Did These Forgotten Bond Games Inspire No Time To Die? | *Contains Spoilers*

[@danhardcastle]

Forgotten? "Everything or Nothing" is essentially the "lost" Brosnan movie we never got (better written than "DAD" as well) and definitely in the Top 3 Bond games ever made. I still give it a playthrough every couple of years!

[@davidjames579]

Russian Willem Dafoe is something we all need in our lives.

[@danhardcastle]

@@davidjames579 So true. The production values are actually off the charts - I smile like a Cheshire Cat every time when Richard Kiel as Jaws shows up. Such a great touch - and something that could've only really happened in a videogame.

[@spencerkindra8822]

"Better writing than 'DAD' as well." Same with Nightfire. I swear, the more time that goes by the more I realize how unfair it was that Die Another Day was Pierce Brosnan's last movie. I can't believe that Eon didn't give him one more movie especially considering that DAD, despite being terrible, was the highest grossing Bond movie up to that point.

[@danhardcastle]

@@spencerkindra8822 I know what you mean,Spencer - but from what I've been able to gather, the winds just weren't blowing in poor Pierce's favour. They'd written themselves into a situation where "going bigger" had become something of an impossibility (a recurring pattern with Bond) and that meant the inevitable going back to basics with Fleming approach. To that end EON had just acquired "Casino Royale" (a pet project of Barbara's) after decades of legal wrangling and that meant a fresh new (and cheaper) actor almost had to be the way forward. I can understand why Pierce felt so aggrieved, but for the rest of us, we ended up with an all time classic so it's difficult to complain.

[@nintyfan1991]

Like how Stranglehold is the "lost" Hard Boiled sequel we never got (Chow Yun-fat and John Woo even returning). And at one time we could say this about the 2009 Ghostbusters game (it would be the last time we see Harold Ramis as Egon alongside Dan, Bill and Ernie) until Afterlife was announced.

[@PianomanMIC]

I definitely thought of the "fox die" viruses from the Metal Gear Solid Games. Games inspired by James Bond which then in turn possibly inspired a James Bond Film. We're full circle here people

[@jonathancampbell5231]

Yeah, Calvin is probably too young to know about FOXDIE, but lots of people who saw the film commented on it. I imagine that in both cases it's inspired by real life potential applications for the technology that had been speculated. The difference between FOXDIE and Heracles is that FOXDIE can only kill people who already have nanomachines in their system which is much more plausible.

[@HOTD108_]

@@jonathancampbell5231 Too young? Calvin is in his 30s and has memories of seeing GoldenEye in 1995 and while Metal Gear technically started earlier than that, it didn't become popular outside of Japan until 1998. Calvin is literally the exact right age to be a classic Metal Gear fan. Not to mention Metal Gear is huge in modern meme culture (aka teenagers/young adults). However clearly Calvin hasn't played Metal Gear, but I think that's more to do with that fact that Calvin has self-confessed to not be much of a gamer usually, rather than age.

[@leecroft1983]

The chemical plant and the Posion Garden at the end of No Time To Die gave me Metal Gear Solid vibes. Absolutely loved the look and atmosphere of the set piece.

[@AllardRT]

I'm actually stunned you didn't mention the most glaring similarity between EON and NTTD: the villain being a Russian guy named after Satan. I mean, LYUTSIFER (Lucifer) Safin, Nikolai DIAVOLO.

[@shadowmac20004]

I found the nanomachine & bioweapon super spreader situation of "No Time To Die" Bond to be eerily similar to Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid particularly games 1 & 4, even the way they try to nuke the island in the end. Spectre is almost like The Patriots too.

[@lukekelly5075]

Honestly I think Hideo Kojima would make the greatest James Bond video game ever.

[@tlshortyshorty5810]

@@lukekelly5075 bro, same. It’d be deeply interesting to see lifelong fans with quality experience such as Kojima, Chris Nolan, even Spielberg have their shot. Man, I can’t imagine how fucking trippy and heavy Kojima’s take on Bond would be and I love it

[@TheGamerThing]

@@lukekelly5075 he already did with snake eater

[@lukekelly5075]

@@TheGamerThing well that's a great proof of concept but I mean a licensed game... Okay maybe not snake eater IS one of the best fucking games ever

[@twilliamspro]

@@lukekelly5075 Let him do a Bond Movie

[@MortenLM]

I always like when you use that 'Science Fact'' clip, its funny everytime :)

[@FraserJWhieldon]

I LITERALLY thought of that 'Phoebe Waller Bridge is a die hard Rogue Agent fan' joke seconds before you said it. You're the author of all my painful jokes!

