Who will be the next James Bond? Latest odds on Tom Hardy, Aidan Turner and Michael Fassbender as bets roll in

THE SUN
By Hannah Shaw
7th March 2017, 10:57 am  Updated: 7th March 2017, 11:31 am

The contest to play James Bond is still anyone’s game with a number of suave men in the running.

While Aidan Turner has been the bookies favourite for quite some time, he is currently being pipped to the post by Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender.

Sun Bets are currently taking bets on over 50 male actors to take on the role of James Bond as Daniel Craig’s replacement.

The favourite is currently split between Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender, who both have odds of 11/4.

Trailing behind are War & Peace’s James Norton, Poldark’s Aidan Turner and Luther’s Idris Elba, but what are their chances?

Who’s in the running for the next Bond?

Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy has fuelled the rumour mill by staying quiet when questioned on the role
Age: 39

Sun Bets odds: 11/4

Where do we know him from? Actor Tom Hardy is no stranger to the big screen having appeared recently in Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant and Legend.

The British actor has recently appeared in the BBC series Taboo and has fuelled Bond rumours after refusing to comment on whether he would like to take over from Daniel Craig, for fear of jinxing his chance.

Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender made his Alien debut in the 2012 prequel, Prometheus
Age: 39

Sun Bets odds: 11/4

Where do we know him from? Fans may recognise Fassbender from 2012 film Prometheus, and the star has hit the big screen again with his role in Assassin’s Creed.

Sun Bets place the actor’s odds at 20/1, however in an interview with GQ Fassbender said: “As an acting role, I think Daniel has done such a cracking job in this age group.

“I think the franchise needs something new.”

James Norton

James Norton made an impression on viewers during his stint on BBCs Happy Valley
Age: 31

Sun Bets odds: 7/2

Where do we know him from? Norton has an impressive accolade of TV credits behind him.

Viewers may recognise James from BBC’s Happy Valley, where he played the role of Tommy Lee Royce.

James has also starred in Granchester, Black Mirror and War & Peace.

Aidan Turner

Aidan has become a sex symbol thanks to his topless action in Poldark
Age: 33

Sun Bets odds: 4/1

Where do we know him from? Most viewers will recognise Aidan as heartthrob Ross Poldark.

Aidan started his career on stage but soon found fame on the big screen after appearing in The Hobbit trilogy.

The 33 year old took the lead in Bond odds back in August, however refused to comment on the rumours at MCM Expo.



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Tom Hiddleston dresses down for casual lunch with mystery brunette... as he is tipped to be the next 007 after Daniel Craig 'quits'

DAILY MAIL
By EMILY SHERIDAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:48 EST, 23 May 2016 | UPDATED: 08:30 EST, 23 May 2016

He's rumoured to be the top name in the frame for one of the biggest roles in Hollywood - James Bond.

But it was business as usual for Tom Hiddleston as he met up with a mystery brunette for lunch in London on Sunday.



The actor was spotted dressed down for a relaxing afternoon in his hometown as speculation continues to grow over the next 007

He's rumoured to be the top name in the frame for one of the biggest roles in Hollywood - James Bond.



But it was business as usual for Tom Hiddleston as he met up with a mystery brunette for lunch in London on Sunday.

The actor was spotted dressed down for a relaxing afternoon in his hometown as speculation continues to grow over the next 007

'It’s not something that’s come into my life yet. I’m not closed to it by any means - in fact, I’m definitely open to the possibility. But you know what they say: you can’t go out and look for it, you just have to wait for it to come to you.'

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Henry Cavill new James Bond: Superman actor being groomed as the next 007?

CHRISTIAN TODAY
Snooky Grawls 27 June 2015



It is that time once again for Ian Fleming's James Bond character where the search for a new actor to play 007 is up in the air.

Daniel Craig is the current one portraying the British Super Spy and word around is that the one likely to succeed him is Henry Cavill.

Should Cavill indeed be blessed of taking over from Craig, it will mark the first time that an actor with high regard would be chosen to play the role.

