I don’t believe so. Bond could retire, he could get promoted, he could continue as normal. I think it’s more that the entire production for No Time to Die was under the understanding that it was Craig’s final film. Die Another Day wasn’t meant to be Brosnan’s last. Licence to Kill wasn’t meant to be Dalton’s last. I’m not even sure A View to a Kill was expected to be Moore’s last. I think it was just clear Moore was done after that one
No. They should have done the YOLT ending, not using the nanovirus at all.
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You may be looking at it from the wrong end. From Connery to Brosnan the actors didn’t have a definite end to their tenure because Bond was considered to go on. They were not ‘tenures’ in the sense that actors were introduced with a huge shift from their predecessors; to the contrary, they tried to play their first films as if nothing much had happened*.
*Lazenby’s line notwithstanding.
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They did. James Bond on an island, presumed dead.
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Next we learn not only that he did survive, but also that Q had a new secret weapon, one that emits something like an EMP beam and kills all nanobots around, which he fired along with the missile attack. Bond survives, nanobots are gone, but he suffers from amnesia, and his face is badly injured (yadda yadda). He is saved by those local servant people who leave the island and take him to their home in Vladivostok.
And then we actually have Bond inside enemy Russia and take it from there to TMWTGG (just this time, he succeeds in killing M, because it turns out that he really had been with the bad guys all the time). Such a shame that Javier Bardem has already been used, he would have been a great Scaramanga.
You read it here first. 
Perhaps we should start a thread in which we write down the silliest ideas and plot twists and story lines, the ones we never ever want to happen in a Bond film – and then they can’t use them any more because someone wrote them up on the interweb. 
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No.
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Love it!
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There are fates worse than death, evidently.
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Losing the toupet so the world will know that he’s been bald for years?
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Maybe that ship did just end up going around in circles…
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This is the reason Sneider warned about ‘shortlists’…
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Amazing, Jacob Elordi, Tom Holland and Harris Dickinson for comment. Amazon declined to comment when contacted by Variety.
Sensible step to contact Amazing after Amazon declined to respond. 
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Oh, we’re here again.
Clive Owen was such a good Bond.
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Gerard Butler. Eric Bana. And let’s not forget the spectacular success Hugh Grant and Orlando Bloom had as 007.
At. The same. Time.
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Robbie. Williams. 
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Here we see why the tabloid trash industry is so fond of the scheme: one BS starter ‘report’ generates literally unlimited follow-ups to fill columns and feed the clickbait mincer with reactions, comments, no-comments, outrage, bookie responses, speculations, ‘candidates’ taking themselves out/in, confidential/exclusive/sensational reveals so on so forth…
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The headline - naturally - makes this sound like a much more probable thing than it actually is. Then again, there’s no way to tell what Amazon is prepared to do to drum up the necessary media presence…
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He‘s a PR pro.
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They should hire him for brief stint in the role. It would both serve as a palette cleanser from Bond’s death as well as allow Amazon to get their feet wet with how to make a Bond film on their own before setting on out on what will surely be a new, fully rebooted Bond franchise.
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Putting Brosnan in a new Bond movie would give credence to the code name theory (oh, NOOO) or distract from the new 007.
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We’ll go there, anyway. Amazon is going to see it as the easiest way… 
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Isn’t he about 80?
Ultimate in stunt casting, which is not a Spoonerism. Honest.
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