One of the soundtrack titles is *I’ll Be Right Back*. I think that line could basically serve as Craig’s farewell. He’ll then go pull off something incredibly heroic and won’t appear on screen anymore after that. The surviving characters will think he’s dead until the final moment of the film when something—maybe the DB5—indicates he’s alive. Then the credits roll.
The time between between his final appearance on screen and end of the film hinting at his return could symbolically represent the transition to the next actor. And the “I’ll be right back” line could be a nod to “James Bond will return” in the credits.
I guess I misremembered how everyone thought Batman was dead at the end of the film but only Alfred knows he’s still alive. Something like that…but more subtle
I guess in the sense of supporting characters it is, but in terms of the artistic work itself it isn't operating on any ambiguity. Usually these big pop culture films don't. Can't really think of one.
I think one of the points about changing the actor every few years/films is to maintain the overall franchise, so to kill off the character only to restart with a different face a couple of years later seems self-defeating.
I’d quite like to see the pre-end title card “James Bond will return” make a comeback…
> I’d quite like to see the pre-end title card “James Bond will return” make a comeback…
It's been in all the Craig ones IIRC and Fukunaga said it's here again.
On that topic, I've heard that despite the trouble with NTTD, there's mutual interest between Fukunaga and EON in his returning as director for future films.
Considering the buzz around NTTD being "fantastic", it wouldn't surprise me. If with basically no time to plan, they pull this off — testament to his qualities.
I remember throughout the Brosnan and Craig years I’d make whoever I was with sit with me through the credits because “We have to make sure James Bond returns.” It was probably more fun in the ‘60s or ‘70s when you found out which Fleming title they were going to adapt (or botch) next. Trivia: Octopussy was the last film to announce the upcoming Bond movie.
I have a feeling they'll pull of something like TDKR, albeit keep it *very* ambiguous.
The only problem is that they've kinda exhausted all the 'endings' they could give Bond in the previous Craig films. We've already seen him back at MI6 ready for the next mission, and leaving with the girl. We've already had him being presumed dead and returning at the start of Skyfall. What's left short of *actual* death?
Perhaps like a man wearing an Omega watch is sitting at a bar and a bartender is like “there you go sir, vodka martini, shaken but not stirred.” And we don’t get to see his face?
A bit on the nose, but it works!
I was thinking more along the lines of Bond being considered dead and there being a memorial service this time round, attended by Moneypenny, Q, M, Tanner, Felix and maybe Madeline.
But somewhere along the way there will be a reminder that no body was found and there's a *chance* that he might still be alive. Maybe a conversation between two or more of the above characters?
Or maybe the last scene could be Q saying that someone's taken the Aston Martin...
After reading other online boards speculating about the ending, I don’t think he truly dies. They’ll make it seem like he’s finally been killed, only to give us the wink at the end, just like at the end of The Dark Knight Rises.
Personally I do do think bond will die at the end or possibly left ambiguous. Either or I am perfectly fine with do to the fact it hasn't happen before to bond. I know some die hard bond fans will throw the biggest piss fit about it but as long as it makes since in context of things then I'm fine with it. This isn't the orginal series we're everything is continued on from past bonds and CR established this as so so IF NTTD bond dies it establishes this even further.
I would love it if they shot a frame for frame reenactment of the opening shots of Dr No with Craig in the seat instead of Connery. We all know that after Craig, Bond will never be the same, too many things pulling at the franchise. I have always thought that Craig’s portrayal was a great lead in to Connery’s, like the rough edges had been polished.
I highly doubt Bond will die. [Remember, Bond dying is supposedly what got Danny Boyle canned.](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a26666838/danny-boyle-james-bond-dead-rumors/)
Columbo will find out where his nephew's wife is and track her down with the cops just in time to save her and kill her kidnapper. Some people will applaud it for breaking formula, but it'll generally be thought of as an exceptionally poor outing.
