20 Things You Didn't Know About SPECTRE (2015)

For many of the actors to portray Double-0 Seven, the pressure of constantly trying to outdo the previous film is stressful and incredibly tying; once they have played the character several times, the novelty soon starts to wear off.

Daniel Craig had intended SkyFall to be his last Bond film, but was lured back for one more entry in the series. He was non-committal about returning beyond that, so the filmmakers asked the writers to leave Ernst Stavro Blofeld alive at the end of the film and to write a happy yet open ending to allow Craig to return if he wished to.

Bond would originally have told Madeleine Swann that “we have all the time in the world” as they drove down Whitehall in the Aston Martin DB5, referencing On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; he would also have thrown his Walther PPK into the Thames as they crossed Westminster Bridge.

Craig’s controversial comments whilst promoting the film created serious doubts about whether he would return to the role and the going assumption was that he would not. Even Craig himself considered that he would not, until Barbara Broccoli convinced him that Bond's character arc had not yet been completed, necessitating one last performance as the quintessential British agent in No Time To Die.