If you don't like this interpretation, I don't see any way the series will be able to catch your attention. Don't worry, they'll do a new version of the character in ten or so years, perhaps less. And with
Star Trek fueling a wave of nostalgia for the 1960s, it might be more to your liking.
You better fracking hope not, because if that happens, the Bond franchise is finished. That previous approach almost killed it dead like people say B&B killed Star Trek dead.
Bond is supposed to be a
serious agent, not a leering, quiping goofball who's involved in shitty stunts and little else. The two movies have got him back on track, and yet people want back what killed it in the first place? Sorry, but if people want that, they've got the movies on DVD that they can see.
I'm predicting that if reaction to the next Bond is down significantly, showing people's disinterest in proto-Bond that they might rethink the direction. Especially if the story continues in this very non-Bond fashion.
We are Bond fans, we'd like a Bond movie. When I want to see Bourne I'll page Mr.Damon.
Excuse me, but if you've read the Bond novels, you'll see that what happens in the last two movies is what makes Bond Bond. Fleming didn't write in poppycock like cars with ejector seats (the only gadgets in the Mercedes
V-5 that Bond drives in the
Goldfinger novel is a set of changeable colour headlights and a gray paint job so as not to stand out, a homing receiver that picks up a homing bug, reinforced bumpers aft and rear, and
extra cargo space-nothing else!), gun and grenade pens, universal locks with exploding keychain fobs, and all the other stuff that we've seen in the movie series.
What we need are adaptations of the most recent Bond novels:
1981 Licence Renewed
1982 For Special Services
1983 Icebreaker
1984 Role of Honour
1986 Nobody Lives For Ever
1987 No Deals, Mr. Bond
1988 Scorpius
1989 Win, Lose Or Die
1990 Brokenclaw
1991 The Man from Barbarossa
1992 Death Is Forever
1993 Never Send Flowers
1994 SeaFire
1996 COLD
1997 Zero Minus Ten
1998 The Facts of Death
1999 High Time to Kill
2000 Doubleshot
2001 Never Dream of Dying
2002 The Man with the Red Tattoo
All of these are great stories, and in most cases are a heck of a lot better than the last two Brosnan Bonds; they also fit the style of the Craig Bonds quite well.