James Bond meets Q in a new clip from Skyfall: watch now

Skyfall has released a new clip online, featuring the Ben Whishaw’s Q and Daniel Craig’s James Bond.

The footage focusses on Bond’s first meeting with his new quartermaster (whom he catchily dubs ‘Q’) in London’s National Gallery.

Speaking in potent metaphors about a piece of art, the scene encapsulates the fear that 007 might be an outdated relic in the modern world.

There’s a nice odd-couple interplay between the pair, which we’ll hopefully get to see develop across the course of a couple more franchise entries.

Watch the Skyfall clip (courtesty of Yahoo! ) below:

Skyfall opens in the UK on 26 October 2012.

Read our Skyfall review .

Matt Maytum
Editor, Total Film

I'm the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I've worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at 12DOVE, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.

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