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Supposing Barbara and Michael sell Bond, I envision new producers caving into studio demands and casting who ever is popular at that moment as Bond. For instance, back in the '90's Val Kilmer was getting all sorts of roles: Batman The Saint, Tombstone, etc.
Ten years ago it was Robert Downey Jr. I think the next Bond as cast by a new studio will be the 2030's/ 2040's equivalent to that regardless of their suitability for the role.
I wrote this this year, and it's basically all there.
https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/970969/#p970969
The only two changes are the Vantage doesn't get destroyed and that's why we see Madeleine with the child in it at the film's end, and Bond dies.
She's a clone of Madeleine.
Not certain. And Bond jumping off the bridge in Matera in the trailer definitely doesn’t look like someone faking his own death.
Why do people think Nolan would be good for 007? I've always felt his films are emotionally distant and his action sequences, when compared to OHMSS, lack the panache and dash needed for James Bond.
https://deadline.com/2020/06/movie-theaters-return-2022-cinemark-ceo-coronavirus-1202949956/
Bond lands hard on the first level of that bridge, then making his way through a tunnel or maybe room, kicking up a door and out..
He can still fake his own death of course
His landing under the Matera bridge is seen in one of the TV spots.
P.S. In the interview the kid says that they asked her to look down at the rocky ground while being In Swann’s harms. Could be something related to Bond’s fate. If you ask me anyway Bond will not die in a definitive way. To me a more subtle “death” is far more likely. Bear in mind that the film ends with the “JB will return card” (Fukunaga said that). It would be way off to show Bond’s corpse from this point of view and that’s why I believe and ending that draws inspiration from YOLT seems more plausible.
Knowing that the girl is his daughter that won’t ever happen. The main reason why Barbara scrapped Haggis’s idea of Vesper having a child in QoS was because they believed that James wouldn’t ever abandon a child from the person he loves... and that’s why he’s an orphan as well.
On the other hand he could fake his death (like Bruce in TDKR) in order to have a “perfect way out” From his life as an assassin and reunite with Madeleine and Mathilda in the end in Matera. Which sounds definitely possible as well. Maybe that’s what you were thinking too.
@Someone Nope. On the first level. I have the BTS stills taken by a local guy. He didn't know how to transfer them from phone to computer so the size is not best or quality for that matter:
Trailer screencaps:
His bad photos of the producers presentation to local authorities
My “Absolutely “ meant support for a complete reboot ; I’m neutral concerning Nolan.
Five year old clone.
Oh, could you be more pedantic. He lands under the bit people drive and walk on. Yeesh.
Actually don't know what I was thinking. But at least that sounds plausible with Bond faking in order to reunite with the girls at the end.
What mess?
My guess is Bond will die (or appear dead) with a little wink or easter egg to suggest he's still alive. The cast and crew have repeated a few times that the film is about family, and children/childhood are a prevalent theme in CJF's filmography so it checks out.
Just admit it. You we're wrong.
Anyway. He comes out here:
I think the sequencing is off here. Bond still has his tie when he jumps off the bridge, he later removes it when he's fighting Primo, and the bike/car chases follow after, ending with Bond taking Madeleine to the train station where she leaves.
I think this may be it...It would be hugely bold of them to actually 'kill' James Bond.
However, regardless of what happens next NTTD may force them to reboot regardless. You can't have Bond back at MI6 in the next movie if he's married with a child. You just can't forget such a major plot point. It would have to be addressed.
Much in the same way how Tom Cruise got married in Mission Impossible 3. They tried to brush it away in Ghost Protocol but soon enough it just stuck out as a plot point.
In this respect, I think Bond will die properly. The plan then would be to have a blank slate for Bond 26. New Bond, Q, M, Moneypenny. A new reboot.
I think Craig even hints here that this film ends his story as Bond....maybe hinting at Bond's death?
The fact that MI6-HQ would go out of its way to Tweet referencing this (forum-specific spoiler discussion, near as I can tell) suggests to me some validation and confirmation that the principal theory being discussed about the character's identity is indeed true.
Ah that's cool: I don't remember seeing that bit before but I'm sure I didn't connect it to the bridge if I did.
I'm leaning toward a TDKR-style "death" at this point, too.
Actually offing him (or cliffhanger-style, like the the FRWL novel) would just seem too...crushing, from a brand perspective? If that makes sense?
There's (generally speaking) a series tenet about always leaving the crowd smiling and pumped as they leave the cinema following a 007 film. A lesson (perhaps?) learned after OHMSS' climax - and a strategy explicitly executed in multiple times in the Craig era.
Examples: CR is a similar tragedy in scale to OHMSS, but a point is made to cement the film's coda with the iconic "The Name's Bond, James Bond" moment + rousing return/rendition of the Norman theme. Skyfall's tragic and emotionally impactful trajectory is capped with a similar coda: the return of M's iconic office, Moneypenny's reveal, Bond's spiritual rebuilding, and the (literally) same sample of Norman music.
If the Craig approach could be said to have a 'formula' and NTTD follows it, I'd expect (and you could possibly say hope) for something similar.