‘Skyfall’ Director Shares His Thoughts on ‘No Time To Die’

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Years before the premiere, we knew that Daniel Craig’s run as James Bond would end there no time to diebut nobody expected the writers to actually close the story of 007 in such a definitive way.

At the end of the film, Bond realizes that he will not be able to see his loved ones again because Lyutsifer Safin injected him with a nanobot capable of killing Madeleine Swann and her daughter. The Secret Service agent with a license to kill eventually decides to sacrifice himself and destroy Safin’s island, and Swann watches as dozens of ballistic missiles rain down on the fortress, destroying everything in its vicinity.

no time to die the film may have taken its final blow, but loudly skyfall and spook Director Sam Mendes, who told Deadline, he was the one who actually prepared Bond’s fate.

“‘To be honest, I was amazed they pulled it off,’ he said. “But in a way you could say it was my fault for killing M. That was the first moment on the show where a real character not only admitted to dying, but to aging in some way. Instead of just being replaced by another actor. So, skyfall changed the paradigm slightly, they acknowledged that Bond was aging. He talked a lot about getting older skyfall, and M dies, and the changing of the guard, and then another M, and another Q, and another Moneypenny. So in a way, I feel like it’s consistent with what we’ve been doing.’”

Did it bother Mendes? no time to die actually killed Bond?

“It didn’t bother me. I definitely didn’t think oh they shouldn’t have done that, what a terrible idea. I suppose that was inevitable because once you give a great actor a death scene, there will be another great actor on set who thinks maybe I need one like that.”

With skyfall and spook, Bond’s entire world fell on his head, so that final leap, while surprising, ultimately tied into the larger narrative that had been weaved since the early 2010s. Now that Daniel Craig is passing the Walther PPK to the next person – which hasn’t been announced yet – there could be a full franchise reboot to get the popular super spy.