As the film goes back to Bond's roots, with the pre-title sequence taking place before he has gained his 'double-o' status, how will the Bond theme fit in? According to rumours, the famous guitar riff will not feature until the closing scene of the movie. With that restriction in place, Arnold says he has set out to create new motifs for the film. A recent quote in movie magazine Hotdog got fans buzzing that the film may include part of the "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" instrumental theme, but this is not true. Arnold explained on his official site that he referenced this, his favourite Bond soundtrack, as similar to "Casino Royale" only in that there will be new musical strands running throughout the film which will not be the Bond theme.

Bond music aficionados will have noticed motifs from the song "Surrender" throughout the soundtrack to "Tomorrow never Dies", which was planned as the title song before Sheryl Crow was signed to perform the title song and K. D. Lang's ballad was shifted to the end credits. Based on his comments, it would appear that Arnold is attempting this feat again, and is in good stead due to his collaboration in the title song writing with performer Chris Cornell.

You Know My Name
Cornell describes the new song as "more uptempo and a little more aggressive than any other Bond theme has been, maybe since Paul McCartney ("Live And Let Die"). It has an orchestra, but it also has some angry sounding guitar, and it's got feedback."

Arnold and Cornell finished recording "You Know My Name" in Air Studios in London (then mixed in L.A.) in late August and delivered it to Eon Productions and Sony. Arnold's focus then shifted to scoring the film.

With only rough cuts at this stage, Arnold could not comment on "what was in and what was out" of the final film, but left the door open to a suggestion that it could feature a song called "La Vie En Rose" in the scene where Bond and Vesper are dining together - a reference to the original novel by Ian Fleming.