No Time to Die Easter Egg Revealed Bond's Fate In First Scene
Warning: Spoilers ahead for No Time To Die.
No Time To Die director Cary Joji Fukunaga reveals that there is an Easter egg in one of the movie's first scenes that gives away James Bond's fate. Released last October after numerous COVID-related delays, No Time To Die marked the last appearance of Daniel Craig as Bond. The film received mostly positive reviews from both audiences and critics and performed well at the box office, earning over $774 million worldwide.
No Time To Die is the first Bond film to be directed by an American, but, more significantly, it's also the first to feature the character dying at the end. After becoming infected with Safin's (Rami Malek) nanobot plague, Bond opts to stay put on the villain's island lair as a hail of missiles rain down from the sky and obliterate the entire compound, Bond included. 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have confirmed that the search for a new James Bond will begin at some point this year, but at the moment, what the future holds for the British superspy is entirely up in the air.
In a new interview with Variety, Fukunaga reveals that Bond's death is actually foreshadowed in an Easter egg at the very beginning of the film. During his visit to Matera, Italy to pay respects at Vesper Lynd's grave, two skeletons carved into the stone hold a Latin note that reads: "What you are I once was, and what I am, he will become." Check out Fukunaga's full comment regarding the Easter egg below:
There’s even a really important Easter egg on that tomb Bond visits in Matera. Over Vesper’s grave — we never make a big deal of it, there’s no focus on it, but for anyone who goes back — two skeletons are holding up a banner carved in stone. It’s a Latin phrase that Mark and I had seen on the main basilica where the bridge is located. The phrase says, 'What you are I once was, and what I am, he will become.' So it was written in the beginning.
As Fukunaga explains, the scene in the movie doesn't draw any attention to the sign and it's only shown once in a wide shot of Bond standing at Vesper's grave. While a small percentage of eagle-eyed viewers (who know Latin) may have spotted and deciphered the Easter egg, it seems that the vast majority of people didn’t even notice. The inclusion of the Latin inscription demonstrates Fukunaga's attention to detail in No Time To Die and the attempts to make a full circle of Bond's story that was started back in Casino Royale.
While not noticing the Easter egg doesn't take anything away from the experience of watching No Time To Die, the Latin inscription's inclusion does serve as a reminder on repeat viewings of Bond's inevitable fate. The character has cheated death so many times over the course of the franchise that his demise at the end of No Time To Die introduced a finality to Craig's era that no other Bond has ever had. Although Fukunaga doesn't reveal if there are any other Easter eggs in No Time To Die, fans are sure to pay closer attention the next time they watch the movie in order to spot any additional hidden details he may have included. For those looking to revisit Craig's final Bond performance, No Time To Die is now available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray.
Source: Variety
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