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Nine pairs of participants, including nurses, retired police
officers, siblings, friends and a married couple, seek to scoop
the prize by answering 10 questions set by "The Controller",
portrayed by Scottish actor and "Succession" star Brian Cox, and
hidden around the world.
"The idea is really to put ordinary people into a James Bond
adventure and we didn't quite know how that would work out,"
executive producer David Glover told Reuters.
"It's thrilling because... they're really not James Bond but
they have heart and they're lovely and... they're heroic in
their own way."
In the show, Cox watches the contestants from afar face daunting
stunts to get to the briefcase carrying their questions, each
worth increasing amounts of money.
Cox said that when he first heard about the "007" show "I went
'oh, maybe they're going to ask me to do a villain' and I
thought 'no they can't do that because they haven't got a James
Bond yet'.
"So it was a flight of fancy for a while and then I realised it
was this thing and... I thought 'well maybe if I do this, it's
probably the nearest I'll ever get to (being a Bond villain),'"
Cox said.
The series begins with brothers James and Joey Bone, who are the
first to wade through a loch in the Scottish Highlands in search
of their starter question.
"It is a bit of a cliche, but it's just once in a lifetime... we
couldn't imagine doing anything like this," James Bone said.
Bond film producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson are
executive producers on the show, which launches globally on
Prime Video on Nov. 10.
Asked about the search for the new James Bond after actor Daniel
Craig wrapped his tenure as the suave spy, Broccoli said: "Not
that at the moment. Watch this space."
($1 = 0.8197 pounds)
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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