This year's most anticipated movies range from big action tentpoles (welcome back, Ethan Hunt!) and superhero blockbusters to smaller, more provocative fare from heavy-hitter directors.
Only six men have played the British superspy, and each brought their own unique interpretation to the role often for good, occasionally for ill. This is how the canon stacks up.
Height and hair color be damned, Craig was a throwback to Fleming and Connery’s conception of 007. He was cold and brutal, but beneath all the physical and psychological scar tissue, there was a soul…albeit a haunted one.