Some movie announcements arrive as a complete surprise. In other instances, film studios will delay an announcement everyone knows is coming until their audience finds itself sucked up into the maelstrom and spun around until they’re so dizzy that they’re puking up that morning’s Cheerios. Maybe they wish they never even got excited in the first place.
That’s where I’m at with the current race for James Bond, which has reportedly come down to three actors: Jack Lowden ( Slow Horses ), Callum Turner ( One Night Only ), and Josh O’Connor ( Disclosure Day ). The three finalists were announced via Puck three weeks ago on October 22, along with a mysterious fourth actor whose identity has not yet been revealed, if he even exists.
Since then, there have been no official updates from Amazon/MGM—which acquired full control of the franchise in February 2025—but there have been dozens upon dozens of interviews from former Bond actors as well as anyone remotely associated with the prior 25 Bond films and novels, with each interviewee expressing that all three men up for the role would probably be great.
“All the men who are on the list now are actors I admire,” Pierce Brosnan recently told Va...