

Madeleine tells him that when Safin was a boy, his parents were murdered by her father on Blofeld's orders. Bond reacts by attacking Blofeld, unintentionally causing the nanobots to infect and kill him.īond tracks Madeleine to her childhood home in Norway and learns she has a five-year-old daughter, Mathilde, who she claims is not his. Blofeld confesses to Bond that he staged the ambush at Vesper's tomb to appear as if Madeleine had betrayed him. When Bond encounters Madeleine at Blofeld's prison cell, he touches her and unknowingly infects himself before she leaves.

Safin visits and coerces Madeleine to infect herself with a nanobot dose to kill Blofeld, as she has been in contact with him since his imprisonment. Moneypenny and Q arrange a meeting between Bond and Blofeld in prison to try to find Obruchev. Bond captures Obruchev and rendezvouses with Leiter and Ash, but Ash, a double agent working for Safin, kills Leiter and escapes with Obruchev. Still imprisoned in Belmarsh, Blofeld uses a disembodied "bionic eye" to lead the meeting and order his members to kill Bond with a "nanobot mist", but it kills all the Spectre members instead, as Obruchev had reprogrammed the nanobots to infect them on Safin's orders. They infiltrate a Spectre meeting for Blofeld's birthday to retrieve Obruchev.

Bond initially declines, but after Nomi, an MI6 agent and his successor as 007, tells him about Project Heracles, Bond agrees to help Leiter, over Nomi's warnings not to interfere.īond goes to Cuba and meets Paloma, a CIA agent working with Leiter. Bond has retired to Jamaica, where he is contacted by the CIA agent Felix Leiter and his colleague Logan Ash, who ask for Bond's help in finding Obruchev. With M's approval Obruchev had developed Project Heracles, a bioweapon containing nanobots that infect like a virus upon touch and are coded to an individual's DNA, rendering it lethal to the target and their relatives but harmless to others. Though Bond and Madeleine escape the assassins led by Primo, he believes she has betrayed him, despite her pleas, and leaves her.įive years later, the MI6 scientist Valdo Obruchev is kidnapped from an MI6 laboratory. Spectre assassins ambush Bond when he visits Vesper Lynd's tomb. In the present, after the capture of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Madeleine is in Matera with James Bond. She flees onto a nearby frozen lake and falls through the ice, but he rescues her. In the past, a young Madeleine Swann witnesses the murder of her mother by Lyutsifer Safin in a failed attempt to murder her father Mr. 4.2 Theatrical release and postponements.The film received generally positive reviews, with many considering it to be a satisfying conclusion to Craig's time as Bond, and has grossed more than $735 million worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 2021. No Time to Die had its world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 28 September 2021, and was released in cinemas on 30 September 2021 in the UK and on 8 October 2021 in the US after being delayed by Boyle's departure and later by the COVID-19 pandemic. Principal photography took place from April to October 2019. Most of the cast had signed by April 2019. Both left in August 2018 due to creative differences, and Fukunaga was announced as Boyle's replacement a month later. Danny Boyle was originally attached to direct and co-write the screenplay with John Hodge. United Artists Releasing holds the rights for North America, as well as worldwide digital and television rights Universal also holds the worldwide rights for physical home media. It is the first Bond film to be distributed by Universal Pictures, which acquired the international distribution rights following the expiration of Sony Pictures' contract after the release of Spectre in 2015. In this film, Bond, who has left active service with MI6, is recruited by the CIA to find a kidnapped scientist, which leads to a showdown with a powerful adversary.ĭevelopment began in 2016. Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear and Ralph Fiennes reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik and Dali Benssalah also starring. It is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It stars Daniel Craig in his fifth and final outing as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond.
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No Time to Die is a 2021 spy film and the twenty-fifth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions.
