After it was announced on Thursday that creative control of the “James Bond” film series – based on the Ian Fleming books – is being handed off from longtime producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli to Amazon MGM Studios, the question yet again arises, who should play an updated version of the famed spy who goes by 007?

Daniel Craig is the most recent actor in a line of men who have taken on the role (beginning, of course, with Sean Connery in 1962’s “Dr. No”), but Craig announced back before his last Bond film – 2021’s “No Time to Die” – that it would be his last. Using only one proviso – that the actor be British – here are the performers we’d love to see shake up the franchise next: