Id love to see a remake of No Time To Die where Daniel Craig doesn’t die but is for the sake of MI6 Alive and Well Well Because He Is MI6 and a legend!!! 
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I think it best they completed the circle that began with ‘Casino Royale’ - Bond becomes 007, goes through his missions and stories, then it ends for Daniel Craig’s Bond on that awful island. Craig is only a year younger than myself - I retired and if he’d been ‘On the job’ he’d have to retire at fifty anyway. I loved his films, but time now for a fresh start with a new, younger 007!
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But shouldn’t he first undergo an some kind of initiation ceremony, namely watching DAF so often that it becomes his favorite Bond film and of course wearing a pink tie for a whole year. 
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I draw the line at Mauve. Fine with DAF, prefer ‘Golden Gun’ though!
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I think NTTD handled this believably. When Bond returned to MI6 he wasn’t made a big fuss of. He did the “Bond. James Bond” line and it didn’t register how it usually does. Time and tide wait for no man, and for others he’s become just another guy.
When operators retire they’re on their own and the system goes on because it has to. Individual agents may be considered legendary but they only really mean something to their inner circle. For Bond that was Moneypenny, Q, Tanner and M. They had to endure when Bond retired the first time, and they’d do so again after his retirement became permanent.
Absolutely. Welcome to the forum, I’ve been enjoying your posts.
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A remake of NTTD would be something interesting for someone to tackle in a fan fiction project or something like that. The amount of potential that was there that was just thrown away by the filmmakers is quite frankly just astounding. And for it to follow so long after its predecessor and yet, with all of that time to learn from the mistakes they made with Spectre and improve upon them, that they made a film that is almost as bad as Spectre is actually, on some level, quite impressive.
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I think “bad” is a bit harsh but it went all downhill after QoS…like i said (countless times now 
) they missed a big opportunity when they didn´t follow the ending of QoS (I need you back…I never left) with a film where Bond is actually working for MI6 without the going rogue BS
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Since the 90s, Bond doesn’t really work so much for MI6 as much as he just kind of hangs around at their offices and then goes off and does his own thing. EON has made this so much a part of what Bond is over the past three decades that it really is what Bond is at this point.
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Isn’t that what the very next movie was? How was he going rogue in Skyfall?
M sent him to find Patrice, “terminate him for Ronson”, and find who had the list, and the rest of the film was him doing exactly that…
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Yes, except the part where he didn´t go to work for a year playing dead…and the home alone part in Scotland…
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I just don’t consider either of those examples of Bond “going rogue” (in neither case is he acting against orders), but it’s certainly fair enough if you do.
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Who hasn’t played dead and hidden in Scotland? Ok, I haven’t either… 
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The problem is MI6 - UK-SIS as it’s been known for DECADES, isn’t what you see on the screen, or even in the books. There is no job that closely matches our idea of Bond; the only time Intelligence Branch officers fire a weapon is on the IONEC (Intelligence Officers’ New Entry Course) at the Service’s training facility near Portsmouth. If any triggers do need to be pulled, either HM Forces or personnel formerly associated with them are tasked, working to the MOD nominally, yet under ‘MI6’ control in practical terms (And sometimes friendly nations such as the USA supply the heavies) So! After all that old waffle, the MI6 on screen can’t be remotely realistic - it could be argued the last time Bond does any proper spying was in ‘From Russia With Love’ - And he’s always being ‘parachuted’ into jobs after a quick squizz at a folder and a bit of ‘bants’ with MoneyPenny. Officers spend months - even years preparing for a single operation, often with support from the aforementioned Military. Plus, a lone Brit saving the World? In the days of CIA spends in the billions of Dollars? My ‘solution’ to the whole ‘authenticity’ area is to start afresh; having the next Bond join the ‘standard’ MI6, before being talent spotted and recruited to a shadowy arm that’s a secret even to ‘Vauxhall Cross’ and with Carte Blanche to conduct ‘NOISY’ jobs. I had an idea where Bond is sat there, p*ssed off and bored as you all are reading this drivel, considering a new career at his drab desk when he’s ‘invited’ to an old, apparently abandoned RAF base. In the bunkers? Stacks of old files and old kit (The Acrostar from ‘Octopussy’ is not optional here!) and the curmudgeonly old caretaker at the gate turns out to be ‘M’. Bond is shown the remnants of an old, discontinued outfit called - ooh, let’s think… The Double-O Section! And so forth… thoughts?
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