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By Andrew Sanford | News | July 30, 2025
Denis Villeneuve will be directing the next James Bond film for Amazon. However, he’s currently wrist deep in the sands of Arrakis. Spice is power, and he controls production. All else must wait until Paul Attredes completes his war against the galaxy! That includes everyone’s second-favorite MI6 agent (RIP, Alec Trevelyan). The new Bond won’t get in front of cameras just yet, but that won’t stop speculation about who will don the signature tux and PP7.
Between Batman and Bond, all of your favorite beefy white actors are being bandied about. It’s a shame, because Dev Patel should be the next Bond. Instead, names like Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Henry Cavill have been making the rounds. Neither is a very interesting choice, but plenty of folks assumed the same about Daniel Craig. Success will require a mix of casting and filmmaking. That said, one actor doesn’t even want to get involved in the conversation, and his name is Taron Egerton.
It makes sense that Egerton would be rumored for the role. He starred in several Kingsman movies, which saw him playing a Bond-type super-spy. In a way similar to JJ Abrams directing Star Wars after auditioning with two Star Trek films, Egerton could make an easy jump from spy to spy. That may pigeon-hole him a bit, but it would be as easy a shift as can be. At least you may assume so. Egerton thinks differently, explaining recently that he would be a bad choice for the part.
“No. And I don’t think I’m a good choice for it. I think I’m too messy for that,” he explained in an interview with Collider. Egerton still has love for the franchise, noting that he enjoyed “particularly Daniel Craig’s tenure.” He still doesn’t see himself as the agent, though, adding, “But I think I wouldn’t be good at it, and I think there’s so many cool, younger actors who would be great for it. I think it would be wasted on me, probably.”
Egerton isn’t totally out of the franchise game. He certainly leaves the door open for something Bond-like down the road. “I think I’m in a period in my life where, as you say, I’ve been probably following the things that speak to me on a creative level a little bit more, but, you know, I’m sure I won’t feel that way forever,” the actor said. Who knows what that will end up being, but I’m going to take a shot in the dark and say there will be a franchise or seven that will have him in the near future.
The Tetris star concluded that playing someone like Bond would be too much for him currently. “James Bond is quite an undertaking and I think, one, as far as I’m aware, nobody’s asking me to do it,” Egerton explained. “But also, it’s possibly not quite the thing that would make me happiest. I do think it’s a big old undertaking, it kind of consumes your life, a role like that.” Answers to these kinds of probs often toe the line as far as saying no but leaving yourself open just in case. I appreciate that Egerton’s answer amounts to, “nah, I’m good.” But, ya know, he makes it sound all nice like with his good words.
