RadixJournal - May 15, 2026


＂The B＊＊＊h is Dead Now＂

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James Bond Daniel Craig Roger Moore Larry Nelson Denis Villeneuve Barbara Broccoli Living Daylights Timothy Dalton Pierce Brosnan Mickey Mouse Danny Boyle Goldeneye Brosnan Disney Dalton
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The James Bond franchise is coming to an end and James Bond 007 is in need of a new James Bond director. Will Daniel Craig or Daniel Boyle be the next James Bond? Will it be directed by James Gray or Denis Villeneuve?

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00:00:00 But Danny Boyle, a very good filmmaker, and he was set to direct it.
00:00:07 And I think that from what I've gathered by reading reports is that he didn't want James Bond to die.
00:00:17 And Daniel Craig was ready for James Bond to die.
00:00:20 Daniel Craig had producing credits late into his tenure. 0.99
00:00:24 and eon that is everything or nothing the broccoli family were ready for him to die and all that kind
00:00:31 of stuff and uh danny boyle wasn't there so they left they departed amicably having creative
00:00:37 differences and um they brought in oh god i'm so bad with names right now i'm trying to explain
00:00:45 things and i'm just making it harder who directed no time to die carrie joji fukunaga um he
00:00:58 wrote the it movies and um he's an interesting filmmaker uh he also got me too'd or something
00:01:10 and there were some bad reports of him on set with no time to die but anyway carrie fukunaga
00:01:16 um i generally like him actually and i felt that no time to die was sort of the only way possible
00:01:28 to end the craig era or the best way possible let's say because he tied up all the threads
00:01:34 he made it all work somehow even though with sam mendez the whole thing was becoming very unwieldy
00:01:42 and a movie like specter maybe some good moments to be fair but it was a rather boring film and i
00:01:51 don't re-watch that and i uh am known to re-watch james bond movies so there you go there are a lot
00:01:58 of problems and i would i've re-watched no time did i more often than i've re-watched skyfall or
00:02:04 specter sam mendez's films i thought he did tie it up the action sequences were pretty awesome
00:02:11 and um some fun characters and i think that they just made it work and they brought a they brought
00:02:21 the whole story to a conclusion in a way a lot of bond fans don't like no time to die james bond can
00:02:27 never die what's going on here i did like it a lot of callbacks to older films uh again i well
00:02:35 directed great action sequences some interesting characters i i really liked the big bad is just
00:02:43 sort of like a almost austin powers like villain who just wanted to destroy the world i kind of got
00:02:48 into it interesting covid metaphor is all about disease and nanobots and whatever uh good i i
00:02:57 thought it was good uh but i i don't they they sort of painted themselves into a into a corner
00:03:06 of what can you do next and so eon was working with a number of ideas and a number of different
00:03:13 directors and they just couldn't crack the nut and the years were just going by it was 2025 and
00:03:20 they hadn't cracked the nut and amazon had reached a deal with eon earlier where they were they they
00:03:26 had the rights to stream all the james bond movies and sort of be a co-producer distributor for the 0.99
00:03:33 james bond movies and then they just got so sick of uh the broccolis that they were just like fuck
00:03:40 it we're going to throw a billion dollars and we get it we are going to produce this thing 0.93
00:03:45 and they are now in the process of finding the new James Bond they have hired Denis Villeneuve
00:03:53 to direct I thought that was interesting because you know Amazon is a streaming studio
00:04:01 and they have done some theatrical releases but it's all streaming and it's sort of sloppy
00:04:09 content if we're honest i mean yeah the jack reacher stuff is kind of fun but
00:04:16 not the deepest thing you could imagine and almost kind of conservative on some level but anyway
00:04:22 they are in search of the next bond uh the search for the next james bond is underway this is
00:04:28 quoting their press release well we don't plan to comment on specific details during the casting
00:04:33 process we're excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time is right and you have
00:04:40 people you know suggesting actors and so on um one thing that i noticed is that you know james bond
00:04:49 goes out of copyright uh 70 years after the death of the author and so you could get it renewed i
00:05:00 I know Disney did this with their properties many times,
00:05:04 but at some point it goes away.
00:05:05 And Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain.
00:05:09 And, you know, one of the most iconic characters everywhere.
00:05:12 But I think it's interesting to talk about my favorite bonds
00:05:17 and sort of where this whole thing could go.
00:05:22 You know, Craig followed the Dalton year,
00:05:27 not the um timothy dalton no the brosnan years of the 1990s and early 2000s and they had their
00:05:35 own legal dispute before brosnan came on board but those films were very successful they were
00:05:41 pretty relevant uh in their way people were talking about them and they successfully solved
00:05:50 what do we do with james bond after the cold war in golden eye they sent him back to russia but
00:05:56 it's like a post-Soviet Russia that's even more murky and dangerous than before and
00:06:02 although I do like Goldeneye and I think a lot of the other films the next two have their moments 0.89
00:06:11 I really don't like that era of James Bond at all and and I think Brosnan really set the tone I
00:06:20 think he was a very fake James Bond I don't think he's a good actor I don't think he has a great
00:06:25 presence it's very handsome but he looks to me like he's a male model playing james bond he
00:06:32 doesn't look like he's the actual guy like connery uh it's just something there's something
00:06:39 fake about it that has always bothered me and i don't like re-watching those movies i would much
00:06:45 rather watch some terrible movie like the man with the golden gun or diamonds are forever or
00:06:52 a classic Connery than I would want to rewatch a Brosnan film. GoldenEye may be an exception that
00:06:59 that is a fun romp, but I don't think there's a lot of there there. And they hit this point with
00:07:07 Die Another Day. It's easy to get all these titles mixed up, which is really one of the worst
00:07:14 films ever made. I think you could safely say that it was just CGI slop. He's windsurfing.
