Just days after bookies slashed the odds on War & Peace actor James Norton becoming the next Bond, 007 himself - Daniel Craig - has reportedly ‘quit’ as the MI6 spy. UPDATE: The Independent has learnt that a decision on whether Craig will return as Bond has not been reached, but if he does appear in Purity it does not necessarily mean he will not be back to play Bond. Purity is based on the Jonathan Franzen novel. Daniel will play "charismatic German" (
) Andreas Wolf, who offers to help US woman Purity find her father. (yawn
) The series, produced by Scott Rudin — who worked with Daniel on 2011’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo film — is at the centre of a bidding war between Showtime, Netflix, Amazon and FX...........There’s a new contender for the prestigious titular role in the James Bond series, according to the bookies. While fans have been holding out for the likes of Idris Elba, Tom Hardy and Henry Cavil to replace Daniel Craig as 007, War & Peace star James Norton’s name has been thrown into the ring. Paddy Power slashed the odds on the actor becoming the next James Bond from rank outsider to 18/1 (via Metro). Fellow BBC drama actor Aiden Turner, who is currently working on season two of the acclaimed adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark novels, is also believed to be in contention to play Bond. Norton:
This film has BOMB written all over it 
