Quantum of Solace is getting pretty well reviewed, besides setting European box office records, always a good sign. Bond 22 has a harder James Bond turned almost invincible through revenge facing off against a realistic enemy. But new reports suggest Quantum of Solace almost included Bond’s orphaned son…

From Vulture:

According to [Solace Director Marc] Forster, Bond nearly became a father in a plot twist written by one of Quantum of Solace’s many screenwriters, Paul Haggis.

“Haggis had an idea they weren’t fond of, and I didn’t know if it would work or not,” says Forster. “The idea was that Vesper in the last movie, maybe she had a kid, and there would be an orphan out there. It wasn’t anything to insult the franchise. But they felt it wasn’t particularly Bond — him looking for the kid. I think Paul thought he just leaves the kid, he doesn’t deal with it. But [the producers] thought that would be really nasty, too, because Bond was an orphan himself. If he would find a kid, would he just leave it? They were so vehemently against it. That was the only time I saw, really, ‘No, we can’t do that.’ They said, ‘Once he finds the kid, Bond can’t just leave the kid. It’s not right.’”

Bond as a baby daddy? We know how that went for Indiana Jones.

Being fans of darker Bond and Roger Moore Bond equally, we can say that leaving an orphaned child off in the world would set the tone for the character for many films to come. Since Quantum of Solace is the first direct Bond sequel (with the film picking up mere minutes after the end of Casino Royale), it’s safe to say that Daniel Craig’s Bond needs to have a consistent character, evolved out of Royale’s blunt-object-killing-machine.

Solace’s Bond is harder, but ditching an orphan hard?

Then again, knowing Hollywood’s eagerness to plunder all plotlines, if a Bond orphan was planted in any Bond film, we wouldn’t see the last of him until we saw his corpse.

008? Boo-urns.