There have been twenty-four Bond films to this date and all of them have been box office bangers. A twenty-fifth Bond film is also on its way now. No Time to Die, or Bond 25, will be the fifth Bond film with Daniel Craig as the titular character. This will be his last outing as the famous MI6 agent, James Bond. The film will be the first one to be produced by Universal Pictures. The franchise was earlier under the Sony Pictures banner. Their contract ended in 2015, after the release of Spectre. The film will be directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.
Cast of No Time to Die
Daniel Craig will be returning to the role of James Bond for the last time in No Time to Die. Léa Seydoux also reprises her role of Dr. Madeleine Swann from the previous Bond films. Ben Whishaw’s character Q also returns in Bond 25, as does Naomie Harris’s character of Eve Moneypenny. Other returning characters include M, Bill Tanner, Felix Leiter and Ernst Stavro Blofeld; played by Ralph Fiennes, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright and Christoph Waltz, respectively.
Rami Malek joins the cast as Bond’s adversary in the film, Safin. Lashana Lynch also joins the cast as Nomi, who entered the ’00’ service after Bond retired. Other new additions to the cast include Ana de Armas, who plays the role of CIA agent Paloma, Dali Benssalah as Primo, another one of Bond’s adversaries, David Dencik as the abducted scientist Valdo Obruchev and Billy Magnussen as Logan Ash, a CIA agent against Bond.
Release Date of No Time to Die
No Time to Die was originally scheduled to release in April 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the release of the film was postponed to November 2020. The film will release on November 12, 2020 in the United Kingdom and on November 20, 2020, in the United States.