No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond film (and the final with Daniel Craig), was one of the first to be impacted by the epidemic — and it wasn’t even the first time it was delayed. After initial director Danny Boyle abandoned the project, the picture was originally set to be released in November 2019, then February 2020, and finally April 2020. Cary Joji Fukunaga took his position, although the April premiere was postponed until November owing to COVID. Have you gotten all of that? I’m not finished yet: November 2020 morphed into April 2021, which then morphed into October 2021. As the FINAL trailer for No Time to Die makes clear, it is the FINAL release date.
Put another way, in the time since No Time to Die was originally supposed to come out and now, we’ve gone through an entire Ana de Armas (who plays the mysterious Paloma in the film) and Ben Affleck relationship and the resurrection of Bennifer.
Here’s the official plot synopsis:
Bond has retired from active duty and is living a peaceful life in Jamaica in No Time To Die. When his old acquaintance Felix Leiter from the CIA shows up and asks for assistance, his calm is short-lived. The mission to save an abducted scientist turns out to be far more perilous than Bond had anticipated, leading him to a mystery enemy with dangerous new technology.
Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, Billy Magnussen, Rory Kinnear, David Dencik, and Dali Benssalah feature in No Time to Die, which opens (for real this time) on October 8.
