“Everyone at MGM was very good about calling me and keeping me in the loop, from Kevin Ulrich to Mike De Luca,” he says. Amplifying the tension between theatrical purists and VOD adoptees, Amazon announced in May it was buying MGM, prompting speculation that No Time to Die, too, was destined for some sort of hybrid release. 2021 lineup, became slated for simultaneous streaming releases. During the ensuing months, film after film, including Marvel’s Black Widow and the entire Warner Bros.
In 2020, just seven days after his prescient remarks at Goldcrest, Bond became the first Hollywood tentpole to move release dates because of the pandemic, ushering in an era of theatrical uncertainty not seen since the advent of television. He also just wrapped shooting on day 70 of Apple TV+’s Band of Brothers sequel, Masters of the Air, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.īut the 44-year-old filmmaker knows the real stakes for both his career and the industry at large rest on No Time to Die. After delivering No Time to Die, he helped remotely re-edit the Mark Wahlberg drama Joe Bell, directed a Perrier campaign in Greece and hammered out a rewrite on an eight-part limited series, A Soldier of the Great War, based on Mark Helprin’s 1991 novel. “A whole lifetime” has passed since our 2020 meeting and, given the circumstances, Fukunaga says he’s been surprisingly busy. “Coronavirus will be very bad for the film.”ĭaniel Craig on Why He's Preferred Going to Gay Bars: "It Was a Very Safe Place to Be"įast-forward 19 months, and Fukunaga is back in London, still waiting for what is surely the most anticipated Bond film ever to roll out to multiplexes around the world, including Oct. “Obviously, you don’t want to take something lightly when people’s lives are at stake,” he said, then paused. His first feature, the Spanish-language crime drama Sin Nombre, took a box office beating when swine flu shuttered theaters in Mexico in 2009. But Fukunaga couldn’t shake the feeling that history was about to repeat itself. “It sounds like the Chinese authorities are doing everything they can to contain it,” she said. “I try not to think about the box office pressures,” he told me at the time, “although right now obviously I’m very concerned about coronavirus.” Bond producer and gatekeeper Barbara Broccoli downplayed concerns about how the virus might affect the $245 million film and its expectations to eclipse the previous Bond’s worldwide haul of $881 million. The world premiere was to take place at Royal Albert Hall in a month. The director was standing in front of a wall filled with 100-plus index cards featuring scene titles like “Bond loses control.” He was just days away from delivering to MGM his cut of No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond installment, which would mark Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 and a major coup for Fukunaga, the first American to helm a Bond. 26, 2020, at London’s Goldcrest postproduction facilities. The first time this THR reporter met Cary Fukunaga was on Feb.
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