【2018 Archives】

Rumors that Idris Elba will018 Archivesthe next James Bond have been flying for, well, about a decade.

But the actor fueled the latest batch of them -- then dashed our hopes, maybe? -- with a series of cryptic tweets on Sunday morning.

"My name's Elba, Idris Elba," he tweeted early on Sunday. Alongside this mysterious message: an art-filtered selfie that only Idris Elba could get away with.

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If you were online at 4:02 a.m ET, congratulations. I envy the unfettered excitement you must have felt. Because less than five hours later, Elba tweeted a photo of Public Enemy, then this:

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The latest slew of Elba-Bond rumors comes after a report in the U.K. tabloid The Daily Star, which quoted director Antoine Fuqua as saying that Elba was, yet again, in the running for the role.

Of course, Fuqua's agent later said the quote was fiction. So listen to Idris and don't believe the hype.