[@calvindyson]

HA! I try my best :D

[@Benji568]

It's pretty interesting that there seem to be several similarities between No Time To Die and these games from the past 20 years. I think it's probably because Cary Joly Fukanaga is a big fan of video games anyway so that probably has something to do with it. I mean didn't I read a report that said he was late to filming because he was playing some Red Dead Redemption?

[@BenCol]

Some 007 Racing similarities for you: • The inciting incident in 007 Racing is Q-Branch tech being stolen. NTTD’s inciting incident is the theft of Heracles which, while it wasn’t Q-Branch, it was MI6 tech all the same. • One level ends with Bond driving his car into the Hudson River. While it’s not shown, it’s implied in Daniel Kleinman’s NTTD titles that Bond dumped the DB5 into a body of water. Meanwhile, a similarity with Nightfire is the plot point of the characters having to use a submersible vehicle to sneak onto the villain’s island. A similarly with GoldenEye 2010 is the nightclub Bond & Felix go to, which similar to the one he goes to in Barcelona in GE2010. Also, the Game Boy game simply called ‘James Bond 007’ was developed by a company called Saffire - a name not too dissimilar from Safin.

[@calvindyson]

Brilliant! Knew I could count on you for some extra spots, BenCol! Thanks for these

[@jamesatkinsonja]

@@calvindyson The air action scene in Quantum reminded me of Nightfire at the time.

[@PainCausingSamurai]

The biggest video game inspiration for No Time to Die was definitely the Metal Gear Solid series. The nano-machines, gene-coded virus, ear-piece conversations, the double crosses between competing villain organisations, the sinking ship escape scene. Hell, Nomi taking on Bond's code name, then encountering him later while he works for the CIA is straight out of MGS2.

[@davidjames579]

Hmmm, I wonder how this will affect the in-production Metal Gear movie?

[@DCMarvel2009]

M: “Mission failed. We’ll get em next time.” Bond: “And you thought a BOX would be great cover for me?” M: “…yes?”

[@William_Rivera_X]

The Golden Eye Rogue Agent game is pretty cool and has a dark vibe to it I love the whole story and the Terminated agent you play as. And when watching No Time To Die the character with the Bionic eye just gave me flash backs it would be cool to have a movie based off this fallen agent .

[@THEremiXFACTOR]

I remember playing the From Russia With Love game on XBOX and loving it. The fact that it was Connery's final performance as Bond makes it pretty special.

[@laurensmol669]

When I visited Paris in 2012, I actually saw Pierce Brosnan himself standing on a balcony at gare du nord. The first thing I thought was: "Wow, thats f*ckng Pierce Brosnan". The second thing was: "This is the man who died so many times while I controlled him in James Bond video games".

[@cooper5594]

I'm really glad you made this video Calvin! As someone who adores the Bond games, I noticed a lot of little Bond game references in NTTD. The scene in the Aston between Bond and Nomi, where Bond tells her that Safin has kidnapped Madeleine and Mathilde, gave me massive flashbacks to the cutscene in Nightfire where Bond tells Agent McCall about the loss of Dominique's death. A little thing I know and maybe I'm way off, but I think there are similarities.

[@heavygamer93]

The whole nanobot plot also shares similarities with FOXDIE from Metal Gear Solid IMO

[@demetrisross17]

That’s what came to mind immediately that and having to fight in a stairwell as well!

[@heavygamer93]

@@demetrisross17 Imagine if the movie had a really long ladder.

[@demetrisross17]

@@heavygamer93 🤣 with an acapella version of no time to die in the background.

[@heavygamer93]

@@demetrisross17 Right. There'd be no doubt they'd taken inspiration from Snake Eater if they did that.

[@TheBigLegendary]

Spectre basically is like MGS with the protagonist being the brother of the antagonist as well

[@donovaneddiealanhodges1499]

Blood Stone wouldn't be forgotten, because the driving level with Daniel Craig's Aston Martin had an almost matching inspiration to the pre title sequence of the film. You can see how the environment looked in it; the color was half No Time to Die, half Spectre.

