Why did they have to make it a reboot?
For that reason, I don't really consider the Craig movies to be Bond movies.
shareI didn't tend to think of it as a reboot either, but I thought it was playing with the idea that James Bond was an alias for whomever was designated 007.
Judi Dench's M it's probably the biggest obstacle to thinking of it as a reboot. There seems to be continuity from her Brosnan films.
And the rest of the Craig movies work very hard to undo any doubt that his name is in fact Bond.
But how the first 15 or so movies could take place between Quantum and Skyfall- was there a second cold war? With no cell phones?
I guess reboot is the only thing that begins to make sense.
But it's not a problem for me. I gave up on Bond movies after License to Kill, and then again after Tomorrow Never Dies... Quantum was maybe an interesting bridge to an end of a Quantos trilogy- but instead we got Skyfall- which made me give up on Bond once again. And probably not for the last time.
But how the first 15 or so movies could take place between Quantum and Skyfall- was there a second cold war? With no cell phones?
James Bond has a floating timeline, like the Simpsons. The setting and time period changes, but the characters remain the same age.
It is true that chronologically Casino Royale could be the first entry in the James Bond story, with Quantum being the direct sequel, which leads into the broader Spectre story arc starting in Dr No —-> Die Another Day. Skyfall is the wrap-up culminating with M’s death.
The issue is really with Spectre (2015) which is what completely diverged from the timeline, with Blofeld meeting Bond for the first time even though they already met in You Only Live Twice, and Blofeld was killed off in For Your Eyes Only. In my own head-canon, Spectre and No Time to Die don’t exist, and the final James Bond story is Michael bay’s “The Rock”, with Bond faking his death and going off to rebuild a relationship with his estranged daughter. share