No Time to Die (2021)
- The incredible score for No Time to Die was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- The original script for No Time to Die was written over a decade before production finally began in 2021.
- Cary Joji Fukunaga originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
No Time to Die is a 2021 British spy film directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, the 25th official James Bond film and Daniel Craig's fifth and final appearance as 007. The film finds Bond retired in Jamaica when his old CIA friend Felix Leiter, played by Jeffrey Wright, recruits him to rescue a kidnapped scientist whose work has been weaponized into a nanobot bioweapon capable of targeting specific DNA sequences. The mission leads Bond to Safin, played by Rami Malek, a masked villain with a personal vendetta whose plan threatens the entire world.
No Time to Die brought Craig's Bond era to a conclusion that was unprecedented in the franchise's 59-year history — Bond's ultimate fate was a genuine narrative risk that divided fans but gave Craig's tenure a dramatic completeness no previous Bond had received. Léa Seydoux returned as Madeleine Swann, and their relationship provided the emotional foundation. Hans Zimmer's score and Billie Eilish's title song, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, created a suitably grand sonic backdrop.
No Time to Die earned $774 million worldwide on a $250 million budget.
