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Bond 26 Can Right A Franchise Wrong By Avenging Tracy Bond


https://screenrant.com/james-bond-26-tracy-bond-franchise-avenging/

James Bond 26 will reset the franchise once again, but it can set right an old series wrong by avenging 007's murdered wife Tracy Bond

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The author of the ScreenRant article you cited ought to read the ScreeRant article by another writer... and maybe actually watch For Your Eyes Only.

Roger Moore's James Bond ALREADY Did What Daniel Craig Couldn't: Kill Blofeld.
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-roger-moore-daniel-craig-007-kill-blofeld/

in For Your Eyes Only, it was Roger Moore who rid James Bond of Blofeld once and for all. In the film's pre-title sequence, Moore's 007 visited Tracy's grave. (This further established that Moore's Bond is the same character Connery and Lazenby played; Tracy was previously mentioned as Bond's dead wife in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me.) A helicopter then picked up Bond, but he quickly realized it was being remote-controlled by Blofeld, who was back from the dead and out to kill 007. However, Bond gained control of the chopper, located Blofeld, and then used it to ensnare the supervillain. As Blofeld begged for his life, Bond flew Blofeld above a factory and dropped him down a chimney shaft, putting an end to him for good. Blofeld was never seen again for the rest of James Bond's original continuity of films, which ended with 2002's Die Another Day.

The character Bond executed in For Your Eyes Only wasn't identified as Blofeld because of legal issues with producer Kevin McClory (who owned the rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE dating back to Thunderball), but there was no mistaking who the bald villain in the wheelchair was intended to be.


One of the many mistakes of the Daniel Craig era was to reboot James Bond as if he had not existed in the previous films. Maybe we will get a multiverse Bond film, but Connery and Moore are dead and the others are too old to be credible.

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