The trailer for the 25th James Bond film launched yesterday and caused quite a stir, mainly due to how good it looked.
Following the merely okay Spectre in 2015, there’s been a lot of false starts on what is widely believed to be Daniel Craig’s final 007 adventure, but this looks like they finally got it right. The exciting behind the scenes duo of True Detective’s Cary Joji Fukunaga and Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge seem to have crafted a story and film that look interesting and stylish.
Judging from the trailer, Bond’s life is flipped upside down by an apparent betrayal of his wife Madeline, leading him to reunite with Jeffrey Wright’s Felix, the usual MI5 team, and Christoph Waltz’s Blofeld, and to cross paths with Lashana Lynch’s 007, rising star Ana De Armas’ Pamela, and Rami Malek’s villain.
We have no real idea how all these events link together, but what this trailer does tell us is that despite the many question marks and attempts from others to rip it off, Bond is still relevant and it looks like the best ever James Bond may have a worthy swansong.
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