Previous actors who took on the role of 007 were virtual unknowns. In fact, portraying James Bond was seen as a springboard for their career.

Among the actors who previously played James Bond include Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Craig.

So will Cavill be up to the task?

For the record, Cavill had auditioned for the role before. This was back in 2005 when he tried out together with Daniel Craig. At that time, producers felt he was too young for the role (he was only 22 years old at the time) so Craig eventually got the part.

After 10 years and Cavill having a following of his own, all that has changed. He has the age and most importantly the looks that James Bond had always been associated with, a lady's man if you will.

So does this make him a shoe-in to be the next 007?

While that remains up in the air, Cavill is set to debut in another remake – The Man from U.N.C.L.E which is set to debut this coming August. The upcoming film may somehow help critics if Cavill is fit to be the next James Bond, being a spy-themed movie.


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'James Bond 24' Movie Rumors: Tom Hardy Tops The List Of Replacements For The Next Actor To Take Over The Iconic Role [VIDEO]

ENSTARS
By Zach Dennis, EnStars
on Aug 28, 2014 03:17 PM EDT




While Daniel Craig is set to keep the role of James Bond for the next two movies, it seems like the actor may move on from the role after his contract runs up, but could a movie villain be taking over the role after him?

It seems like The Dark Knight Rises and Mad Max: Road Fury star Tom Hardy may be the actor at the top of the list of James Bond replacements, according to Celebrity Ex news posted on Sunday. The video added that Hardy will be the right age by the time Craig's contract runs up.

It would be an inspired choice since Hardy has experience both with action, leading a franchise, and blockbuster films. The British actor has been in Christopher Nolan's Inception and The Dark Knight Rises, has been action ready in Warrior, and will be taking over his own franchise with Mad Max next year.

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Benedict Cumberbatch offered role of Ian Fleming

DEN OF GEEK
News Simon Brew 17 Apr 2014 - 06:45

The creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming, might just be played by Benedict Cumberbatch in an upcoming biopic...



What's that? You think it's been a little too long since the last Benedict Cumberbatch casting rumour, and you fancy another? Ah, right you are.

The planned biopic of Ian Fleming, the man of course who created James Bond 007, has had one or two bumps over the past few years. At one stage, Duncan Jones was set to direct, until his commitment to the Warcraft movie ruled out his involvement. However, the project - based on the 2009 biography of Fleming written by Andrew Lycett - is still going. And now Benedict Cumberbatch has been linked with the lead role.

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Liam Neeson turned down James Bond role because late wife Natasha Richardson said she wouldn't marry him if he took it

 THE INDEPENDENT
JESS DENHAM  Author Biography   Friday 07 March 2014

Liam Neeson was “heavily courted” for the role of James Bond, but turned down the martinis and bikinis because of his late wife’s wishes.

The Irish actor, whose latest film Non-Stop is top of the US box office, is renowned for his work in action movies.

But when his wife Natasha Richardson told him she would not marry him if he played 007, Neeson decided against taking up the high-profile part.

“I was heavily courted, let’s put it that way, and I’m sure some other actors were too,” the 61-year-old told the Hull Daily Mail.

“It was about 18 or 19 years ago and my wife-to-be said, 'If you play James Bond we’re not getting married'. And I had to take that on board because I did want to marry her.”

Oscar-nominated Neeson insists that he has never regretted passing on any film roles.

Recently, the actor spoke candidly about his grief after Richardson died five years ago in a skiing accident.

READ MORE HERE; http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/liam-neeson-turned-down-james-bond-role-to-marry-natasha-richardson-9176657.html

American fans vote Sir Sean Connery UK’s best ever movie actor

SCOTTISH EXPRESS
By: Dean Herbert
Published: Sun, October 27, 2013

The 83-year-old James Bond star beat younger actors such as Daniel Craig and Benedict Cumberbatch to clinch the top spot.

