So everyone is talking about if spectre is Craig’s last Bond movie because of the ending -you know, the unlikely heteroromance forged in 2-4 days driving to the sunset and all, but. Think about it. In the movie, Bond ends up leaving right? So in the next movie, following canon, he should be living family-style with Blondie girl whose name I can’t remember right now, far away from spy stuff.
But what happens with spectre??
It was not a tiny organization. It was not just one bad guy. There where lots of people in that meeting, and they all had plans and general evilness going on between them (note that they are actually reporting to each other before the main baddie walks into the room). Are we supposed to assume that they just stop trying to take over the world?? I don’t think so.
So, next movie: spectre is back, cause spectre is a group of people not just one guy and one main base.
Now, think about this spectre movie. Who was the one who ultimately destroyed spectre’s plans? Not the one that killed the main heads of the organization, but the one that directly stopped their plans. That wasn’t Bond, it was Q. Q with his glasses and his cats and his brilliant brain literally stopped single handily the work of the whole group. He, with his laptop, sitting at the back of a car, in what, and hour and something? So, who is the real threat to spectre’s plans? You guessed it.
Next movie: spectre takes an interest in Q. It might be them wanting to kill him, or get information about his coding, or maybe even trying to make him join them? (We could have some Q past there or something, so many possibilities)
BUT. THE MAIN THING. THE ACTUAL THING.
The first scenes. We can see Bond living his normal life (get something funny, having him doing common stuff. Make some easy comedy out of him trying to fit in the society as a normal guy), and everything is nice and good and Blondie is super happy and they have some fine sex life and blah blah blah. And when we all think he is happy, satisfied with his life, when he has fooled us just as he has fooled Blondie, we get a scene of him in the shadows, maybe getting out of bed at night, looking troubled, almost like he doesn’t know if he should do something. And then we see him taking a gun out of somewhere, and heading to the streets. Bar after bar, drink after drink, he deliberately insults someone until they fight him. (Maybe that someone was insulting another someone?) Time for some action -blood, shattered windows and that Bond mambo jambo, until he gets the gun out. Everyone freezes, and we see Bond hesitate for some long, tense seconds looking to the other man’s eyes (oh so poetic right?) before he lowers the gun and leaves the place.
Just establishing what everybody knew when the left the theatre: Bond can not have a life away from violence, playing the hero and the spy world cause that’s who he is.
Then, after some heartbreaking scene, or maybe some Blondie time, or anything really, just something that shows us how mistaken we where about his life for the first moments of the movie, enter a call:
“007, we need you”
“I’m not a 00 anymore, M.”
“You don’t understand, Bond. There’s-”
“I think the one who is not understanding is-”
“The got him. They have Q.”
BOOM. There you go, screen writers, your next draft of a plot. You are welcome.