What colour car would James Bond never drive? IO had to have multiple meetings just to figure it out for 007 First Light while huge plot decisions went down easy

I'm a little nervous about 007 First Light, which—from what I've seen—seems to play everything a bit too safe and linear to really leverage IO's strengths as a studio. When I played First Light, I found myself asking if, perhaps, the Bond license-holders at Amazon were a bit precious about their character. Maybe IO simply couldn't get as whacky with someone else's intellectual property as it can with Agent 47.

But I guess I was wide of the mark, because when I asked 007 First Light franchise art director Rasmus Poulsen about what it was like to work with someone else's license, he said it was actually surprisingly easy to nail down the big stuff, like making 007 a young'un.

"The youthful take has been a go from day one," said Poulsen. "I think we put a lot of effort and honour into doing our homework, because we take this extremely seriously… the conversation gets easier when you have a foundation like that."

The things that actually demanded time to hamme...