James Bond fans will reportedly have to wait another two years before 007 is back on the big screen, marking the longest gap between movies in the franchise's 64-year history. 

The super spy is no stranger to a lengthy hiatus - with a six-years between 1989's Licence to Kill, the final Timothy Dalton film, and 1995's GoldenEye, the first to star Pierce Brosnan.

But with the leading actor still to be recast, following Daniel Craig's exit after 2021's No Time To Die, a rumoured 2028 spring release means audiences will have waited a whopping seven years.

Last year the Broccoli family handed over creative control over to Amazon MGM Studios - which was formed when Amazon bought Bond's parent studio in 2022 - after 30 years. 

Dune's director Denis Villeneuve has signed on to helm the new project, with Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight penning the script. 

A source said: 'Bond won’t be back until 2028. The production mindset’s gone from "Let’s hurry this through’" to "Make sure we get this right". 

'Denis wanted a long break after Dune 3 and has some broad ideas on the script. Steven will get on with drafts, before they map out the final version. That’ll take at least the whole summer.”

They told The Sun: 'Realistically, if they can make January 2027 work for pre-production then that will be a success. The principal photography will run until the summer and the film always takes around nine months to a year to edit'.

Daily Mail have contacted Amazon MGM for comment. 

Meanwhile  Harris Dickinson is now one of bookies' favourites to become the new Bond. 

The actor, 28, who will play John Lennon in The Beatles: A Four-Film Cinematic Event in 2028, has been named as one of the frontrunner.

Having been as big as 9/1 last week, Harris is now just 8/5 to be the new 007, with Callum Turner continuing to lead the way at 4/5. Every other name is now 5/1 or more.

Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: 'Harris Dickinson has a busy few years ahead if the latest odds are anything to go by... he could well be swapping between John Lennon and James Bond.' 

Bookies' predictions on who will play Bond are changing by the day, with Jacob Elordi one of the most recent favourites due to his smouldering role in the romance Wuthering Heights. He is at 5/1 while Aaron Taylor-Johnson is 6/1. 

Other names have included Iris Elba, Theo James, Jonathan Bailey, James Norton, Jack Lowden and Henry Cavill.

Harris will star alongside Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr in four new films about The Beatles.

A strong supporting cast includes Aimee Lou Wood as Harrison's model wife Pattie Boyd, Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono and James Norton as the band's manager, Brian Epstein.

There will also be appearances from Mia McKenna-Bruce as Starr's first wife, Maureen Starkey, and Harry Lloyd as George Martin, the record producer with whom The Beatles worked on all of their eleven studio albums.

The movies will each take the perspective of one member of The Beatles as they evolve from unknowns in Liverpool in the early 1960s to becoming the biggest band in the world and then breaking up in 1970.

It’s the first time that surviving Beatles McCartney and Starr, and the families of the late Lennon and Harrison, have given the rights to feature films about them.