India, July 21 -- The next installment in the James Bond saga has already found a stellar director in Dune-fame Denis Villeneuve. Now with the director locked in, the hunt for the next face of 007 just got hotter.

Add to this the fact that Amazon is hell-bent on having the 26th installment of the Bond universe release by 2028 (they would very much prefer for it to be sooner if it would not have compromised the quality of the film, given its scale), come what may. So what does this tell us? Only that we may have a definitive answer about the next James Bond, pretty soon!

And not just this. If a Variety report is to be believed, there are three very Gen-Z-coded names who have just added their names to the very coveted run in landing the B...