The results, published for the first time by the Q Scores Company of New York, ranks Edinburgh-born Sir Sean the top-rated British film star and among the top 10 Hollywood actors ever.

Film studios usually pay huge fees to obtain Q Score charts, based on US opinion polls held every six months. But the firm has decided to make public their latest “Brit Q” rankings, revealing that Sir Sean, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Liam Neeson are

Britain’s most popular film actors with US audiences.

Henry Schafer, executive vice president at the Q Scores Company, said: “Awareness of Sean Connery and his appeal was strong across the country and with all age groups.

“Though not working so much in recent years he has already transcended the normal run of actors in the way people felt about him.”

Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with Rentrak, a film consultancy, said: “Young men still want to be Sean Connery’s James Bond.

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Tom Hardy To Make a Billion Panties Drop as James Bond

HECKLER SPRAY
By Jess Goodwin - September 18, 2013



Though Daniel Craig is still alive and well and will continue his double life as 007 in the next two James Bond movies, rumors have been going around this week that Tom Hardy will take over once Craig steps down from the martini throne.

“Tom is right at the top of the wish list. He’s been approached to gauge his interest and he’s keen,” an anonymous source reported. If it’s true, great! I love Tom Hardy. He’s a talented actor with very nice lips. I’m sure he’d do a bang-up job, and I can totally see him doing the whole “Bond… James Bond” thing in his Bane voice. (Do they actually still say that? I’ve only ever seen Skyfall…)The source added:

 ”He is a respected actor with a great catalogue of films but most importantly he’s the type of guy that all men want to be like and all women want to be with. He’s perfect Bond material.”

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Tom Hardy - the next Bond?

THE IRISH EXAMINER
September 15, 2013

The 'Dark Knight Rises' star is reportedly at the top of the list to take over from the 'Skyfall' actor once his time as the fictional British spy comes to an end after his next two films.

An insider told the Daily Star Sunday newspaper: "Although Craig is signed up for the next two Bond films the search for his replacement is already on.

"Tom is right at the top of the wish list. He's been approached to gauge his interest and he's keen."

READ MORE HERE: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/tom-hardy--the-next-bond-607014.html

Pierce Brosnan's daughter Charlotte, 41, dies of ovarian cancer (LOS ANGELES TIMES)

By Christie DZurilla
This post has been corrected, as detailed below.
July 2, 2013, 11:04 a.m.

Pierce Brosnan's daughter Charlotte has died of ovarian cancer, the same disease that took her mother, Cassandra Harris, in 1991. She was 41.

"On June 28 at 2 p.m. my darling daughter Charlotte Emily passed on to eternal life, having succumbed to ovarian cancer," Brosnan, 60, said in a statement to People. She was surrounded by her husband, her two children and her two brothers.

Charlotte had battled the disease for three years


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Pierce Brosnan Says He Was Not Invited to Oscars James Bond Tribute (SHOWBIZ 411)

By Paula Schwartz

“No one invited me.” Pierce Brosnan is setting the record straight about this year’s Oscars the James Bond tribute. He told me this at the junket at the Waldorf Astoria Monday afternoon for his new movie “Love is All You Need.” (Later that evening he attended the Barbra Streisand tribute at Lincoln Center.)

“I was at the market, which I go to every Sunday and one of these chappies from TMZ said, ‘So Pierce, are you going to be there?’ I said, ‘Well I’m not going to be there. No one invited me.’ I didn’t even say no one invited me. I said, ‘I don’t think I’ll be there. It’s another man’s job.’ It got blown into something else.

Anyway it became I snubbed them. I didn’t. I didn’t’ get invited.”

Pierce Brosnan, who will turn 60 in May, is still as charming and handsome as he was when he played 007.

The women journalists – as well as a few of the men – were smitten by the Irishmen’s charm and warmth. He was passionate about talking about his new film, sang a little – off key – when told the movie is sort of “Mamma Mia” without the music, and at the end of the roundtable heartily embraced a woman who told him her husband had recently died of a heart attack.

