Ana de Armas’ time has come…

MGM and Universal have released a series of character posters for No Time To DIe, the 25th entry in the James Bond franchise, starring the 31-year-old Cuban-Spanish actress.

Unveiled ahead of the film’s official trailer launch, they posters feature a closer look at Ana de Armas’ Paloma, Rami Malek’s villain Safin, Daniel Craig’s Bond, supposedly back for his final entry in the franchise, Léa Seydoux’s Madeleine Swann, Lashana Lynch’s Nomi, Ben Whishaw’s Q.

Cary Joji Fukunagadirects the film, which sees Bond having left active service. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) turns up asking for help with a mysterious villain armed with a dangerous new technology.

The film’s release date in North America is set for April 8 via MGM’s United Artists Releasing banner, with the UK launch plus select territories via Universal Pictures Internationalon April 2.

Fukunaga also wrote the script with Neil Purvis, Robert Wade,Scott Z. Burns and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who was brought in to give the screenplay a polish with particular attention to the female characters.

The last Bond entry, 2015’s Spectre, grossed $881m worldwide including $200m domestic.