"James Bond: Spectre" will be Daniel Craig's fourth film as the British secret agent 007, following his successful films "Casino Royale," "Quantum of Solace," and "Skyfall."
For "Spectre," Craig told Entertainment Weekly that they have "squared a few holes" and made "a conscious decision to wrap up some loose ends."
"That's not the main thrust of the film. It's the foundation of the film. It does pay in somewhere," he said.
To create "Spectre," Craig wanted to get "Skyfall" director Sam Mendes, but Mendes initially did not want to be involved in another Bond film.
"They were very keen, as studios would be, to ride the wave. 'Let's do another one. And another one! Before everybody forgets!'" Craig said. "Mendes had a lot of other commitments. He needed that space to go, 'I don't want to think about Bond!'... I thought, 'I'm gonna do it with him. I'm not going to do it with anybody else. I want to do it with him.'"
Because of his contract with Eon Productions, Craig was obligated to do "Spectre" even without Mendes, but fortunately for him, they were able to convince Mendes to helm another Bond film.
What ultimately convinced Mendes to come back was to finish telling the "Bond creation myth" and share the secret agent's past that made him the "blunt instrument" for Britain's secret service.
Craig admitted that he really did not plan on becoming the sixth actor to portray Bond, and he thought that it would actually be very easy turning down the offer.
"They were going to show me a script that was like other Bond movies. It was going to have the gags in it, what Pierce did, what Sean had done. They'd all be in there. And I could go, 'Thank you very much, good luck with that.' And that would have been wonderful. I would have been totally at peace with it," he said.
But then, he was offered "Casino Royale," which was beautifully written by Paul Haggis. After reading it, Craig was more than eager to portray Bond.
"I didn't want the character to just be what a lot of the older Bonds were," he said. "Not sort of a criticism of them. The character was there... For me, to tell a story, to tell an emotional story, that's what you've got to do. We spent months and months before we started this hammering out the script to make it do that. So that it was possible for that to happen."