[@namideo]

I was just playing Blood Stone the other day and thought the same thing. Also, the main titles sequence in that game also features dna stands similarly to NTTD’s credit scene.

[@donovaneddiealanhodges1499]

@@namideo The guns shooting and the smoke lines represent the lines of the DNA strand.

[@dapaintbrush6965]

Everything or nothing is such a good game in my opinion

[@calvindyson]

It's terrific! Truly is the 5th Brosnan Bond we never had.

[@dapaintbrush6965]

@@calvindyson most definitely 100% love the content ❤️❤️

[@Istiden1]

Way better sendoff than Die another day for sure

[@historyrebel]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of Everything or Nothing when the nanobots came up, even if they were taken in a much different direction. Blood Stone also mentions nanotechnology, although it doesn't really go into any details about its usage. Nanotechnology is also a lot more vague and has been used in real life for quite a while now, though Blood Stone hinted it was a brand new kind of use. Considering that's a Craig game, maybe we could see the nanobots in No Time to Die as being the logical conclusion of that? Probably not, but there are definitely inspirations from other Bond media, like previous movies and Fleming novels, so...maybe somebody did at least see the basic plot and thought "how could we use these nanobots in a different way."

[@LeviRamsey]

NTTD is likely the last film Michael G. Wilson will actively participate in (he's now about as old as Cubby was for LTK, after all), but his kids have, if I'm not mistaken, been largely involved in the video game part of the franchise. That observation does suggest that as MGW's descendants take larger roles in producing the films, the video games may be more incorporated.

[@DavidGossettMusic]

Safin's plan and nanobot/virus scheme feels eerily similar to Silvio Caruso from Hitman (2016). Madman specializing in poison/biological weapons, works for a illuminati-esque criminal cabal, intends to betray them, sees a psychotherapist, keeps a special vial to kill a woman close to him, etc. Even Safin's Lair feels similar to pre-release Hitman 2016's teaser video. IO interactive definitely leaned into Craig era Bond comparisons/aesthetics. Not to mention, IO is producing the next Bond game.

[@ssjduelistDD]

I just bought everything or nothing. No idea why i never got to it until now

[@calvindyson]

Congrats! I'm quite jealous that you'll be experiencing it for the first time! Enjoy!

[@MCMIVC]

I used to think that if it had been a film, "Everything or Nothing" would have been ridiculed just as much as "Die Another Day", mostly because of the nanobot stuff. So when I saw "No Time To Die" I was a bit shocked. Perhaps I was wrong?

[@WhiteJarrah]

Maybe it's because we live in a post-COVID world? In a world where there is a killer virus on the loose wiping out the world's population, the idea of us being wiped out by a nanotech weapon doesn't seem too far fetched. Considering the film was produced in 2019, it all suddenly seems rather foreshadowing.

[@WimpyKelv12]

I think the more outlandish sci-fi is more welcomed due to too many years (19!) of ‘serious, realistic and gritty’ previous Craig Bond and Bourne Identity films. The general audience being used to the comic book ‘science’ of the superhero boom also probably helped.

[@gngr2]

Always a good morning waking up to a new Calvin video

[@v4vendetta659]

Cary Fukunaga has stated that the sound design and visual world building of No Time to Die at least was influenced by video games, e.g. Call of Duty, Half Life, Last of Us, Biohazard (and remember the report he held up production because he was busy playing a video game, even if not true). There is no doubt from Cary's comments that video games influenced the film, even if not directly the James Bond video games.

[@olivergiggins7931]

There were reports during production of the director being late to set because he was playing videogames... which the director vehemently denied saying he always took his work seriously. What if both statements were true and the video game sessions were work-related? Script-writing sessions in fact?

[@anthonyguiness9]

Games were definitely an inspiration for him

[@youonlyreviewonce007]

Yesterday i was watching "For Your Eyes Only". And several Roger Moore's dress colors were so "identical" to some of Daniel Craig's style colors from No time to die(Norway Massimo Alba coat, Cuba Barbour jacket, Massimo Alba Sloop suit)

[@ShaneMakesMovies]

I was so sure I had seen the Nanobot plot in something James Bond related! I was going crazy because I couldn't see it anywhere in the film summaries...turns out it was a game! That game was pretty fun, might replay it now thanks to your video!

