How does it end for 007?

H007MER

A bit of speculation for this discussion. How do you think it ends for Bond, as a fantasy finale for the character? It could be for the literary or the cinematic version of 007. Do you think he’ll retire to the country and spend his twilight years with a wife? Would he pursue a desk job at MI6 and become M himself? I see him ending on a sour note. Bond is typically shown in the prime of life at the top of his game. I suggest he could only maintain this position for 10 years or so before the missions became more than a man of advancing years could take. Being an all-or-nothing sort of chap Bond would hate to retire or take a desk job and would never be happy being less than the very best so I think he would actively pursue jobs that would be the death of him. “Suicide by spy” if you will. The story of James Bond would end with him dying as he lived, fighting the good fight against impossible odds. Please add your thoughts and ideas.

doubleoego

Bond dying is an inconceivable thought.

DaltonCraig007

Truth is the series will end several years after the last outing, so there simply cannot be a definitive end like Bond retiring or dying. The final Bond outing will be a traditional one. Only several years after the release of this traditional outing, will it become clear it was the final one. So neither EON nor Bond fans nor general audiences will know that the latest outing released will be the final one.

H007MER

DaltonCraig007 said:
Truth is the series will end several years after the last outing, so there simply cannot be a definitive end like Bond retiring or dying. The final Bond outing will be a traditional one. Only several years after the release of this traditional outing, will it become clear it was the final one. So neither EON nor Bond fans nor general audiences will know that the latest outing released will be the final one.

I agree. I didn't mean to suggest this as an actual product. I wouldn't want to see or read an end to Bond at all. I just wondered if anyone had any thoughts about how it would end purely as an exercise in imagination.

forgotmyusername

I see him retiring as an author - writing books about smoking pipes and polishing shoes.

dragonsky

i dont want to talk about ends.ends suck.
but if i have to than i guess he will never return after big mission,noone knows if he is alive or not....

AgentJamesBond007

I think after the injuries Bond had in his last mission as 007, Bond decides to take a non-violent desk job at one of the MI6 control centers and will later take M's job at the true man's behalf. But he will have a pen name to write books as "money on the side" on Casinos and how to win.

DaltonCraig007

Realisticly, EON will always make plans for another outing, as they think there'll always be a demand for Bond films. They won't do a film where Bond dies or retires, when the audiences will most likely ask for a new one in 2 years. So it's fair to assume unfortunate problems, financial or others, will halt the production of further Bond films. When it will become clear that no further Bond movies will be made, the latest film to that point will be the final Bond film. Meaning Bond will end with a traditional outing, as no-one knew it'd be the final one.

After some years of desk job, the PM offers him to take M's office. He refuses and dies some years later in a car accident. He was 56 years old.

doubleonothing

We discover he was a Fembot all along.

boldfinger

He saves some money in his last years of action, then opens a restaurant in the South of France, in a medium sized village next to a river, an old and very romantic building, the menu ranges from five star quisine to simple scrambled eggs. And the nearby beauty shop is so exquisite it attracts customers from all over the world and secures Bond a wealthy retirement. Maybe he has a wife, but maybe he has already enough to do with the female customers of his beauty shop.

Which reminds me a bit of Frank the bait guy from The Winter of Frankie Machine, a highly recomendable book ;-) .

007JamesBond

If it was to ever end I'd like to see him ultimately take over the role of M after his "final" mission. I kind of imagine a final scene where he's sat behind the desk, an agent enters the office before Bond greets him with "Take a seat 007".

The problem is though, whenever I play a scene like that in my head I always see Roger Moore as the new M.

Chevron

He gets poisoned by a hidden knife in a shoe. His last thought, 'Oh no, not again.'

(Those of you who remember the bowl of geraniums in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy might recognise that.)

