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★★★★★ | No Time to Die

It’s better than good. It’s magnificent. With #NoTimetoDie, Daniel Craig's Bond has finally delivered on his initial promise – a moving portrait of an antiquated hero facing his own obsolescence thetimes.co.uk/article/no-tim…

Daniel Craig’s last outing as 007 was cursed by Covid, changing directors, changing scrips, injuries — and even an Amazon takeover. How did it all still come together?

Craig, Rami Malek and producer Barbara Broccoli reveal all
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In May 2018, Danny Boyle was announced as the man who would make Craig’s final hurrah. But in August of that year, he suddenly bowed out due to “creative differences”

What happened? Did he want to kill off Bond? Or something more?

In September, True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga was announced as the film’s new director and the release date was pushed back to 2020. The script was re-written

Fukunaga’s CV is more audacious than most directors who have taken on Bond

A couple of months into filming, on May 22, 2019, while sprinting for a shot in Jamaica, Craig slips awkwardly and injures his ankle, requiring surgery

Later an explosion at Pinewood studios injures a crew member

Production seems cursed

That August, Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge is given a writing role on No Time to Die. Only the second woman to have a writing credit on Bond, questions are asked as to whether she’s been brought in to help the films be a little less misogynistic

Filming eventually wraps, but No Time to Die fails to make its April 2020 release date, as Covid-19 shuts down the film industry – and the world

It then misses its new release dates of October 2, 2020 and April 2021

After all the tumult of rewrites, injuries and a global pandemic, was Craig’s swan-song worth the wait?

Yes; and then some
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