No Time to Die’s ending is a cathartic rebuke to the nauseating interconnectedness of just about every other franchise blockbuster. But what’s next for James Bond? BilgeEbiri writes
Bond wasn’t just a fantasy of the good life; he was a fantasy of relevance. Photo: Columbia/Eon/Danjaq/Mgm/Kobal/Shutterstock “JAMES BOND WILL RETURN.” There is no post-credits scene at the end of No Time to Die, but we do get those words — the obligatory promise that has come, in some form, at the close of every Bond film since Goldfinger. For many years, it even included the title of the next movie, sometimes incorrectly.
Admit it, though: Isn’t there something incredibly refreshing about all this? Especially in an era when every major blockbuster is part of a multipicture melodrama that seems to be collapsing under the strains of constant myth management, it feels downright liberating to have a series that seems like it’s now free to do whatever the hell it wants. It’s a cathartic rebuke to the nauseating, never-ending interconnectedness and self-referentiality of just about everything else.
There were occasional exceptions: Sean Connery spent the early scenes of Diamonds Are Forever avenging the death of George Lazenby’s wife, Roger Moore put flowers on her grave at the start of For Your Eyes Only, and her loss was even referenced in the opening of Timothy Dalton’s Licence to Kill. But by and large, the movies effectively reset themselves.
As has been noted before, Craig also seemed to come closest to Ian Fleming’s original idea for the character. “When I spoke about Bond with Fleming,” Connery recalled in a rather notorious Playboy interview back in 1965, “he said that when the character was conceived, Bond was a very simple, straightforward, blunt instrument of the police force, a functionary who would carry out his job rather doggedly.
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