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James Bond is missing in movies but thriving in video games
Key takeaways
- Dexter: Original Sin's Patrick Gibson voices James Bond in 007 First Light.
- Five years after No Time to Die gave Daniel Craig a mercifully conclusive farewell, the future of the eponymous super-spy has never felt less certain.
- Underpinning this fallow period is a tension that was frequently lampshaded, but remained unresolved even by the end of Craig's tenure: how do you update a retrograde power fantasy into a contemporary action hero?
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Dexter: Original Sin's Patrick Gibson voices James Bond in 007 First Light. (Supplied)
Link copied Share Share article For a film series that once felt ubiquitous at the multiplex, James Bond has spent much of the 21st century missing in action.
Five years after No Time to Die gave Daniel Craig a mercifully conclusive farewell, the future of the eponymous super-spy has never felt less certain. The rights to Bond have since been sold, with long-standing franchise stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson ceding control over their family's empire to the newly-formed Amazon MGM Studios.
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