No time to die ending.

I understand that he wanted that end but it is a little sad. It will always bother me. I created a petition for a hope to bring him back for bond 26.

https://www.change.org/p/eon-productions-limited-bring-daniel-craig-back-for-bond-26?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_32068057_en-US%3A7&recruiter=1247194568&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=15238164878_

Babs has already said Bond will be back.

Question is, will he be James Bond or some "evolved" skin-suit-wearer.

And welcome.

Unless they're going with Bond as a zombie for the next one (cue the 'I thought Craig had already played him like one' gags), I really don't think he'll be in it. NTTD's ending was a pretty definitive 'I'm done with this'.

I tried to watch Craig's vodka promo after reading a descrip of it on variety or THR or vulture (place suggests that the spot starts in Bond's afterlife since Craig is first seen wearing white), but only made it halfway through. He tries to do the Christopher Walken Fatboy Slim thing, but even if this novelty piece appeals to some, it was just as off to me as his Bond portrayal.

It does convey the 'I'm done with this' rather convincingly, but that doesn't require acting ability.

trevanian wrote:

I tried to watch Craig's vodka promo after reading a descrip of it on variety or THR or vulture (place suggests that the spot starts in Bond's afterlife since Craig is first seen wearing white), but only made it halfway through. He tries to do the Christopher Walken Fatboy Slim thing, but even if this novelty piece appeals to some, it was just as off to me as his Bond portrayal.

It does convey the 'I'm done with this' rather convincingly, but that doesn't require acting ability.

Wasn’t that awful? Roger Moore’s acting capability may have extended to only his eyebrows but that has more personality than Craig’s pout and ever-monotone line delivery.

The only person in the world who says “vodka” like he wants to slit his wrists.

Fleming was asked in an interview if we would ever see a book in which Bond dies at the end. His reply: "I could not possibly afford it."

Phantom Commander wrote:

Fleming was asked in an interview if we would ever see a book in which Bond dies at the end. His reply: "I could not possibly afford it."

FRWL was actually supposed to be the end of James Bond (he apparently died from Klebb's poison toe). However, there was such a demand for his return from fans that Fleming brought him back.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Phantom Commander wrote:

Fleming was asked in an interview if we would ever see a book in which Bond dies at the end. His reply: "I could not possibly afford it."

FRWL was actually supposed to be the end of James Bond (he apparently died from Klebb's poison toe). However, there was such a demand for his return from fans that Fleming brought him back.

I think James Bond always knew a Russian lesbian would get him in the end.

Bond in the Craig era seemed to be attracting a lot of friendly fire, what with CIA gunsels blazing away at him in QUANTUM, Moneypenny plugging him in SKYFALL and his finally getting vaporized by UK missiles.

Can only recall that happening before in LTK, when M's goons do a trigger-happy and piss-poor job of things at Hemingway House.

trevanian wrote:

Bond in the Craig era seemed to be attracting a lot of friendly fire, what with CIA gunsels blazing away at him in QUANTUM, Moneypenny plugging him in SKYFALL and his finally getting vaporized by UK missiles.

   

Plus all the fire he is receiving here.

trevanian wrote:

Bond in the Craig era seemed to be attracting a lot of friendly fire, what with CIA gunsels blazing away at him in QUANTUM, Moneypenny plugging him in SKYFALL and his finally getting vaporized by UK missiles.

Can only recall that happening before in LTK, when M's goons do a trigger-happy and piss-poor job of things at Hemingway House.    

During the scene where she shaves him in SF, I briefly wondered if he was about to 'plug' her. If you catch my drift.

Craig's Bond is probably more interested in pegging than plugging.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

trevanian wrote:

Bond in the Craig era seemed to be attracting a lot of friendly fire, what with CIA gunsels blazing away at him in QUANTUM, Moneypenny plugging him in SKYFALL and his finally getting vaporized by UK missiles.

Can only recall that happening before in LTK, when M's goons do a trigger-happy and piss-poor job of things at Hemingway House.    

