![]() (The Onion wryly reports Wallace Shawn is in the mix.) Broccoli and Wilson, though, say their current focus is on celebrating Craig’s swan song. That I feel most proud of.”Įxpect to hear endless rumors and speculation of a successor to Craig for the next year. “If there’s going to be a lot of money spent on these movies, then we need to get the best. “A lot of money is spent on these movies,” added Craig. They just said yes, we want you to be involved.” “I need to be able to know what’s going on, to have an opinion, to feel like I have a voice. I said: Listen, the confidence I need to play this role - one of the most confident people in movie history, if not the most confident human being in movie history - I need to be able to take part,” said Craig. During his five films, Craig has shaped the overall series as much as he has the character, bringing in top-class filmmakers and raising the bar, overall. For 60 years, we’ve had countless different owners and we’ve managed to stay making our films and keeping Bond going.”īut Craig’s departure may test the franchise more than any previous 007 changing of the guard since Sean Connery exited. “Throughout the history of Bond, we have seen our studio sold out from under us many times. “We’ve been told that by MGM and Amazon and take them at their word,” said Wilson. ![]() With that came pledges that Bond films will always first be released in theaters. In May, Amazon announced plans to acquire Bond’s home studio, MGM. ![]() over the weekend were on par with the opening for 2012’s “Skyfall,” which cleared $1.1 billion at the box office.Ĭhange, though, is everywhere. Bond is poised not just to save the world one more time but also give movie theaters a lift while he’s at it. Lately, some ticket sales have been reaching pre-pandemic levels. “No Time to Die” arrives at a crucial juncture for the movie business. Craig hosted “Saturday Night Live.” The film’s theme, by Billie Eilish, was released, and won a Grammy months before the film’s London premiere. Before the pandemic arrived, “No Time to Die” was slated to open in April 2020. The filmmakers could hardly know then that temporarily losing their star would just be one of many headaches to come. “It happened on this as well, but there you go.”ĭuring filming in Jamaica, Craig slipped while running on a wet dock and badly injured his ankle. That phone call home where I phone up and say I’m injured, I’m in the hospital - it’s not a nice phone call to make, and it’s happened a lot over the years.” I got to a point where it was like: The risk feels too great. “After ‘Spectre’ I went: I don’t think I can do this anymore. “I’ve often been criticized as moaning about it,” said Craig, 53. The physical toll of the films and the time commitment - “It’s a year,” he says of each film - was wearing on him. After the previous entry, 2015’s “Spectre,” Craig had suggested he’d rather slit his wrists than make another. That the film was even happening in the first place was, to some, surprising. ![]() Fukunaga stepped in and the script was completely rewritten. “No Time to Die” started off unsteadily with writer-director Danny Boyle departing over creative differences. But in a Bond world,” says Craig, who won’t play Hamlet but Macbeth - a play about the perils of ambition - on Broadway next year. “I always just felt: How do these things affect him? Within a Bond world. That evolution takes center stage in “No Time to Die.” His 007 is a character, not an icon, capable of grief and regret, and far from bulletproof. But it’s also a culmination of where Craig has been driving Bond. “No Time to Die,” directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, is, with certainty, Craig’s final turn in the tux. “I don’t suppose I really understand it now, either,” Craig added. It's now Weisz's turn in the spotlight as she stars in the new Amazon series "Dead Ringers," which premieres on April 21.He pauses. The couple live in Brooklyn, New York, and have three: a child they welcomed in 2018, Weisz's 17-year-old son, Henry, and Craig's 31-year-old daughter, Ella. If we’re both doing something at the same time, it’s probably less ideal." "So I can stay home with the family while he works. "We really enjoyed that experience, but also it means we can alternate," Weisz said. They also starred in the 2011 horror movie “Dream House,” and last worked together in a 2013 production of the Broadway play "Betrayal." The couple, who have been married since 2011, first worked together in a 1994 in a production of “Les Grandes Horizontales” at the National Theatre Studio in London. And then we go to work separately." Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig at the Opportunity Network's 11th Annual Night of Opportunity on Apin NYC. "I think we really love our private life as a life, as a family. "I think we aren’t going to at the moment," Weisz, 53, said.
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