Amazon MGM’s 007 film reboot, commonly referred to as James Bond 26, is in early development. But while the project has assembled its creative team, we still have yet to learn who will inherit the role of James Bond following Daniel Craig’s five-film run in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021).However, with the franchise currently expanding in other corners of entertainment, there have already been several official Bond castings over the past few weeks.Credit: MGM/EON ProductionsRelated: All 9 James Bond Actors Ranked From Worst To Best — Plus the Official New 007 ActorJames Bond Casting AnnouncementsYoung Bond: SilverFin is the audio drama adaptation of Charlie Higson’s first Young Bond novel of the same name. The project was announced earlier this year and it was later revealed that Isaac Rouse (The Crown Season 6) would be voicing the teenage Bond, with Charlotte McBurney as Wilder Lawless, in a story set long before the events of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale (1953).Last week, per The James Bond Dossier, Higson himself was announced to be voicing Bond’s mentor Michael Merriot.“It’s a lot of fun, revisiting the book over twenty years after I first wrote it and reading the scripts thinking, oh, this is good,” Higson said, adding, “And it’s great to be involved in this way, playing a character who develops over the series. Bond is turning up at school as an orphan, and Merriot becomes an alternative father figure who takes an interest in his life.”Credit: MGM/EON ProductionsNow, it has been confirmed that Miriam Margolyes, best known for playing Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, will voice Cleek MacSawney.“Cleek is a violent, probably insane semi-criminal who works for Lord Hellebore on his estate in Scotland,” Margolyes said. “You wouldn’t want to meet her on a dark night, that’s for sure. I do enjoy playing nasty people!”In addition to Margolyes, the production has also announced Harry Marcus (Poldark) as Bond’s friend Red Kelly, and Christopher Nathan (The Walking Dead: World Beyond) as Eton bully George Hellebore.Credit: MGM/EON ProductionsCharlie Higson’s 2005 book Young Bond: SilverFin was followed by the sequels Blood Fever, Double or Die, Hurricane Gold, and By Royal Command, all of which were written by the author. The book series later continued under author Steve Cole with Shoot to Kill, Heads You Die, Strike Lightning, and Red Nemesis.“On his first day at his new school, James Bond is about to make his very first enemy, and is soon plunged into a deadly adventure that will take him from the playing fields of Eton to the murky waters of Loch Silverfin…,” the synopsis for the upcoming audio drama SilverFin states, adding, “A monstrous secret lurks beneath its icy surface… a secret that threatens to plunge the world into a new era of warfare.”Split across two parts, Young Bond: SilverFin consists of 16 half-hour episodes, making approximately eight hours of drama. The complete story will be released across two box sets.Meanwhile, Higson has returned to Bond in print with King Zero, an adult 007 novel that was released this month. The audiobook version is narrated by British actor Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, Shaun of the Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy).Credit: Inside the MagicWho Is the Next James Bond?Amazon MGM Studios has not announced which actor will play James Bond in the untitled 007 reboot; however, reports claim that Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) is the favorite among those said to have been shortlisted.Denis Villeneuve (Dune) is directing, Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) is writing, and Amy Pascal (Spider-Man: Brand New Day) and David Heyman (the Harry Potter films) are producing.Will you be listening to SilverFin this October? And who do you think will be the next James Bond on the big screen?? Share your thoughts in the comments below!The post ‘James Bond’ Reboot Officially Casts ‘Harry Potter’ Actor, Six Cast Members Confirmed appeared first on Inside the Magic.