This question has been bugging me ever since Casino Royale. I know that (CR)is a prequal to the James Bond series, but Judi played the charachter of M in the Brosnan films,now is she supposed to be the same M or a cousin of that charachter?
shareI've wondered that as well, but don't have an answer. Instead, I'm content to enjoy the movies for their entertainment value and the opportunity to see some of my favorite actors/actresses ply their craft. Others will disagree with me, but I enjoy Judi's portrayal as M, and can't wait to see her in the next Bond film.
sharehere too, Daniel Craig is actually a decent Bond, way better than Daulton, but Connery was the absolute tops
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Bond has no linear progression, the main reason why he's never got old. Therefore it doesn't matter. She is M, he is Bond. Save Daniel Craig's bonds, and OHMSS and octopussy? (where Roger lays flowers on the grave of his dead wife) no bond even acknowledges the others existence. The missions don't follow on from each other in any order, or anything like that. It's just a set of characters, inserted into stories. Dench's M is the same M as all the other Ms like Brosnan's bond is the same as Connery's/Moore's/Dalton's/Lazenby's/Craig's etc.
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Well I think that Casino Royale isn't REALLY a prequel to the other movies, it's more of a reboot. So this is a different Bond.
shareActually jamesbeedie1, plenty of Bond films reference one another, for example:
-it was in Die Another Day I think that Bond looks at old gadgets he's used and remembers them fondly.
-At the beginning of Thunderball, Bond uses gadgets he received during Goldfinger.
-In Live And Let Die, Bond teams up with the son of a character he met in Dr. No.
-In From Russia With Love, SPECTRE is angry that Bond killed one of their agents in Dr. No, and thus want to kill him.
-Bond's rivalry with SPECTRE and main man Blofeld continues over several films.
-Then there's recurring characters other than M, Q, Moneypenny and other MI6 personnel, thus clearly acknowledging their introduction in previous films, such as Felix Leiter, General Gogol, J.W. Pepper, Jack Wade, Valentin Zukowsky, Sylvia Trench and Jaws.
And acefilm1, no it's not a different Bond. This is just like the Jack Ryan movie The Sum Of All Fears. It's happening before (the stories of the other films) but it's happening after (in terms of "time"), and one just has to get over that.
Drop it like it's legal precedent!
Well, if it takes place before 1962, then why are there so much super-high-tech gear like GPS, Security Cameras, Cell Phones (Look closely at James cell phone, it even says 2006.)
I think Dr. No-Die Another Day has one timeline, and the Craig timeline is of a new one, with it's own canon.