Project 007, the new James Bond game, will not feature any actor from the movies

Project 007, the new James Bond game, will not feature any actor from the movies

Developer Hitman IO Interactive's next James Bond game will not be based on any of the actors who have already played 007, according to the studio head. Working under the title Project 007, the game would be IO Interactive's next big release after the release of Hitman 3, and will tell a "completely original" Bond story centering on the origins of the iconic character. Speaking to the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Hakan Abrak, the developer's studio head, described how his team "had been allowed to do their own digital Bond, which won't rely on a Bond actor." In the past, almost every game Bond films relied on the image of an actor on the big screen as a marketing tool and as a way of grounding their stories in cinematic authenticity. In some cases, the 007 games have replaced one actor with another to reimagine their stories for the modern age. GoldenEye 007, one of the most iconic games in first-person shooter history, has been remastered for the Nintendo Wii with Daniel Craig's Bond replacing Pierce Brosnan. Abrak went on to confirm the originality of the studio's version of Bond and even suggested that it might be the first in a series of Bond games. "We also put together a completely original story, and one could easily imagine a trilogy could come out of it," Abrak said. IO's confirmation that he's not inspired by any of the Bond movie counterparts, and previous confirmation that Project 007 will serve as the character's origin story, suggests that players could take control of him. 'A much younger 007 than fans might be used to. .

A more mature interpretation

Abrak also commented on the sales pitch needed to convince the franchise's head producer, Barbara Broccoli, to give IO Interactive the rights to make a Bond game. He claims that the "matriarch" of the James Bond franchise felt that previous games had been "violence for violence's sake," but that IO Interactive's original story, the story of the Hitman franchise, and "the vision of what that Bond is in game format" was enough to impress him. < p lang="en" dir="ltr">Project 007 (working title) is a new James Bond video game with a completely original story. Get your 00 status in the first James Bond origin story, to be developed and published by @IOInteractive. pic.twitter.com/BRdKtARDSHN November 19, 2020 Either way, project 007 is probably a long way off. Beyond a brief trailer released in 2020, details about the game are scant, and with Hitman 3 only recently released, it's unlikely the studio spent much time developing this, which we suspect will be its next flagship project. some years. Let's hope we don't have to wait as long as No Time to Die to enjoy it. (via GamesRadar)