No Time To Die ending explained: A clean slate for James Bond or 007 agent hanging up his boots?
FirstpostA deep dive into the ending of Daniel Craig’s No Time To Die and what it means for the James Bond franchise Spoilers ahead This story discusses the ending of No Time to Die. If you stay all the way through the credits, you’ll be comforted by the message: “James Bond Will Return.” “Bond can go on forever,” said Barbara Broccoli, Bond producer, in a recent interview. “My father told me that when they were making From Russia With Love, Ian Fleming said to him: ‘You know, Cubby, I think Bond will go on well beyond me.’ And Cubby said, ‘Yeah, and he’ll go well beyond me as well.’ He will be around forever.” This, then, is purely the finale to Craig’s serious and tortured 007 run, one that from the start has edged Bond more into plausible reality, ushering in once anathema things like grief and pain and romances that last past one movie’s runtime. “Lighten up, 007,” suggested Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang, “and for the sake of variety, may your inevitable next incarnation be a breezier one.” Wilson once called the James Bond films not one long series but “a series of series.” With the end of this one, a new Bond will be born, a new chapter begun.