[@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY]

Obviously the Bond franchise has always featured speculative things about technology even since the Fleming novels (see : Moonraker) so the eventuality of a mainline Bond movie dealing with nanomachines and bionic bodyparts was just as inevitable as computer hacking, information technology and satellites featuring more and more.

[@tomfortuneglory]

Hi Calvin. Big fan of your work my friend and the MI6 podcasts you contribute to. You make me smile no end. Keep up the great work.

[@charlesmarsh316]

Enjoyable and intriguing video! I have zero experience with Bond video games, so I'm a mere child in these matters. I get a smile whenever you replay Cubby's "we're not science fiction..." clip.

[@jhjhjhjhjhjhify]

Nanobots and weaponised viruses are pretty standard 'villain plots' in action/spy films. I always presumed that the nanobot thing in No Time to Die was added later to avoid similarities to Covid, but I don't think this is the case in hindsight. Presumably it was a way of combining these two ideas in some weird Sci Fi blend to create something original. Bionic eyes are also stereotypically 'villainy'. But you're right, in that sense all these works share the same DNA, but it's not as much reference but more how genre works.

[@Spacemonkey_Mafia]

Another hot take was my coffee almost getting spat out when I realized Christopher Lee actually recorded his voice for that game.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Shame he didn't do a voice over for a better game!

[@paulpatterson3514]

Nanobots were used in Red Dwarf in 1999. Let that sink in. James Bond have featured in their film a plot device from a sci-fi comedy tv series from twenty years ago. And they say Die Another Day was over the top ad ridiculous. I hope I wasn't the only one groaning in the cinema when they was brought up . .

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Well the nanobots were used in 'nanarchy' in 1997 [setting up the 1999 series] pretty much solely to rebuild Red Dwarf after it's disappearance as a deus ex machina . Like a lot of Red Dwarf, the Nanobots came from science at the time [Nanobots even featured in a book I read in the early 2000's called '50 ways the world could end'!]

[@JillLeflour]

I think I’ve seen that clip of Cubby Broccoli 50 times on your channel already but it still gets me every time

[@waywardlaser]

Trick question: I think of Everything or Nothing practically every day

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Goldeneye Rouge Agent's basic idea-a villain being the lead did have potential. The old adage is 'the villain is the hero of his own story' is an interesting one [imagine a novel written from a Bond Villain's POV] but given the lead in the game is just fighting other villains [Dr No's army] the idea was barely explored.

[@Dohsoda]

"Everything or Nothing" would have been a great 5th Brosnan Bond film. But alas, we only have a great video game.

[@Noremac41]

Great Neal Purvis impression at 3:55 !

[@JennyBlaze253]

Not a Bond game, but I found it interesting how much Heracles reminded me of the FOXDIE virus from Metal Gear Solid. It transfers through close contact, tracks DNA, and kills those are the targets (albeit not as flashy with a heart attack in MGS's case). I remember in the movie theater whispering to my friend that it was just like FOXDIE when I saw it first explained. Honestly find it very interesting. Maybe the directors were big fans of Hideo Kojima's work.

[@sjfreitas90]

Everything or nothing has a couple more similarities imo. The motorbike scene in an old told going through stairs, and the fact that both end on a repurposed Soviet era base.

[@redfed2213]

That thumbnail got me huge nostalgic vibes

[@adams51]

Great review, I couldn't help but think of Everything or Nothing myself. Had some friends comment that Safin's lair very closely resembles Temple from GoldenEye64 (although I think they meant Aztec?)... I was reminded of GoldenEye but the Daniel Craig remake moreso than the classic N64 game. Fukunaga appears to be an avid gamer if his Instagram is to be believed so I figure he must have had some of those videogames in mind.

[@adamcronchey7264]

It's more or less an adaptation of the novels You Only Live Twice and OHMSS. Safin had a garden of death located in Asia, he wanted to unleash a deadly bioweapon on mankind... Quite a few similarities.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Safin is very Blofeld/Dr Shatterhand in YOLT [to the extent I'm bemused when people still say Dr No even now the film is out].

