Death Is The Answer (2021 film)

Death Is The Answer is a 2021 British spy film, the twenty-sixth in the Eon Productions James Bond film series. Directed by Martin Campbell and written by David Seltzer, who wrote the screenplay for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, it is the first film to star Tom Hardy as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, and was produced by Eon Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures, making it the first Eon-produced Bond film to be co-produced by the latter studio. Following Bond 25, Eon Productions decided to re-reboot the series,[4][5] allowing them to show a combination of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig's 007s.

The birth of Bond in the Bond franchise was finally comfirmed by Anthony Horowitz that James Bond was born on 23rd January 1926. So it stayed that way.

Death Is The Answer takes place in 1970, the year between On Her Majesty's Secret Sevice and Diamonds Are Forever''. ''The plot sees at first Bond turning up late for work because of his loss. So M gives him one last chance. So Bond goes out to try and defeat Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Bond falls in love with Samantha Maxwell. And it is also a prequel to the 1971 Bond film. Plus, as the pre-title sequence, it shows Tracy Bond being murdered, so it shows that it is a sequel to the 1969 film.

Casting involved a widespread search for a new actor to succeed Daniel Craig as James Bond; the choice of Hardy, announced in October 2020, drew controversy. Location filming took place in Austria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom with interior sets built at Barrandov Studios and Pinewood Studios.

Death Is The Answer premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 14 November 2021. It received an overwhelmingly positive critical response, with reviewers highlighting Hardy's reinvention of the character and the film's departure from the tropes of previous Bond films.[7] It earned almost $600 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing James Bond film beating Skyfall in 2012.

Plot
The film begins at James Bond (Tom Hardy) and Tracy (Candace Nelson)'s wedding, with Q (Ben Whishaw) contragulating him and saying that if he (Bond) ever needs him (Q), he (Bond) can come to Q. Bond and Tracy leaves. Bond stops the car not far from a gas station so he could buy a wedding present. After Bond returns, he sees a car coming and he realizes that the car belongs to Blofeld (Christopher Waltz) and his wife, Irma Bunt (Akiko Wakabayashi). He runs to his car and shoots Blofeld's car away. But then he sees that Tracy had been shot. He sobbed himself to tears.

After the wedding-day murder of his wife, Bond begins to let his life slide, drinking and gambling heavily, making mistakes and turning up late for work. His superior in the Secret Service, M (Ralph Fiennes), had been planning to dismiss Bond, but decides to give him a last-chance opportunity to redeem himself by assigning him to the diplomatic branch of the organisation. Bond is subsequently re-numbered 0013 (and 13 is an unlucky number) and handed an "impossible" mission: getting Frank 'Ernst Stavro Blofeld' Oberhauser and killing him for good.

Bond flies to Switzerland to see the Swiss cable car station being rebuilt. Then, Bond sees Q setting up his 'Q Camp' on the snow. Q gives 007 a