Aaron Taylor-Johnson has reportedly been offered a James Bond role

This James Bond news has shocked us And stirred.

Aaron Taylor Johnson According to rumors, he will take over the role of James Bond The sun.

Taylor-Johnson, 33, best known for his roles in films like 2010 Super awesome and 2022 Bullet trainreportedly has a ‘formal offer’, which the actor is expected to sign in the coming days.

Production on the next Bond installment will begin later this year.

Once the paperwork is complete, Taylor-Johnson will take over the iconic role of Daniel Craig, which played Bond in five films over the course of 15 years. Craig, 56, last appeared as 007 in 2021 No time to die.

The sun reported that Taylor-Johnson was in the running alongside a number of high-end competitors, including the recent Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, Idris Elba, Henry Cavill And Happy Valley star James Norton.

Just last week, Taylor-Johnson was asked about the possibility of playing Bond, which has been rumored since Craig announced his departure.

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“I find it charming and wonderful that people see me in that role,” he said Number in an interview published on March 13. “I consider it a great compliment.”

Taylor-Johnson, who also won a Golden Globe for his performance in 2016 Nocturnal animalscan next be seen in May The autumn mannext Ryan Gosling And Emily Bluntand that of Augustus Kraven the Hunterwhere he plays the titular superhero.

As for Craig, he first played Bond in 2006 Casino royalehe said he had no regrets about leaving the franchise behind.

“No, none at all,” Craig said on BBC Radio 4’s “Best of Today” podcast in December 2022. “I have spent 17 years of my life incredibly happy making this. I literally want to spend the next twenty years of my life trying to unpick everything and put it in one place, because it was incredible. I left it where I wanted it. And that with the last film I got the chance to do that.”

During his last appearance as in No time to die, James Bond’s character appears blown up and killed at the end of the film. According to Craig, it gave the franchise an opportunity to reinvent itself in his absence.

“I don’t know if it sounds insincere,” I said [James Bond producer] Barbara [Broccoli] Way back in 2006, ‘If I make all these movies, and we do it right, can we kill him,’ and she said, ‘Yes, we can,'” Craig recalled. “I thought about myself, about my postponed career and I tried to think about how that would work, but I also thought about what they were doing with Casino royale.”

Craig continued, “They had a chance to reset with that because they went back to the beginning. I thought you’d get another chance to reset. That seems like a good move to us.”