"Slow Horses" breakout Jack Lowden, Callum Turner and Josh O'Connor hold test offers for the role of 007 alongside a fourth, unnamed actor, with screen tests starting on Friday 23 October and running into the following week, TheWrap reports; "Euphoria" star Jacob Elordi is not testing and is out of the running. Citing the Daily Mail, Dark Horizons reports that Turner tested first, on the Friday, at Bray Studios in Berkshire, which Amazon MGM Studios acquired in 2024, with Lowden and O'Connor expected over the weekend. Denis Villeneuve directs the 26th Bond film from a screenplay by "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight, Amy Pascal and David Heyman produce, and Amazon MGM Studios declined to comment.

Source: TheWrap, 22 October 2026, Dark Horizons, 25 October 2026