Right now, pretty much all we know about the next James Bond movie is that Denis Villeneuve—who has Dune: Part Three releasing in December—is directing it, and Peaky Blinders‘ Steven Knight is writing it. The first outing for the superspy under his new Amazon overlords is otherwise shrouded in high-level mystery.
We don’t know yet who’ll be playing the iconic character, and we certainly don’t know who’ll get the coveted gig of crooning the new movie’s theme song. Good news, though: there’s a holdover in that latter department.
The last James Bond theme arrived with the last Daniel Craig movie back in 2021. However, “No Time to Die,” the Billie Eilish song, actually came out over a year and a half before the No Time to Die film, an awkward circumstance that came as Hollywood was grappling with pandemic-era theater shutdowns. It didn’t end up mattering much—the song ended up winning an Oscar.
While there will absolutely be a new Bond song coming with Villeneuve’s movie, whenever that hits screens, the video game 007 First Light has just revealed Lana Del Rey’s theme song. It’s a fitting choice, not just because of the singer’s talent for dreamy ballads—”First Light” does kick into a higher gear as it intensifies, with those signature Bond-theme horns and strings—but because she broke through years ago with a song literally titled “Video Games.”
“First Light” gets the job done, though some of the lyrics are a little on the nose (“Dying just to know whether you’ll play your life like a game”). If nothing else, it gets us even more excited for the game’s release—and for the return of Bond to the big screen one of these days.
007 First Light, from developer IO Interactive, releases May 27.
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