Bond and Madeleine Swann bring us on an emotional rollercoaster. "You have all the time in the world," he says. "She does have your eyes," she responds, confirming that Mathilde is his daughter. "I know," he says, as the missiles come down on the base.
He then realizes that the base's doors are closing yet again, forcing him to make his way back to the control room. Safin then attacks him, smashing the vial with nanobots coded with Madeleine's DNA upon Bond's face. Bond kills Safin in return, then calls Madeleine, who confirms that Mathilde is indeed his daughter.
And it all comes from one small child. Mathilde (Lisa-Dorah Sonnet) is Madeleine's (Léa Seydoux) daughter. This is news to Madeleine's on-again-off-again tortured love interest Bond (Craig), and while she initially denies the idea that Bond is the father, that truth becomes pretty apparent pretty quickly.
EXCLUSIVE: Léa Seydoux who played Dr. Madeleine Swann in the two most recent 007 films, Spectre and No Time to Die, posed a mischievous question about whether audiences will see the mother of James Bond's daughter in the next instalment of the long-running film franchise.
Madeleine is the daughter of SPECTRE agent, Mr. White and his wife. In 1998, Lyutsifer Safin came to the White house in Nittedal, Norway to kill Mr. White; who had murdered his entire family on orders from SPECTRE leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Taking place right after Spectre, the couple's idyllic vacation to Matera, Italy is about letting the past go. But before long, SPECTRE is wreaking havoc, causing James to question whether Madeleine can be trusted. Which prevents her from breaking the big news she was about to reveal: she's pregnant with their child.
There was a 17 year age gap between James Bond and Madeleine Swann, his love interest, this didn't work. The touchy-feely script was miserable and tedious.
Because the nanotechnology would kill Swann and Mathilde if they were ever exposed to it, Bond decides to sacrifice himself by staying behind on Safin's exploding island. Before he dies, Bond tells Swann that he loves her and Mathilde, and Swann confirms that he is in fact her father.
Bond and Madeleine Swann bring us on an emotional rollercoaster. "You have all the time in the world," he says. "She does have your eyes," she responds, confirming that Mathilde is his daughter.
No Time to Die final international trailer (MGM)
Towards the end of the story, James Bond discovers that he fathered a child with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), named Mathilde (Lisa-Dorah Sonnet), but after being poisoned by terrorist nemesis Safin (Rami Malek), he makes a drastic decision.
Dr. Madeleine Swann is a fictional French psychiatrist originally affiliated to the Austrian Hoffler Klinik organization. She is also the daughter of the mysterious SPECTRE member Mr. White and the lover of Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) operative James Bond, becoming the mother of his only child.
We'll get onto why he decided not to kill her in the next section, but the general gist is that he's out for revenge and a portion of that is directed at Madeleine due to her family connection.
Although they are both happy together, Madeleine knows Bond still has lingering thoughts about Vesper Lynd, whom she points out is buried close to them. She encourages to let her go, doing the same with her memory of Safin by writing “masked man” in French on a piece of paper and burning it.
In a 2020 interview with Variety, the franchise's producer Barbara Broccoli said: “James Bond can be of any colour, but he is male.” She explained this is because she'd rather create new characters for women to portray, rather than have a woman play a role originally written as male.
In No Time To Die, the fact that Daniel Craig's James Bond has blue eyes was intrinsic to the twist that James is the father of Madeleine's four-year-old daughter, Mathilde (Lisa-Dorah Sonnet).
Bond 26: Is there a release date? There is no release date currently set for the next James Bond movie. The last entry in the franchise, No Time To Die, was released on September 30, 2021.
With help from his MI6 colleagues, Bond is able to locate them and embarks on a rescue mission, where he comes face to face with Safin – who informs him what he had probably already guessed: Mathilde is his daughter.
Since Mathilde's strange mosquito ramblings begin shortly after Bond carries his daughter into the car, maybe the "mosquito bite" sensation she mentions is actually the Heracles virus picked up from 007. That could mean Madeleine was Blofeld's daughter after all, making Mathilde his granddaughter.
As the movie comes towards its end, we learn that Safin (played by Rami Malek) has adapted the Heracles Project to make a DNA-targeted chemical weapon that could wipe out millions across the world. The problem is the film never actually explains why he would want to do this.
As the former 007 reflects at Vesper's tomb, he retrieves a piece of paper from his pocket. Bond had written the words "I miss you," which he then sets on fire and tosses in front of Vesper's tomb. This significant moment not only confirms that Vesper was Bond's greatest love.
Bond's first encounter with Oberhauser has the villain cry "cuckoo". This is a reference to Bond being a "cuckoo in the nest", the foreigner disrupting the happiness of Oberhauser's family life. Franz Oberhauser is supposed to be the son of the Fleming-created character, Hannes Oberhauser.
Spectre Established Blofeld As The Overarching Villain Of Craig's Bond Era. In one of the biggest retcons in James Bond history, Spectre established that Ernst Stavro Blofeld was James Bond's adoptive brother, who was originally known as Franz Oberhauser.
White poisoned Safin's entire family with deadly dioxin, with only young Safin (Malek) surviving. The dioxin poisoning disfigured Safin's face – think of the real-life 2004 dioxin poisoning of Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko – and affects Safin's slow, deliberate movements.
For Bond fans in the mid-'70s to mid-'80s, Roger Moore was the quintessential Bond, and has starred in the most films for any actor in the franchise.
Madeleine Swann carries a deadly secret in No Time To Die.