What do you think about the NTTD release date?

Sorry to read this news. Hopefully she makes a full recovery and avoids the more severe symptoms.

Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery!

That just hasn’t been resurrected here yet.

Perhaps we can resurrect it (along with the Eva Green and Berenice Marlohe appreciation threads) in a more general Woman of Bond Appreciation thread, adding in our new leading ladies from Spectre and the one-day-to-be-released No Time To Die: Lea Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Lashana Lynch, and Ana de Armas.

Why don’t we have a Covid 19 thread ? Given that’s the reason for the delay of NTTD and the fact that quite a few members over here seems to have throughly read up on the situation and have their own opinions on what the future holds

Instead of letting all the existing threads derail into COVID 19 which is what’s happening now

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Create one.

Done

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I thought of that too, but figured we’d defer to Dustin.

Meanwhile, the CDC just forced Disney/Marvel’s hand:

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I thought trolls are touring the world all the time.

Thank you, it’s late and I’m tired :sunglasses:

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Not officially a member of the Bond world, but we did have a whole thread dedicated to him once.

(Yes, I replied to myself to link it to the Olga Kurylenko post.)

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nttd covid meme

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Some friends were chucking messages out that, Bond is back in November. It got me thinking.

While hoping the Producers can maintain resilience long enough to go for a theatrical release, it is Not just and only that November as a date, By November, will be an appropriate and clear time for their release. But, that they will clearly have one or two months’ notice of this date being open for a release.

'Cos if by September, the air is not clear of CV, then the distribution channels will not be able to gain the confidence to spend Again that which they spent to date in teaser marketing.

To be honest, it is for this reason that I can quite see November 2020 becoming April 2021.

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I am really having doubts that November will happen.
One, the current situation has to be under control.
Two, their can’t be fear of second wave.
Three, it sounds like a vaccine is way further than 8 months out.
Maybe it’s Day 12 of quarantine speaking, I don’t know.

So, say movies are done for the year, do they have an unattended Oscars next year for ten weeks worth of 2020 movies?

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The Oscars will either be postponed or get a clip show from previous highlights.

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So I’m not alone. Wondered whether saying what I did would be considered defeatist.

The people who put the money up though must by now be really hurting…

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Sadly, I am starting to think that November is possible, rather than probable. But whenever it finally lands, everything I have seen and read makes me confident that it will be worth the wait.

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It would be interesting to see if the Oscar’s chose to conduct the ceremony like the old days, where there was minimal attendance and nominees found out the winners from afar. But, I agree, it will be cancelled.

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No you are not alone. It seems the general consensus around here is that there is a genuine possibility No Time To Die will miss 2020 entirely and there is the possibility of it being released directly to on-demand/Blu-ray if the pandemic drags on too long with a smaller scale theatrical release thereafter. Of course, this is all speculation.

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Not in the least defeatist - it’s realistic. The entire world is fighting with a phenomenon that’s bound to cost lives and wreak havoc on social life for months, maybe years even. The November date was chosen as a tentative first response to this. But there’s ample evidence we’re all going to be busy with watching out for a return of Covid by then. I suspect NO TIME TO DIE will either move further into the future - or trying out a completely new model to market the film.

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No Time to Die was intended to be one of most successful Bond films ever, making over a billion dollars. I will speculate, as I so often do, that Barbara was hoping to put Eon on the market soon afterwards, and use the box office receipts of the film to prove just how profitable the brand can be.

Of course, things have now changed, and the film could become the first Bond entry to go straight to streaming - as has already been discussed here.

I reckon Eon will allow that to happen - but only this once, in order to test the waters for a digital television series, as Disney+ has managed so successfully with The Mandalorian, which could supplement the ongoing theatrical releases.

People have obviously responded well to the idea of exploring Bond’s history - if it’s positioning Casino Royale as his first mission or returning to his childhood home in Skyfall. We also know that Michael G Wilson was interested in having Bond as a rookie, just out of the army, during the pre-production of The Living Daylights, so maybe this is an opportunity to do that at last.

Putting aside your odd fixation with Eon selling Bond;

Wouldn’t that be deciding to set fire to the boat whilst it’s sinking?

It’s not a solution, it’s just a new problem.

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