Netflix Begins Production for 007 spinoff ‘00Nine’

While Tom Hiddleston, fresh from his outing as proto-Bond in BBC One's The Night Manager, has become the new favourite among bookmakers to replace Daniel Craig as 007 on the silver screen, an unknown Asian actor from the North of England has been cast as agent 009, in Netflix’s new spinoff series ‘00Nine’.

It will follow the globe-trotting adventures of lesser known, and as yet unnamed MI6 agent, 009, and his struggles to dismantle a new criminal organisation called Chimera. The thirteen-episode series has been in development for the past year, and production can finally begin, now that Netflix has found its leading man.

Cyrus Varten, 29, an indie filmmaker and actor, based in Durham auditioned for the part in December 2015 and has recently been to Los Angeles for a screen-test. The actor, a graduate of Durham University, was hand-picked by long-term franchise producer Barbara Broccoli, who said: "Cyrus is definitely what we were looking for. Exciting times ahead."

The show will also star Rupert Penri-Jones (Silk, Whitechapel) as M, Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) as Moneypenny, and Joe Thomas (The Inbetweeners) as Q. John Simm (Life on Mars, Mad Dogs) has been cast as the principal antagonist, Reginald Fitzgerald, a millionaire businessman, with an agenda for world domination.

To date, across the James Bond franchise as a whole, there have been five individuals who have held the number 009, but have never been named on, or off screen. Most recently, in Spectre, Q mentions that an Aston Martin DB10 was designed for 009, but in the course of the film, the car is stolen by Daniel Craig’s 007, and later ditched in a river.

It has also emerged that critically-acclaimed writer Aaron Sorkin will pen at least four episodes of the series, while franchise veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade will shoulder the rest.
Release dates are yet to be decided, but Broccoli stated that spring 2017 “could be a possibility”.

Netflix today, released the first official still of Varten, as agent 009, with more images set to debut in the coming weeks.

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