By Now that No Time To Die's release has been kicked down the road to November, there's a lot more opportunity to ruminate on where things might have gone with Danny Boyle and his scriptwriting collaborator John Hodge's aborted swing at the 25th James Bond film.
Details have been sketchy so far, seeing as Boyle very politely demurred every time he was asked while doing the promo for his Beatles-free Beatles film Yesterday, but No Time To Die production designer Mark Tildesley has provided a few, saying that Boyle and Hodge's film was "crazy" and "madcap".
"Unfortunately Danny’s crazy, madcap ideas didn’t quite tie up with what Barbara and Michael had planned," Tildesley told Total Film. "It was definitely a good thing to do. Maybe another time though. I’m revving Barbara up to have another go with Danny."
Tildesley added that the script contained "some extraordinary ideas, they just needed a little pulling together," which is very similar to Boyle's own assessment of the lost Bond film.
"What John [Hodge] and I were doing, I thought, was really good," Boyle told Empire last March. "It wasn’t finished, but it could have been really good. We were working very, very well, but they didn’t want to go down that route with us. So we decided to part company, and it would be unfair to say what it was because I don’t know what Cary [Joji Fukunaga, who replaced Boyle as director] is going to do. I got a very nice message from him and I gave him my best wishes… It is just a great shame."
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