The connecting threads in the Craig films are hair-thin, and hadn't been planned out beforehand. Casino Royale felt like it was begging to be the start of a grander story, showing Bond just starting out, his career's greatest emotional trauma, and with quite a serpentine ending that leaves some clear breadcrumbs for the series to pick up.īut they didn't fully commit. It's unique (or was until recently) in being a film series that's virtually guaranteed to keep going, so it presents an opportunity to perform some long-form storytelling that the constraints of cinema don't usually allow for. Yup, and a connected Bond series is a good idea with potential.
