James Bond’s next film No Time to Die delayed till 2021 — a very long time

No Time to Die, the 25th Bond film, has been pushed back a whole year. it’ll now arrive on April 2nd, 2021, the film’s producers confirmed today.

Originally, the film was alleged to arrive in April 2020, before getting delayed to the present November thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new delay gives the planet five more months to potentially recover and for people to make a decision when they’re willing to brave theaters again.

Of course, Bond isn’t alone: many big tentpole films are delayed till next year, including Latrodectus mactans and therefore the refore the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and lots of other films that were already slated for 2021, just like the Batman, whose star Robert Pattinson reportedly caught the virus, are pushed back by months thanks to the pandemic.

Hollywood seems to believe that a lot of of those films require a theatrical release, despite the existence of streaming services and experiments with at-home streaming movie rentals like Mulan. Tenet pushed forward with a messy theatrical release that did still manage to supply a $20M opening weekend.

After multiple delays, woman 1984 remains slated for a Christmas 2020 release, but it’s one among the few big-ticket films left this year. Disney / Pixar’s Soul remains slated for November and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune for December, but it wouldn’t be surprising if they got bumped to 2021 also .