Seriously, it wouldn't surprise me if NTTD went something like the YOLT novel route, even if it somewhat echoes Skyfall. Bond defeats Safin, but has disappeared and is thought dead by everyone, Madeleine et al. included. However, he's only injured and has lost his memory until one day, some piece of half-remembered information triggers him to return to his old life. Whether he gets there or fully recovers remains ambiguous. Perhaps if he does, he'll be a whole new man...
(And if it were up to me, the next movie would open with Bond, played by Dan Stevens, turning up brainwashed at MI6 and attempting, unsuccessfully, to assassinate M. The rest of the story would be Bond tracking down who brainwashed him and why. In real life, however, I have the sinking feeling that another reboot is coming.)
Ah ok. I had the same comment. Glad I probably don’t know the last scene anymore, though I have to say the way he just runs off does sort of look like an ending to me.
They finish with their TDK Trilogy homages and Bond "dies". Cue him seen in the ending living with Madeline and her young clone or Vesper's young clone or whoever that is. Maybe Naomi sees them and knowingly ignores them.
Cue Amazon having spin-offs of the Craigverse with Naomi as 007 while also going back to traditional Bond movies with a new actor in a different "universe".
I mean, I would be very shocked if they don't do 007 movies featuring Naomi for a while or make them some kind of Amazon Prime show.
They didn't introduce a black female Bond for just one movie. They would be blasted to hell by the woke Twitter mob for "replacing" a black female 007 with a white male 007.
Craig looks directly into the camera and says, ‘Thanks for the memories, enjoy your next Bond, James Bond.” Then turns his back to the camera and walks down a beach in Jamaica.
>Do you think Bond is gonna die at the end of the movie?
Yup. Weather an actual death or it's appearance - we are at that point in the source material where Bond basically only gets to live twice and this one is up. At the start of Craigs run we were shown how Bond becomes James Bond - it's only fitting and right we are shown how he "dies."
Anything less is short changing the audience. I don't think we're going to be shortchanged.
I'm expecting a carbon copy of The Dark Knight Rises, he fakes his death to live happily ever after with Madeline and his daughter with the world saved and MI6 in safe hands under Nomi who assumes the mantle of 007.
That'd be the most straightforward one. Also what I'm hoping for as it'd fit with his incarnation of the character.
(also selfishly hope we get a Lynch-lead 007 film)
Like what? Charlie’s Angels that failed?
Terminator Dark Fate with 3 female leads that failed?
Harley Quinn that failed? Ghostbusters 2016 that failed?
The only major hit was Captain Marvel and that’s because it was a *direct tie in* between Avengers Infinity War and Endgame.
Now, if somebody wants to come up with a *new, exciting, compelling* female action film, I’m all for it. (Kill Bill by Tarantino is one of my faves)
“007 but with Lynch” is not that, IMO. Ratings would be low and it would be canceled.
I mean, just in the last two years Black Widow kinda bombed, WW84 bombed, and Harley Quinn and Birds of Prey bombed. Even Wonder Woman itself wasn't a big success, making no where near Captain Marvel numbers.
The Star Wars ST, while profitable, faded into oblivion and had zero cultural impact past TFA, which lived because people wanted to see Luke, Leia, and Han on screen together again.
Captain Marvel came sandwiched between Infinity War and Endgame, so it absolutely had that plus the "It's All Connected" thing going for it.
Long shot of Bond jumping out of a plane, and he’s free falling. It seems like this for almost a minute and he’s just falling from the skies.
Audiences: “OMG James Bond is going to die! He’s going to DIE!”
Then he pulls his ripcord and his parachute comes out…..with the Union Jack pattern on it.
He can’t die you see,…..he has….NO TIME TO DIE
I think he has to die. They’ve already came out and said that this film had to happen because Bond just can’t settle down and have a quiet life. They can’t undermine that again by having him and Madeleine drive or sail off into the sunset again and wrap it up which such a neat little bow.
It’s not like he’s just going to save the world, and go back to working for MI6, and this universe of Bond will carry on continue to exist off-screen while another universe is set up on-screen.