00:07:22 It's like a Marvel movie. It was the first Marvel movie. CGI, slop fest, totally just preposterous nonsense all over the place. And that was a success, financially speaking.
00:07:43 but to Barbara Broccoli's credit she recognized that something had really gone wrong and they
00:07:52 had to go back to basics and they brought in Craig and Casino Royale I can remember seeing it in the
00:07:59 theater I didn't quite know what to expect I was at Duke at the time and 20 years ago wow we should
00:08:08 do a retrospective on Casino Royale but I didn't really know what to expect and I had actually
00:08:17 walked out of Die Another Day uh I guess I was a bit of a snob even when I was in my early 20s I
00:08:24 just couldn't take it I thought it was a terrible film and it was an insult and I think after the
00:08:29 windsurfing I just walked out so I you know a new Bond movie let's see what happens uh it's been
00:08:35 four years that's enough time to sort of land and get your bearings and go in a new direction
00:08:43 and uh i was blown away by casino real i was really taken into it i've re-watched it so many
00:08:50 times and yeah it's a younger bond he's grounded you see him get his double o he has his first
00:08:57 kill and his second kill in the opening sequence and uh he's genuinely in love with vesper lind
00:09:05 they bought the rights to the book which they hadn't had that's why you had that crazy woody
00:09:10 allen spoof um they bought the rights to casino real and it it it made it work and and it is true
00:09:18 it's true to the book they extrapolated off the book quite a bit of course but uh bond is broken 0.99
00:09:26 by vesper lind and he sort of becomes the cold-hearted bastard after her death the bitch
00:09:33 is dead as he says to em and he moves on to another plane of existence and he is james bond 0.99
00:09:42 after that puppy love is squashed i thought that was a great move the problem they ran into with
00:09:50 craig is that you know james bond let me just read some of this
00:09:56 he talks about going after the hand
00:10:03 um
00:10:05 is this it yeah
00:10:16 he wants to um
00:10:20 he wants to go after the hand that holds the whip
00:10:31 yeah yeah it was the same with the whole russian machine fear was the impulse for them it was
00:10:42 always safer to advance and to retreat advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you
00:10:47 retreat evade betray and the bullet would never miss but now he would attack the arm that held 0.85
00:10:54 the whip and the gun the business of espionage could be left to the white collar boys they could 0.52
00:11:00 spy and catch the spies he would go after the threat behind the spies the threat that made them
00:11:07 spy the telephone rang and bond snatched up the receiver he was on to the link the outside liaison
00:11:14 officer who was the only man in london he might telephone from abroad then only in dire necessity
00:11:20 he spoke quietly into the receiver this is 007 speaking this is an open line it's an emergency
00:11:27 can you hear me pass this on at once 3030 was a double working for redland that was vesperland 0.99
00:11:37 yes damn it i said was the bitch is dead now oof it's great stuff 0.99
00:11:48 so he becomes the cold-hearted bastard and the sort of super spy now 1.00
00:11:55 james bond will get broken and he'll get depressed but he rises above it 0.97
00:12:01 the thing with daniel craig is that you have the death of vesper lynn and he just can't ever let
00:12:10 it go he never really becomes james bond it's almost like the first two films casino royale
00:12:18 and quantum of solace were this you know uh prelude prequel uh reboot of james bond but then
00:12:27 he never becomes James Bond and then four years later after Casino Royale was disappointing at
00:12:33 the box office and critically speaking they do Skyfall and he's already this old broken man
00:12:39 that's the conceit throughout the film you know you're a dinosaur uh you know MI6 we're we have a
00:12:47 DEI hire or we have a DEI counselor now we have an HR department here in MI6 you don't get it
00:12:54 So he just became this dinosaur.
00:12:56 He never became James Bond.
00:12:57 There was never a point where he was off on a mission, 1.00
00:13:03 you know, drinking drinks, banging bitches, 1.00
00:13:08 and killing bad guys and saving the world. 1.00
00:13:11 It's like they never allowed that to happen.
00:13:15 Craig was never James Bond.
00:13:17 He was being rebooted, and then he was a dinosaur
00:13:19 and too old to be James Bond.
