Early theater listings indicate "massive, massive surprises".
In addition to Christoph Waltz as Blofeld, No Time to Die will bring back Jeffrey Wright as movie's villain Safin (Rami Malek). With so much ground to cover, it stands to reason Craig's final Bond film may be one of his longest yet. In fact, it now appears it may be the longest Bond movie altogether.
Both the U.S.-based Regal and Pathe Netherlands are listing No Time to Die as 163 minutes long on the film's tickets sale page. If accurate, that would make No Time to Die the longest Bond movie ever, eclipsing the previous benchmark set by Spectre (148 minutes). In either case, Craig can lay claim to starring in both the longest and the shortest Bond films ever, with Quantum holding the latter title at 106 minutes.
It's worth mentioning this in no way guarantees No Time to Die is quite as long as these theaters are currently listing it. Case in point: last year, director Cary Joji Fukunaga explained in a featurette released this week, the film is all about Bond making peace with everything he's done and suffered (not to mention, everyone he's lost) by completing his final and most challenging mission yet. It might not be as massive a conclusion as The Rise of Skywalker, but after four movies No Time to Die still has a lot of plot lines and character arcs to wrap up.
In addition to the returning characters, No Time to Die will also introduce new players like Craig's Knives Out costar Ana de Armas as CIA agent Paloma and won't be replacing Craig's Bond as the new Agent 007. The character is clearly important all the same and may call for some extended development, on top of everything else No Time to Die has to get done. Fortunately, it sounds like the film will have plenty of time to do everything but die (sorry, had to be done).
Source: Regal, Pathe Netherlands [via Games Radar]
