Ian Fleming's James Bond is set for a cinematic revival with director Denis Villeneuve's in-the-works feature film, currently known colloquially as Bond 26. Casting for the new 007 is currently underway, with a half-dozen leading men in contention to succeed actor Daniel Craig, who retired as Bond in 2021's No Time To Die after starring in five franchise films.
Before the new big-screen Bond arrives in movie theaters, there's another brand-new Bond actor as of Thursday, Oct. 29, thanks to the release of Young Bond: SilverFin, with actor Isaac Rouse in the lead role.
James Bond fans know that Ian Fleming's book series predates the film franchise. The author published 10 James Bond novels and short story collections before the first film adaptation, Dr. No, arrived in movie theaters. After Fleming's death in 1964, other writers, including John Gardner, Raymond Benson, and Sebastian Faulks, kept Bond's story going. In 2005, author Charlie Higson kicked off a new era for 007: Young Bond.
Young Bond's first adventure arrived in 2005 with Higson's novel SilverFin, which explored James Bond's early life at Eton College, where the future spy makes "a terrifying discovery that threatens to unleash a new breed of warfare." That novel has now been adapted into a full-cast audio drama, Young Bond: SilverFin, which its creators describe as Bond's "first deadly adventure in the Scottish Highlands, where a sinister secret awaits beneath the waters of Loch Silverfin."
Isaac Rouse ( The Crown , Get Even ) stars as James Bond in Young Bond: SilverFin , alongside Charlotte McBurney as Wilder Lawless, Miriam Margolyes, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Raison, Paterson Joseph, and William Hope.
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