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I think Quantum of Solace can be blamed on the writer's strike. Skyfall wasn't bad. The Christoph Waltz movies were ruined by spending too much time caught up in the canon of Bond, much like Tom Cruise climbed up his own ass in the last couple of Mission films trying to weld it into a coherent arc that no one asked for.
Which I think is just a general industry trend now.
Can someone explain why an American strike could so affect a British franchise produced by a British company, filmed in Europe and Mexico, directed by a Swiss-German director and where two thirds of the writers were Brits?
God is a Yankee?
But yes, @Thoroughlygranted has the right of it: The writers were part of the WGA regardless of their nationality and so there was no one around to write the script.
Big movies tend to be unionized. I remember it was a big issue with From Dusk Till Dawn - covered in Full Tilt Boogie if you really care - where they faced strikes and shut downs for making a movie for $15 million (which I guess passed whatever indie cutoff they were willing to tolerate)
Craig/the production could have tried to find some anonymous scab but do you want them writing for Bond? And even people who aren't in that guild are in another one, so it'd be pretty awkward for them.
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The writers were probably still WGA members, and even if not, Hollywood is enough of a union industry that publicly crossing the picket line would do a lot of damage to your career
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