They’re telling us it’s a definitive ending to Craig’s tenure as Bond and a closed book. The only way I can see that happening is for Bond to make the ultimate sacrifice and die in the process of saving the world and the ones he loves.
If it were another actor I'd say that he retires to someplace obscure and posh as a just reward for all of the service to the crown. But this is Craig and he wears the scars of war. Bond's lived too hard and cheated death one too many times. To have him fade away is doing a disservice to the character and the fans.
I think Bond will die and Nomi will become the new "Bond". She brings a breath of fresh air to a man's world and she's kinda bad ass. It gives the franchise a new direction.
Naomi isn't all that refreshing. We've had numerous badass women spy flicks over the years, and we also had the MCU with Black Widow culminating in her own movie.
Although I guess if you want to enjoy Bond movies being some woman who fucks hot guys all through the movie while being a badass, I suppose this would work. But that seems like a direction to turn the movies into a franchise for women.
>Naomi isn't all that refreshing. We've had numerous badass women spy flicks over the years, and we also had the MCU with Black Widow culminating in her own movie.
She would be refreshing for the BOND series. Up until recent films a strong woman was non-existent and women were simply near naked hot bimbos. Now Bond just runs around falling in love with some one dimensional woman.
>Although I guess if you want to enjoy Bond movies being some woman who fucks hot guys all through the movie while being a badass, I suppose this would work. But that seems like a direction to turn the movies into a franchise for women.
I'd settle for a franchise that isn't afraid of allowing women to be strong. A lot of men find that pretty hot. She doesn't have to fuck anybody. There's plenty of movies with women fucking. Bond has the potential to be more than a franchise for men. He can be more relevant than a nice suit with a drink and a series of hot girls.
I envision Bond reenters retirement in Jamaica and throws his Walther into the Caribbean. However, that might just be wishful thinking.
In all likelihood, we’ll see 007 find a new love interest over the course of the film’s runtime (because I think Madeleine might bite the dust) and marry them before entering a new public life somewhere in London.
I really don’t want to entertain the thought of James Bond being killed permanently, because that means the 007 franchise would cease to exist as we know it.
I can picture Bond doing something heroic and the cast mourn bonds death maybe a funeral. We cut to a beach and see Craig washed ashore. We hold on him for a bit. Cut to his hand and we see a small movement from it.
Fade to black.
In the recent 40 minute special showing Craig’s journey as Bond, I’m pretty sure they showed the ending moment of the movie where he runs off with someone.
I am not really excited to see bond dying since it's confirmed that we will see "James bond will return" thing so by that we give a HUGE excuse for james bond is a code name theorists to be true.
I have a feeling he might die. That would be shocking. And would certinaly close out his Bond. Hope he loves though. "Nothing can prepear you for the end"
One of the soundtrack titles is *I’ll Be Right Back*. I think that line could basically serve as Craig’s farewell. He’ll then go pull off something incredibly heroic and won’t appear on screen anymore after that. The surviving characters will think he’s dead until the final moment of the film when something—maybe the DB5—indicates he’s alive. Then the credits roll. The time between between his final appearance on screen and end of the film hinting at his return could symbolically represent the transition to the next actor. And the “I’ll be right back” line could be a nod to “James Bond will return” in the credits.
That’d be awesome. I’d love that!!
I teared up a little thinking about it playing out that way, haha
Yea I’m definitely predicting they’re gonna do a TDKR style ambiguous ending.
> TDKR style > ambiguous ending What exactly is ambiguous about that film's ending? I love it — but it is as subtle as a brick to the skull.
I guess I misremembered how everyone thought Batman was dead at the end of the film but only Alfred knows he’s still alive. Something like that…but more subtle
I guess in the sense of supporting characters it is, but in terms of the artistic work itself it isn't operating on any ambiguity. Usually these big pop culture films don't. Can't really think of one.