[@willreimerhaus]

The moment I saw the tacks and smoke from the DB5 I thought "007 Racing"!

[@davidplatzer5041]

THANK YOU. I was asking myself the same question. S As soon as the whole bionic eye thing came up I was like: Did Cary Fukunaga play Goldeneye: Rouge Agent? Thank you for adressing this topic. Greetings from Austria Habe a great day👍👍

[@shouldershot]

My mind immediately went to Rogue Agent with the cybernetic eye and the internal war at spectre.

[@whirlwindjourney]

I honestly really loved Goldeneye Rogue Agent. It is one of my favorite of the games. Definitely saw many of the similarities as you mentioned.

[@johnrigs6540]

Great video - with lots of great points! Somehow this movie was really the very first of all the Craig films that really did feel like it was heavily influenced by video games… or that actually often FELT like a Video game. The Opening car chase battle….the Cuba sequence….the forest scene where bond is lurking with his huge weapon….the finale.. ALL really felt like scenes from a video game. When you think back on all the previous Craig films, there are really only a few sequences where you can say “ Hey that felt like a great video game set piece “ (Very different from the Brosnan era - where,of course, ALL of his films felt like fun video games!)

[@demetrisross17]

I’d say so with everything or nothing. The wind tunnel in q lab with the Aston martins. The vanquish in EON in the Q New Orleans brief.. And the Valhalla in NTTD when bond and m are on the phone. M steps away from Q and walks next to the Valhalla . It happens to look like the same wind tunnel room from E.O.N.

[@WH250398]

With Everything or Nothing I was like "Nanobots? Oh well it's a game." With No Time To Die I thought it was just stupid and out of place.

[@andrewharper4296]

On the James Bond Experience group discussion on NTTD a few days ago, there was a discussion about whether the original plot line was a simply a very dangerous virus but was changed when the pandemic started to take hold. It’s an interesting concept but I don’t know how plausible it is. The film company was adamant that no changes were made to the film, depends on how much you believe.I do agree with you though, the whole nanobot thing is just a little too crazy sci-fy. Maybe they should just have made it genetically programmed instead. Coded to attach itself to the persons DNA that it’s designed to attack.

[@SaberRexZealot]

This is the first time I’ve learned that Willem Dafoe was a Bond villain

[@oskarjonsson9117]

Calvins biggest fear, 007 legends the movie

[@j.h.2967]

In relation to these "stair balltes". In the 'Mediterranean Crisis' mission in 007: Agent Under Fire, there is a part where you are fighting guards in the stairs while they throw grenades at you at the same time, like in No Time To Die. Very interesting indeed!

[@Risico16]

I remember being sat in the theater for NTTD trying to figure out why the nanobots plot sounded so familiar and it hit me that it was already done before by one of my favorite Bond games, and in my opinion was done much better in the game but that's probably because I'm still salty about how NTTD ended. Also, does anyone else think that Goldeneye (the character) from Rouge Agent looks really similar to Timothy Dalton?

[@anthonyguiness9]

When I was younger I thought Dalton was Bond in the Goldeneye game! But then at the same time I thought it was Lazenby in Agent Under Fire but that was more wishful thinking!

[@MagicMaster667]

Eyyy, I was so excited the moment I read Q mentioning nanobots in the movie! Being the _massive_ Everything or Nothing fan that I am (my fav game if all-time!), I linked the two concepts together instantly. It was great bringing this connection up to the circle of friends I brought to my (first!) viewing of the film when we discussed it afterwards.

[@neilvarma]

Everything or nothing is the true last ride for Bronson bond.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

I had a book when I was a child called '50 Ways the world could end' [I was a bit of a morbid kid!] and one of them was Nano-bots quoting Prince Charles expressing concern! This book was out in the early 2000's so Nanobots was a topical worry at the time of 'Everything or Nothing'.

[@davidjames579]

Death by a Prince Charles quoting Nanobot? No Way To Die.

[@shadowmac20004]

By the way too... #MGS Q = Otacon Mallory = Colonel Campbell Nomi=Raiden The way both characters were given the codename of the series hero and then later change names after meeting said legend was very similar. The way Bond & Snake have a kid as a plot point in their last mission & ultimately meet their ends is similar. I guess Kojima was flattered when he saw this one, MGS has always referenced Bond & spy fiction with unlockables like the Tuxedo or Snake Eater's very 1960s Bond theme

[@harima9597]

Actually the nanobots plot is more similar to metal gear solid game on PS1. That game got the nanomachine virus specific target by DNA in the plot too.

