James Bond 26 Needs To Bring Back The Franchise’s Best Villain Twist
The James Bond franchise has revealed that earlier villains used to work for Bond’s employer MI6 more than once, and the twist deserves to make a comeback in Bond 26. Now that Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond has ended, the series needs to recapture its sense of fun and adventure. No Time To Die’s Paloma proved the franchise can balance grounded action with fun, escapist elements, something that Bond badly needs after the self-serious tone of earlier Craig outings. Reintroducing an established and successful twist formula is the perfect way to do this.
Fortunately, this is not the first time that 007 has needed a tonal makeover between franchise installments. There are a pair of earlier Bond movies that used a familiar twist to reignite interest in the character and both succeeded, meaning that the charismatic super-spy’s next screen outing should do the same. Both Skyfall and Goldeneye, the two earlier Bond movies that revealed that their villains were former allies of Bond’s employers, did not have much else in common in terms of tone or style. However, their enduring respective legacies prove just how effective the technique can be.
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While the revelation may be familiar, its execution can still be novel, fun, and engaging for fans of the Bond franchise. The recurring trope of classic campy Bond villains secretly being former MI6 operatives is a twist that interrogates the ethics of 007’s work and is a reveal that has turned Bond’s world around both times that it occurred in the series so far. As such, there’s no better way to introduce a new Bond than by bringing back this twist. Furthermore, thanks to this device, both Goldeneye and, to
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