A year ago, beloved “Gravity” and “Children of Men” filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón was in talks to direct a James Bond film, with word he had met with Amazon to discuss a new take on the character. That never happened, and ultimately Denis Villeneuve scored the gig.
For much of the past year, rumours have also swirled that “Euphoria” and “Frankenstein” actor Jacob Elordi had emerged as a major candidate for the role of James Bond and went as far as meetings for the part.
While the Bond role is still very much in the midst of casting, Cuaron and Elordi have teamed up for a Chanel advertisement/short film in which Elordi essentially tries being an action-star in a high-class setting.
According to Page Six (via WoR), the resulting Cuaron-directed 136-second short titled “Who Will Take It All?” is already being touted as “the best Bond audition reel ever created”.
In the short film, he cracks a safe and is soon engaging in acrobatic back-and-forth with model Libby Taverner as a femme fatale thief who feels like a tribute to Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises”.
Elordi was recently kept from serving on the Cannes jury due to a foot injury, with speculation being that he may have sustained that filming this.
Amazon/MGM is reportedly looking for a younger actor who can carry the franchise across multiple films and originates from within the Commonwealth (27-year-old Elordi does as he’s from Queensland, Australia)
Steven Knight is still writing the script for the film while Villeneuve is still in post-production on the third “Dune”.
