The Daniel Craig Bond Movies

Daniel Craig has now impersonated the famous secret agent five times. With him, the James Bond series was relaunched in 2006, as the film Casino Royale was intended to explain how Bond became what he is today: a cold-blooded double-O agent with the license to kill. The film also strongly oriented itself on the first Bond novel with the same title published by Ian Fleming in 1953. In contrast to all other Fleming books, this material had not yet been filmed. But since there are now more films than novels about our hero, the relationship with his creator is no longer so strong. The following three Craig Bond films therefore follow their own stories, among which Quantum of Solace stands out. With a length of 106 minutes, it is not only the shortest, but also immediately continues the story of its predecessor. In the films Skyfall and Spectre that follow, there are also repeated references to these first two Craig Bonds, so that an overarching action is created (Figure 2.1).