James Bond: Jason Statham in the running for the role?

James Bond: Jason Statham in the running for the role?



Jason Statham could see himself as James Bond

More than two years after Daniel Craig’s farewell to the great role of his life, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson are still looking for the new interpreter of James Bond. As time passes, the list of potential players will have to be gradually reduced and an announcement could be made as early as this year. But in the meantime, in the absence of this announcement, everyone can still dream. So why not Jason Statham ?

Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) - Operation Fortune
Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) – Operation Fortune ©Prime Video

The actor of Rip and sagas Consumables AND Fast & Furious meets many of the criteria for playing the famous MI6 agent. He is of English nationality. He has all the required physical capabilities, as demonstrated by his very action-oriented filmography. He has presence and knows how to seduce… And he he still believes it !

“I can’t stop writing to Barbara Broccoli”

Thus, in an interview given to Variety in early December 2023, while at the Red Sea International Film Festival, Guy Ritchie’s favorite actor first declared his love for the great spy saga and its stuntmen before discussing the role.

I’ve been a big fan of James Bond since I was a kid, and a big fan of the spectacle that the stuntmen would put on for the chases and the big action sequences, skiing down the mountain and skydiving. (…)

Then, in a tone in which we can perceive a touch of humor:

I keep writing to Barbara Broccoli on WhatsApp, but she doesn’t reply!

Under the guise of a joke, in reality, Jason Statham has already seriously mentioned it his great interest in the role. In 2015, upon the release of To spyand while Daniel Craig had just announced it Spectrum it was his penultimate film as 007, he said Caretaker :

I could do it? Absolutely. I would like to do it? Absolutely. Is Daniel Craig a great Bond? Absolutely. (…) Yes, I would be a decent James Bond. But he would be very, very different if I did.

After this statement, for a short time, journalists and James Bond fans considered the idea quite good. But six years have passed Spectrum AND Death can wait, long enough for Jason Statham to thrive in other projects. So today, at 56, he can hardly claim a role for which the producers have announced they are looking. a thirty-year-old actor. But without an answer from Barbara Broccoli, positive or negative, we will say that hope is still possible…

Source: Cine Serie

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