Brosnan wore a white shirt, a few buttons undone, and a dark, tailored suit. His waist looks like it’s still 32 inches.

“Love is All You Need,” is a romance directed by Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier, whose last film in 2010, “In a Better World,” received an Academy Award for best foreign film. Brosnan plays a work obsessed Englishman and lacking father, a widower living in Denmark, who falls for Ida (Trine Dyrholm), a Danish hairdresser, who is battling breast cancer and who has just been dumped by her husband.

She and Brosnan’s character meet at the airport-parking garage where she accidentally rams into his car; coincidentally they are both off to the Amalfi Coast to attend the wedding of his son and her daughter.

Underneath her wig Ida is completely bald. It was originally called “The Baldheaded Dresser” Brosnan said, “and remained that in Denmark, which is so blunt, truthful, honest, up front, but I don’t think it would fly here.”

Another thing that would be lost in translation if made here is the story, which is very European in sensibility. Could this movie have been made here, Brosnan was asked? “The studio would have just hammered this to death. Executives would have gone in there with their little kind of moral values and cut the balls out if.” He added, “Their shortcomings are evident in the produce that they present to the great American public in the guise of romantic comedies, which are rather thin and they don’t have any real bite or humanity or substance.”


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Henry Cavill as James Bond (fan-made trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6TTVRpbuA&feature=youtu.be

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SPOILER ALERT: Dame Judi Dench creates stylish 007 souvenir by turning brass bullets from final Skyfall scene in to cufflinks PUBLISHED: 08:01 EST, 15 January 2013 | UPDATED: 08:01 EST, 15 January 2013 (MAIL ON LINE)

After shooting her final James Bond scenes as M in Skyfall Dame Judi Dench kept the casings of the four bullets she fired and had them turned into cufflinks as Christmas presents

IT was the moment she finally got out from behind her London desk and in amongst the action – and it cost James Bond’s M, played by Dame Judi Dench, her life.

The matriarchal MI6 spy chief went out in a blaze of glory in her dramatic last ever scenes for the blockbuster franchise, fatally injured in a gunfight with Javier Bardem’s flamboyant villain and his henchmen in the latest Bond outing, Skyfall.

But while clearly emotional at bowing out of the series, the acting dame was clearly thrilled that she got to fire off a few shots at the baddies before she went down, the only time throughout her seven-film tenure as M she got to show her credentials in the field.

She gave one pair to her 15-year-old grandson, Sammy, and another to her daughter Finty’s boyfriend for Christmas.

Designer jeweler Roger Elliott, 63, gold-plated the cartridges and studded their tips with rubies.


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Bafta 2013: Dame Judi Dench finally recognised for James Bond role Veteran British actress Dame Judi Dench has finally been recognised by the Bafta awards for her role as M in James Bond, as Skyfall receives eight nominations this year. (TELEGRAPH)

By Hannah Furness9:14AM GMT 09 Jan 2013

Dame Judi Dench has been nominated as best supporting actress for her role as M in James Bond, receiving one of the eight nominations for Skyfall announced at a ceremony this morning.

It is the first time she has been recognized by Bafta for playing M, and comes as she finally finishes her 17 year stint in the role. Skyfall will be her final appearance in the James Bond franchise.

Her nomination is one of eight received by the film this year, including Outstanding British Film and Cinematography.

Javier Bardem was announced as a contender for best supporting actor, with potential accolades also including prizes for original music, editing, production design and sound.


Casino Royale has previously received nine nominations; a record high.

This year, Skyfall was narrowly pipped to the most nominations by Lincoln, which received ten, Les Miserables and Life of Pi which both received nine.

The award for best film will come from a short list of Argo, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty.

Judi Dench was first recognised by Bafta in1966 as "most promising newcomer", and has gone on to receive and impressive 26 nominations.

She has already won ten times, including best leading actress for Iris and Mrs Brown.

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Skyfall becomes the first billion dollar Bond film (YAHOO MOVIES)

Skyfall has become the first Bond film to make $1 billion at the box office.

