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Can the Craig Bond survive the bomb?

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  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
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    HaphazardStuff comment...

  • slide_99slide_99 USA
    Posts: 652
    They can fix him. They fix everything.
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  • DoctorKaufmannDoctorKaufmann Can shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like suicide.
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    M_Balje wrote: »
    HaphazardStuff comment...


    Hilarious stuff... :)) =))
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Q might be able to put Bond back together again. You never know. It could happen.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    edited December 2023 Posts: 2,625
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    ... sorry. I couldn't help myself!!
    =))
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    Dwayne wrote: »
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    ... sorry. I couldn't help myself!!
    =))

    Oh how i laughed at this :))
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited February 9 Posts: 2,928
    Well, they retrofitted everything else, so... :D
    https://screenrant.com/no-time-die-bond-clone-idea-robert-wade/
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Venutius wrote: »
    Well, they retrofitted everything else, so... :D
    https://screenrant.com/no-time-die-bond-clone-idea-robert-wade/

    Sounds more like something a Bond villain would do although sometimes it's hard to tell Bond villains and Purvis and Wade apart.
  • JustJamesJustJames London
    Posts: 203
    It’s easy enough to write a way in for him to have survived. And even a way to deal with Heracles, and *even do it in a way that makes for an exciting story hook*.
    But — I doubt Craig wants another rodeo.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    edited February 9 Posts: 1,368
    If they can retcon most of Craig's Bond plots. Then they can retcon his death too. But that won't happen...as Craig will never return as Bond. He didn't even want to do NTTD in the first place.
  • Scaramanga1974Scaramanga1974
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    The world needs Bond more than ever with all the dangerous world political figures pulling the strings and more sadly likely to follow.
  • BirdlesonBirdleson Moderator
    edited February 11 Posts: 2,161
    The damage is done. Even if they came up with a post-release twist, they killed Bond senselessly and awkwardly within the film. I wish that they hadn't, but It's passed, it's happened.
    I think I would have been okay with it had they just continued with the '62 continuity and ended Craig's run with Bond's death. But not of this little sub-continuity. It seems indulgent and forced.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    I'm not sure that Eon *ever* cared about continuity. They just cared about making money, as far back as YOLT-OHMSS-DAF, or even arguably DN-FRWL, with the recasting of Boothroyd.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
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    I love Craig's Bond. But sometimes I do wonder if DAD was so bad that the franchise needed a reboot. I mean....Craig could have just continued as usual. I still refer to call Craig's era a prequel, instead of a reboot.
  • BT3366BT3366
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    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    I love Craig's Bond. But sometimes I do wonder if DAD was so bad that the franchise needed a reboot. I mean....Craig could have just continued as usual. I still refer to call Craig's era a prequel, instead of a reboot.

    The acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale was as much of a reason to take that approach as anything. Just the title wouldn't have likely been worth adapting to the screen without the significance of being the first Bond adventure of all and everything that goes with it.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
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    BT3366 wrote: »
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    I love Craig's Bond. But sometimes I do wonder if DAD was so bad that the franchise needed a reboot. I mean....Craig could have just continued as usual. I still refer to call Craig's era a prequel, instead of a reboot.

    The acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale was as much of a reason to take that approach as anything. Just the title wouldn't have likely been worth adapting to the screen without the significance of being the first Bond adventure of all and everything that goes with it.

    Yeah. Maybe I'm forcing myself to be delusional, but I just like it as a prequel than a hard reboot, though. I just feel Brosnan's Bond wasn't doing badly for it to be called a hard reboot. With all its lukewarm reviews, DAD was a huge success.
  • CrabKeyCrabKey
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    Not a thing about Craig returning would make sense, not that I think he nor anyone else would consider the possibility. He aged faster than any previous Bond during his tenure to the point that he looks like an old man holding his trousers up with braces in the last scene. Live and let die. I liked Craig, and it will take some getting to used to seeing a new Bond, but Craig made his decision. I don't want the new film to remotely hint at the Craig era. What purpose would it serve? To be reminded of the dead Bond would suggest the new Bond is not the genuine article. Anyway, they've already done something like that with "this never happened to the other fella." Make a clean break with a clean start.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    CrabKey wrote: »
    Not a thing about Craig returning would make sense, not that I think he nor anyone else would consider the possibility. He aged faster than any previous Bond during his tenure to the point that he looks like an old man holding his trousers up with braces in the last scene. Live and let die. I liked Craig, and it will take some getting to used to seeing a new Bond, but Craig made his decision. I don't want the new film to remotely hint at the Craig era. What purpose would it serve? To be reminded of the dead Bond would suggest the new Bond is not the genuine article. Anyway, they've already done something like that with "this never happened to the other fella." Make a clean break with a clean start.

    Right. It would be utterly ridiculous to bring the Craig Bond back. And as you correctly pointed out, @CrabKey, he himself isn't going to even contemplate the possibility.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited February 13 Posts: 2,928
    Agreed. I love CraigBond and those films mean a lot to me, but it's over. New slate.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Venutius wrote: »
    Agreed. I love CraigBond and those films mean a lot to me, but it's over. New slate.

    As much as I like the Craig era he had a good run and after 15 years of one Bond actor I agree it's time for a fresh start.
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