The James Bond franchise has lain dormant for four years, since Daniel Craig’s swansong as 007, No Time to Die. A legal quarrel between Bond’s producers, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and Amazon Studios resulted in a stalemate and production on a new Bond film has remained in limbo.

No one has been cast as 007, but the French Canadian filmmaker has been tapped by the franchise's new producers to launch a new era.

Denis Villeneuve has become one of those directors where I perk up when I hear about a new project he’s working on. With the exception of Enemy, I’ve seen every one of his films since 2013’s Prisoners,