Tom Holland on TF1: At 20, he dreamed of playing James Bond, but instead he was cast as another famous pop culture hero

How Casting Can Be Sometimes… Discover the funny story that happened to Tom Holland (Marvel’s Spider-Man) who came to Sony Studios to pitch a movie idea and found himself acting in another game. Don’t ask yet!

He told this funny anecdote on the microphone The whole movie :

Where is the next Spider-Man?

Tom Holland wanted to play James Bond

“On or after Spider-Man 2, I met with Sony to pitch an idea I had for a young James Bond movie.”

“It was a James Bond origin story, it didn’t make much sense.” recalls the actor. “It didn’t work. It was a young lad’s dream and I don’t think the Bond heirs were particularly interested.”

But the idea for a young Bond movie ultimately led to a story about Nathan Drake’s origin story rather than something added to the games. And that opened up the discussion.

There are some similarities between Nathan Drake and Ian Fleming’s James Bond, but in any case, the idea for the origin story of the iconic pop culture character played by Tom Holland came from the actor’s idea. . And if he doesn’t get his 007, he becomes the first Nathan Drake in movie history.

We already had a young James Bond on screen

We never got to experience James Bond’s youth on the big screen, but in animation, the cartoon James Bond Jr. presented what could have been, at least for a child audience, and in a decidedly comic tone.

Uncharted’s 2022 box office haul of $407.1 million has allowed Sony to commission a second feature film, for which Mark Wahlberg has already confirmed he will reprise his role as Sally. He hasn’t talked about Tom Holland yet.