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Quite a lot is happening in the world of 007 right now. We are just 5 days away from a brand new Bond game arriving. The long-awaited, long-in-development 007: First Light. This is from Hitman makers IO Interactive and is a third-person style action and adventure game featuring driving, shooting, fighting, and using your wits to solve challenges, as it should be.
That game launches on May 27th and features Patrick Gibson (Dexter: Original Sin) as James Bond. This reimagines Bond’s origins, featuring him as a 26-year-old Royal Navy officer who comes to the attention of MI6 as a candidate for potential inclusion in their 00-programme. To qualify, he must successfully complete a mission which quickly spins out of control and leaves him facing a far bigger challenge than he, or MI6, realised.
The rest of the cast is rounded out by Lennie James as Bond’s mentor John Greenway, Priyanga Burford as M, Alastair Mackenzie as Q, Kiera Lester as Miss Moneypenny, Lenny Kravitz as Bawma, Noemie Nakai as mysterious femme fatale Miss Roth, and Gemma Chan as MI6 agent Selina Tan.
The theme song was written and composed by Lana Del Ray alongside Bond music legend David Arnold.
007: First Light will be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. A Nintendo Switch 2 version will be released later this year.
Meanwhile, more rumblings from the world of 007 on the big screen. Many have speculated that new writer Steven Knight, who created Peaky Blinders and SAS Rogue Heroes, would place Bond back in the 1950s or 60s.
It seems this is not an approach Knight is considering. He has been talking to his contacts in units like the SAS (and some even more secretive) to get familiar with more modern methods of espionage and direct intervention.
He told Screen Daily:
“I am talking to them about what they do every day. It’s all real. The author… was living that life. In the war, he was doing those things. He knew people doing that stuff, going out there and killing people. Ian Fleming was such a great writer. To be a writer, you have got to know about people.”
Speaking about the longevity of Bond as both a character, and as a movie franchise, Knight also revealed why he believes the character simply keeps on enduring:
“Bond has been bulletproof. People have been able to make mistakes and variations, quite elaborate variations, and the character has survived because the core of it is like a diamond. You can’t touch it. The person you are talking about is folklore.
You’d be watching as a kid with your dad. The certainty, the confidence and the escape from something, everybody buys into that. That’s the thing with Bond, everybody wants it.”
Knight is now working full-time on final polishes to the script as the search for the new 007 gathers pace.
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