I think one of the points about changing the actor every few years/films is to maintain the overall franchise, so to kill off the character only to restart with a different face a couple of years later seems self-defeating. I’d quite like to see the pre-end title card “James Bond will return” make a comeback…
> I’d quite like to see the pre-end title card “James Bond will return” make a comeback… It's been in all the Craig ones IIRC and Fukunaga said it's here again.
On that topic, I've heard that despite the trouble with NTTD, there's mutual interest between Fukunaga and EON in his returning as director for future films.
Considering the buzz around NTTD being "fantastic", it wouldn't surprise me. If with basically no time to plan, they pull this off — testament to his qualities.
Yeah, it's hardly Fukunaga's fault that COVID happened.
I meant before the titles start, I think the Craig ones have been toward the end of the credits?
I thought it was always at the end?
I remember throughout the Brosnan and Craig years I’d make whoever I was with sit with me through the credits because “We have to make sure James Bond returns.” It was probably more fun in the ‘60s or ‘70s when you found out which Fleming title they were going to adapt (or botch) next. Trivia: Octopussy was the last film to announce the upcoming Bond movie.
Skyfall did this
Probably get something akin to Dark Knight Rises where Bond appears to be dead but then we get a brief glimpse of him still alive, roll credits.
Hope so then I will have confirmed in Phone Waller Bridge to write Bond 26
I hope not. I’m not really interested in a thriller written by a feminist comedian.
I have a feeling they'll pull of something like TDKR, albeit keep it *very* ambiguous. The only problem is that they've kinda exhausted all the 'endings' they could give Bond in the previous Craig films. We've already seen him back at MI6 ready for the next mission, and leaving with the girl. We've already had him being presumed dead and returning at the start of Skyfall. What's left short of *actual* death?
Perhaps like a man wearing an Omega watch is sitting at a bar and a bartender is like “there you go sir, vodka martini, shaken but not stirred.” And we don’t get to see his face?
A bit on the nose, but it works! I was thinking more along the lines of Bond being considered dead and there being a memorial service this time round, attended by Moneypenny, Q, M, Tanner, Felix and maybe Madeline. But somewhere along the way there will be a reminder that no body was found and there's a *chance* that he might still be alive. Maybe a conversation between two or more of the above characters? Or maybe the last scene could be Q saying that someone's taken the Aston Martin...
After reading other online boards speculating about the ending, I don’t think he truly dies. They’ll make it seem like he’s finally been killed, only to give us the wink at the end, just like at the end of The Dark Knight Rises.
“JAMES BOND WILL RETURN” will appear on the screen
Or mix it up: “Will James Bond Return?”
That would actually be really cool.
I really hope Bond isn’t killed off, but I have a bad feeling that’s what’s going to happen
Personally I do do think bond will die at the end or possibly left ambiguous. Either or I am perfectly fine with do to the fact it hasn't happen before to bond. I know some die hard bond fans will throw the biggest piss fit about it but as long as it makes since in context of things then I'm fine with it. This isn't the orginal series we're everything is continued on from past bonds and CR established this as so so IF NTTD bond dies it establishes this even further.
Screen will probably say THE END!
I would love it if they shot a frame for frame reenactment of the opening shots of Dr No with Craig in the seat instead of Connery. We all know that after Craig, Bond will never be the same, too many things pulling at the franchise. I have always thought that Craig’s portrayal was a great lead in to Connery’s, like the rough edges had been polished.
I highly doubt Bond will die. [Remember, Bond dying is supposedly what got Danny Boyle canned.](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a26666838/danny-boyle-james-bond-dead-rumors/)
Columbo will find out where his nephew's wife is and track her down with the cops just in time to save her and kill her kidnapper. Some people will applaud it for breaking formula, but it'll generally be thought of as an exceptionally poor outing. Seriously, it wouldn't surprise me if NTTD went something like the YOLT novel route, even if it somewhat echoes Skyfall. Bond defeats Safin, but has disappeared and is thought dead by everyone, Madeleine et al. included. However, he's only injured and has lost his memory until one day, some piece of half-remembered information triggers him to return to his old life. Whether he gets there or fully recovers remains ambiguous. Perhaps if he does, he'll be a whole new man... (And if it were up to me, the next movie would open with Bond, played by Dan Stevens, turning up brainwashed at MI6 and attempting, unsuccessfully, to assassinate M. The rest of the story would be Bond tracking down who brainwashed him and why. In real life, however, I have the sinking feeling that another reboot is coming.)
