No Time To Die: How James Bond's Retirement Plan Connects To GoldenEye
No Time To Die is the final installment of Daniel Craig's Bond tenure, with the agent's fleeting retirement at the start of the film providing a link to old-school Bond in GoldenEye. Like many previous installments, No Time To Die featured several nods to previous Bond movies, including perhaps most notably On Her Majesty's Secret Service. However, with the titular character's retirement plan, the movie also hinted at something beyond the world of the fictional super spy.
No Time To Die was released in 2021 and features the iconic agent having an early retirement at the beginning of the film. The retirement doesn't last long though, with Bond being dragged back into the world of espionage to confront his loved one's past. GoldenEye, however, was the 17th installment in the Bond franchise, starring Pierce Brosnan in his first appearance as the famous spy. Despite being released over 25 years before No Time To Die, the two Bond adventures have a bizarre link. This link comes from Bond's retirement in the latter, a link involving the author of the James Bond books, Ian Fleming.
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In No Time To Die, Bond retires towards the beginning of the film after believing his lover, Madeleine, betrayed him. In his apparent betrayal, Bond takes his leave from MI6 and lives in a villa in Jamaica, lacking the thrill of his previous life. It is in Bond's choice of country to retire in, that the connection with GoldenEye is found. Ian Fleming, the author of the franchise, built a house and estate on the site of an old donkey race track, naming the property Goldeneye. The estate was built on Oracabessa bay, on the northern coastline of Jamaica. The property is now used as
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