'We don't have any frontrunners – we haven't even thought about it – but whoever it is will take on the role and adapt the character to their personality. If that is the case, then we could be looking at a fairly quick turnaround.Īccording to Wilson though, that search hasn't even begun.
Since we've known for a while Craig was handing in his Walther PPK, there's a chance that Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, producers and gatekeepers of the franchise, might already have an eye on the next Bond. Work had even begun on Dalton's third Bond movie before it was cancelled due to legal issues, while Brosnan didn't officially step down from the role until February 2004. However, those extended gaps were more down to the fact that it was unclear a change of actor was going to be needed. However, there were six years between Dalton and Pierce Brosnan and then four years between Brosnan and Craig.
The changing of the Bond did little to affect the schedule with two years between Sean Connery and George Lazenby, two years between Connery (again) and Roger Moore, and two years between Moore and Timothy Dalton. Generally there were one- to two-year gaps between all the movies up to and including Licence to Kill in 1989. James Bond 26: When will the next Bond movie be released?įor the majority of the Bond series, there are minimal gaps between the movies even when there's a change of 007.
