The last James Bond movie took a step that no previous film had made before when it actually went and killed off Daniel Craig’s Bond. It raises some potentially interesting questions regarding where the franchise will go from here, but director Martin Campbell, who has reinvented Bond not once but twice, says the simple fact that we know the franchise will continue means Bond’s death isn’t that big a deal.
While the Vegas odds on the next James Bond seem to be changing regularly if you’re going to put money down on who will direct the next installment of the James Bond franchise, you may want to bet on Martin Campbell, who directed the first installments for both Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. If he does happen to direct the next James Bond film and launches the franchise for a new actor, he tells Express that Craig’s on-screen death is not an issue. Because the next movie will simply ignore it and move on and nobody is going to care. He explained…
