Baby Dexter to play Baby Bond in upcoming James Bond game 007: First Light

This is not wholly surprising: IO rolled out an earlier trailer for the game back in June, and eagle-eared listeners were pretty sure they’d picked out Gibson’s voice amidst the chaos. Still, he’s now officially been announced in the gig, playing a younger version of Bond as he attempts to track down an apparently rogue 009 and “earn the number.” (You can see a decent chunk of the actual gameplay, which seems to blend some of the reactivity and physics of IO’s well-loved Hitman games with a less freeform action experience akin to an Uncharted game, in the trailer above.)

This all puts Gibson in the weird position of being the only James Bond kicking around at the moment, at a time when huge amounts of both money and attention are being focused on the franchise. (By the way, if you want to see how the series is faring in our current tournament of the greatest action franchises of all time, check in over here.) The Irish actor—who previously starred in both The OA and Shadow And Bone—will now presumably get to spend the next year or so being hounded about whether he might someday reprise the role in a non-interactive capacity, at least until Amazon finally feels willing to pull the trigger on a cinematic casting. First Light, meanwhile, comes out in March of 2026.