Tom Holland has spent a good chunk of his career playing one of the most recognizable movie characters on the planet, but apparently Spider-Man was not enough. Years ago, the British actor marched into Sony chairman Tom Rothman’s office and pitched himself as James Bond. I knew he had once floated a young 007 movie, but I had never heard the full idea. Now that I have, I completely understand why somebody politely showed it the door.
Tom Holland's basic idea was actually kind of clever: he would play a young SAS recruit on a dangerous mission, and audiences would not learn his real identity until the end. Surprise, you have been watching James Bond the whole time. As he explained it during a BBC Radio 1 interview:
