Daniel Craig has known how the Bond adventure came to an end, ever since he himself suggested the end to the manufacturer of a car in Berlin in 2006.
Spoiler alert: This article discusses the end of “No Time to Die”. Read at your own risk.
The legendary agent James Bond has been played by six different actors for the past 59 years, and most had probably realized that it was still Daniel Craig who should have the honor of portraying Agent 007 in “No Time to Die”, which came out last year.
However, the producers had kept the cards close to their chests around exactly how Craigs Bond would end up. In an interview with Variety tells Craig about what happened in 2006, which locked the fate of how his career as Bond would end.
– How many of these films do I have to make?
According to Craig, he and Bond producer Barbara Broccoli were sitting together in a car on the way to the film premiere of “Casino Royale” in Berlin in 2006.
– Everything went well. People liked the movie. And it looked like I was going to get a chance to make at least one other movie. I said to Barbara, “How many of these movies do I have to make?” Because I do not really look at contracts or any of these things, he says, and continues:
And she said, “Four.” Then I replied, “Okay, okay. Can I kill him in the last one? ” And she did not hesitate. She said, “Yes,” Craig said in an interview with Variety.
However, it took some persuasion before Broccoli convinced the other producer, Michael G. Wilson, because Daniel Craig’s Bond had become so popular.
An anonymous bullet, bad oysters and a rocket
Many (more or less serious) suggestions were on the table when the decision was first made: How should Bond die? Bad oysters, or in a rocket launch are some of the suggestions listed.
– We thought of an anonymous bullet, but it just seemed as if a death with conventional weapons did not seem appropriate. Given how much he had been able to escape from everything else, the fact that it would just be a bullet that always had your name on it from the beginning seemed like a sort of thematic element, even if it was realistic, for Bond had to be something beyond that – like the impossible, impossible situation, says director Cary Joji Fukunga to Variety.
An insurmountable problem
That was what he ended up with. To save his great love and his daughter, Bond decides to stay on the island he himself has ordered a missile attack on to stop the enemy Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek), his Heracles weapon and plan to kill millions of people.
– I think the important thing was that we all try to create a tragedy situation. The idea that it is an insurmountable problem and there is nothing anyone can do about it. And the greater force is Safin’s weapon. It kills the only thing Bond wants in life, which is to be with the people he loves and that he can not be with them. Therefore, there is nothing worth living for, Craig says in the interview.
Thus, James Bond dies for the first time after 59 years on the movie screen. But as everyone knows: There’s never really an end to the character James Bond.
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