Published Jun 24, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
Amazon has officially started the search for the next actor to play James Bond, and until the role is cast, Daniel Craig will remain the face of the franchise for the generation that grew up with his movies. Craig played the iconic British agent in five films across 15 years. The franchise has never taken this long before rebooting, but this could be attributed to its creative rights being sold to Amazon and the ensuing revamp this sale entails. For the first time, the James Bond franchise will expand beyond theatrical movies; Amazon plans to create streaming shows and other spin-offs set in the high-stakes world of Agent 007. Interest in who’ll be cast as Bond has been at fever pitch for the last several years, and recent streaming data reveals that the franchise remains as popular as ever.
While the Bond IP now belongs to Amazon, Craig’s movies are currently playing on Netflix in several territories across the world. Craig’s final film as Bond, No Time to Die, was among Netflix’s most-watched films this past week. The streamer shared its weekly round-up, revealing that No Time to Die was the ninth-most-watched movie on the platform during the week of June 15 to June 21, when the leaderboard was topped by the true-crime sensation Maternal Instinct. Also on the top-10 list were the animated hit GOAT, the crime-thriller Street Kings, and a handful of Netflix originals such as Office Romance and Voicemails for Isabelle.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
No Time to Die was released theatrically in 2021. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, the movie grossed $770 million worldwide against a reported budget of $300 million. It fell short of the high box-office benchmark set by Skyfall, which remains the only Bond movie to make more than $1 billion worldwide. No Time to Die now holds a “Certified Fresh” 83% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “It isn’t the sleekest or most daring 007 adventure, but No Time to Die concludes Daniel Craig’s franchise tenure in satisfying style.” While it isn’t considered to be in the same league as either Skyfall or Casino Royale, fans generally agree that it was a better Bond movie than Craig’s other two outings as the character, Quantum of Solace and Spectre.
No Time to Die is streaming on Netflix now. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.