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Random Guesswork: No Time to Die

It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of James Bond. I’ve written lengthy recaps of several of the films, I’ve waxed lyrical about an alternative reading to one of the worst Bond films ever (spoilers: Pierce Brosnan died in Die Another Day and it was all in his head!), and I’ve even gotten shirty over another fan clearly mixing up Timelords and alternative realities when it comes to James Bond due to reasoning based entirely on one video game.

Basically, I’m a little obsessed.

I’ve heard several rumours regarding the new film coming out in April, mostly about how production was apparently as pleasant and smooth as a tyre fire. However, I have hopes for the next film and won’t judge until I see it.

One thing’s for certain though: James Bond will die.

I mean, it’s not actually a certainty, that’s the point of this post. I’m guessing he will die. I’m about 95% confident he will die, for the following reasons:

  • It’s Daniel Craig’s last outing as Bond.
  • The motif of the last few films is that the idea and purpose of James Bond is increasingly irrelevant in the modern age and that the character himself is old and over-the-hill1.
  • The Bond films have never killed him before2 so there’s a first they can explore.

Frankly, I’ll be very disappointed when it turns out my 95% confident guess is absolutely wrong and he survives the film because it’ll go completely against the theme they’ve been setting up since Skyfall.

While I’m touting random guesses I might as well have a stab at what the next Bond film after No Time to Die will look like. There has been a lot of murmuring about it handing off to a new female lead and while it seems feasible to play the Doctor Who genderswap card, they wanted to do it with Jynx3 back in the early 2000’s and it didn’t play out to plan4. The only sane and sensible route I can see where they can go at this point is to reboot the franchise back to the 50’s and 60’s and set it during the Cold War.

Oh, and just make Idris Elba the new Bond already. He’s the fan favourite and it makes sense.

Idris Elba and Daniel Craig
Oh Idris, you sexy, sexy man.
  1. I’ll forever quote Judi Dench’s M in that he’s “a sexist, misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the cold war”. ↩
  2. My totally correct alternative reading of Die Another Day notwithstanding. ↩
  3. Yeah, that’s the third Die Another Day reference in this post! What the hell? ↩
  4. Although, the Wikipedia article does mention that the production team also wanted to do a spin-off with Tomorrow Never Dies‘ Wai Lin too. It seems the production team is very fond of the idea of having a female-led spin-off so I could yet eat my words! ↩

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