James Bond 007: First Light Title Track by Lana Del Ray

James Bond video crippled 007: First Light volition diagnostic a main rubric taxable sung by Lana Del Rey, steadfast IO Interactive has announced.

Bond fans person agelong suspected Del Rey is down 007: First Light's rubric way — ever since she registered a caller opus titled "First Light" to the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) database precocious past year. Del Rey had utilized her existent name, Elizabeth Grant, for the registration — but net sleuths rapidly connected the dots.

Now, the way is unrecorded connected Del Rey's YouTube transmission — and it sounds a fitting Bond song, portion besides playfully referencing the information First Light is simply a video crippled (and possibly besides Del Rey's ain iconic tune, Video Games). Veteran Bond composer David Arnold (who scored 5 Bond films, from Tomorrow Never Dies to Quantum of Solace) is down its score.

"Can't accidental I'm amazed to spot you moving toward the sun," Del Rey sings. "It's the archetypal airy of day... Ah, you're ready? All the fates conscionable ticker you, dying conscionable to cognize whether you'll play your beingness similar a game."

The way is simply a fitting summation to the franchise for Del Rey — who antecedently recorded her 2005 way "24" to diagnostic successful Daniel Craig movie Spectre, the franchise's 24th film, lone for Sam Smith's "Writing's On the Wall" to yet beryllium chosen successful its spot instead.

007: First Light has suffered a drawstring of leaks implicit the past fewer months, and possibly astir notably this week, erstwhile the game's ending was accidentally made disposable publically owed to a large slip-up by the Indonesian ratings board. With conscionable six weeks inactive to spell until the game's launch, IO has been keen to support overmuch astir the crippled nether wraps to debar spoiling communicative surprises.

The long-awaited adjacent crippled from the developer of Hitman, 007: First Light features a starry formed and large ambitions to kickstart a caller James Bond crippled trilogy. While its communicative remains mostly secret, we cognize it'll diagnostic a fresh-faced incarnation of Bond played by Dexter: Original Sin prima Patrick Gibson, successful a caller root communicative that features The Eternals' Gemma Chan, The Walking Dead's Lennie James, and The Hunger Games' Lenny Kravitz.

Following an earlier delay, 007: First Light is present acceptable to motorboat connected PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S connected May 27. A Switch 2 mentation is besides acceptable to travel — though not until "later this summer."

Of course, Del Rey isn't the lone euphony mogul progressive with the project. Singer and histrion Lenny Kravitz volition prima successful the crippled arsenic Bawma, a villain who astatine 1 constituent hangs mediocre Bond upside down and threatens to provender him to a brace of waiting crocodiles.

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