The first two movies of the rebooted Bond-franchise were at the start of Bond's career (when he was likely in his late twenties/thirties), but when does Skyfall take place in relation to other things going on with Bond?
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Timelines and James Bond don't go hand in hand, he's an ageless character and will always continue to be up to date regardless of when the stories are set.
Having said that if you're determined to answer the question, there are a few clues we can divine.
- He has acquired the Aston Martin, therefore it must be after Casino Royal
- The Aston has an ejector seat and machine guns which were fitted for GoldFinger
- It's Judi Dench's M character final mission therefore it must be after all of the Brosnan Bonds
- Q mentions the exploding pen which was last seen in GoldenEye
If you put these facts together Bond has most likely completed the missions in all the other films, however as I suggested at the start Bond and chronology questions are always going to be very hard because of the nature of the franchise.
For example in GoldenEye M is the new head of MI6 and meets an experienced 007, in Casino Royale that same M promotes him to the 00 section!
First of all, the James Bond movies (or rather the pre-Craig movies) don't adhere to an actual realistic timeline that goes through all of the movies. Without some small exceptions (Bond's wife and her death) there aren't any major cross-movie story developments and any Bond movie can be seen as rather stand-alone, even if some small comments and allusions to previous movies are made here and there (e.g. at the scale of Brosnan making a small remark about the jet-pack from Thunderball, but nothing serious or story-relevant).
But this is slightly different for the Craig-movies. First of all they're actually a reboot. Whereas all the previous movies didn't really care that much about their respective prequels, Casino Royale was the first to actively reboot the whole franchise and introduce James Bond as a completely new character recently promoted to 00-status. This means that any previous movies, in contrast to merely being ignored, don't actually exist in the world of this rebooted franchise.
On the other hand this new rebooted franchise comes with a much tighter cross-movie development and the individual movies' stories are interweaved much more tightly (especially noticable with Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, though less with Skyfall). So while it is rather pointless to come up with an actual timeline for the pre-Craig movies, the Craig-franchise indeed has a sequential timeline with the movies happening in the order they came out and roughly at the timescales they are released. It has to be seen how far this is kept on with future Craig-movies, but since rather important story developments happened to major characters in Skyfall (especially M), I'm pretty sure the next movie will not just ignore those but rather reference them, be it only slightly.
So to answer your actual question, Skyfall likely takes place a couple of years after Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace and any other Bond adventures known from other movies didn't actually happen in this rebooted universe.
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It is complicated because the early films were made in the roughly reverse order that the books were written. So for example Quarrel is first met in the early book Live and Let Die and then dies in Dr No. For the film Live and Let Die they called him Quarrel Jr.
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Felix Leiter's character is similarly distorted but there is some continuity within the books and within the films but never between the books and the films.
The Craig era films are best considered a reboot as they would have had to set Casino Royale in the 1950s to preserve continuity with the older films.
The Craig series takes place before all the other movies. In Casino Royale, Bond first gets his 00 license. At the end of Skyfall, the new MI6 office is identical to the one from the old movies and Moneypenny begins working as M's liaison. It's all in the last 60 seconds of the movie so it's easy to miss.
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I am curious, plot-wise, what the chronological order of the James Bond films are?
I seem to recall that Casino Royal and Quantum of Solace are set in the beginning of James' career as a 00-agent and that Dr. No is set before he became aware of SPECTRE's existence. But that's about it.
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Film wise (that is, ignoring depictions in television and cameo's), there are 3 continuities.
- The simplest is the standalone Casino Royale. This is a one offspoof, but as it was produced by MGM and Cubby Brocolli, must stillbe considered 'official'; despite it's comedic nature.
The next two are more strictly 'canon', although they don't both employ what is known as rolling continuity.
From Dr. No to Die Another Day, all theConnery/Lazenby/Moore/Dalton/Brosnan films should loosely beconsidered in chronological order in the order they were released.This is never explicitly confirmed, but simply the style andtechnology of the films production roughly indicates a progressionforward of time. It's problematic to be this simplistic, and it alsonegates the fact that for all the films to be in the same continuityBond would likely be pushing 80 by Die Another Day.
There is a fan theory that suggests that 'James Bond' was actuallyanother codename (like 007) that is passed from agent to agent, andas such they were never meant to be the same person. This is disputedby the events of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which actuallyattempts a rolling continuity for the first time. At the end of thisfilm, Bond's wife is murdered, and the start of the following filmbegins with Bond standing in front of her grave (despite a change inactor), demonstrating a direct causal link between the films.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service also features props from the previous films to assert a continuity, and contradictingly birthedthe 'Bond is different men' theory with the line 'This never happenedto the other fellow', referring to Bond's previous iteration.
The final continuity, the Daniel Craig iteration, is the strictest in sense of its's unfolding continuity. These films are linked directly, and follow one another quite obviously.
It's a misnomer to align all the Bond films in any continuity (with the exception of the Craig franchise), as most of the Connery-Brosnan years only referenced each other playingly and for humour, instead of the construction of a plot.
This is a tradition that continues into the Craig franchise, wherein the ejector seat Aston Martin from Goldfinger shows up in Skyfall. It's simply a knowing nod to the audience, it isn't supposed to assert that Daniel Craig's Bond has previously been present in the events of Goldfinger.
You must also take into account that Thunderball the book was made as Thunderball the movie, and was also made as Never Say Never Again, both staring Sean Connery (the reasons why are long & legal, but basically, the writer of the first film script left, but still retained film rights to his script, which was made into a film years later). Just to complicate matters, there have been also more than one Casino Royale (1 with Daniel Craig, 1 with David Niven, and an earlier one too produced by an American television company as a made for television play).
As such, I'd offer that one should use the order of the Flemming books, and ignore the films, as they were not produced in order.