Bond 23, which was released in October in the UK and November in the US, breached the record-breaking barrier over the Christmas holidays.

So far, the film – directed by Sam Mendes and the third film to star Daniel Craig as 007 –  has made $289,600,000 (£179,274,563) in the US, and then a sturdy $710,600,000 (£439,891,245) around the world – a total of $1,000,200,000.

It's the first Bond film ever to amass the sum, though it should add another substantial figure to that once it opens in China in the New Year.

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James Bond - Daniel Craig And Judi Dench Are The U.k.'S Favourite Actors (CONTACT MUSIC)

James Bond stars Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench have been voted Britain's favourite film stars in a new poll.

Craig, who this year (12) enjoyed his third outing as the British superspy in Skyfall, garnered 26 per cent of the vote, winning him the title of the U.K's favourite male actor.

His co-star Dench, who has played Bond's boss M for the past seven films, was named favourite female after picking up 27 per cent of the vote.

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Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Javier Bardem on The Graham Norton Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbfExQHQHbg

Daniel Craig: 007 drops in on Camp Bastion (NEWS.SCOTSMAN)

Published on Monday 19 November 2012 01:32

JAMES Bond paid a surprise visit to British personnel stationed at Camp Bastion, in Afghanistan, yesterday.

The 007 actor joined 800 soldiers, sailors and airmen at the base in Helmand Province as they prepared to watch the latest installment in the spy series, Skyfall.

Craig, 44, went on a “morale-boosting” tour of the camp and saw soldiers train before they deploy to forward operating bases.

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Judi Dench and Javier Bardem Steal the Show in Skyfall (PHILLY POST)

Astonishing performances in new James Bond flick might produce the series’ first-ever Oscar nominations for acting.
    
by Aaron Mettey

Every once in a while, there comes a movie that transcends its genre, like The Lord of the Rings and The Dark Knight. So it’s not an overestimation to say that the newest James Bond film Skyfall is one of the best of the series—and certainly the best of Daniel Craig’s three. Much of this is due to the reverence director Sam Mendes and the writers show for the original films and its extraordinary cast. But mostly it’s because it has Dame Judi Dench in a gunfight. Yes, you read that right: Judi Dench, gunfight.

For those who (were lucky and) didn’t see the last, almost series-ending Quantum of Solace, fear not: Skyfall is completely independent. As James Bond (Daniel Craig) and another agent Eve (Naomie Harris) pursue a stolen hard drive containing the identification of every undercover MI6 agent, things go horribly wrong: Bond is shot and presumed dead. Months later, after the drive falls into an ex-agent Silva’s hands (Javier Bardem), 007 returns from the dead—weakened from wounds and substance-abuse—to stop Silva from killing M (Judi Dench) and exposing the secret agents

With a motorcycle chase, a fistfight atop a train, and a beautiful woman on a beach, there are many hallmarks of the series. But this movie could almost be described as throwback 007 or James Bond 1.0. Most recent films centered on flashy cars and gadgets. But here, everything is bit more low-tech—the only gadget is a palm-print recognizing gun (so that Bond would be the only person who could shoot it). Sure there are still beautiful cars, but it’s the Aston Martin DB5 first appearing in Goldfinger. And in a refreshing change of pace, the Bond girl in this film is really M, as played by the 77-year-old Dench

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DOWNTON ABBEY STAR DAN STEVENS IS LINED UP AS A FUTURE 007 (EXPRESS CO.UK)

By Mel Caunter

HIS devastating good looks and gritty performances have seen fans label him the best Bond ever.
But it seems Daniel Craig has competition ...in the shape of Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens who fancies himself as the next 007.

The Daily Express understand that after making his debut on Broadway the father-of-two has being sounded out by Bond bosses who are on the look out for the next secret agent.

The news comes after Stevens, 30, who plays Matthew Crawley in the period drama, admitted he was unsure about his future in the hit ITV1 series, as he focuses on his new Broadway career.

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