Fresh off his Best Actor Oscar win for Bohemian Rhapsody, Rami Malek is quickly moving on to his next role & he seems to be eyeing a big franchise. It is being reported that the actor is in final talks for the villain role in Bond 25.
Malek’s shooting schedule for the final season of Mr. Robot was originally said to be an obstacle but it’s being reported now that Malek’s team negotiated to get the actor’s schedule worked out for the opportunity. I’m sure him winning an Academy Award Sunday has also been a very big bargaining tool.
Cary Fukunaga is taking the director’s chair over from Sam Mendes, with Scott Z. Burns (Contagion) rewriting the script that Fukunaga turned in. Production on Bond 25 has been delayed to a later production start date and subsequent release date – a shift that now seems to have been done to possibly accommodate Malek’s Mr. Robot shooting schedule.
Bond 25 will bring back Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, and Ralph Fiennes as Bond’s MI6 teammates Moneypenny, Q, and M (respectively). After a long back-and-forth debate, Daniel Craig is also returning as James Bond once again, and surprisingly his love interest from the previous film (Lea Seydoux’s Madeleine Swann) is also coming back.
