No time for Bond again…
Freedom day!
No surprise at the potential for this happening. The unwillingness of a relative few to do what is good for the collective whole means that we’ll all be back under some sort of restriction in the fall. At this point, I’d almost book it that we’ll see some big tentpole films begin to move their release dates, yet again, into vague release targets of “early 2022”, “spring 2022”, and so on in order to get out from under the uncertainty of what the Covid situation will look like with Delta surging and Lambda beginning to take hold in areas around the globe.
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Looks like for Green Knight, also COVID-related…shitshitshitshitshit
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If only there were a technical invention to watch a movie at home…
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It’s almost as though trying to go back to normal while a deadly pandemic, which for the unvaccinated is more dangerous than it ever has been since the start, isn’t a particularly wise idea. I’m not sure how anyone could have seen such a stunning development coming. I mean, how could it not be totally defeated with just a handful of the world’s population fully vaccinated?
When this is all said and done with, the global community really must give itself a pat on the back for how utterly pathetic of a response we’ve had to all of this. Hollywood couldn’t write a script in which an entire planet of people combined their efforts to screw something up so royally.
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Yeah, none of this is a surprise, I could see things getting bad well before the 19th. I work in a hospital and am seeing the double whammy of a rise in cases and a fall in staff due to having COVID or isolating. I think my manager said we’re working at around 50% staffing right now. I have no doubt things will look even worse once we hit 2 weeks out from ‘Freedom Day.’
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The only good part about all this is the dead-end racist/sexist tax cut Tory Bond fans being deprived of their precious movie in large part because of their precious Boris and Trump.
(Few or none of those people seem to post here)
This movie had the stench of death to it before a single frame was shot. I still remember waking up to that Danny Boyle news - we should have taken it as a sign. At this point, the idea of this muddled, unhappy nightmare sitting on the shelf indefinitely is possibly more entertaining than actually watching it. Today’s tweets and associated panic has been the first entertaining bit of Bond news in god knows how long. 18 months?
Embrace the nihilism.
On a related topic, would it KILL them to get a head start on the next one?
Awww, c’mon. That’s not exactly good style crowing about bad - possibly bad - news here. The vast majority of fans are ordinary people sticking in this nightmare like everybody else. Struggling like everybody else. We should not mistake pompous headlines and social media trolling for what real people go through.
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Thanks for everything that you are doing to help combat this thing on a daily basis. I can’t imagine being a medical worker and still being stuck in this nightmare however many months we are now into this pandemic, so my hats are off to you and your colleagues. 
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Cheers, appreciate it. This last year has been especially challenging but at the same time I’m grateful to still have a job. With businesses shutting down, temporarily or permanently, having stable employment is a luxury that not everyone has.
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I have every confidence that we’re going to get another delay very soon. Just release the damn thing on prime and move on. By the time the film does release, it will likely be somewhat dated and probably won’t be as well received critically as it would have been had it not missed it’s original Nov 19 release date or even the Feb 20 one.
I’d have to think that, if there is reason for them to go with another delay, that it will be a true delay and not something that leads us to some kind of streaming release. The sale to Amazon most likely won’t be complete by then, given the scrutiny that it is set to go under with the US government, and there’s no way that a major decision like this, that could severely undercut the film’s earning potential, will be made while the sale of MGM to Amazon is still not official.
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…that would guarantee earnings for a Business Case that was drawn up on a revenue stream model of both a Theatrical, and Then the technical home invention. Not just the One home invention stream.
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Let´s look at the bright side: we will get a better chance to watch the KNIVES OUT sequel before NTTD.
Maybe even both KNIVES OUT sequels.
Just release the damn film before we get the Omega variant and humanity is wiped out😭
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If NTTD is indeed delayed to next April or November, the „only in theatres“-mantra will become as clever as „VHS is the best way to watch a movie“.
Speaking of which, when can we expect NTTD to be released on VHS? I’m guessing it’ll be a double cassette release given the length.
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Maybe just an edited version? Pan and Scan?
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Another delay is - for now - speculation. The UK hopes for a plateauing of case figures - though of course the effects of ‘Freedom Day’ (and returns from boozy holiday resorts) will only show up in two to three weeks time. So that would be mid-August then. For a film scheduled to release end of September that might just be the last moment to put on the brakes - or shift from theatrical-only to a mixed release. But I wouldn’t expect to hear about it before the second or third week of August.
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What’s a VHS?
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