In 1967, Sean Connery's James Bond movie You Only Live Twice was the first film in the 007 franchise to wrestle with the concept of mortality in its title. Since then, six of the subsequent Bond films have had titles that relate to life, death or killing. Which makes sense. Life, death, and killing are at the core of every James Bond movie.
Now, after a long wait, the title for the upcoming James Bond 25 movie has been announced—and it gets back to some of 007's favorite naming conventions.
No Time to Die, as Bond 25 is called, will be out on April 8, 2020 in the U.S. and April 3 in the UK.
Directed by True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga, No Time to Die was delayed earlier this year when Daniel Craig injured his ankle on the set and underwent reparative surgery. Also starring Rami Malek as the main villain, the film will follow Bond after he’s left MI6, "when his friend Felix Leiter enlists his help in the search for a missing scientist. When it becomes apparent that they were abducted, Bond must confront a danger the likes of which the world has never seen," according to the film’s official synopsis.
With this film presumably being Craig's final outing as Bond, expectations are high, especially considering breakout star Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been brought in to punch up the No Time to Die script. Brought in to make the female characters seem like actual humans, Waller-Bridge told Deadline that the Bond franchise is "absolutely relevant now. It has just got to grow. It has just got to evolve, and the important thing is that the film treats the women properly. He doesn’t have to. He needs to be true to this character.”
