No Time to Die was one of the first movies to delay its release when the COVID-19 outbreak first began rearing its ugly head. Instead of postponing the release by a few weeks, the film was pushed back all the way to November. Fast forward now to July and we still don’t know if that’s going to be a good time for theaters to be playing their blockbuster films.
No Time to Die is Daniel Craig’s last outing as iconic character James Bond. Cary Joji Fukunaga is the director and according to Cary, this is all too familiar for him:
“My first movie, Sin Nombre, came out during swine flu [pandemic in 2009], and it came out in cinemas in Mexico right when the President of Mexico said, ‘Do not go to cinemas.’ So, I had trauma from that experience, and as I was following the news of this, almost every day I was asking [the producers], ‘What’s the plan, guys? Because this isn’t stopping.’” Reflecting on the reshuffle, he adds: “I don’t think anyone could have foreseen how the world came to a complete standstill, but I did think audiences would not be going to cinemas.”
No Time to Die was originally meant to be released in April. That was a seven-month delay, but Cary won’t be using it to change the movie at all:
“You could just fiddle and tweak and it doesn’t necessarily get better. For all intents and purposes, we had finished the film. I had mentally finished the film. Mentally and emotionally.”
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Source: Empire
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