James Bond 24 Movie Cast Penelope Cruz As The Next Bond Girl While ’12 Years A Slave’ Star Chiwetel Ejiofor Will Become The Next Villain?

One thing that sets James Bond movie apart from all the other spy movies is its villain. The franchise has been very famous not only with its top of the line gadgets and death defying stunts but with its villains as well.

Recently "12 Years A Slave" star Chiwetel Ejiofor is being rumored to be included in James Bond 24 movie cast, where he will play the villain role according to Variety.

According to the famous entertainment magazine, Ejiofor is on producers' top list. Apparently, they were impressed with how Oscar-winner Javier Barden delivered on "Skyfall" that they are inspired to tap Chiwetel Ejiofor for the villain role. They are said to be looking for one British woman and one Scandinavian to play the Bond girls.

However, a leaked paper from Sony suggests that the studio has been eyeing for Penelope Cruz to follow the footsteps of Halle Berry and Denise Richards in becoming the next Bond Girl.

The Sun reported that, "Bond bosses have been chasing her [Penelope Cruz] since Daniel became 007 in 2006. But schedules and her pregnancies meant it never materialised. At this stage no one at Sony will confirm it."

Another Hollywood A-lister is rumored to appear on the James Bond 24 movie, John Travolta has expressed his interest in taking on the "bad guy" role as well.

During his interview with The Daily Telegraph's Celia Walden, he revealed that his "tough guy" image for his movie projects like "The Forger" and the yet to be released mobster's biopic where he plays the role of John Gotti hasn't satisfied his inclinations yet.

Travolta's desire is to "close the chapter on playing villains" with a bang. He claims that playing a villain in a Bond movie would very much satisfy his penchant saying, "I would love that. They're going a different way with their villain in this next film but I've spoken to Barbara Broccoli (a producer) about it and she loves the idea, so that would be great."

In addition, celebrity names like Benedict Cumberbatch who voiced the evil "Smaug" in the recently released "The Hobbit" and even Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) have been rumored to take on the role of a villain.

Hence, there is no confirmation yet as to who will play the sought after role for James Bond 24 movie cast.

In other news, James Bond 24 Movie plot is set to continue from Skyfall with director Sam Mendes back to direct the film, Mendes manages to offer some teaser on what the story would hopefully be, as he told Vulture:

"Hopefully we'll reclaim some of the old irony, and make sure it doesn't become pastiche. I can't do shtick, I'm not very good at it. Unless it kind of suddenly makes sense. Does that make sense? I sometimes wish I hammed it up more, but I just can't do it very well, so I don't do it."

Empire had a chance to talk to writer John Logan to provide some juicy information on the movie regarding the James Bond 24 movie plot.

"Right now the first draft is almost done. I'm terrifically excited about it! I've been working very closely with Sam [Mendes), and it's been joyous to pick up from our work on Skyfall and just continue on with the storytelling. The new movie continues the themes of Skyfall. Some of the characters and themes that we began to introduce in Skyfall will play out, I hope successfully, in the next movie."

Logan revealed that although the James Bond franchise is not limited to Ian Flemming's novels and stories it doesn't mean that James Bond 24 movie plot will not have some of its source material taken from Flemming's.

"The great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and all the Ian Fleming novels and short stories, all of which are fodder. And when I'm working on the new Bond I'm constantly going back to Fleming and the other movies - what are the bits and pieces, what are the resonances? One of the things we learned in Skyfall is that the audience really enjoyed those, they enjoyed when they saw the Aston Martin, they enjoyed when we had references to things they grew up with, either from Ian Fleming or from the other movies, and that's always been a part of my thinking about Bond."

Meanwhile, the hunky British spy Daniel Craig will be returning to reprise his role in the 24th James Bond film together with his co-stars Naomie Harris as MI6's head secretary Eve Moneypenny, Ben Whishaw as the wizard inventor "Q," and Ralph Fiennes to become the new "M," and will serve as Bond's boss on his future missions.

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