Prime Video reveals a primary look — together with a clip — at Riz Ahmed in its new comedy sequence, loaded with metatextual jokes in regards to the James Bond franchise.
With Ahmed starring and serving as showrunner, Bait follows a struggling actor who has a shot on the position of a lifetime whereas coping with an existential disaster. Premiering on Prime Video on March 25, Bait‘s lead forged additionally contains Guz Khan, Aasiya Shah, Sheeba Chaddha, and Sajid Hasan. Some first-look pictures from the sequence have been revealed immediately; see these under:
Prime Video additionally launched a clip from Bait during which the protagonist, Shah (Ahmed), is along with his household when a rumor breaks on-line that he’s up for the position of James Bond, and so they all freak out, launching right into a dialogue about which sources could be trusted, how a lot Daniel Craig was paid for the final film, and the way Bond has solely ever been performed by white actors.
Shah, nevertheless, assures them that it’s only an audition. Try this clip from Bait under:
Ahmed’s first main position was reverse Jake Gyllenhaal in Dan Gilroy’s 2014 thriller Nightcrawler. Shortly after this, Ahmed really broke out along with his starring position in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He went on to earn an Oscar nomination for 2020’s Sound of Metallic, and likewise stars in Relay, Hamlet, The Phoenician Scheme, Nimona, and Weathering With You.
Ahmed can also be a part of the forged of Tom Cruise’s upcoming film Digger. In the meantime, behind the digicam, Ahmed wrote the story for his film Mogul Mowgli and created the quick movie “The Lengthy Goodbye,” for which he received an Oscar in 2023. Bait is the primary sequence of its form that Ahmed has created, marking a brand new milestone in his profession.
In the meantime, Amazon has the rights to the James Bond franchise and is definitely looking for the subsequent Bond, for the subsequent film, as of now, solely often known as Bond 26, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Dune) and written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders). Within the meantime, nevertheless, audiences might take pleasure in Bait for the way it depicts the tradition surrounding James Bond.