Given the fact weโve just been served a second delay, effectively pushing the filmโs release date back an entire year, weโll take any kind of No Time To Die content we can at this point. Unconfirmed rumours about Daniel Craigโs fateโฆ coffee table photography booksโฆ coffee table cocktail booksโฆ official podcastsโฆ hell, even the odd behind-the-scenes tidbit surrounding 007 and an excessive amount of Coca-Cola.
No Time To Die producers have recently revealed they needed 8,400 gallons โ or approximately 31,797 litres โ of Coca-Cola to make a textbook James Bond motorbike stunt work. The justification for this additional โฌ60,000 / AU$100,000 expenditure? As production stunt coordinator Lee Morrison explains, the sequence involved Daniel Craigโs stunt double and pro motorcyclist Paul Edmondson hitting a 7.6-metre ramp at around 100km/h on a 450cc bike.
The momentum would effectively carry Edmondson over the wall and have him safely landing on cobbles โ which you might recall seeing in the trailer footage (see below: 2:11). The only problem was these cobbles were a little tooโฆ slippery. Naturally, they went straight to the exact opposite of slippery. They went to spilt Coke.
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โIโve been spraying Coca-Cola on slippery surfaces for a very long time.โ
Lee Morrison, No Time To Die stunt coordinator
Crew members reportedly spilt the liquid adhesive all over Matera in Southern Italy. And as Morrison noted, a bonus to this rather unconventional solution included โmaking things look very clean after it [washed] offโ.
No Time To Die will see Daniel Craig appear as the iconic MI6 intelligence officer one last time, alongside Lea Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz, Lashana Lynch, Ana De Armas, as well as Rami Malek โ who will assume the role of the Bond-worthy adversary Safin this time around (which many are theorising to be a modern interpretation of Dr No).
The film has been directed by Cary Fukunaga, co-written between Fukunaga himself, the talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge, with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.
April 2nd of 2021 is when you can expect the first screening.
