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Alexander Skarsgard Comes Up With Novel Idea For “A Swedish James Bond, No Violence”

The Swedish star of Big Little Lies and Succession is soon to appear in AppleTV+ drama Murderbot.

Alexander Skarsgard, photographed in 2024.Maria Moratti/Getty Images The future of James Bond remains undecided, with the sale of the franchise by owners Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson to Amazon and producers scratching their heads as to how to reintroduce 007 following the character’s demise in Daniel Craig ’s final outing in No Time to Die. Pressed on the prospect of taking this idea to the big screen, Skarsgard entered the spirit of the offering, saying: It’ll just be boardroom meetings where people try to find consensus, everyone’s stressed out and desperately tries to avoid an argument or complications, that’s very Swedish.

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