10 Biggest Mistakes The James Bond Series Ever Made

There was a time when fans everywhere were screaming that the biggest mistake the Bond producers had ever made was casting Daniel Craig in the role. Happily, 2006's Casino Royale shut most of them up. Seemingly disregarding every performance that went before him (an entirely logical approach), the blonde-haired Chester-born actor did his own thing in a movie which took 007 back to his origins with the first official adaptation of Fleming's first Bond novel.

The rest is history; Casino Royale was a smash, Craig won over the audience, and no one wanted to waste any time getting him back on screen. Unfortunately, a rather sizeable hurdle fell in the path of follow-up movie Quantum of Solace: the Writer's Guild of America strike, which ran from November 2007 to February 2008 - i.e. just about when the 22nd Bond film was going into production.

As a result, Quantum of Solace went before cameras with a script which no one was entirely happy with, but that no writers were allowed to make amendments to. Craig has since stated that it fell on director Marc Forster and himself to rework the scenes that needed it on the spot, and as the actor himself noted, "a writer I am not."

Quantum of Solace isn't quite so bad as it's often made out to be, but there's no denying it was a major let-down after Casino Royale. The plot is bland and uninvolving (when will Bond writers learn, pipelines just aren't exciting!), and the emphasis on intense action over character and humour means it really doesn't feel like a Bond film at all.

Perhaps if they'd just put the brakes on long enough to ensure they were really ready before starting work, the film wouldn't have had such problems. That said, no writers' strikes can be held accountable for the mistakes they've made since...