During the scene where she shaves him in SF, I briefly wondered if he was about to 'plug' her. If you catch my drift.

I got the impression he did just that. Later in the Floating Dragon:

Bond: "It's amazing what you can do with an extra set of hands."

Moneypenny: "It sure is."

Phantom Commander wrote:

trevanian wrote:

Bond in the Craig era seemed to be attracting a lot of friendly fire, what with CIA gunsels blazing away at him in QUANTUM, Moneypenny plugging him in SKYFALL and his finally getting vaporized by UK missiles.

   

Plus all the fire he is receiving here.

Which is anything but friendly.

Am i alone wanting Craig do one more Bond movie?

Oldschool297 wrote:

Am i alone wanting Craig do one more Bond movie?

Are you Barbara Broccoli?

Oldschool297 wrote:

Am i alone wanting Craig do one more Bond movie?

I'd say you're certainly in the minority of thinking it's POSSIBLE, after how NTTD ended.

Speaking of which, work colleague who knows I'm a Bond fan asked last week what I'd thought of said ending. Without pause, I said 'Absolutely hated it'.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Oldschool297 wrote:

Am i alone wanting Craig do one more Bond movie?

I'd say you're certainly in the minority of thinking it's POSSIBLE, after how NTTD ended.

Speaking of which, work colleague who knows I'm a Bond fan asked last week what I'd thought of said ending. Without pause, I said 'Absolutely hated it'.

You know, I could almost halfway accept it if it occurred in the absolutely final Bond film. But because further Bond films will apparently be made, the ending is farcical. And I'm hardly one of those people who stands on timelines, either. But actually killing off Bond and having him return is beyond the pale. Perhaps they'll contrive some way of Bond surviving a direct hit from a missile. Wouldn't put it past 'em.

It'll be dismissed as being down to the Craig films being/having their own self-contained arc. That's if Babs and Wilson even bother mentioning it when promo for the next one rolls around.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

It'll be dismissed as being down to the Craig films being/having their own self-contained arc. That's if Babs and Wilson even bother mentioning it when promo for the next one rolls around.  

In that case, it'll be ridiculous. As much as Babs et al might wish to conceive of the Craigs as their own little self-contained universe, they're not. They're Bond films, not Craig films.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Oldschool297 wrote:

Am i alone wanting Craig do one more Bond movie?

I'd say you're certainly in the minority of thinking it's POSSIBLE, after how NTTD ended.

Speaking of which, work colleague who knows I'm a Bond fan asked last week what I'd thought of said ending. Without pause, I said 'Absolutely hated it'.

You know, I could almost halfway accept it if it occurred in the absolutely final Bond film. But because further Bond films will apparently be made, the ending is farcical. And I'm hardly one of those people who stands on timelines, either. But actually killing off Bond and having him return is beyond the pale. Perhaps they'll contrive some way of Bond surviving a direct hit from a missile. Wouldn't put it past 'em.

Pull a Maibaum and have Bond undergo plastic surgery afterward, a la the first draft of OHMSS. But one would hope that if they try that hoary old chestnut, that they also lengthen his legs so he is a little more Bondian in stature. Also add in some acting chops that Craig apparently left behind when he first took the gig.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

They're Bond films, not Craig films.

Correct. Unfortunately this was lost on lusty ol' Babs and Craig himself (who seemingly never lost the resentment over the Blond-Not-Bond mockery at the start).

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Phantom Commander wrote:

Fleming was asked in an interview if we would ever see a book in which Bond dies at the end. His reply: "I could not possibly afford it."

FRWL was actually supposed to be the end of James Bond (he apparently died from Klebb's poison toe). However, there was such a demand for his return from fans that Fleming brought him back.

I think James Bond always knew a Russian lesbian would get him in the end.

CJB wrote:

Craig's Bond is probably more interested in pegging than plugging.

I’ve missed this.

Though ironically now its Western lesbians.

Good to see you again, 'Bang!

I think at this rate Western lesbians will be the last people still watching Bond. Not sure how much mass appeal Oh Oh Seven has any more.