‘No Time To Die’ Bond Film Gets Later Release Date Amid Coronavirus Alert
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Due to the continuous spread of COVID-19, the release date for the latest James Bond film installment, No Time To Die, has been rescheduled to seven months later.
The founders of M16 Confidential and The James Bond Dossier revealed in an open letter on Monday that the film will be delayed. “Just one person, who may not even show symptoms, could infect the rest of the audience,” the note read.
The announcement follows pleas from several 007 fans asking to shift the release date.
The movie will now open on 25 November 2020 in the US and 12 November 2020 in the UK, as opposed to its prior scheduled April premiere.
Producers of the film explained that this change came from “careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace,” per the BBC.
No Time To Die will mark Daniel Craig’s last reprisal as the British espionage, James Bond. The previous Bond installment, Spectre, earned nearly US$900 million at box offices internationally in 2015.
Analysts have advised that the COVID-19 epidemic could swipe around US$5 billion from box office sales worldwide, with Chinese cinemas being closed down and burgeoning cases in South Korea, Italy, and Japan, one of world’s largest film markets.
The film will be released in the U.K. on November 12, 2020 with worldwide release dates to follow, including the US launch on November 25, 2020.
— James Bond (@007) March 4, 2020
[via BBC, cover image via James Bond 007]
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