The names have been taken out to protect the guilty.
This week, a James Bond fan made a prediction about Bond 26 that was contained in a story by the U.K. Times. It created a buzz in part because The Times was traditionally a big deal in the U.K.
We'll get back to that in a minute. However, over the past eight years, fan outlets and sites have made other predictions that didn't turn out to be.
2016: A prominent fan publication said Daniel Craig "has walked away from the Bond role" and that Tom Hiddleston filmed a screen test. "Barbara Broccoli has offered Hiddleston the role." Another Bond site chimes in that Craig is gone.
It doesn't turn out that way. Craig agrees to come back for Bond 25, later titled No Time to Die.
2017: Another fan group says Christopher Nolan is "more than likely" to direct the next James Bond film.
It doesn't happen. Nolan goes on to work on his next project, Tenet.
2019: Still another fan site says Genoma of a Woman may be the title of Bond 25. "Trust at your own will," the site says on social media. Needless to say that didn't happen, either.
A lot of Bond fans ridicule what the British tabloids say about Bond. Often, that's with good reason. The Sun has said more than once that Aaron Taylor-Johnson was going to play the gentleman agent in Bond 26. That hasn't happened yet.
In this week's story by The Times, we have a fan saying a Bond 26 director may have already been chosen. The same fan is predicting an announcement will come in November when Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson of Eon Productions are scheduled to receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
We'll see about that. Still, fan predictions haven't been much better than the tabloids of late.
Footnote: Both The Sun and The Times are owned by press baron Rupert Murdoch. The Sun is his lowbrow U.K. publication while The Times is his highbrow paper. That's a similar set up to the U.S. where Murdoch's New York Post is his lowbrow outlet and The Wall Street Journal is his prestigious one.
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