No Time to Die Writer Shares Wild James Bond Cloning Pitch

No Time to Die Writer Shares Wild James Bond Cloning Pitch

007 screenwriter Robert Wade shares a wild idea for how the franchise can continue in the wake of No Time to Die’s ending: cloning James Bond.

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No Time to Die Writer Shares Wild James Bond Cloning Pitch

No Time To Die writer Robert Wade shares a wild James Bond cloning pitch. Fifteen years after his first portrayal of the character in 2006’s Casino Royale, Daniel Craig finally said goodbye to his career-defining role as Ian Fleming’s iconic MI6 super-spy in No Time to Die. The 25th film in Eon Productions’ long-running series debuted in the United States on October 8 and recently passed F9 as the highest-grossing movie to come out of Hollywood during the pandemic era.

Set five years after the events of 2015’s Spectre, No Time to Die finds Bond in retirement from MI6 service, though he is pulled back into the action by an old friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), and his colleague Logan Ash (Billy Magnussen), who implore Bond to find a kidnapped scientist responsible for developing a dangerous nanoweapon. The film’s inciting incident sets Bond on a collision course with eco-terrorist Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek) who has ties to Bond’s love interest Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux). No Time to Die’s ending shocked many, as it made the unprecedented move of killing off the franchise’s main character.

Now, during an appearance on the official No Time to Die podcast, the film’s co-writer Robert Wade shared a wild idea for how the franchise can bring Bond back: cloning. Wade even cited a quote from Casino Royale’s Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) that could support his wild pitch. Read what he had to say below:

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I think the clues are clearly there in Casino Royale, when [Vesper] says, “I love you, even if all that was left of you was your little finger.” That’s my theory. That’s all that’s left of [Bond] and then they clone him from that little finger.

Craig Bond’s being blown up at the end of No Time to Die coupled with the film’s post-credits promise that James Bond will return was puzzling for some. Though the franchise will likely reboot the continuity with another actor like it has many times before, Wade’s idea is far more interesting as it allows them to build on the continuity of the beloved Craig era while still casting a new actor, using some imprecision in the cloning process as the reason for why Bond now looks different.

Wade and his screenwriting partner Neal Purvis have penned every Bond movie since 1999’s The World is Not Enough, so they will more than likely be asked back for the 26th film. While the franchise has incorporated plenty of sci-fi elements in the past, cloning Bond with nothing but his finger might be a little too implausible for the current iteration. Instead, a full-on reboot is the likeliest path the Bond franchise will take in the wake of No Time to Die’s ending.

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