Meet Six... He's the new 007!

From the opening scene – set in a raucous Bangkok as thousands of people are celebrating New Year's Eve, until our hero causes chaos as he attempts to assassinate a villain – to the white-knuckle ride of beautiful locations, fast cars, glamorous women and dead bodies that follows, The Gray Man makes no bones about its intentions.

The £170 million movie, 's most expensive film ever, brazenly takes its inspiration from and at one point, when our hero – a CIA agent who always has a smart one-liner to hand – is asked why he goes by the name Six, he replies, 'because 007 was taken'. And 's Regé-Jean Page, who's been tipped as a future 007, plays a creepy CIA boss.

Based on the first in a series of books by Mark Greaney about the global hunt for Six when he goes on the run after discovering a dark CIA secret, the project has been written and directed by brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, the men behind the Marvel blockbusters Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.