Joe Walker, the Oscar-winning editor of Dune, has confirmed that he will edit Denis Villeneuve’s James Bond film for Amazon MGM Studios. “All I know is that I’m going to edit it,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on 13 November 2026. He spoke at the Camerimage festival in Toruń, Poland, where he received this year’s Editor Award.
What he said
Walker, who is British, said that “doing James Bond is pretty high on my bucket list”, and added: “I can only imagine the first day when I get to cut the Bond theme in. I can’t wait.” He said he knows very little about the film so far, including who will be its director of photography or composer. He compared the secrecy around casting to a papal conclave: “All we can see is grey smoke outside the building.” No lead actor has been announced; our report on the screen tests has the latest.
A long partnership with Villeneuve
Walker has cut Villeneuve’s Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 and the Dune films, and won the Academy Award for film editing for Dune in 2022. He was also nominated for Arrival and for Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave. He told the paper that he finished his work on Dune: Part Three about two or three weeks before the interview, and that he often finds his way into a cut through sound.