Search for New James Bond Won't Begin Until 2022

The world gearing up for the premiere of "No Time to Die", the 25th James Bond movie, which is set to be debuted in London on Tuesday.

The movie, which cost is estimated at $200 million, marks Daniel Craig‘s last performance as 007 and is among the most anticipated potential blockbusters this fall.

Craig took over from Piers Brosnan beginning with Casino Royale in 2006.

Speculations have been raised for several years about who will be his successor as the next James Bond.

In a phone-in with BBC Radio 4 on Monday, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, the producers behind the spy franchise, addressed the speculations.

Broccoli noted they didn't make any decision as to who would step into Craig’s shoes and wouldn’t start doing so until 2022.

“We’re not thinking about it at all. We want Daniel to have his time of celebration. Next year we will start thinking about the future,” she added.

“He has been such a great Bond. Those are big shoes to fill. I can’t even [think if it’s] possible,” Wilson commented.

Broccoli noted they were extremely lucky to persuade him to join the franchise.

“We could see he was reluctant to do it because he knew it would change his life, which it obviously has. It has changed his life, but it has not changed him. What he’s enabled us to do with the franchise is really explore the emotional life of Bond and go into the person and complexity and conflicts that happen within the Bond character,”  she added.