[@yudhabagaskara98]

I can't consider everything or nothing is forgotten since the game is a proper send off to brosnan's bond

[@NoContextRDH]

Funnily enough I thought of Goldeneye Rogue Agent the other day where Bond DID die (all be it in a VR exercise)

[@allenhilburn8686]

Ah, the Mrs. Bell bell... :D

[@TheBigLegendary]

Calvin, as a huge Bond Nerd and Game nerd myself, I feel like you should make a video on how certain things that were influenced by James Bond, which then influenced James Bond later. Austin Powers and Metal Gear Solid have both elements that were very prevalent in the Craig Era (mainly Spectre and NTTD)

[@jamesatkinsonja]

The only Austin Powers thing that's remotely similar to Craig's era for me is the 'brothers' storyline which I would dispute as not only are they not really brothers [more like childhood friends] but stuff like Darth Vader-Luke Skywalker pre-date it [and the Goldmember gag was because it's so obvious there played by the same actor unlike Myers other parts which involve heavy makeup]. Die another Day is far more Austin Powers with the Death Ray [which was a factor in the series going more gritty apparently].

[@gameragodzilla]

A non-Bond game the forest section in No Time To Die reminded me of was the original Far Cry in 2004, specifically the part where Bond deliberately used gunfire to lure enemies to his position so he could take them out. That was a very common tactic I used in Far Cry 1, which was very centered around guerrilla warfare rather than direct confrontation (you try that and you die immediately).

[@v4vendetta659]

Cary Fukunaga was stuck at 63% completed of Red Dead Redemption 2 while filming NTTD - bet the spoiler ending for Red Dead wasn't equal to that of No Time to Die, in fact RDR2 probably had better endings for the main characters...maybe he should have finished RDR2 so he could have used it to improve on the NTTD story?

[@leecroft1983]

The hovercraft level in the Bond game Blood Stone was similar to the Bond novel Devil May Care. The novel had a part in it that was very close to the action and set piece in the video game, Blood Stone (Bond riding on a huge enemy hovercraft)

[@gregmize01]

Loved the TM stamp on the "science fact" quote!😂😂😂😂

[@HOTD108_]

If anything inspired No Time To Die, it's the Metal Gear series. Seriously, it's insane how similar the plots are.

[@sebastianmonk1584]

Remember David Niven gets blown up by Woody Allen's hiccups at the end of Casino Royale 67, that's one hell of a similarity to No Time To Die' ending.

[@ThePixelExpedition]

I actually wouldn't consider nanobots sci-fi at all. Nanotechnology and nanomedicine research is actually concurrent. Nanobots carrying disease is actually realistic and a frightening idea. That said, thematically, Bond was always ahead of its time, so I'd say that NTTD also fit the bill. But great catch on Everything or Nothing! I only played the game once years ago and never beat it, so I missed the reference lol

[@seanm1955]

I was so baffled in the cinema that the plot was basically Metal Gear Solid 4 but I love that game so I wasn't complaining ahaha

[@shroobify]

Love your content, Calvin, but i wonder if you take suggestions? How does this sound?: "Top 10 cool boats/submarines in Bond movies" "5 Best Arctic gadgets in Bond movies" "Bond villain henchmen ranked by deadliness" "How the Cold War impacted the Bond franchise"

[@jamesatkinsonja]

The 'Cold War' video would be interesting. In particular how Bond films usually portray the Soviets as uneasy allies [via General Gogol] and if Russian's are villians, there renegades [Orlov in Octopussy, Koskov in Daylights].

[@perfectpats]

Cary Fukunaga is a big gamer and video game references are all over NTTD. There are numerous references to Metal Gear Solid. The Heracles virus is almost exactly the FoxDie virus from MGS and is used (unknowingly) by the protagonist (Snake/Bond) to kill the main villain who also happens to be his brother (Liquid/Blofeld). The ladder ascent at the very end of NTTD is very similar to a long ladder climb in MGS3. Metal Gear Solid 3 itself is chock full of Bond references including have its own main title sequence. Primo’s eye is similar to the solid eye contraption in MGS4. The nanobots are very similar to Everything or Nothing. Bond also does battle in an above ground, New Orleans cemetery, similar to the PTS of NTTD. The stairwell fight at the end feels like a video game and is reminiscent of a similar sequence in Nightfire and, again, Metal Gear Solid.

