March 4 is the third anniversary of a No Time to Die event, the first time the 25th James Bond film made by Eon Productions, was delayed because of COVID-19.
Context: COVID-19 was spreading across the globe, causing major health problems.
No Time to Die had already been delayed multiple times, from fall 2019 to April 2020 because the original director, Danny Boyle, had departed the project.
Now, a virus was going to have an impact. At the time, there was no vaccine. People were dying.
Here is one social media form of the announcement:
Two days before the announcement, MI6 HQ and the James Bond Dossier published an open letter urging the movie’s premiere be delayed because of COVID-19.
This caused a huge controversy in the Bond fan community. (Disclosure: I have been on MI6 HQ’s James Bond & Friends podcast and I have done some livestreams with the James Bond Dossier,) I know both were criticized after the open letter was published.
In the end, No Time to Die wouldn’t come out until the fall of 2021.
There may still be hard feelings about the open letter in the fan community. Still, it’s hard to believe three years have passed since the COVID-19 delays of No Time to Die.
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Ah, the good old days: when you knew for certain that a Bond film was on the horizon