Well Wikipedia confirmed it (SPOILER WARNING)
Bond does actually die
At least the gunbarrel is at the beginning despite there being no blood
Yep. Sadly I wasn’t bullshitting.
The gunbarrel is…interesting. Tries to be a bit gimmicky but yes, at least it’s at the beginning where it belongs.
Yeah my apologies it just never crossed my mind that they would do anything that stupid, if the next Bond actor is just called “James Bond” because it’s a code name then I am just going to snap.
shareNo worries pal. I’d be skeptical too because it does sound unbelievable when you say it. “James Bond dies”, you know. Just sounds ridiculous.
If his death had been done in a better way, maybe I would be more okay with it. As it is it just doesn’t work and Safin ends up being a crappy villain as well. His character is all over the place towards the end.
I honestly think they’ll just start from scratch with another reboot. It’s a shame because I was hoping they’d just go back to telling individual stories each film, but now to get the masses back on board they’ll be clear to market Bond 26 as a fresh start and “taking Bond back to his or (heaven forbid) her roots”. I think they’ve shot themselves in the foot here.
They absolutely have shot themselves in the foot, a reboot is like a one time thing, you can’t keep telling origin stories over and over again. Trying to have a continuous storyline throughout all the Craig films was the dumbest idea ever. I was at first OK with QOS wrapping up the events fr Casino Royale but it’s getting ridiculous now. So what are your predictions? Do you think Kinnear, Fiennes, Wishaw and Harris will stick around?
Apparently Felix dies as well so they can’t bring Jeffrey Wright back
I'm calling it now, "James Bond" will be a woman in the reboot.
They have no plans on hiring a straight white male for the role. Hollyweird has been gung-ho on destroying every single masculine figure it can get its pedo-paws on, and they've been wanting to bury Bond for a while now.
It’s so pathetic that they don’t have the talent or the creativity to create a good female spy film that they have to attach the name James Bond to it to get people to go see it.
shareI thought (according to an article I recently read) that Barbara Broccoli stated that James Bond would continue to be a male. She just didn't say if said male would be white or not. I am in the boat with many others that believe that they should create new 00 characters that can be a female, or a non-white male if they really want to check that diversity box.
shareHmm, I'm reading the article now on Deadline...
https://deadline.com/2021/09/next-james-bond-search-begin-next-year-barbara-broccoli-1234844870/
Okay so she says they'll be finding a replacement in 2022... nothing about Bond staying male.
Not feeling very well about that.
Let's see... we have another interview covered by the Independent.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/james-bond-male-barbara-broccoli-b1927238.html
Headline is promising... but then they seem to extract from Broccoli's statement something she never actually said. Here's her actual quote...
"James Bond is a male character. I hope that there will be many, many films made with women, for women, by women, about women.
“I don't think we have to take a male character and have a woman portray him. So yes, I see him as male. And I'm sort of in denial, I would love for Daniel to continue forever.”
She reiterated that she'll discuss Craig's replacement with her brother in 2022.
While she says that Bond should be a male, and that she obviously seems to have the classical traits of a woman who likes a masculine, charismatic, sexy man, it's not entirely up to her and the zeitgeist at large seems so averse to a straight white male that I can't see her standing tall against the flood of crappy activists posing as journalists to either have Bond race-swapped or gender-swapped.
However, I sure hope that you're right and that she sticks to her guns on this one, because this is one of those times that a woman needs to be stubborn against all other kinds of influences and she needs to stick to her intuition no matter what happens. Whether or not she holds out against the Woketards will be determined in 2022...
I guess we should hope for the best but expect the worse.
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Its gonna be the black female chick I guarantee it. Especially with the filmmakers saying shit like this
https://i.imgflip.com/5otxkm.jpg
The thought of that makes me feel so ill and sick to my stomach. This wokeness truly is an infectious disease that is rotting away everything we care about and hold dear in entertainment culture.
shareIt can't be a code name. We see his parents' gravestone in Skyfall, and the gamekeeper identifies him as James Bond.
shareI think Wishaw will be the only survivor. He’s probably the most popular of the supporting cast. Maybe Fiennes might stick around, but I honestly think they’ll try and distance themselves from the Craig era for the most part. Can’t see Kinnear and Harris sticking around, which is a shame because I like them.
shareGod, Wishaw. I can't stand the git, I can only think of his Perfume murderer role, where he was a right weirdo.
Having things connect the previous bond to the next one didn't start with Daniel Craigs bond. You'll find that did that in other pre-Craig bonds as well.
shareThere were some small details before this Craig story arc, but not on an annoying level.
shareThe previous 20 had some subtle references to other films, it was never the interconnected story arc that the Craig films have
shareI’m aware of that but the other Bond’s were all in the same continuity. Craig was the first reboot and only Judi Dench was carried over from the old Bond continuity. So I think for the most part they will distance themselves from the Craig era.
shareAs I was saying on another thread they could simply continue on from Pierce Brosnan on that continuity. Craig's "Bond" was already a reboot, so the Connery / Moore ... Brosnan's Bond lives on.
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