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| Directed by | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
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| Based on | James Bond by Ian Fleming |
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| Cinematography | Linus Sandgren |
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| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
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Running time | 163 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $250–301 million |
| Box office | $774.2 million |
No Time to Die is a 2021 spy thriller movie. It is twenty-fifth movie in the James Bond series. The sequel to Spectre (2015), it is the fifth and final movie to star Daniel Craig as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond. In the movie, Bond has retired from active service in MI6 and is recruited by the CIA to extract a kidnapped scientist carrying deadly DNA-targeting nanobots, leading him to uncover a plot by the bioterrorist Lyutsifer Safin to kill millions of people. The movie was directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay he co-wrote with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based on a story conceived by Purvis, Wade, and Fukunaga. In addition to Craig, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, and Rory Kinnear reprise their roles from previous movies, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, and Dali Benssalah appearing in new roles.
Development on the movie began in 2016. Danny Boyle was originally attached to direct and co-write the screenplay with John Hodge. Both left in August 2018 due to creative differences, and Fukunaga was announced as Boyle's replacement a month later. Most of the cast had signed on by April 2019, and principal photography took place from April to October 2019. No Time to Die is the only James Bond film starring Daniel Craig that was not co-produced by Columbia Pictures, due to the expiration of a deal between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Sony. It is also the only James Bond film to be distributed by United Artists Releasing, a joint venture between MGM and Annapurna Pictures, as well as the last movie in the franchise to be released by MGM before the studio's acquisition by Amazon on 17 March 2022. Billie Eilish performed the theme song, No Time to Die, and Hans Zimmer composed the score, with Steve Mazzaro serving as the score producer.
After being delayed by Boyle's departure and later by the COVID-19 pandemic, No Time to Die premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 28 September 2021, and was released in the United Kingdom on 30 September and in the United States on 8 October. The movie received generally positive reviews from critics. It grossed over $774 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing movie of 2021, the third-highest-grossing Bond movie, and the third-highest-grossing movie (and second-highest Bond movie) of all time in the UK. No Time to Die was nominated for three awards at the 94th Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song, and received numerous other accolades.
On 20 February 2025, Amazon MGM Studios announced that it had gained full creative control of the James Bond franchise from Danjaq and Eon Productions, making this the final movie in the series to be produced under the stewardship of Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson or Barbara Broccoli.