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James Bond Is Officially Back, and This Month’s New Release Looks Phenomenal

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There have certainly been better times in history than right now to be a James Bond fan. It’s now been five years since the release of the last 007 movie, No Time to Die, which served as the perfect send-off for Daniel Craig’s version of the character. Craig spent the better part of 20 years playing Bond after he made his debut in Casino Royale in 2006, taking over the role from Pierce Brosnan, who famously starred in a series of more gadget-forward Bond films in the 90s. Amazon has since acquired the James Bond property and confirmed that it’s developing a new movie, but little is known about the project at this time. Denis Villeneuve (Dune) is directing with a script from Peaky Blinders scribe Steven Knight, but casting for the new 007 adventure has not yet been announced.

Just because Amazon’s James Bond film is moving forward more slowly than some would hope, though, doesn’t mean that 007 fans still have things to be excited about. IO Interactive has spent years developing a new James Bond game, and after multiple delays, 007 First Light is finally set to be released later this month, on May 27. The game stars Dexter: Original Sin‘s Patrick Gibson as the new MI6 agent. Just a few weeks ago, the studio released the final gameplay trailer for the new release, which confirmed that players will have multiple ways to tackle new levels. This means players can choose whether to take a more stealthy approach to Bond’s objectives or load up with weapons and gadgets and meet their threat head-on. First reactions for 007 First Light surfaced online yesterday, and the game is already being hailed as “phenomenal” and a massive contender for Game of the Year.













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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz
Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?

Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
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Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

🎖️Rambo

🍸James Bond

🏺Indiana Jones

🔧John McClane

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🎭Ethan Hunt

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01

You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.





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02

You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
How you get there is half the mission.





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03

You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
This is when you find out what someone is really made of.





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04

The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.





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05

How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission?
Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.





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06

Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.





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07

Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.





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08

What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.





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09

Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with?
No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.





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10

It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
The last question is the most honest one.





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Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Rambo

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Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

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Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

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John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ethan Hunt

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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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What Is the Highest-Grossing James Bond Movie?

Skyfall, the 2012 film headlined by Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem, is the highest-grossing James Bond movie in history. The film grossed over $1.1 billion at the global box office, against a $200 million budget, and remains the only Bond film in history to reach the $1 billion mark. The 2015 James Bond film (Spectre), which followed Skyfall, was also a massive success at the box office, grossing nearly $900 million. Craig’s final outing as James Bond (No Time to Die), which also earned scores of 83% from critics and 88% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, grossed $774 million globally against a $250 million production cost.

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of 007 First Light, the new James Bond game releasing later this month on May 27.

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Release Date

October 8, 2021

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Runtime

163 Minutes

Director
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Cary Joji Fukunaga

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