![]() Bond stays behind to open a bunch of missile silos so that the Brits can blow the place to smithereens, only to encounter Safin on his way out. ![]() With the help of another 00 agent, Nomi (Lashana Lynch), Bond gets Madeleine and their daughter off the island. He wants to use the poisons to target specific people and throw the world into chaos for vague bad-guy reasons. If the targeted person is exposed to that poison, they will die, even though the carrier of the toxin will remain unharmed. Safin is mass-producing a bioweapon, a poison that is programmed to people’s specific DNA. Predictably, the movie’s villain, Safin (Rami Malek) kidnaps Madeleine and the child and takes them to his lair, an island where he harvests a bunch of different poisons because, well, he’s a creepy Bond villain. Madeleine will, of course, later in the movie confess that his suspicions are well-founded. As Bond points out, they share the same intense blue eyes. Madeleine claims the child is not Bond’s. Maybe they should keep better track of his possible offspring, who would be obvious targets for kidnapping?) A dozen megalomaniacs have vendettas against Bond at this point. (MI6 apparently did not know about this child, which makes one seriously question the abilities of the Brits to gather intelligence. He then heads to a remote island to live out his retirement in teeny, tiny swim trunks.įive years later, Bond is dragged back into the spy game and collides with none other than Madeleine, who is now working as a therapist for MI6. A wounded Bond kills the bad guys and puts Madeleine on a train, planning to never see her again. During a fight scene, one such thug insinuates that Madeleine betrayed him-just like Vesper had. Everything is connected, alas.īond, of course, escapes the explosion relatively unscathed only to be greeted by the aforementioned goons. In 2015’s Spectre, 007 finally finds Blofeld and learns that this man was in fact the “architect” of all of Bond’s pain throughout the entire movie series. ![]() In the final scene of Casino Royale, Bond begins his journey to discovering the man responsible for Vesper’s betrayal and death, and subsequent movies follow him down the rabbit hole of exposing the evil organization Spectre and its leader, Ernst Blofeld (Christoph Waltz). At their behest, she worked to entrap Bond but later sacrificed her life in order to save his. That film ends with the revelation that Bond’s first true love, Vesper, was being blackmailed by a villainous figure. That refusal to establish Bond film continuity changed in a big way with Casino Royale (2006), the first to star Daniel Craig in its title role. Even when Bond hunts down Blofeld, the man he presumably holds responsible for his wife’s death, he never even mentions Tracy’s name. Even when Bond’s wife was murdered on their wedding day in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), she’s never even mentioned in the film’s sequel, Diamonds Are Forever (1971). The next movie may star the same actor or a different one, but rarely does anything of real consequence-romances, villainous encounters-carry over from film to film. Bond movies usually end with the successful destruction of a villain’s lair, and the camera panning away as the hero beds a Bond girl-on a boat, in space, on a balcony, often with his would-be rescuers looking on. The “Bond handset” that Nokia phone maker HMD Global is pushing is instead the Nokia XR20, the company’s 2021 flagship and a phone that No Time To Die star Lashana Lynch, who plays 00 agent Nomi, can be seen using in this promotional video.In the franchise’s storied 58-year history, 007 has never actually died. The smartphones spotted in the movie’s trailers, the Nokia 7.2 and 8.3 5G, are no longer current – in fact, they aren’t even on the Nokia UK website right now. They understandably wanted their current products rather than last year’s in the hands of the film’s stars, which according to the report has led to costly re-editing (or possibly even some re-shooting) of scenes that has, ironically, led to a further delay to the film’s release. These delays would have led to the gadgets on show in the movie being out of date by the time the film finally came out, and brands like HMD Global weren’t happy about it. Originally scheduled for a November 2019 release, it’s well known that the film has slipped several times due to the departure of original director Danny Boyle and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. According to a report in The Sun, tech may be among the reasons for No Time To Die‘s repeated release date delays.
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