{"id":41677,"date":"2025-09-27T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/41677\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:21:09","slug":"james-bond-author-calls-out-big-mistake-of-daniel-craigs-final-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/41677\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond Author Calls Out “Big Mistake” of Daniel Craig’s Final Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Horowitz<\/a> has written enough about James Bond<\/a> to know a little about the 60-year-old spy franchise, and he has some thoughts about how Daniel Craig\u2019s time as the iconic MI6 agent came to a tragic end in No Time to Die<\/a>. While we all know that Bond will be returning with a new face, a new team thanks to Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 outright purchase<\/a> of the franchise, and plenty of new stories to tell, Horowitz believes that the previous incarnation\u2019s death was ultimately a mistake. <\/p>\n

No Time to Die was always going to be Daniel Craig\u2019s swansong as the legendary spy, but few could have predicted that it would also have a unique place in cinema history as the first movie to actually kill off James Bond. Even as his demise approached, fans believed that there would be one last trick he could pull to make a daring, 11th hour escape from the inevitable, but it was not to be and director Cary Fukunaga stuck to his guns and killed off the seemingly unstoppable James Bond. As Horowitz told Radio Times<\/a>, this was not something he believes should have happened. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time we saw Bond (in 2021\u2019s No Time to Die) he was poisoned and blown to smithereens \u2013 how will they get past the fact he is dead with a capital D? I think that was a mistake, because Bond is a legend. He belongs to everybody, he is eternal \u2013 except in that film. If I was asked tomorrow to write the script, I wouldn\u2019t be able to do it. Where would you start? You can\u2019t have him waking up in the shower and saying it was all a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does James Bond\u2019s Death Cause a Problem for His Future?<\/p>\n

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The death of a fictional character is usually the end of the road for them, with no way back unless writers resort to some kind of retcon or \u201cit was a dream\u201d trickery. However, when it comes to the James Bond franchise, the death of 007 is far from final, as the character is essentially rebooted every time a new actor takes over the role.<\/p>\n

This was certainly true of Daniel Craig\u2019s era of movies. Casino Royale was a rebirth of Bond as a tough, no-nonsense action hero after the pun-laden years of Pierce Brosnan<\/a>. Not only did the movie end with Craig\u2019s Bond finally declaring the classic \u201cBond, James Bond\u201d line, but also set up a brand new world \u2013 even if it did still have Dame Judi Dench in the role of M, retaining that strange continuous thread of the franchise around the other MI6 staff members (remember how many years and how many Bond actors the original Moneypenny and M actors appeared alongside).<\/p>\n

Craig\u2019s movies also reintroduced a new version of Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) after the character previously appeared as the arch-enemy of Sean Connery\u2019s Bond, meaning that there are really no rules when it comes to the next iteration of the character. James Bond will return in his new form in the coming years, and this will be a completely new take on the character once again. His death in No Time to Die simply stands as the closing of the chapter of Daniel Craig\u2019s iteration of the character, and, as it turns out, the first 60 years for the James Bond franchise.<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 8, 2021<\/p>\n

Runtime<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t163 Minutes<\/p>\n

Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCary Joji Fukunaga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Horowitz has written enough about James Bond to know a little about the 60-year-old spy franchise, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-41677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}