Yet one more leak forward of tonight’s The Sport Awards 2025 has revealed a legendary music star as a brand new James Bond villain in 007 First Light.
In a now-deleted social submit from the official 007 social media account, Fly Away singer Lenny Kravitz was unmasked as enjoying a First Light character named Bawma, who shares Kravitz’s likeness. And whereas the submit could have been swiftly eliminated, the web nonetheless took discover — seemingly letting an extra secret out forward of tonight’s large gaming awards and announcement occasion.
“He rose from nothing, broke free, and constructed his personal Kindom of Aleph,” the now-deleted submit learn. “Introducing Bawma, the most important black-market vendor within the Western Hemisphere who’s as charismatic as he’s unpredictable.”
The accompanying video, now additionally deleted, exhibits clearly that Bawma is a villain, as he has strung up Bond and threatens to drop him right into a pit full of crocodiles.
Kravitz is most well-known for his prolonged Grammy Award-winning musical profession, however the star additionally holds a handful of performing credit, most notably for his work in The Starvation Video games and its sequel Catching Fireplace, as hero Katniss Everdeen’s modern aide Cinna.
After all, Kravitz just isn’t the primary large identify set to look in 007: First Light, the upcoming James Bond blockbuster in improvement at Hitman developer IO Interactive. The sport will even function Eternals star Gemma Chan and The Strolling Lifeless actor Lennie James, whereas Dexter: Unique Sin’s Patrick Gibson is the brand new Bond himself.
Kravitz will even be removed from the primary musician to look in a James Bond property. “Persevering with the trope of musical performers randomly showing in Bond media, I see,” Bond fan Jordan Gill noted on social media. “Jimmy Dean, Grace Jones, Wayne Newton, Madonna… now Lenny Kravitz.”
“Lenny Kravitz bringing Bawma to life is wild sufficient — however now I am questioning… might he even be the one singing the title tune in the long run?” added one other fan, ExpectingMrBond. “Perhaps not Lana in spite of everything?”
Video Video games singer Lana Del Rey was lately noticed having recorded a recent tune titled “First Light”, which might be a neat match for the franchise and IO Interactive’s sport after her earlier observe “24” was famously snubbed because the theme for Daniel Craig outing Spectre, the twenty fourth Bond film.
Tune in to The Sport Awards 2025 to get a correct have a look at Kravitz within the position, as IGN experiences on the occasion dwell.
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