, today, is to open up the possibilities. This is the first time in more than two decades that a new Bond is being minted. We should have some fun with it, and cast a wide net. So let's take a martini shaker to the favorites. Here are some out-of-the-box candidates, ranked from least plausible to kinda legitimate. Steve Buscemi What? Are you telling me you wouldn’t watch Steve Buscemi as James Bond? It

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