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Rami Malek poised for vil­lain role in Bond 25

28 Feb 2019

Words by Charles Bramesco

Headshot of a man with short dark hair and a serious expression, against a dimly lit background.
Headshot of a man with short dark hair and a serious expression, against a dimly lit background.
Whether the Oscar-win­ning actor will make use of his own teeth has yet to be specified.

To the many super­fans of coun­try-rock super­star Jack­son Maine, Rami Malek cer­tain­ly had a vil­lain­ous air about him as he snatched the Best Actor stat­uette out from under Bradley Coop­er at this year’s Oscars. Now Col­lid­er is report­ing that the actor may ride that antag­o­nis­tic ener­gy all the way to a plum role in a forth­com­ing blockbuster.

No one has signed on the dot­ted line just yet, but Malek is cur­rent­ly in talks to join Cary Fuku­na­ga​‘s in-devel­op­ment James Bond film as 007’s lat­est neme­sis. Such are the rewards for an actor com­ing off an award-win­ning per­for­mance of such heft and mag­ni­tude.

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Also cur­rent­ly being court­ed for the 25th Bond pic­ture is Lupi­ta Nyong’o, an ear­li­er and decid­ed­ly less toothy Oscar-winner.

The Guardian makes the intrigu­ing obser­va­tion that Malek, him­self being of Egypt­ian descent, has pub­licly stat­ed a staunch refusal to por­tray char­ac­ters that cast a dis­parag­ing light on ​“Arabs or Mid­dle East­ern­ers”. Per­haps this will be a more hero­ic vil­lain than usu­al? (Or per­haps some offers are too good to pass up.)

In oth­er James Bond news, the work­ing title for the mys­tery-shroud­ed Bond pro­duc­tion has been revealed as Shat­ter­hand, though such things are sub­ject to change. If Nin­ten­do decides they feel like get­ting liti­gious, we could be see­ing an entire­ly dif­fer­ent movie by the time Spring 2020 rolls around.

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