Judi Dench the updated Walt Disney World Epcot attraction Spaceship Earth in February 2008. The same month, she was named as the first official patron of the York Youth Mysteries 2008, a project to allow young people to explore the York Mystery Plays through dance, film-making and circus. Her only film of 2008 was Marc Forster's "Quantum of Solace", the twenty-second Eon-produced James Bond film, in which she reprised her role as M along with Daniel Craig. A direct sequel to the 2006 film "Casino Royale", Forster felt Dench was underused in the previous films, and wanted to make her part bigger,
Peter and Alice Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, breaks your heart open."". However, there was some criticism of the play. Henry Hitchings in "The Evening Standard" wrote: "" this is a piece that uses lush language to compensate for its lack of real dynamism"". Despite this, the critics applauded the performance of Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, with one critic saying ""Dame Judi and Mr Whishaw are good, she almost Queen Motherly these days, he so sensitive, so irredeemably moist, that he could do with sponging."" Peter and Alice Peter and Alice is a play by American writer John Logan based on the