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Having said that, it is maddening that both times the film has been delayed this year, EON waited until what felt like the eleventh hour to make the announcement. Not a good look, especially this time around, what with the second marketing blitz and the insistence as recently as this week that it would still be out in November.
But what bearing does that have on the COVID related delays? Had it not been for the pandemic, the film would have come out in April as planned and the initially troubled production would only be a footnote as we'd be busy discussing the film.
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Of course I’m sad about not getting a new bond film, especially during these times, but my only frustration with eon is the last two delays coming at the 11th hour after an ad blitz. I see the new April date the same way. I can’t imagine how it could possibly release then, as things aren’t going to be much better. Probably going to be fall/ winter 2021.
Seriously? I really can't understand this perspective or that from many other so-called fans. At what point does it just become trolling? I ask because it's only this user's second post. It's partly why I don't visit this thread that much because it's a lot of impatience and entitlement.
I honestly didn't think we'd get the film in November and who knows for April. It's out of mine, yours, his, her's, basically everybody's control. So why say now there's no excitement for a film that hasn't been released? I still get excitement from the 25 other Bond films that have been released: Though I've seen them countless times, Connery's introduction in DN; watching Bond and Grant slug it out on the Orient Express; the laser table in GF; and on and on I still get excited.
And like a lot of the other things we are missing due to this pandemic we used to enjoy, the way I see it, it will likely be even sweeter to experience than before. Having NTTD down the road gives me something to look forward to and isn't my only positive in life. It's just one of many.
Do we really know that for certain, though?
Exactly, no matter what people say that they won't watch it or their excitement will be gone. The moment we sat in theatre, it will come back again.
You could say that about any film that’s been delayed multiple times. BLACK WIDOW, TOP GUN 2, F9, WONDER WOMAN 1984, etc.
Let’s stop pretending this is only unique to Bond.
People will go off and think about other things for a few months and when a final trailer and marketing campaign is launched, excitement and anticipation will inevitably go up again.
And we already saw what happened when six years take place between films. People aren’t going to miraculously forget about Bond just because the gap between releases was longer than usual.
"Godzilla vs. Kong" was filmed in the fall of 2018. It's first release date was March 2020, now it's May 2021. This movie is way older than NTTD and had more delays than Bond.
And "Ghostbusters 3", "Jungle Cruise", "West Side Story" and lots of others wrapped filming long before NTTD did.
When we get to see Spielberg's version of "West Side Story", the images we see will be older, than the images we see in NTTD.
"Jungle Cruise" was filmed in spring of 2018, and will be released in July 2021.
James Bond will still be the freshest movie of all the big movies, that may come out.
The whole coronavirus situation will not be over by April 2, 2021. Are the execs. getting drunk and impulsively pushing the delay button with some random date? I would like to know if the higher ups are on the same planet as everybody else.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/3/21500538/regal-cineworld-theaters-shut-down-james-bond-us-uk
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/no-time-to-die-dhl-commercial?id=04769
No Time To Die for April 2031! Seriously though, eventually when I am sitting in the cinema watching this film, it’ll be difficult to fathom that it’s actually happening...
This could be partly the reason that Wilson, Broccoli, and Fukunaga signed their signatures on the letter to the US government to aid theater chains from going out of business.
This is the issue that some have been warning us about for months. Cinemas are businesses and like all businesses they cannot run indefinitely with no income. They still have to pay staff (or at least some staff), pay building expenses, rates, utility bills, security bills for their premises and so on. At some point they run out of money and they close for good.
If film distributors delay too long then there won’t be many big screens left to show their films. They seem to be assuming that delaying to spring/summer 2021 will be fine, but that might not be the case. Some cinema chains could go bust over the winter.
I didn t have much interest in The New Mutants until the latest trailer came out. I really wanted to go see that one now, but ever since it debuted here there has been only one really late screening daily, and I am unfortunately not unemployed. I need sleep at night.
And yet, nobody is going to the theaters, because nobody feels safe going into a room full of people taking their masks off and eating garbage food.
This seems to be a case of damned if you do damned if you don't. This is why theater chains are looking for governments to bail them out so they don't die off.
Survivors of the 1918 pandemic have said that it took almost three years for any kind of normalcy to return to societies. So perhaps it'll be a very long time before theaters reopen. But then again, there was no such thing as VOD in 1918, so perhaps movie theaters in modern society will be seen as less than essential, and would opt to just watch at home.
Another harsh truth is that cinemas need audiences, and they did not turn up enough for TENET, NEW MUTANTS, UNHINGED, or whatever. This was why studios have recently pushed back all their big films just a few days after TENET opened abysmally.
Until people feel safe going to the movies, theater chains are not going to be the place they want to go to no matter what films are out.
@DaltonCraig007 was spot on about this.