No Time To Die ’s Release Is Delayed Seven Months Because of Coronavirus
News broke moments ago that the upcoming 25th James Bond film, No Time To Die, has had its release day delayed until November due to fears of the spread of the COVID-19 flu (coronavirus) that has infected close to 100,000 people around the globe. No Time To Die was initially scheduled to premiere in the U.S. on April 10.
Now, the film will premiere in the United Kingdom on November 12 and open in the United States on November 25—a more than seven-month delay.
No Time To Die, which is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and stars Daniel Craig in what will be his fifth and final outing as 007, had already had its Hong Kong premiere delayed, and subsequent publicity tours in China, South Korea, and Japan were scrapped due to coronavirus fears.
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson of Eon Productions, the studio that historically has been the Bond films’s primary producer, pushed for the delay. THR also notes that China, Italy, France, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea—all countries that are currently experiencing coronavirus outbreaks—accounted for 38 percent of the global earnings for Spectre, the previous Bond film.
No Time To Die is the first major blockbuster to alter its global rollout due to the virus; it remains to be seen if it will be the last.
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