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

Bond ending? Sorry to tell you, but I just got out of my DeLorean. The future looks great by the way. Wait until you see what Bond gets into in Bond 34,555,555. Crazy stuff. ;-)

do_me_nicely

1. Fall out from bed
2.Lightning (THUNDERBALL :-))
3. A stroke .
J /k :-))

Creasy47

If it were to ever end, I would prefer it be on a happy note: takes all of his money, moves away, spends his days drinking, bedding women, and being suave.

shutch7

He would have to be smarter than everyone else. I think he would be the only one who knew when and where his career would end. I think he trains a replacement without the replacement realizing he has trained him then he disappears giving his enemies the illusion that he died, and then months maybe even years later he contacts M that he is alive and has been living in some island in the Caribbean where he makes love to a retired Moneypenny (who also "magically" disappeared from M's reception area) and basks in his own glory every day for the rest of his life.

(That's what I would want)

Creasy47

@shutch7, it would be great how Bond has flirted with MP for years and years and years, and in the end, retires and ends up with her.

timmer

If you read the MP Diaries, you will see that Samantha Weinberg covered off 007's golden years in her last book Final Fling 2008. He's retired to an island home off the coast of England. He's in his 80's presumably as per the Fleming timeline.
He's part of a small community on the island. He still takes a stiff drink anytime after noon. He's fit and strong in his old age. He's got a little house where he occasionally entertains female friends and old friends such as Tanner, who is still alive.
Moneypenny's niece catches up with him there. Bond helps unravel the mystery of her aunt's disappearance.
He's probably still living there. He might live well into his 90's.

CommanderRoss

It turns out Blofeld survived the drop down the chimney and built up his empire again. This time, completely legal. But when he finds out Bond has settled in the English outback on a farm, raising his son, he comes with an army of henchmen. Though Bond manages to kill many of them, they turn out to be too many. He manages to get his wife and son in the rangerover and let them drive out of the barn. When he opens the other doors, Blofeld stands ready with at least twenty men. Though Bond schoots at least three of them, he's riddled with bullits and dies on the spot.

No, I haven't played Red Dead Redemption too often. really I haven't!

Creasy47

@CommanderRoss, liar! You liar! I honestly started to read it and though "Yes, yes, I like it. Okay, tha--hey, hold on! This sounds familiar..."

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

WARNING anyone who hasn't played Red Dead Redemption don't look at @CommanderRoss's post! And If you haven't played it, get off of Mars!

Creasy47

Red Dead Redemption = beautiful.

QsAssistant

I have had my thoughts on this as well. If I had to guess I would say either Bond becomes the new M or we see Bond die saving the world.

QBranch

On the job- if you know what I mean. Keeping the British end up.

The_Reaper

I doubt we'll ever see a cinematic finale for the character but he should be killed off in the line of duty. It's a dangerous job.

SaintMark

Like most mortals, he grows old and dies one day. :-D

Baltimore_007

In actual fact, according to the initial Fleming character we were introduced to, 007, in an ideal world should be around 84 years old now, therefore it would be rather appropriate to have Moore return for Bond XXIII

As Bond is supposed to be '35 years old forever' so I understand, this worked with Connery for the early releases but to all intents and purposes Craig would be 79 years old as Bond when he made his debut

:O

AlexanderWaverly

Terence Young once said that if you were to make a final Bond film, you'd have Bond getting out various scrapes only by luck and realizing it. Then, at the end of the mission, he hangs it up because he knows he won't make it through another one. I think it was in an interview with Bondage, the publication the former U.S. James Bond Fan Club put out.

JWESTBROOK

dragonsky said:
he will never return after big mission, no one knows if he is alive or not....

I actually like this. M puts him on an assignment he is unwilling to take, but follows through. Yet he never returns, stages the YOLT scenario where he "dies" but MI6 knows it very well could be a fake death. Yet, we never know. Then it ends with a simple shot of a Scottish castle, smoke billowing from the fireplace, as sort of a nudge ;)

Agent007391

I say he needs a Moriarty. A villain that is to Bond what Moriarty was to Holmes. Of course, this sadly will leave the door open for Bond to make a miraculous return after dying at the Reichenbach falls, but... you get what I mean.

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