[@WhiteJarrah]

_Everything or Nothing_ and _Goldeneye Rogue Agent_ aren't the only video games _NTTD_ borrowed from. I had flashbacks to the _Syphon Filter_ trilogy on PS1. The syphon filter virus depicted in that game is eerily similar to the nanobots. I'll let the character Thomas Markinson summarize it: "A virus genetically programmable to eliminate anyone or anything... Imagine a weapon that could target specific demographics, ethnic groups... it could wipe out whole continents, except for those chosen to survive!"

[@EthanKnight97]

The closest inspiration for NTTD is the half published forgotten Bond comic Shattered Helix by Simon Jowett in which Bond is in a race to secure a bioweapon that was stolen from a lab.

[@regularsizedrudy5340]

I put so much time into Everything or Nothing. Id love them to make it backwards compatible on the newer xboxes. It had everything a good 007 game needed.

[@anthonyguiness9]

A remake of the old games would be brilliant!

[@WH250398]

Neither will ever happen I'm afraid.

[@tlshortyshorty5810]

Project Heracles is a lot more similar to FOXDIE from Metal Gear- in that it’s a genetically engineered virus that _interfaces_ with the nanomachines implanted into certain people, killing them nearly instantly; and Snake is infected with the pathogen and spreads it around the same way Bond does

[@thecrimsonpool]

I would actually say No Time to Die took small ideas from Metal Gear Solid 1 rather than the 007 games

[@FroMarty]

I wonder if the upcoming Metal Gear film was hoping to follow the plot of MGS1? Bet they’d be annoyed if so

[@TheSpacey52]

The car chase prior to the forest action scene where Bond uses Madeline's unarmored car to ram the henchman's cars off the road is similar to Everything or Nothing when Bond and Serena do the same while escaping in a racecar

[@lukedaley17]

I absolutely loved Everything or Nothing. One of my all time favourite Bond games.

[@dominik8005]

By nanobots the first think what came by was James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

[@vitorafmonteiro]

God damn it, Calvin, stop giving me "Moonraker" video "SCIENCE FACT!... SCIENCE FACT!... SCIENCE FACT!... SCIENCE FACT!..." loop during the laser battle flashbacks!...

[@ralphroshia9247]

Other than the obvious if you fail at your mission as James Bond you die there is in Goldeneye Rogue Agent you see James Bond Dying when you play as Goldeneye you cant make it to Bond in time to save him

[@liamfitzgerald7217]

@@tomsaveryscotlandicproduct8505 Probably drinking and bedding some attractive woman.

[@TheShadowGeek]

Actually you didn't mention one very visible similarity between No Time to Die and GoldenEye Rogue Agent: the exterior design of Safin's island looking an awful lot like the game's version of Crab Key (big concrete fortress with large slit windows).

[@SpyHunter89]

For what it's worth, the nanobot/virus plot device reminded me not so much of Everything Or Nothing, but the Hitman reboot from 2016. One of the missions has you assassinating two scientists who've developed a virus that can be used to kill only designated individuals, much as Safin does for his evil scheme. And wouldn't you know it, now IO Interactive are moving on from Hitman to making their own official James Bond video game! Coincidence? ...Yeah, I think so, honestly.

[@robertthomsen6711]

Nothing can be worse than Die another Day or You Only Live Twice

[@stevekasan1575]

I absolutely agree with Everything or Nothing. There are 5 Brosnan Bond entries, GoldenEye, Tomorrow, World is..., Die Another Day, and EON. Much like how the Ghostbusters PS2 videogame is really the 3rd GB movie-entry using the original cast. We should really look at these video games considering their budgets are now that of blockbusters as being part of these franchises.

[@Pietro97007]

Another very video game part in NTTD is they display Bond’s “health bar” on screen as well as a “mini-map”. That part looked straight out of a video game, for better or worse.

[@JohnSmith-zq9mo]

What? When did they do that?

