{"id":175186,"date":"2025-11-11T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/175186\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:55:09","slug":"amazon-is-struggling-to-think-how-to-bring-james-bond-back-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/175186\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Is Struggling to Think How to Bring James Bond Back From the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The viewing public has, by and large, accepted the fact that being the lead star in James Bond is kind of like another British staple,\u00a0Doctor Who<\/a>. You\u2019re it for a little while, then someone else comes in and takes your place, and they\u2019re it. But the Bond saga has not had to deal with the explicit fact Doctor Who deals with every few years as part of that process: that the previous one has to die<\/a> for the next one to take their place. That is, until now\u2026 and it\u2019s apparently causing issues.<\/p>\n

A new report from Radar Online<\/a> alleges that Amazon executives<\/a> are struggling to come up with a new onboarding point for the next James Bond movie, from director Denis Villeneuve and writer Steven Knight<\/a>, partially because they believe that a new film will have to explain why James Bond is up and about doing spyfi things<\/a> after he got blown up by missiles in\u00a0No Time to Die<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time we saw Bond, he was poisoned and blown to smithereens\u2014how will they get past the fact he is dead with a capital D?\u201d Author Anthony Horowitz, who has penned several\u00a0Bond books for the estate of Ian Fleming, told Radar Online, commenting on insider sources declaring the decision to kill Bond in No Time to Die \u201ca massive mistake\u201d that is proving \u201calmost impossible\u201d to undo. \u201cI think that was a mistake, because Bond is a legend. He belongs to everybody, he is eternal\u2014except in that film. If I was asked tomorrow to write the script, I wouldn\u2019t be able to do it. Where would you start? You can\u2019t have him waking up in the shower and saying it was all a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bizarre thing is that this appears to be an issue that mostly people at Amazon involved in the next\u00a0James Bond movie are concerned with, and not anyone who actually watches\u00a0James Bond movies. Although several of the films have tried to allude to a shared history for the character of James Bond (Skyfall going as far to give him an ancestral home in Scotland and even show the supposed graves of Bond\u2019s parents), the average viewer has largely accepted that the various Bonds we\u2019ve had over the years are not necessarily by and large the same character.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s never been a reason to explain, outside of popular theories like the codename idea, that Bond changes faces every few movies, because people have just accepted that that is part of the series\u2019 longevity. It doesn\u2019t necessarily matter that Craig\u2019s Bond explicitly died on screen then, even though it\u2019s something we\u2019ve not actually seen with the character before, because, well, people knew it was Craig\u2019s final film as Bond anyway. It\u2019s part of the metanarrative that has become part of\u00a0Bond as much as the actual storytelling has. So why are Amazon allegedly so hung up on it?<\/p>\n

Previous reports have suggested that<\/a> Knight\u2019s script may focus on Bond\u2019s early career as he transitions from the Royal Navy to intelligence work with MI6, leading up to the story of how he got his license to kill (a story we saw for Craig\u2019s Bond in the opening of\u00a0Casino Royale). If that\u2019s the route Amazon takes, then you don\u2019t really need to explain that the Bond you\u2019re seeing is any different from the Bond we saw in\u00a0No Time to Die. People will just accept the new, younger Bond<\/a> and move on. But we\u2019ll have to wait and see just how Amazon solves a problem that it is mostly creating for itself.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The viewing public has, by and large, accepted the fact that being the lead star in James Bond…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[1463,18,117,19,17,7391,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-175186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-james-bond","14":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115531882508465481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}