The new director of James Bond is on a mission to disappoint the famous: The next 007 will be an “unknown,” sources say. Denis Villeneuve, the Oscar-nominated director of the latest Dune movies, has been handed the longest-running cinematic franchise by Amazon MGM Studios. “It’s a new Bond, a new start, a fresh everything,” a key source told Deadline‘s gossip columnist, the veteran British journalist Baz Bamigboye. Villeneuve is looking for a British “fresh face” in his 20s and 30s, a series of criteria which end speculation that it could be American Timothée Chalamet, Glen Powell and Austin Butler. Also out of the running would be Idris Elba, who is 53. Other names who have been mooted include Jacob Elordi, a 28-year-old Australian, and apparently aged out-Brits Tom Hardy, 47, and Henry C

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