Pierce Brosnan, who played Bond in four movies, recently gave Taylor-Johnson his blessing. There’s currently no James Bond on the big screen following Daniel Craig’s exit after “No Time to Die.” Reports have surfaced in recent weeks claiming that Aaron Taylor-Johnson is being cast as the next 007 on the big screen, although Eon Productions have not yet confirmed. “He walked like the most arrogant son-of-a-gun, you’ve ever seen – as if he owned every bit of Jermyn Street from Regent Street to St James. “It was the sheer self-confidence he exuded,” adds producer Barbara Broccoli about Connery.

“If it hadn’t been Sean, who knows? Would it have captured the attention of the whole world?” “Sean Connery was the right guy in the movie for the right time,” longtime Bond producer Michael G. He’d reprise the role of Bond in five more 007 movies: “From Russia With Love,” “Goldfinger,” “Thunderball,” “You Only Live Twice” and “Diamonds Are Forever.” “Fleming said, ‘He’s not my idea of Bond at all, I just want an elegant man, not this roughneck,’” Fenn remembered.Ĭonnery’s casting would make him a film icon. However, Fleming was “shocked” when he met Connery in real life for the first time “because couldn’t speak the Queen’s English.” No,” which included the iconic casting of Sean Connery as James Bond.

The first James Bond movie to actually get off the ground was 1962’s “Dr.

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