Next James Bond Film: 10 Predictions For Post-Daniel Craig Era

10. There's Less Of A Focus On Continuity

Perhaps the most radical aspect of the Daniel Craig era has been the decision to have his films unfold within an intimate, distinct continuity, with most of the five movies serving as direct sequels to one another.

This culminated of course in Spectre revealing that Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) had been the "author" of Bond's pain all along, a twist that heavily divided the fanbase with many feeling it simply strained too hard to make the Craig films a cohesive, interconnected "universe" of stories.

Though this approach ultimately helped No Time to Die have such an emotionally gratifying payoff, it's entirely possible the next Bond era will return to the more standalone, self-contained Bond movies the series is better known for.

Bond as a franchise has always reacted to the audience, and considering the mixed response to giving 007 a pronounced arc across five films, Barbara Broccoli may feel it's time for a return to the original formula.

Then again, the new Bond may land somewhere in the middle as a compromise, scaling back the intimately linked tapestry of stories but still acknowledging major narrative aspects of prior films.

As much as this continuity-heavy approach helped deliver the most cerebral and thoughtful Bond epoch to date, many fans feel that it's time for a return to singular stories which aren't endlessly tethered to what came before.