"Spy movies" are tricky these days, and I think there's only so long you can go back to the Cold War. You need bad guys like SPECTRE or The Syndicate in a world where cold wars aren't against nation states. And even if you want to make nation states the bad guys - who do you choose to alienate? Don't want to lose that box office from China. Don't want to villainize Russia and upset the media tycoon oligarchs. You could always go the middle Eastern terrorist route and risk bad publicity that may or may not drag the box office down much.
It's a tough needle to thread.
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