Idris Elba has shut down rumours he was set to be the following James Bond, saying the claims aren’t in any approach “a truth”.
“I love the Bond franchise, I’m very close to the producers,” Elba advised The Guardian lately.
“We were all kind of laughing about the rumours because they are just that.”
This is the primary time Elba has spoken out concerning the lingering rumours, which noticed many claiming Bond producers had been contemplating him for the star position for years.
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“I can’t speak for [the producers], but from my perspective, there’s never been any sort of truth to any of it,” he added. “It’s a compliment, and it’s an honour – but it’s not a truth.”
Th rumours first emerged in 2018 when a leaked e-mail by Sony Pictures government Amy Pascal revealed she felt “Idris should be the next Bond.”
The thought gained some weight when lead producer Barbara Broccoli claimed on Deadline’s Crew Call podcast final yr that Elba had “been part of the conversation” for who would play Bond subsequent.
Broccoli later confirmed to Deadline that “nobody’s in the running” for the position.
“There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film because, really, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he is and that takes time,” she stated on the time.
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Broccoli additionally revealed filming for the following Bond movie is a minimum of two years away, with a launch date not imagined till 2024 on the soonest, and even 2026.
Nevertheless, The Sun claimed final yr that Elba had taken himself out of these talks as he had a purpose to pursue different initiatives, not simply Bond.
Speaking with The Guardian, Elba gushed over his present motion franchise, Luther, which he has been starring in since 2010.
Likening his character John Luther to Bond, and even Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible, the actor stated: “These are solitary figures that go off and have conviction and style and grace, take out the bad guy. But I think with John there’s a sort of grounded relatability. That’s the space where I think I can take this franchise further and deeper.”
So far rumoured actors to be on the Bond name card embody Kick-Ass actor Aaron Taylor Johnson, Henry Cavill, Tom Hardy and Bridgerton actor Regé Jean-Page.
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