“Eon (Productions) who make the films play their cards very close to the chest and a lot of times they really surprise people… in particular, Daniel Craig, nobody had any idea at all that he might be Bond and if you’d been asked in advance, you’d have said, ‘Daniel Craig, James Bond, surely not’. When asked if he has heard anything about who the next actor to play Bond could be following the departure of Daniel Craig after 2021’s No Time To Die, Higson told PA news agency: “As soon as the papers say, so and so is being considered as the next James Bond, you know that they’re not going to be the next James Bond, you know that they’ve been rejected. If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, do so now: /Axa2G0IphC We’ve sold out of signed copies of #OnHisMajestysSecretService on our site (some are still available from indie bookshops), but have added the option to buy standard copies direct from us. The 64-year-old, who is also an actor, on Thursday released On His Majesty’s Secret Service – a Bond adventure set two days before the King’s coronation.Ĭommissioned by Ian Fleming Publication, the novel will celebrate the coronation and tell the story of Bond being tasked with thwarting a last-minute attempt to disrupt the ceremony by a new villain, the eccentric Athelstan of Wessex. James Bond author Charlie Higson has said that if an actor is talked about as “being considered” as the next 007 “you know that they’ve been rejected”.

Charlie Higson has released a new James Bond story to celebrate the King’s coronation.

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