00:13:21 it the whole craig era i mean i think there are a lot of good aspects to it and i like quantum of
00:13:29 solace even as a film maybe not a james bond film and i i definitely like casino real and i thought
00:13:36 no time to die was good i don't like skyfall or specter i don't like sam mendes actually
00:13:40 but there's a lot of good things about it but there was never a james bond movie it was all
00:13:48 about like becoming something never being that thing and then being outmoded and there was like
00:13:56 this inability to assert James Bondness which is a formula of Bond just romping around the world
00:14:06 kicking ass banging chicks having a good time doing it for England of course being a modern
00:14:16 playboy they they all all the things that connery and more etc could do they they could never 0.98
00:14:22 really assert and so the craig era is this like it's like hollow it's like a eggshell without
00:14:31 a yoke to if that's the right way of thinking about it there's no james bond in there there's
00:14:37 just sort of like this thing around it and i think there was a there are a lot of problems
00:14:43 with the Craig era in that way
00:14:45 and I don't know if you can even do James Bond
00:14:47 at this point
00:14:48 especially after the Craig era
00:14:51 but
00:14:54 I just went
00:14:57 through my own personal
00:14:59 lengths here
00:15:01 you know I was too young
00:15:05 to see Roger
00:15:07 Moore
00:15:08 in the theaters
00:15:10 um i was born in 1978 but i watched on vhs and when these movies were replayed i watched tons 0.95
00:15:18 of roger moore and i just loved him and yeah he's kind of silly and it's a bit ridiculous for this
00:15:25 somewhat you know hoity-toity uh elegant man to be getting into fistfights and winning and things
00:15:35 like that but i just liked him spy you love me man with the golden gun is a terrible film but
00:15:41 it's just really watchable in some weird way at least for me i love moonraker uh i love for your
00:15:49 eyes only which is a great film and that was sort of the back to basics you know let's let's really
00:15:58 ground bond again after moonraker and and octopussy and some other or octopussy was later
00:16:05 it was after moonraker let's ground bond again and even a view to a kill you know has a banging
00:16:12 theme song and great characters is it a great film of course not but there's just a lot there
00:16:19 and uh i think roger moore was the best one he captured something that wasn't really captured
00:16:26 with ian fleming and and that is the humor some humor in there with ian fleming but he leaned into
00:16:32 it maybe sean connery was the first one to lean into it uh in diamonds are forever that was sort
00:16:39 of the first roger moore film before roger moore but uh sean connery was phoning in his performances
00:16:47 roger moore never phoned in a performance roger moore was always committed to the bit
00:16:52 and i respect that i know sean connery is everyone who thinks when you think of james
00:17:00 von you just think of sean connery and he is really great and amazing um thunderball
00:17:06 you only live twice um diamonds are forever the guy is phoning in the performances
00:17:16 not definitely not in dr no not in from russia with love not in goldfinger those are he's
00:17:22 committed he's phoning it in he doesn't want to be there he was in all these legal disputes or
00:17:27 personal financial disputes with the producers he's phoning it in and i have to dock him on that
00:17:35 even though he is iconic i think timothy dalton is is criminally underrated
00:17:40 uh he grounded james bond again he based bond off the bond of the books
00:17:47 what he lacks in humor i think he makes up in ruthlessness and toughness he sort of is the
00:17:54 bad guy particularly in license to kill he's sort of playing the villain getting revenge
00:17:59 and uh but he is very handsome and you can believe him as a seducer and uh i think there's just a lot
00:18:08 of good things. I think Living Daylights has some flaws, but setting it in the Cold War with
00:18:15 assassins and a female assassin, he doesn't want to kill her, so he shoots her gun. There's just
00:18:21 a lot of great stuff that's Fleming-esque in those films, and I think he's very good. Lazenby
00:18:28 is in what many people consider to be the best James Bond movie. It's a contrarian choice, but
00:18:35 honor majesty majesty's secret service is a great film and has all the elements blofeld a great
00:18:42 villain skiing really just you know well well pre-cgi ski scenes um that are real um he's not
00:18:54 he's not quite the superman that roger moore was who can kind of do backflips and things like that
00:19:00 it's a real ski chase scene that's just fantastic um daniel craig i've already spoke about him i i
00:19:08 think there are some really good moments there uh i i think the whole daniel craig era is sort of
00:19:15 hollow on some level now barry nelson i put that in halfway as a joke uh so if anyone asks you
00:19:22 you know who is the first man to play bond on screen as a trivia question the sucker answer
00:19:28 is sean connery the real answer is barry nelson um barry nelson was of course more famous for
00:19:36 playing another character i'll show that to you um much more famous for paying the
00:19:46 creepy manager of the overlook hotel in the shining um but he actually was the first man
00:19:56 to play james bond uh pierce brosnan i've already mentioned i i just find him fake
00:20:02 um very handsome over acts in a way that's not believable like when he's he's distraught about
00:20:12 i don't know the his lover and uh what is the one um tomorrow never dies the world is not enough
00:20:22 is pretty good i agree with you the world is not enough is pretty good i agree with that
00:20:27 i actually think that might be better than golden eye golden eye in the world is not enough are
00:20:34 pretty good i like the female villain in the world is not enough in in the the other villain who's an
00:20:41 anarchist he says you know what do you stand for james bond the preservation of capital it was