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Is this rumour still going round? You would have thought I was out of the bookies by now'</p> </div> <ul class="caption meta inline-pipes-list"> <li class="author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name"><a href="/web/20161106005027/http://www.independent.co.uk/author/clarisse-loughrey" title="Clarisse Loughrey" itemprop="sameAs">Clarisse Loughrey</a></span> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027/https://twitter.com/clarisselou">@clarisselou</a> </li> <li title="2 November 2016 12:33 London"><time data-microtimes="{"published":"1478087040000","display":0,"changed":"1478090003000"}" datetime="12:33, 2 November 2016" unixtime="1478090003000">Wednesday 2 November 2016 12:33 BST</time></li> <li class="comments"> <a href="#commentsDiv" id="comment-count" class="icon-comment"></a> </li> </ul> <div id="gigya-share-btns-1"></div> </header> <figure itemprop="associatedMedia image" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" class="featured-media medium-width"> <meta itemprop="representativeOfPage" content="true"> <meta itemprop="url" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/02/12/gettyimages-493257630.jpg"> <meta itemprop="width" content="1024"> <meta itemprop="height" content="721"> <picture title="michael-fassbender.jpg">  <source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/02/12/gettyimages-493257630.jpg 1x" media="(min-width: 620px) and (max-width: 929px)"/> <source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/02/12/gettyimages-493257630.jpg 1x" media="(min-width: 930px) and (max-width: 1239px)"/> <source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/02/12/gettyimages-493257630.jpg 1x" media="(min-width: 1240px)"/>  <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_small/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/02/12/gettyimages-493257630.jpg" alt="michael-fassbender.jpg" title="michael-fassbender.jpg"/> </picture> </figure> <div class="article-wrapper clearfix"> <div class="main-content-column"> <div class="text-wrapper" itemprop="articleBody"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/tom-hiddleston">Tom Hiddleston</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/aidan-turner">Aidan Turner</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/idris-elba">Idris Elba</a> may be leading the pack when it comes to the bookies' odds for the next <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/JamesBond">James Bond</a>, but no one wanted to rule out <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/michael-fassbender">Michael Fassbender</a> as a potential replacement for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106005027/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/DanielCraig">Daniel Craig</a>. </p> <p>Not only was he logistically a pretty strong contender at 16/1, but he was also a dream choice for the role in the eyes of many of the franchise's fans. 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He's going to get court-martialed," he elaborated. "The film could start off in Sandhurst and how he became a 'double 0'. M could walk in and say to him, 'Bond, there's a 00 project but it's going to be totally off the book, black ops, and you've got to go into prison undetected.'"</p> <p>When asked whether he'd thought about this a lot, he responded: "I just love Bond. Doesn't everyone? I grew up with him. It's always a fun conversation to have. 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