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 Nearly 60 years after the first
Bond film "Dr No" premiered, cinema's favourite
spy, known for his love of fast cars and cool
gadgets, returns in the highly-anticipated 25th
Bond movie next week after an 18-month delay due
to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Costing an estimated $200 million to produce,
"No Time To Die" sees Bond come out of
retirement from an idyllic life in Jamaica to
help track down a new villain armed with lethal
technology.
"I didn't think that I was going to do another
movie after ‘Spectre’. I genuinely thought that
I was going to ... just pack it in," Craig told
Reuters.
"But I'm so happy that I got the chance to come
and do this one. And we tied up lots of loose
ends. We've tried to tell one story with all my
Bond movies. It's like they're all connected in
some way and this one just sort of capped it
off."
Running at nearly three hours long, the film,
directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, promises the
usual Bond action, car chases and stunts in
picturesque locations, including the cave
dwellings of the southern Italian city of Matera.
It introduces new character Nomi, played by
Black actress Lashana Lynch and described simply
as a 00 agent at Bond's past employer, Britain's
MI6 foreign spy service. She looks just as
fierce and skilled as Bond.
"She's also a real human being. She's grounded
and she's from a good background and takes every
opportunity she gets and really runs with it.
She's really shifted things up at MI6 and will
continue to do so," Lynch said.
"It's groundbreaking for Black women, for my
culture, for the franchise as well that have
been pushing the needle forward for a long time
now."
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 French actress Lea Seydoux
reprises her role as Madeleine Swann from 2015's
"Spectre".
"Cary wanted to explore a bit more Madeleine's
character ... In a way, she's the heartbeat of
the film and the relationship with Bond is much
more developed," Seydoux said.
Rami Malek joins the franchise, one of
Hollywood's most valuable, as villain Safin.
"I looked at every villain in the history of
film almost to prepare for this," he told the
movie's official podcast.
After being postponed three times since its
original April 2020 slot, "No Time To Die" holds
its world premiere on Tuesday in London.
"I enjoyed them all ... They’re always a bit of
a struggle but anything worthwhile is always a
bit of a struggle so this was a joy to make,"
said Craig, who began his Bond journey in 2006's
"Casino Royal".
"(I'm) massively grateful to have been given the
chance to do it and ... all of the memories and
all the amazing times ... working with just
fantastic, amazing people ... it's changed my
life ... It's just amazing."
(Reporting by Sarah Mills; Additional reporting
by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by William
Maclean)
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