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The next step will be to lock in the actor who will fill the suave superspy’s Savile Row suits.
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Angelique Jackson, Variety, 31 July 2025
Sean Connery originated the role of the suave British superspy, followed by David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Craig.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 July 2025
And the more adult-skewing M:I8 sold $77.5 million (a franchise best for the 29-year-old Paramount superspy series that tops Mission: Impossible — Fallout’s $61.2 million debut), helping pack in audiences over a four-day holiday release corridor that grossed a cumulative $322 million.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 27 May 2025
All stakeholders could do worse than consider Alexander Skarsgard’s offering of a Swedish James Bond, a superspy with all the requisite Bond trappings – tuxedo, licence to kill, way with the ladies – but with a particularly Scandinavian flair.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 3 May 2025
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Angelique Jackson, Variety, 31 July 2025
Sean Connery originated the role of the suave British superspy, followed by David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Craig.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 July 2025
And the more adult-skewing M:I8 sold $77.5 million (a franchise best for the 29-year-old Paramount superspy series that tops Mission: Impossible — Fallout’s $61.2 million debut), helping pack in audiences over a four-day holiday release corridor that grossed a cumulative $322 million.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 27 May 2025
All stakeholders could do worse than consider Alexander Skarsgard’s offering of a Swedish James Bond, a superspy with all the requisite Bond trappings – tuxedo, licence to kill, way with the ladies – but with a particularly Scandinavian flair.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superspy
Noun
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Yermak’s successor, Kyrylo Budanov, a lieutenant general and spymaster who now leads Ukraine’s negotiating team, has been more amenable to compromises, even on the question of territory.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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As the nation’s spymaster-in-chief, Gabbard has been as bad as critics feared.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The whole family is deeply involved in the revolutionary movement: the oldest son disappears into Siberia, never to be seen or heard of again, while the youngest, eighteen, is jailed together with his father, and executed after his cell is exposed by an informer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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