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Why it’s taking so long to find the next James Bond

Three years since No Time to Die ended the Daniel Craig era, there’s still no sign of the next 007 film

The response to the surly second Dalton film had been lukewarm – it remains the least successful in terms of both box office return and profit margin, adjusted for inflation – and coming out in the same summer as ­Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Tim Burton’s Batman had done it no favours. Gloria Hendry, Roger Moore and Jane Seymour in Live and Let Die (1973) Credit: Moviestore Collection Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo Campbell also had Paul Haggis rework the original script, which Bond veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade had written with Craig’s predecessor Brosnan in mind. Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006) Credit: Collection Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo Chapman suggests that at times when Britishness has been in style – the swinging sixties, Cool Britannia, the 2012 Olympics – the films have resonated in a profound way with their domestic audience.

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