20 Things You Didn’t Know About Quantum Of Solace (2008)
14. “...It’s Not What You Think.” “Your Mother?” “She Likes To Think So.”
Originally, M was to have been killed off during the sequence in which her bodyguard, Craig Mitchell (named after Daniel Craig and his then-fiancée, film producer Satsuki Mitchell, and played by Glenn Foster) tries to kill her during her interrogation of Mr White.
However, it was decided that this would have distracted from the plot, which already hinged upon Vesper Lynd's death, although the idea was resurrected for SkyFall.
Instead, Marc Forster increased Judi Dench’s scenes in the film, as he felt that she had been underused in the previous Double-0 Seven movies; he was particularly fascinated by the dynamic between James Bond and his female boss as “she is the only woman Bond doesn’t view in a sexual context”.