The 25th film featuring the adventures of secret agent James Bond, but also the last one who see Daniel Craig carry the famous tuxedo, was released in 2021.
James Bond: Die can wait is the 25th franchise film. This feature film is above all an opportunity for Daniel Craig to say goodbye to the character of Ian Flemingwhich he has embodied since 2006. This action film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, is thus the end of the intrigue which started with Casino Royale. We find James Bond, who retired from the MI6, forced to resume the tuxedo of secret agent when a scientist with formidable technology is kidnapped … is it guilty, or a new villain go Does it give a hard time to 007?
The final of a James Bond film will rarely have surprised the spectators as much as that of Dying can wait. The action blockbuster, released on October 6, 2021 in France, is full of twists and turns that did not fail to question the fans of Ian Fleming’s work. Will the last minutes of the blockbuster have consequences on the future of the James Bond franchise?
Despite the final, the producers of the franchise have been looking for their new James Bond since 2022. Several names have been put forward to succeed in succeeding Daniel Craigbut none was confirmed at the beginning of 2025: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Josh O’Connor, Taron Egerton, Tom Hardy, James Norton, Henry Cavill or Lucien Laviscount were all mentioned, but nothing has still been announced. The producers, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, made known their intention to reinvent the saga. However, he will indeed be a man “British, whatever his ethnicity or his origin” who will play the title role: “It is better to create adapted roles for women and not simply make them play male roles”, had advanced Barbara Broccoli in the podcast girl on film.
The next James Bond takes time to succeed
In September 2022, there was still no scenario. At the microphone of Deadline, the producer announced that she wanted to “reinvent bond”, “and that takes time”. But, according to an article in Wall Street Journal Dating from December 2024, “great artistic differences” between the Amazon/MGM studio (which wishes to develop an “universe extended to the Marvel” with series and spin-offs) and the company of Barbara Broccoli (which prefers to put the ‘ Accent to the cinematographic saga as it was done in the past) would have put the advance of the project at the end.
From then on, we can only lend ourselves to the game of speculation and hypotheses on what the next James Bond films reserve. One can imagine that, each cycle offering a different actor and distinct intrigue, the final of Dying can wait will have no impact on the coming era: we make a clean sweep of the past and we start again to zero, without worrying about what the previous film implies. Daniel Craig himself explained it toYears The Best of TODAY PODCAST BBC Radio 4, reported by Variety: “I said to Barbara a long time ago, in 2006: ‘If I make all these films and we succeed, can we kill him?’ And she replied: ‘Yes, we can’. had the chance to reinvent themselves with that because they have returned at the start.
One can also imagine that the license will offer a new version of James Bond: after a Daniel Craig Brut, sentimental, dark and mature (in his emotional journey), it would seem that the franchise could be oriented towards a younger james, This would open the door to a multitude of intrigue, such as the beginnings of the British secret agent within the MI6.
Synopsis – While he withdrew to live a better life in Jamaica, James Bond’s rest is finally shortened when an old CIA friend, Felix Leiter, comes to ask for help in order to release a Kidnapped scientist. The mission is however much more perilous than Bond thought at the start and, on his way, he will cross an enemy with particularly dangerous technologies.
During the French release of Dying can wait On October 6, 2021, criticisms were divided. If English speakers say they are generally conquered, the French press is much more mixed. All agree to deplore the duration of the feature film (2h43), giving way to many lengths. First considers that the last James Bond does not manage to “remain distracting for 2:43. On this point, it is clearly missed.” The quality of the plot is often flayed by French critics, as the world who judges ” The lazy scenario “for” a failed film “. The Parisian will stick to “” huge surprises and a little disappointment “, accusing the realization of not showing” no originality and [d’être] of total flatness “. The point also judges that dying can wait” misses his target “, even if the film” corrects the shot “after” the mediocre 007 spectrum “, while the obs qualifies the film as Action of “James Bond for Dummies”.
Critics on the last James Bond are not all negative, however, and fortunately! RTL greets a “funny james leap, funny and full of first times”. The media assures him, dying can wait is a good film of the franchise, although it is not “the best James Bond in history”, nor “the best James Ond de l’era Craig”. The media thus praises surprises in the plot, especially in the final, which humanizes the hero like never. Same bell sound on the wide screen side that salutes the ambition of the blockbuster: “The saga finally dares everything. This final bouquet takes just like a wave, with an intensity that crushes the defects of the film”. For Télérama, dying can wait “rehashing the past to make it a clean sweep”, which is both “the limit and the audacity of this conclusion, whose melancholic apotheosis confirms how the Craig cycle has generated its own DNA. French spectators, now, have their own opinion on the last James Bond.
The James Bond license always offers impressive castings. No time to die alias die may wait does not derogate from the rule. This is the last episode in which Daniel Craig camps the spy. For the occasion, certain actors already seen in Specter as Léa Seydoux And Christoph Waltz are back. Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw as well as Naomie Harris resume their respective roles within the MI6: M, Q and Moneypenny. Other actors also come to garnish the ranks of this four -star cast. Among them: Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody), Ana de Armas (Blade Runner 2049) or Lashana Lynch to whom rumors promise a great future in the saga.
The James Bond Girl has almost become a trademark of films featuring 007. If at the time of the first feature films, he defined the only female character in history, often an object woman who fell into the arms From the secret agent, his image to a little changed as the franchise has modernized. Now, James Bond Girl is a woman of action, often falling under the spell of the British spy. Better still, it has become more difficult to put your finger on a “James Bond Girl” since the female characters have diversified. The term almost seems to have become obsolete.
Difficult therefore to really designate a James Bond Girl in Die can wait. Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux) lives a romance again with James Bond, while Paloma (Ana de Armas), if she seems to correspond more to the “codes” of the James Bond Girl, proves that she knows perfectly well, just like That 007. Better still, Nomi (Lashana Lynch) now carries the number 00, equal to 100% James Bond. If there are James Bond Girl in Die can wait, it seems assured that they are no longer like the first films of the saga released in the 1960s.
Created in 1953 by the novelist Ian Fleming, the spy James Bond was staged in many novels but also many films. If, in most of them, the 007 agent has made death many times, he has never been killed both in Bondian literature and in the entire saga discovered by amateurs in the cinema.