Benedict Cumberbatch’s Adaptation Of Novel That Impressed James Bond Will get Promising Replace 9 Years After Being Introduced

Benedict Cumberbatch nonetheless has designs on enjoying the lead in a brand new tackle the 1939 man-on-the-run novel that helped encourage the character of James Bond.

Rogue Male was first introduced to be getting into improvement again in 2016, however little has been heard in regards to the undertaking since. Just lately, Cumberbatch up to date the film’s standing with an assurance that it’s certainly nonetheless on, and can start capturing within the close to future.

“We haven’t obtained a filming date but, however it’s one thing we’re attempting to slate for subsequent 12 months,” the Physician Unusual star confidently said (through Smartless), including “We are going to make it, positively.”

Discovering time to shoot Rogue Male continues to be sophisticated by, in Cumberbatch’s personal phrases, “different enormous commitments involving cloaks floating about,” an obvious reference to his ongoing involvement within the MCU.

Cumberbatch probably confirmed again in January 2025 that he’s slated to return as Stephen Unusual within the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, although he did not appear fully positive. When requested in a current interview with ScreenRant to elaborate on his involvement within the MCU, Cumberbatch declined, saying, “Truthfully, it is simply not well worth the backlash, bother, and the boring nature of any reply following me round perpetually.”

When he lastly finds the time to star in Rogue Male, Cumberbatch will play an English crackshot on trip someplace in Thirties Europe who seeks the distinctive thrill of getting the continent’s most fearsome dictator in his sniper sight.

The person succeeds in drawing a bead on the unnamed dictator solely to be captured, tortured, and left for lifeless. The story then develops right into a man-on-the-run thriller that Cumberbatch not directly compares to Harrison Ford’s traditional The Fugitive, whereas additionally referencing the unique novel’s inspiration on the person who created 007.

“It’s the unique fugitive novel and an enormous inspiration for Ian Fleming for Bond,” Cumberbatch mentioned.

However the star characterizes Rogue Male as one thing greater than only a nice previous yarn, saying of its story, “It’s fascinating the way it performs into the political spectrum of what’s occurring on the earth proper now.”

It’s a story that was first revealed by creator Geoffrey Family again in 1939, and was first tailored into a movie by the legendary director Fritz Lang as 1941’s Man Hunt. Peter O’Toole starred in a later adaptation made for BBC TV.

Murderer’s Creed film author Michael Lesslie was reported in 2016 to be penning the Rogue Male script. Cumberbatch can at the moment be seen within the U.Ok. and Eire starring within the movie The Factor With Feathers. His 2025 black comedy The Roses not too long ago turned accessible on Hulu.