23 years after James Bond, is Pierce Brosnan back in a spy movie? It’s set in 2025, and the trailer has you hooked

In 2013, Steven Soderbergh announced his retirement after releasing My Life with Liberace. Eleven years later, he’s already made ten more feature films and is gearing up for an eleventh (the comedy The Christophers), but most of them haven’t been released in our theaters. Not since 2018’s Paranoia. Fortunately, 2025 will fix that, not twice, but once.

First up is a horror film from the point of view of a ghost, which will be released on February 5. Then the spy thriller Black Bag (titled Insider in France), which is expected on March 12 and whose first promising images have just been revealed.

If these two feature films prove how fast their director is, as diverse as he is in the genres he deals with, they have in common that they were written by David Cope, to whom we especially owe the scripts of Snake Eyes and Mission: Impossible. . So, a fan of bogus claims should have a field day here.

Because it will be about a couple of spies, played by Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, trying to separate their personal and professional lives before Catherine is accused of treason and George has to choose between marriage and nation.

There are Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who we definitely think of when it comes to espionage and relationships, in this square. But also a bit of an ally of Robert Zemeckis, who reunited Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard against the backdrop of World War II. And above all, a very good cast, as we also meet Rége-Jean Page, Marisa Abella (Amy Winehouse Back to Black) and Pierce Brosnan.

More than two decades after saying goodbye to the role of James Bond (and not without a few jokes like The November Man), the actor is returning to espionage, and he will notably play Naomi Harris, Daniel Craig’s dime. In a film that promises to be explosive and thrilling, with actor Michael Fassbender reuniting with Steven Soderbergh, fourteen years after the action film Trapped.

Where, like the rest of the male cast, he was subject to the Gina Carano canon. Let’s hope this black bag / insider ends well, even if everything seems to indicate that he (and neither will we) emerge unscathed from this thriller, which promises to be intense and which reminds us that Steven Soderbergh has a good thing going. Back to your retirement wishes.