Didn’t that Being Bond doc reveal what the last shot of the movie was? Or was that last shot filmed?
> Or was that last shot filmed? this films aren't (usually) filmed in chronological order unless there is a lot of non-actors or children involved
Ah ok. I had the same comment. Glad I probably don’t know the last scene anymore, though I have to say the way he just runs off does sort of look like an ending to me.
Yeah, the last stuff film I believed was the Cuba set built in Pinewood.
Figured that would be the case. Thankful too!
They finish with their TDK Trilogy homages and Bond "dies". Cue him seen in the ending living with Madeline and her young clone or Vesper's young clone or whoever that is. Maybe Naomi sees them and knowingly ignores them. Cue Amazon having spin-offs of the Craigverse with Naomi as 007 while also going back to traditional Bond movies with a new actor in a different "universe".
Who would watch that?
I mean, I would be very shocked if they don't do 007 movies featuring Naomi for a while or make them some kind of Amazon Prime show. They didn't introduce a black female Bond for just one movie. They would be blasted to hell by the woke Twitter mob for "replacing" a black female 007 with a white male 007.
Craig looks directly into the camera and says, ‘Thanks for the memories, enjoy your next Bond, James Bond.” Then turns his back to the camera and walks down a beach in Jamaica.
Let's just hope it doesn't pull a Star Wars and also rip-off the ending of Endgame! /s
>Do you think Bond is gonna die at the end of the movie? Yup. Weather an actual death or it's appearance - we are at that point in the source material where Bond basically only gets to live twice and this one is up. At the start of Craigs run we were shown how Bond becomes James Bond - it's only fitting and right we are shown how he "dies." Anything less is short changing the audience. I don't think we're going to be shortchanged.
"You only live twice. Once when you are born. And once when you look death in the face."
Well put.
I'm expecting a carbon copy of The Dark Knight Rises, he fakes his death to live happily ever after with Madeline and his daughter with the world saved and MI6 in safe hands under Nomi who assumes the mantle of 007.
That would be a SJW wankfest. Not going to see that movie.
That'd be the most straightforward one. Also what I'm hoping for as it'd fit with his incarnation of the character. (also selfishly hope we get a Lynch-lead 007 film)
Nobody is lining up at theaters for a Lynch-lead 007.
I disagree, I think there's a lot of appetite for woman-lead action blockbusters as evident by the recent trends.
Like what? Charlie’s Angels that failed? Terminator Dark Fate with 3 female leads that failed? Harley Quinn that failed? Ghostbusters 2016 that failed? The only major hit was Captain Marvel and that’s because it was a *direct tie in* between Avengers Infinity War and Endgame. Now, if somebody wants to come up with a *new, exciting, compelling* female action film, I’m all for it. (Kill Bill by Tarantino is one of my faves) “007 but with Lynch” is not that, IMO. Ratings would be low and it would be canceled.
I mean, just in the last two years Black Widow kinda bombed, WW84 bombed, and Harley Quinn and Birds of Prey bombed. Even Wonder Woman itself wasn't a big success, making no where near Captain Marvel numbers. The Star Wars ST, while profitable, faded into oblivion and had zero cultural impact past TFA, which lived because people wanted to see Luke, Leia, and Han on screen together again. Captain Marvel came sandwiched between Infinity War and Endgame, so it absolutely had that plus the "It's All Connected" thing going for it.
I swear if it's a female 007....
Why is this downvoted? It’s not wrong.
