Believe it or not, it’s been more than 2 years and a half now since 007: No Time to Die opened in theaters and we said goodbye to Daniel Craig’s James Bond after a long but memorable run that reshaped the character and, for the first time ever, gave him closure. That doesn’t mean James Bond is going anywhere, and it’s about time we start thinking about who’s next in line to play the legendary role. The latest name gaining traction? Kick-Ass‘ Aaron Taylor-Johson.
Famously unreliable source of movie news The Sun has the ‘exclusive’ which has got the town talking again, so why are we even paying attention to this? Well, it’s far from the only time these rumblings have been heard in recent years, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been slowly but steadily gaining audiences’ trust as a new type of modern action hero… and antihero.
We’ll next be seeing the 33-year-old actor in David Leitch’s The Fall Guy (after working together on Bullet Train) and Sony Pictures’ Kraven the Hunter (which aims to make up for Madame Web‘s flop). These gigs all come after secondary but impactful roles in other recent major studio action flicks such as Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and Matthew Vaughn‘s The King’s Man (which was about spies too). There’s a tendency here.
