10 Biggest Ever Movie Franchise Mistakes

Daniel Craig's run of Bond movies are generally accepted to be one of the stronger outings for any 007 actor, though the key creatives made one big mistake, in trying to connect these standalone sorties into an overarching narrative.

Casino Royale got Craig's tenure off to a roaring start, while Quantum of Solace effectively served as a direct sequel, tying up Bond's revenge arc for Vesper Lynd's (Eva Green) death.

Skyfall was back to standalone business as usual, but trouble abounded when Craig's penultimate film, Spectre, offered the ham-handed revelation that Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) was not only Bond's adoptive brother but had been pulling the villainous strings all along.

Spectre made convoluted pains to reveal that Blofeld had been behind every bad thing that'd happened to James since Casino Royale, as felt like a desperate attempt to cash in on the nascent popularity of interconnected cinematic universes.

This, combined with the sibling twist made it all feel a bit, well, Austin Powers.

Craig's recent final outing, No Time to Die, was then lumped with the undignified task of making sense of Spectre's mess, and to its eternal credit heroically stuck the landing.

Rather than ignore Spectre's clunky storytelling, it managed to make somewhat better sense of it by delving deeper into Blofeld as a character, even if it's unfortunate that Craig's batch of movies ever got bogged down in this nonsense to begin with.

Hopefully the next slate of Bond films will opt for more singular adventures that are connected by only loose morsels of shared continuity and character development.