No time to die post credit scene

I watched the film a couple of times, the first time I watched it I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that this is how they’ve ended the film then it took me quite some time to accept it n build the courage to watch it again. This time it felt a little better, I was able to connect the dots which I couldn’t in the first watch but even then the ending was heartbreaking to say the least. I felt like they’ve changed the course of the whole legacy, the last time I was so upset at the ending of a bond film was when Tracy Bond died. But this time the grief was immeasurable. Never in any bond film this had happened and I really dont know why did they do this. I agree that Craig deserved a farewell but so did Connery and Moore but that doesn’t mean that you can reshape the entire base of the franchise

No Time To Die brought several firsts for the James Bond franchise, including the first time fans aren't certain of its future.

Warning: This article contains spoilers.

It's the first time we've seen a female 007 - or anybody but James Bond take the 007 code for that matter; the first time (spoiler alert) that James Bond dies, and therefore, the first time fans don't know where James Bond will go from here.

There's been a lot of talk about who will play the next James Bond. Will future films be called '007' because James Bond, the spy attached to the code, ceases to exist? Or will there be a prequel? Or does James Bond miraculously survive a nuclear missile explosion? These are all good questions.

So with that being said, is there an end credits scene with some clues about Bond's future in it? Well, sort of.

Is There An End Credits Scene In No Time To Die?

At the end of No Time To Die, we see Madeleine driving through the same Italian city she and Bond were driving through at the start of the film, only this time with her daughter Mathilde (who we discover is fathered by Bond) in the passenger seat.

Madeleine tells Mathilde she's going to tell her a story about a man named James Bond. The film ends there with the two of them driving off into the distance.

After that emotional final scene (we were reaching for the tissues too), the end credits play and some fans have sat anxiously in their cinema seats waiting to see if there's an end credits scene with any clues about the future of James Bond.

We can confirm there isn't an end credits scene, but there is hope for the future of James Bond yet as the message which has appeared at the end of every James Bond film to date lights up the screen - "James Bond will return."

So you can rest assured that James Bond has a future. But what that future will look like is something only Barabara Broccoli and the rest of the crew knows for now.

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No Time To Die is on its way to becoming the most popular Bond film yet, with a record-breaking opening weekend domestically and abroad. And now, we're all eagerly awaiting the day we can get our hands on the DVD.

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for No Time to Die

James Bond is dead at the end of No Time to Die. Safin's (played by Rami Malek) island has been blown up, with a missile scoring pretty much a direct hit on Bond.

Despite this pretty final end for Daniel Craig's tenure as Bond, MGM is hardly going to let a little thing like a character's death stand in the way of a multi-billion dollar franchise.

As such, the end of the credits features a reassurance that while this might be the end for Daniel Craig's time as the super-spy, Bond will be back.

Is there a post-credits scene in No Time to Die?

There is no Marvel-style stinger scene during or after the credits of the latest Bond movie —no surprise, as none of the other 24 movies have had one either.

It does, however, bring back a Bond staple right at the end of the credits that has featured in 22 of the movies so far—a title card that promises that James Bond will be back.

Specifically, the card promises that "James Bond will return"—an assurance that has appeared at the end of every 007 movie since Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.

However, that statement hits differently at the end of No Time to Die—especially as we have just seen Bond meet an explosive end.

It is interesting that the film decided specifically to say that James Bond will return. After all, the movie could have hedged its bets and said that "007 will return"—which could refer to either Bond or the woman that took his designation after he was presumed dead, Nomi (Lashana Lynch).

Instead, though, the film chose to confirm that the man we have just seen die will be back —though of course it never tells us how.

One thing we do know, however, is that when Bond is back, he will have a new face. No Time to Die is Craig's final movie as the character, meaning that a new, as-yet-unannounced actor will be playing him when he returns.

The fact that the movie so clearly shows Bond dying might be hinting that a long-held fan theory about the character is about to be confirmed. An oft-discussed piece of fan continuity that tried to explain why so many actors had played Bond speculated that "James Bond" was in fact a codename that MI6 gave to different agents at different times.

Though this was firmly debunked by the events of Skyfall, the fact that this Bond seems to be dead could be setting up the codename theory as a new canon—going forward, every new Bond is a new person, whose codename is a tribute to the man who died in the process of saving the world from a DNA-targeting nanobot virus.

This could have seismic implications for who could play Bond going forward. If "James Bond" becomes a codename, then anyone could be him, opening up the opportunity for women and actors of color to play the character.

Then again, the Bond franchise has never been one to take gigantic risks. As such, it is equally possible that that next movie will explain how Bond faked his own death (as he first did in You Only Live Twice) or had plastic surgery to hide the damage caused by the explosion (similar to how the franchise explained the change in Blofeld casting in On Her Majesty's Secret Service).

Alternatively, the film may just choose never to address the casting, as it did with every other change of the central actor playing Bond.