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James Bond film series 25th installment No Time To Die is turning out to be a grand success at the box office as it is even outpacing Sony Pictures blockbuster superhero film Venom: Let There Be Carnage in pre-sales of tickets on Fandango. Based on reports by Deadline, the action-packed film is expected to earn $55 to $60 million domestically on its opening weekend. As of now, No Time To Die has earned a total of $121 million overseas.

Cary Joji Fukunaga, who is in charge of directing the film recently, shared some insights about it. Fukunaga during the interview also went on to express his love for Daniel Craig's James Bond films.

He said, "But Daniel’s Bond movies were, and I feel like are, the ones for my generation. What I love about these films is the emotional stuff: There are personal stakes. There are real losses. . . . When I decided I wanted to do something outside the independent-film world, Bond was the character I identified with the most. If you think about all of my films, from Sin Nombre to Beasts [of No Nation], they’re about orphans, outsiders, people who operate on their own wavelength — or are on their own, period. I get that."

Prior to Fukunaga's comments on Daniel Craig, he shared his experience while shooting the film with Indiewire. He said, "It feels like the last three years have been a blur, it was all of these things, one after another.”

“You have companies like Warner Bros. doing day-and-date releases for their films.” Fukunaga added, “I don’t think that’s the future, but I understand why the studios are thinking that way. They care more about subscriptions than they do about ticket sales.”

“I was not part of the decision-making at all, but there was concern on my part during Covid that this might be the end result if the studio just needed to cash in and cut their losses.” He further added, “So I’m just really thankful that we got a chance to wait until some people felt safer about coming back.”

“I don’t see Barbara allowing it to be an online release at the same time.” He continued saying, “She still holds the control of this property. They’ve been very good about not diluting the brand. They’ve been offered television shows, spinoffs, LEGO movies, and they haven’t done any of that stuff yet. They’ve kept it very pure, with a traditional release. I don’t see that changing anytime so soon.”

“I’ll never say that anything’s impossible, because I’d love to see a LEGO Bond film,” Fukunaga said with a laugh. “But at the same time, I understand their love of cinema and protecting cinema is really important. The fact that people in the United Kingdom and other foreign territories are showing up for the film in a way we haven’t seen during the lockdown, during the re-emerging of the pre-Covid norm, is really amazing to see.”

He further continued, "We shot this on IMAX to be on the big screen,” he said. “Bonds are meant to be experienced in the cinemas. People should be going with their parents, their kids, their friends. It should be an event. That has happened going back generations. There’s no version of this film premiering on a streaming format.”

Daniel Craig in the role of James Bond leads No Time To Die along with Rami Malek in the role of Lyutsifer Safin, Léa Sroleourolenrolee role of Madeleine Swann, Lashana Lynch in the role of Nomi, Ben Whishaw in the role of anyent Q, Naomie Harris in the role of Eve Moneypenny, Jeffrey Wright in the role of Felix Leiter, Christoph Waltz in the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Ralph Fiennes in the role of Gareth Mallory / M, Billy Magnussen in the role of Logan Ash, Ana de Armas in the role of Paloma, David Dencik in the role of Valdo Obruche, Rory Kinnear in the role of Bill Tanner, Dali Benssalah in the role of Primo and Lisa-Dorah Sonnet in the role of Mathilde.

Produced by Won Productions, No time to die debuted in the theatres on 30th September 2021.