[@Pietro97007]

@@JohnSmith-zq9mo in the climax, once they give the 00s the “smart blood” and have them use “Qdar”. The screens displayed their pulse (health level) and had little “player icons” on the map that was displayed.

[@TheMrFishnDucks]

Very interesting video. I know see the similarities. Keep up the good work.

[@boblowes]

You should have a look at the Bond comics - the Daily Express strip was really good, adapting several of the Fleming novels, as well as original stories. And the current run from Dynamite Comics is really good.

[@doctorvanya]

I can't remember the exact quote but Q's lines to Bond about how and when to use the EMP watch during the climax sounded a lot like video game dialog to me.

[@gilesa.4052]

So annoying how due to apparent issues acquiring 007 game licenses, none of the great Bond games have not appeared on next-gen platforms.

[@ScaredStraightProductions]

Hey Calvin have you seen the goldfinger n64 game? There's fan-made bond n64 games they did one for spy who loved me, gold finger and tomorrow never dies.

[@davidjames579]

A listener wrote a letter to Kermode and Mayo's podcast recently, noting video game refs in No Time To Die: A setting from the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider being "almost duplicated" and the forest scene "bears the imprint of 2019's Death Stranding, which also features Lea Seydoux and Mads Mikkelsen". The Nanobots thing also reminded of Metal Gear. I've read Cary Fukunaga is a gamer, so probably. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6bCkKdripl4r68&ab_channel=kermodeandmayo

[@RenegadeGaruda]

NTTD's virus that can be used to kill specific targets is almost taken verbatim from Hitman 2016's Sapienza mission.

[@carldurrell9943]

Perhaps No Time to Die, instead of saying James Bond will return, should have said Game Over, Game over is what I would want on my Headstone when I die hopefully a long time in Future, and get to enjoy watching many more James Bond films and playing Games.

[@idi8822]

Honestly praying for the next bond film to be a film adaptation of Nightfire it's perfect

[@ben8447]

There's something that never struck me before seeing this video today. With James Bond's latest adventure finishing like it did-how on earth are Bond creators going to come up with fresh content?

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Reboot it [or in other franchises like Batman]. Bond 26 will probably be a new Bond with no past [as Craig's Bond was in Casino Royale] as has occurred with Franchises like Batman. A new game is in development and more novels [both which have there own continuity anyhow] are coming.

[@callummoore6962]

Interesting as I would love for you to do a similar video in regards to "Skyfall" being very similar to Feming's "Moonraker", as I have said in my Letterboxd account: "As a fan of the James Bond books by Ian Fleming, I can safely say that "Moonraker" is my favourite of his with the likes "Casino Royale", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "From Russia with Love". Kind of a shame that the film "Moonraker" really did a disservice to such a great novel and usually I would say "they should do a modern adaptation of it" as a lot of fans tend to say. But I would say "Skyfall" in a lot of ways in a modern day "Moonraker" in a post-9/11 world on a thematic level similar to how "Casino Royale" adapted the novel it is based on for the time period as both are about the fears and anxieties of Britain for their times. "Moonraker" was about fears such attack by rockets (following the V-2 strikes of the Second World War), nuclear annihilation, Soviet communism, the re-emergence of Nazism and the "threat from within" posed by both ideologies, while "Skyfall" is deals with cyber-terrorism, sense of mortality, growing sense of irrelevance and even a different approach to the traitor within idea. Both are quite patriotic too, "Moonraker" examines Englishness, and the novel shows the virtues and strength of England. While Skyfall is more subtle in that while you see the Union Jack is shown quite a few times in the film, it examines Bond as a British icon and shows why he and the UK have strength and matter to this world. "Moonraker" mostly takes pace in the UK, while "Skyfall" has more location travelling, a good chuck of it is set in the UK."

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Interesting to read. Moonraker was an influence on Die Another Day with the elements made more OTT Graves transformation [like Drax's plastic surgery], a 'duel' between Bond and the villain [cards in the book, a sword fight in the film], a women sent undercover [good in the book, bad in the film] and the villains seemingly beneficial invention turning out to be a weapon used against the west. Miranda Frost was even called Gala Brand in the early drafts before this was dropped [probably as Fleming fans wouldn't like the character being turned evil].