Amazon MGM Studios has announced that Denis Villeneuve will helm the James Bond reboot, the twenty-seventh entry in the series. The film will feature a new actor in the title role, taking over from Daniel Craig, who played the character in the last five installments.“I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one day. Action is very cinematic,” Villeneuve told Comingsoon.net in 2015. He sure does know a lot about what makes a film cinematic, having given us epic sci-fi blockbusters such as Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Dune (2021), and Dune: Part Two (2024) over the years.Credit: Warner Bros.A New Creative Team Will Bring 007 Back to LifeA few years later, in 2021, Villeneuve told Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he still wanted to direct a James Bond film. Now, with Daniel Craig’s iteration of the character in the Aston Martin’s rearview following his explosive and emotional exit in his fifth and final entry, No Time to Die (2021), that time has finally come.With longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson having stepped down earlier this year, giving Amazon MGM operational control over the franchise, and now with Amy Pascal (Spider-Man: Homecoming) and David Heyman (Harry Potter films) set to produce the twenty-seventh Bond film, a bold new era for the world’s most famous spy is underway.Credit: Inside the MagicWho Will Be the Next James Bond?Now, while the search for the new James Bond is officially active, with names like Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge) and Tom Holland (the MCU’s Spider-Man trilogy) being thrown around, and more recently, Timothée Chalamet (unsurprising given his connection to Denis Villeneuve through the Dune films), actor Henry Golding has talked openly about how landing the role of the iconic MI6 secret agent sounds like more of a nightmare than a dream come true.British actor Golding, 38, is best known for rom-coms Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Last Christmas (2019). But he’s also no stranger to action, having starred in the G.I. Joe reboot Snake Eyes (2021). While that film flopped hard, he remains hot property on the Hollywood scene.Credit: Universal PicturesRelated: Daniel Craig Could Return as James Bond in New ProjectBetween his exuberant charm and experience in the world of action, Golding would make a perfect James Bond. Whether he will or not remains to be seen, however, in an interview with People at the Los Angeles red carpet premiere of his new film The Old Guard 2 last week, he said he thought the idea of landing the role is “every actor’s kind of nightmare.”“But at the same time, [you’re] also wanting to kind of add something new to a franchise,” he continued. “Why can’t they bring out more agents or more 00s [agents]? I think that would be so much more fun, because there just isn’t the restraints and the expectation.”Should Golding land the role (although his name hasn’t been mentioned as a potential candidate yet), there would likely be backlash from some fans given the actor’s Malaysian heritage. Recently, Aaron Pierre’s name entered the arena, causing a stir among racist fans who do not want to see a non-White actor taking up the mantle of the character.Credit: MGM/EON ProductionsShould 007 Be Replaced by a New Secret Agent?Golding makes an interesting point about the franchise introducing different 00 agents. While others have appeared briefly or been mentioned from time to time, the fact that Daniel Craig’s iteration of Bond was killed off at the end of No Time to Die remains.As such, now could be the perfect time for the series to introduce a new 00 agent front and center. That said, audiences want to see James Bond, not a new, unestablished character.Golding admitted, “Maybe I’m just a p**sy. I don’t know. But I think I would love it so much more if there wasn’t that overhanging cultural pressure.”Whoever ends up becoming the next James Bond on the big screen will be the eighth actor to play the international superspy in film, following Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig, whose collective performances span over 60 years in film.Credit: Inside the MagicAnother New James Bond Has Been UnveiledWhile the next film is underway, the next James Bond in gaming has been revealed with “007 First Light.”The upcoming action-adventure video game developed and published by IO Interactive under license from Amazon MGM Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Eon Productions centers on a James Bond origin story similar to Craig’s Casino Royale (2006).Watch the announcement trailer from IGN below:“007 First Light” is scheduled to be released in 2026.There’s no release date for the new James Bond film.Would you like to see Henry Golding play the next James Bond? Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below!The post Henry Golding Discusses the Pressure of Becoming 007 in Next ‘James Bond’ Reboot appeared first on Inside the Magic.