“But trying to visualize it doesn’t work. “We’ve tried looking at younger people in the past,” Wilson said. Wilson confirmed in October 2022 that the next Bond will be a “ veteran” of the spy world. He hadn’t done any huge commercial film at all, really – ‘Layer Cake’ I suppose was the most popular, should we say, of the things he had done prior to Bond, but he wasn’t a hugely well-known actor.” “A certain audience had heard of Daniel Craig, but much more the kind of independent cinema audience. Sean Connery wasn’t – nobody had ever heard of him,” McWilliams said of the franchise’s history. Pierce was known, but that was basically from television. “Timothy Dalton was known, but he was known as a Shakespearean actor, really. James Bond Producer Says They ‘Haven’t Even Begun’ Planning Next Era: ‘A Big Road Ahead’Ĭraig’s rising talent was also a factor in the casting.
