‘It was a train wreck! I was terrified’: how the new James Bond will be announced – and what can go wrong

As Amazon MGM Studios prepares to announce the next 007, much rides on how the news is broken. From double bookings to health and safety embarrassments, we look back at how not to do it And then there were five. While nothing has been officially announced, it is widely understood

As Amazon MGM Studios prepares to announce the next 007, much rides on how the news is broken. From double bookings to health and safety embarrassments, we look back at how not to do it And then there were five. While nothing has been officially announced, it is widely understood that the shortlist to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond is now down to a handful of actors: Callum Turner, Jack Lowden, Josh O’Connor, Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult.

The hunt for a new Bond comes at a propitious moment for the franchise as a whole, 25 films in (not counting the two “unofficial” entries, Casino Royale in 1967 and Never Say Never Again in 1983). After Daniel Craig stood down from the role after completing No Time to Die (in which Bond appeared to be killed in a missile strike), Amazon MGM Studios paid over $1bn to acquire “creative control” from Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, the British-American heirs to the series’ original producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and longtime stewards of the Bond films. Continue reading...