While the new James Bond film “No Time to Die” has been pushed back by seven months, the delay came too late to stop certain media events from happening such as Craig’s “Saturday Night Live” appearance.
Another has been some just published long lead interviews for the film including a massive feature piece with Craig himself for GQ along with the film’s production designer Mark Tildesley talking it up with Total Film.
Tildesley’s most interesting comments revolve around not the finished film by director Cary Fukunaga, but an abandoned earlier incarnation that was to be directed by Danny Boyle and penned by screenwriter John Hodge. Both worked on their Bond film for much of a year before exiting, and Tildesley labels what wanted to do as “crazy” and “madcap,” but was a film with “some extraordinary ideas [that] just needed a little pulling together.”
Said ideas though “didn’t quite tie up with what [Bond producers] Barbara [Broccoli] and Michael [G. Wilson] had planned. It was definitely a good thing to do. Maybe another time though. I’m revving Barbara up to have another go with Danny.”
Craig meanwhile says he was more involved in the writing of this film than his others saying: “This is my last movie. I’ve kept my mouth shut before…and I’ve regretted that I did” and adds that he was instrumental in hiring Phoebe Waller-Bridge to work on the script.
The full GQ piece is very much worth a read and can be seen by clicking here.
