Such difficulties undoubtedly affected the creative direction of Spectre, more so than the absence of Bond’s most well-known adversaries had ever bothered them before the rights situation was ironed out. Ultimately, the brain behind this shadowy cabal turns out to have a very close connection to Bond himself.Ĭoming after the billion-dollar box-office success of Skyfall, this is a transparent effort to capture that same effect, but despite a slightly longer than intended gap between the films, this outing had a revolving door of writers, budget disputes between Sony and Eon, and other disruptions over the course of development and production.
While the new M lobbies for the continued relevance of spies, 007 races off in pursuit of a rare lead about the organisation behind all of his most recent scrapes. As discussed in our Skyfall retrospective, returning director Sam Mendes wilfully puts the franchise in reverse, but for this sequel, it’s tough to overstate the impact of Eon Productions settling a 50-year legal battle with Kevin McClory’s estate when they did, because they bring Blofeld and SPECTRE back in the very next outing.Īfter a messy off-the-books assignment in Mexico City, Bond finds his job under threat by an impending merger between MI5 and MI6. The meteor that’s been headed for the Daniel Craig era all along has a name, and it’s Ernst Stavro Blofeld. However, some of us are still left scratching our heads about the way in which the film imposes continuity upon a franchise once defined by standalone adventures. In the seven years since the film hit cinemas, the reassessment of Spectre has happened fairly quickly because it was “the most recent James Bond movie” for longer than any film that wasn’t eventually followed by a reboot.
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