The film we’ve been calling Bond 25 for the last while has finally been given a proper title, which we’ll get to in a second.
In the film, Daniel Craig will play Bond for the fifth and final time, although rumour has it, he might not be playing 007 – that role could be going to a woman.
While people were losing their minds over the idea of a lady spy (ladies can be spies now, guys – whatever will they think of next?), they decided to call the film No Time To Die.
Uhm…okay?
Let’s head on over to the BBC for how this happened:
007 fans may be aware that famed Bond producer Cubby Broccoli was also behind a 1958 prisoner of war film called No Time To Die (which was also known as Tank Force).
That film was directed by Terence Young, who also worked on the Bond movies Dr No, From Russia With Love and Thunderball.
It was co-written by screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who adapted the Bond stories for almost every film from Dr No to Licence to Kill.
No Time to Die was so popular the first time around that people decided that Tank Force (of all things) would be a better name.
So, they decided to use it again?
Let’s see what VICE has to say about it:
The name of this movie is somehow even dumber than its old working title, Shatterhand, whatever that was supposed to mean. No Time to Die is such a dumb name that it’s actually… kind of incredible.
It allows us to envision a fateful encounter in which Rami Malek, who’s playing the villain this time around, holds a gun to Daniel Craig’s head and—after delivering a requisite Evil Speech in which he outlines his plan for global ruination—asks him if he has any last words, to which Craig replies: “Hey, man, I know this is pretty pressing, but I’m really, really slammed—I just don’t have time to die right now.”
It’s the late-capitalist protestant-work-ethic approach to death.
I might have no time to watch this film.
