Is The Rock the next James Bond? Not yet. We don't know who the next James Bond is and when the announcement is coming. However, if Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has his way, he'd love to step into the iconic role that's been played by the likes of Daniel Craig, Sean Connery, and Black Adam co-star, Pierce Brosnan, in the past.
The Rock wants to be the next James Bond
In a Q&A with Esquire magazine, Johnson revealed that he remembers how his grandfather played a villainous role in Sean Connery's You Only Live Twice. The 1967 film saw the MI6 operative head over to Tokyo after faking his death in Hong Kong. Just as he arrives, Bond is given a mission to find out the person behind the hijacking of NASA's Jupiter 16 spacecraft. Although Johnson's grandfather, Peter Maivia, did not play a significant role in the film, he is cited as one of the movie's villainous car drivers.
However, if Johnson is to join a Bond movie, he reveals that he's "got to be Bond" and just like that, the whole world just started cheering.