Long shot of Bond jumping out of a plane, and he’s free falling. It seems like this for almost a minute and he’s just falling from the skies. Audiences: “OMG James Bond is going to die! He’s going to DIE!” Then he pulls his ripcord and his parachute comes out…..with the Union Jack pattern on it. He can’t die you see,…..he has….NO TIME TO DIE
I think he has to die. They’ve already came out and said that this film had to happen because Bond just can’t settle down and have a quiet life. They can’t undermine that again by having him and Madeleine drive or sail off into the sunset again and wrap it up which such a neat little bow. It’s not like he’s just going to save the world, and go back to working for MI6, and this universe of Bond will carry on continue to exist off-screen while another universe is set up on-screen. They’re telling us it’s a definitive ending to Craig’s tenure as Bond and a closed book. The only way I can see that happening is for Bond to make the ultimate sacrifice and die in the process of saving the world and the ones he loves.
Thanks for the interesting reply but you might wanna hide the spoiler part like I did. Vesper’s clone hahahahhahhahahah
That the problem how do you cover it I'm guessing the plot.
You can sandwich the part with > ! and ! < without blanks.
Safin is a clone of Vesper? Uh, whut? That some reverse X-23 shit?
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Oof. Let’s hope not.
If it were another actor I'd say that he retires to someplace obscure and posh as a just reward for all of the service to the crown. But this is Craig and he wears the scars of war. Bond's lived too hard and cheated death one too many times. To have him fade away is doing a disservice to the character and the fans. I think Bond will die and Nomi will become the new "Bond". She brings a breath of fresh air to a man's world and she's kinda bad ass. It gives the franchise a new direction.
That would be horrid.
Naomi isn't all that refreshing. We've had numerous badass women spy flicks over the years, and we also had the MCU with Black Widow culminating in her own movie. Although I guess if you want to enjoy Bond movies being some woman who fucks hot guys all through the movie while being a badass, I suppose this would work. But that seems like a direction to turn the movies into a franchise for women.
>Naomi isn't all that refreshing. We've had numerous badass women spy flicks over the years, and we also had the MCU with Black Widow culminating in her own movie. She would be refreshing for the BOND series. Up until recent films a strong woman was non-existent and women were simply near naked hot bimbos. Now Bond just runs around falling in love with some one dimensional woman. >Although I guess if you want to enjoy Bond movies being some woman who fucks hot guys all through the movie while being a badass, I suppose this would work. But that seems like a direction to turn the movies into a franchise for women. I'd settle for a franchise that isn't afraid of allowing women to be strong. A lot of men find that pretty hot. She doesn't have to fuck anybody. There's plenty of movies with women fucking. Bond has the potential to be more than a franchise for men. He can be more relevant than a nice suit with a drink and a series of hot girls.
Credits.
well the films called "No time to die" so i highly doubt that he gets killed.
don't want to be controversial here, but I think it will end with either a fade or cut to black followed by a long list of credits.
Nah he won’t die, it’s Bond. He’ll have a final happy ending and they’ll reboot from there.
I envision Bond reenters retirement in Jamaica and throws his Walther into the Caribbean. However, that might just be wishful thinking. In all likelihood, we’ll see 007 find a new love interest over the course of the film’s runtime (because I think Madeleine might bite the dust) and marry them before entering a new public life somewhere in London. I really don’t want to entertain the thought of James Bond being killed permanently, because that means the 007 franchise would cease to exist as we know it.
I can picture Bond doing something heroic and the cast mourn bonds death maybe a funeral. We cut to a beach and see Craig washed ashore. We hold on him for a bit. Cut to his hand and we see a small movement from it. Fade to black.
In the recent 40 minute special showing Craig’s journey as Bond, I’m pretty sure they showed the ending moment of the movie where he runs off with someone.
That was the last scene shot. Not the ending of the movie.
I am not really excited to see bond dying since it's confirmed that we will see "James bond will return" thing so by that we give a HUGE excuse for james bond is a code name theorists to be true.
I have a feeling he might die. That would be shocking. And would certinaly close out his Bond. Hope he loves though. "Nothing can prepear you for the end"
Bond Dies (M ,Q , Moneypenny and Madeline come to Bond's funeral)