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Big Finish has released the first photographs of Isaac Rouse in costume as the teenage James Bond, taken at Eton College ahead of Young Bond: SilverFin, out on 29 October 2026. Rouse voices Bond in the full cast audio drama of Charlie Higson’s novel, whose story opens with Bond starting at the school.
Why Eton
The production team took Rouse to Eton to see where Bond spent some of his formative years, and photographed him there in an accurate 1930s “lower boy” uniform found by costume designer Savannah Blum. Producer Robert Valentine says Rouse not only sounds right but “looks like Fleming’s James Bond as well”. Writer and director Barnaby Edwards says the photographs gave the team its visual reference for the packaging design, and thanks the college for its permission. Eton was Fleming’s own school too, so the setting is more than decoration.
Release and editions
The drama runs to 16 episodes of half an hour, about eight hours in all, across two box sets. Each is £24.99 as a download or £35.99 with a collector’s edition CD, and the two volumes together start at £48 as downloads. Our earlier report has the full cast, and Higson’s adult novel King Zero is out now.
Sources: Big Finish, 14 October 2026; Bond Lifestyle.