Few IPs are as protected or coveted as James Bond, because, up until a $1 billion sale, the Broccoli family managed just about every aspect of the character's screen rights from 1962 to present. So just how was IO Interactive able to land the rights to make 007 First Light, the first James Bond game in over a decade?
Well, it turns out a little bit of Photoshop can go a long way in making dreams become reality. No, seriously.
As first reported by IGN, game director, Hakan Abrak, who also doubles as IO's CEO, shared that the initial pitch towards making 007 First Light a reality involved sculpting Daniel Craig, the last person to play James Bond in cinema, onto Agent 47 of Hitman.
"We actually did put Daniel Craig in there," Abrak said. "We just modeled his head and put it in instead of Agent 47, just for demo purposes, giving an impression of what these living, breathing spaces mean in an IO game. And if you are acquainted with the franchise, there is a level called Sapienza with the virus in the caves underneath the compound.
"So we showed some things off there and, yeah, it was...
