Next James Bond: Bad news for Tom Hardy - new frontrunner changes 007 odds

msn.com:

Daniel Craig stepped down from the James Bond franchise late last year after the release of No Time To Die, and ever since, the race has been on for the next potential 007 actor.

While the official announcement will likely be given within the next year, the bookies have their ears to the ground on who the best bets will be in the coming months.

And everything has just changed in the top three as a surge of bets has left Tom Hardy in the mud. Hardy has been a favourite in the Bond odds for some time, following rumours that he had already been cast as 007.

Shortly after these rumours hit, he told his fans: "You know, there's a saying amongst us in the fraternity of acting, and in the fellowship of my peer group, that if you talk about it you're automatically out of the race.