Amazon plot huge change of direction for next James Bond film after character's death as race to play 007 hots up | The US Sun

AMAZON are poised to cast the youngest ever James Bond — in 007 prequels set in the ’50s and ’60s.

Bosses are said to be keen to hire a 20-something actor for “preboot” films set in the era Ian Fleming wrote the books.

Daniel Craig aiming a gun in a scene still from Skyfall. — Amazon is said to be looking to cast a younger actor to play James Bond movies after Daniel Craig's agent died in 2021’s No Time to DieCredit: Kobal Collection - Shutterstock

Talking about Bond, actor Daniel Mays said: 'I heard they’re casting someone young and going back to the origins'Credit: Getty

The franchise was snapped up by the streaming giants after 2021’s No Time To Die featured the death of the super-spy, played by Daniel Craig.

A TV insider told The Sun: “They can’t just pretend it didn’t happen. So they’re looking at his story as a younger man in a different era.”

Well-connected Line of Duty star Daniel Mays said on yesterday’s We’re Not Getting Any Younger podcast: “I heard a rumour they’re going to cast someone very young and go back to the origins.

“They’re going to have all the retro cars and that sort of stuff — and start again. I think that would be kind of cool.”

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Actors thought to be in the running to play Bond include Spider-Man star Tom Holland, 28, Bridget Jones hunk Leo Woodall, 28, SAS Rogue Heroes leading man Connor Swindells, 28, plus Hero Fiennes Tiffin, 27, and Kit Connor, 21.

Irishman Paul Mescal, 29, is also said to be in the frame along with Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, 27.

The new star could follow in the footsteps of fellow Aussie George Lazenby, who shot On Her Majesty’s Secret Service aged 29 in 1968.

The Sun revealed in February the first TV spin-off was likely to be The Moneypenny Diaries, with Florence Pugh, 29.