For a long time, Idris Elba was considered the most promising candidate to succeed Daniel Craig as 007. The Brit recently took himself out of the race, describing himself in a British newspaper Suicide Squad-Star soon to be 50 as too old for the role. In the survival drama Beast However, the actor presents himself as physically up to a common Bond villain. His opponent might hardly be more aggressive. Consumed by a thirst for revenge, he hunts everything in his path with his paws since his pack was decimated by poachers: Elba has to deal with the king of the beasts, a lion.