{"id":240242,"date":"2026-05-14T19:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/james-bond-casting-gets-a-big-update-as-amazon-mgm-confirms-where-they-are-in-the-process\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:40:38","slug":"james-bond-casting-gets-a-big-update-as-amazon-mgm-confirms-where-they-are-in-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/james-bond-casting-gets-a-big-update-as-amazon-mgm-confirms-where-they-are-in-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond Casting Gets a Big Update as Amazon MGM Confirms Where They Are in the Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">James Bond Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amid all of the rumors about who the next <strong>James Bond<\/strong> will be, we now have a big update on the search: it is just now starting.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon MGM Studios confirmed today (May 14) that the casting process is underway at this time. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/james-bond-auditions-start-casting-director-nina-gold-1236749108\/#recipient_hashed=b92941641788d15805f03b377d572994d12bdade7478975c93d0143007f01373&amp;recipient_salt=e829000bb0b218c27fbd0c12f4a38481876a8ab041cc990efde89259509b9611&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=newsalert&amp;utm_content=682456_05-14-2026&amp;utm_term=56896&amp;utm_medium=&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> <\/em>is reporting that they have started auditioning actors for the role. <em>Dune<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Denis Villeneuve<\/strong> is set to direct.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-studio-also-released-a-statement-about-casting-007\">The studio also released a statement about casting 007<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe search for the next James Bond is underway. While we don\u2019t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process, we\u2019re excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time is right,&#8221;  Amazon MGM Studios said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">They&#8217;ve hired a very experienced casting director to lead the search for the next James Bond<\/h3>\n<p>Another interesting tidbit: casting director <strong>Nina Gold<\/strong> has reportedly been tapped to find the next Bond.<\/p>\n<p>Her casting credits include work on hits like <em>Game of Thrones, The Crown, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Les Mis\u00e9rables, The Martian, Conclave<\/em>, and <em>Hamnet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who will be the next James Bond?<\/h3>\n<p>As of late last year, there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/17\/james-bond-casting-rumors-reveal-a-new-frontrunner-for-007-according-to-oddsmakers\/7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new frontrunner for the gig<\/a> and he is a fan fave star.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/14\/james-bond-casting-gets-a-big-update-as-amazon-mgm-confirms-where-they-are-in-the-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Bond Casting Gets a Big Update as Amazon MGM Confirms Where They Are in the Process<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/14\/james-bond-casting-gets-a-big-update-as-amazon-mgm-confirms-where-they-are-in-the-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bond Facebook Amid all of the rumors about who the next James Bond will be, we now have a big update on the search: it is just now starting. Amazon MGM Studios confirmed today (May 14) that the casting process is underway at this time. Variety is reporting that they have started auditioning actors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}