Judi Dench Says Craig Proposed Killing M — SkimNews
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- Judi Dench said Barbara Broccoli, Michael G Wilson and Sam Mendes told her at the Wolseley restaurant that M would be killed in “Skyfall”; Daniel Craig was not at that meeting.
- Judi Dench denied press reports that she cried when she was replaced, noting that she had completed “20 glorious years and eight Bond films,” one more than Roger Moore.
- Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It? attributes M’s planned death to “Apparently, Daniel’s idea,” while recording that Craig was absent from the meeting where Dench was told.
- Daniel Craig said he asked Barbara Broccoli at the 2006 Berlin premiere of “Casino Royale,” “Can I kill him off at the end of the fourth one, please?”
- No Time to Die ended with Bond being exploded in a hail of missile fire, delivering the fourth-film death Craig said he had requested.
Why it matters: The memoir reframes Craig as an active iconoclast: he proposed M’s exit after Dench’s 20-year, eight-film run and asked to kill Bond at the end of his fourth film. That creates the difficult precedent the source identifies for the next Bond actor: the predecessor eliminated both the franchise’s star and Dench’s M.
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