According to an interview in Time Out, the last Bond film, Quantum of Solace, was not meant to be a direct continuation of Daniel Craig’s debut outing as 007, Casino Royale.

“It was never meant to be as much of a sequel as it was, but it ended up being a sequel, starting where the last one finished,” Craig said, pointing out that “On Quantum, we were f***ed. We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do. We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, ‘Never again’, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes – and a writer I am not.”

Craig, currently promoting his appearance in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is much happier with the situation on Skyfall with director Sam Mendes. “He’s English, he’s Cambridge-educated, he’s smart,” Craig told Time Out. “He’s lived with Bond all his life, he grew up with Bond the way I did. We grew up at exactly the same time, and I said to him, “We have to do this together, we have exactly the same reference points, we both like the same Bond movies and we both like the same bits in the same Bond movies we like.” We sat down and we just rabbited for hours about Live and Let Die or From Russia with Love, and talked about little scenes that we knew from them. That’s how we started talking about it. That’s what we tried to instill in the script. He’s been working his arse off to tie all these things together so they make sense – in a Bond way.”

Skyfall is currently shooting, and opens in the UK on October 26, 2012.