10 Movies With Crazy Foreshadowing You Totally Missed

5. And Judi Dench As M - Skyfall

Judi Dench Skyfall
Sony

For some reason it was okay for Judi Dench to carry her role as M across from the Pierce Brosnan Bond series to the rebooted Daniel Craig series - in any other franchise that might have been a point of contention amongst fans, but people generally accepted this one because who's paying attention to continuity in this franchise any more?

Come Skyfall, though, the producers apparently thought it was time for this character to bow out to pave the way for a new incarnation of the character. So she was killed off at the end of the movie in a surprisingly touching scene, replaced by a new M played by one Ralph Fiennes.

Nobody saw this coming, of course, and it was - for lack of a better term - a nice and bold surprise. But an eagle-eyed viewer might have predicted this narrative outcome had they paid close attention to the neat foreshadowing during the opening title sequence, in which Judi Dench's credit appears superimposed over a tombstone.

A neat little reference to those sad upcoming events - very clever.

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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.