For me, Connery and Brosnan were the vibe that exemplifies what Bond should be, so the Craig generation always felt a bit off. It has a much darker and more brooding tone, and while Craig does have some swagger it's usually done with a sulk.

This edit attempts to reassemble the Craig era into a smaller single-film-length package that keeps the best elements in a smooth narrative flow. As a result some of the slower and darker elements fall by the wayside and Bond feels more like the older eras.

The focus is the Spectre plot arc, and the bond girls were pared down to Vesper Lynd, Severine, and Madeleine so it felt like a cohesive film and not a mess of non-essential characters. This also ends up making the Vesper and Mr White plot arcs much more coherent since they aren't spread across a few films.

I wasn't a huge fan of the overall story of NTTD, but there is a gem of a short film hidden within it that has a completely different tone so I decided to pull that out and make Ana De Armas' sequence a standalone story, reworking a conversation Bond has with M to act as a proper ending.

After I finally saw the theatrical cut of No Time To Die (NTTD) I wanted to create a new version so Bond lives, and also be much, much shorter overall.
I thought NTTD was an over-bloated mess. It has beautiful imagery yes. Some of the shootouts and tense scenes are awesome to watch in the environments they're happening in. The callback to On Her Majesty's Secret Service (OHMSS) was actually nice to see, but the Dr. No callback not so much. I know Bond's wife dies in OHMSS so someone dying at the end of NTTD makes sense, like poetry. But I thought the poetry was kind of bad, so I rewrote it and made them all live in a wholesome Bond sort of way.
Also, the original death scene where we get all the various character's reactions to Bond being obliterated by hellfire had me laughing. I was cringing. The music was swelling! Had me dying... The story is mostly very full of itself, but the cinematography and action was fantastic.

This version has a much shorter pre-tite sequence (with a 'bloody' gun barrel), and in the end, Bond isn't poisoned and doesn't die.

MI6 agent, James Bond, earns his 00 agent license to kill and becomes the infamous 007.