No Time To Die | James Bond 007

Synopsis

After a flashback to Madeleine’s childhood and an attack on her family home, in which the masked assassin Safin spares her life, Bond and Madeleine are enjoying a new life in Italy. Bond visits Vesper Lynd’s family tomb to say his final goodbye but is set upon by SPECTRE agents led by the henchman Primo. The pair escape in the Aston Martin DB5. Bond believes that Madeleine has betrayed him and they part ways.
In London, SPECTRE attacks again, destroying a laboratory that is developing a devastating bioweapon called Heracles, and kidnapping its chief scientist Valdo Obruchev. In the wake of the attack, Felix Leiter visits Bond in Jamaica and asks for his help. Bond sails to Cuba where he and CIA agent Paloma witness Heracles kill a gathering of SPECTRE agents. Bond beats the new double-0 agent to the capture of Obruchev and delivers him to Felix out at sea. The rogue CIA agent Logan Ash betrays them, killing Felix. Bond returns to London, desperate to avenge his friend’s death. Bond receives a frosty reception from M although is eventually allowed to visit the incarcerated Blofeld. This precipitates a brief and painful reunion with Madeleine and elicits a number of startling revelations from Blofeld before he succumbs to a nasty death. Armed with fresh information, Bond tracks Madeleine to Norway and the pair reunite, learning about the villain Safin and enmity for SPECTRE from secret files collected by Madeleine’s father, Mr White. Ash attacks them and Safin kidnaps Madeleine, taking her to his island base. M orders Bond and Nomi to attack and they rescue Madeleine, killing Obruchev, Primo and Safin.

Cast

Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Jeffrey Wright, Rory Kinnear, Christoph Waltz, David Dencik, Ana de Armas, Billy Magnussen, Dali Benssalah

Producers

Michael G. Wilson
Barbara Broccoli

Director

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Release Date

30 September 2021 (UK)
8 October 2021 (USA)

World Premiere

28 September 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London

Locations

Pinewood Studios, London locations, Dunsfold, RAF Brize Norton, Ascot, Salisbury Plain, Windsor Great Park, Aviemore, Ardverikie Estate Inverness-shire, Cairngorms National Park, Portsmouth and Devizes, UK; Faroe Islands; Matera, Gravina, Puglia and Sapri, Italy; Kingston and Port Antonio, Jamaica; Akershus, Langvann Lake, Grevevein, Hakadal, Hakadal Verk, Nittdedal, the Atlantic Road Vevang and Oslo, Norway

Music

“No Time To Die” performed by Billie Eilish, written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell

Vehicles

Aston Martin DB5, Land Rover Series III, Submersible Glider, Triumph Tiger 1200XE, Triumph Tiger 900, Aston Martin V8, Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, Aston Martin Valhalla, Land Rover Defender 110, Jaguar XF, Chevrolet Bel Air, Spirit 46 yacht, Royal Alloy Scooter, C17-Globemaster aircraft, Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Series 1, Lancia Thesis, Maserati Quattroporte, Toyota Land Cruiser, HMS Dragon Type 45 air defence destroyer

Gadgets/Weapons/Technology

Aston Martin DB5’s upgraded gadgets: LED number plate, M134 miniguns, enhanced smoke screen, mini mine dispenser, re-configured control panel, bulletproof body and glass
Omega Seamaster Diver 300M with EMP
Puck Bomb
Bionic eyeball
QDAR tracking device
Heracles DNA targeting weapon
Walter PPK
Walter P99 handgun
Browning high power handgun
M4 assault rifle
Sig 226 handgun
AKS74U assault rifle
HK 416 assault rifle
HK MP5K machine gun
HK VP9 handgun
HK G36 assault rifle
Beretta 92 handgun
Beretta ARX 160 assault rifle
Beretta PMX machine gun
Remington 860 super-shorty shotgun
M4 assault rifle
VZ58 machine gun
Uzi machine gun
Rhino revolver
AK47 assault rifle

Trivia

The official launch for the film took place at GoldenEye in Jamaica, once the home of Ian Fleming

Cary Joji Fukunaga is the first American director to make a James Bond film

The first James Bond film to be shot with IMAX cameras

There is no blood in the opening gun barrel sequence

It’s the first time four models of Aston Martin and Land Rover have appeared in a Bond film

Above Vesper’s grave in Matera there’s a Latin inscription which says “what you are, I once was, and what I am you will be” – a clue to what happens to 007 at the end of the film

The stunt team used 8,400 gallons of fizzy drink on the streets of Matera in order to make the surfaces more sticky for the car and bike chases

Producer Michael G. Wilson has a cameo as a SPECTRE guest at the party in Cuba

The film’s theme song was awarded the 2021 Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media, the first time a Grammy has been given to an unreleased film

Rami Malek wears a wig to portray Safin because he had come straight from shooting the TV series Mr. Robot

Eight DB5 stunt replicas were built by Aston Martin for filming and two cars that also appear in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Skyfall and Spectre were used for close-ups

No Time To Die is the holder of a Guinness World Records title for the most high explosives detonated in a single film take – 136.4kg of TNT equivalent was used as part of the climactic finale

David Dencik learned a Cuban accent for his audition, only to be told his character had changed nationality. He still did the accent in the audition

The design of Primo’s eyeball was based on the iPhone’s camera lens

Ice was shipped from Norway to Pinewood Studios to recreate the exterior of Madeleine’s childhood home

The escape from Madeleine’s lakehouse combines shots from seven different locations: a set built in Ascot, pursuit down the Atlantic highway in Norway, a chase along the shore of Loch Laggan in Scotland, shots from Salisbury Plain, a river bed on the Ardverike Estate in Scotland, then back to Ascot as the Land Cruiser attempts to hide in the foggy woods, before returning to Scotland for Safin’s helicopter escape and Nomi picking up Bond from the side of the road

This is the first Bond film where you see Q’s home