Skyfall took James Bond to new heights, grossing $1.1 billion worldwide to become the most successful 007 installment in history. The 2012 blockbuster killed off Bond’s boss, M (Judi Dench), and found Her Majesty’s most deadly secret servant (Daniel Craig) struggling to stay relevant in a post-spy world. But returning director Sam Mendes can only see that film in terms of unfinished business. “Bond has been rebooted at the end of the movie,” Mendes says. “This is only the beginning of the story.”
Spectre provides a kind of culmination to the three previous films while developing a backstory that’s been largely unexplored until now. “The Bond creation myth never happened,” Mendes says. “I felt there was an opportunity there: What made him? And who were the people who affected him along the way? You’re sort of telling the story backwards of how Bond became Bond.”
James Bond finally gets the origin story we’ve been waiting for in ‘Spectre’
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If you want Bond’s backstory, read ‘You Only Live Twice’. After Bond’s faked death, there’s an obituary printed in The Times, which gives his family history
A lot of which is in the SPECTRE trailer…
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Who’s “we” you got a mouse in your pocket?
Bond made it 50 years worth of films with only minimal talk about his past most of which coming from Skyfall & even that just felt straight up lifted from The Dark Knight (Sam Mendes has said TDK was a huge influence and it shows with Bond Manor, Alfred 2.0, the Bond Cave and Gay-Joker complete with his “I planned my impossible-to-plan escape from prison”).
It’ll be interesting to see but people haven’t been “waiting” for it.
