James Bond has reportedly taken on one of his toughest missions to date — fatherhood. The upcoming “No Time To Die” is expected to introduce the most important Bond Girl in the movie’s almost 60-year history — 007’s five-year-old daughter, according to the Mail on Sunday. “Yes, it’s true. Bond is a dad,” a movie …
James Bond has reportedly taken on one of his toughest missions to date — fatherhood.
The upcoming “No Time To Die” is expected to introduce the most important Bond Girl in the movie’s almost 60-year history — 007’s five-year-old daughter, according to the Mail on Sunday.
“Yes, it’s true. Bond is a dad,” a movie insider told the paper. “It’s the one thing fans would never expect.”
In Daniel Craig’s last turn as the big screen’s most famous spy, he plays a doting dad to Mathilde, a daughter with Dr Madeleine Swann, played by French actress Lea Seydoux, the UK paper says.
It is just one of the shock twists in the flick said to be “very timely” because it involves Bond saving the world from a biological pandemic that is “not quite COVID-19, but it’s similar,” the insider said.
The fatherhood storyline — first revealed in a leaked script being sold on eBay — is said to be one of many “woke” elements brought in for the old-fashioned character by Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
“Bond has always managed to charm his way into the hearts and beds of hundreds of beautiful women, seemingly without any consequences,” the insider told the paper.
“Making him a father opens up a whole new world in terms of drama and story development,” the source said.
“Bond finding out he is a father is integral to the plot.”
It is just one shock in a movie “filled with twists,” the insider said.
“Bond appears to be happy in his new domestic life but then, of course, he gets dragged back in to save the world,” the insider told the Mail on Sunday.
The movie, the franchise’s 25th, was due in cinemas in April but was pushed back to November because of the coronavirus pandemic.
