Daniel Craig’s No Time to Die to be screened at Zurich Film Festival
The 17th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) will be hosting the Swiss premiere of No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond film, on September 28. The festival will also stage a retrospective of the other Bond films starring actor Daniel Craig.
“We are extremely pleased to be one of the first in the world to show the most recent Bond adventure. We fought for months to get this premiere. Never before has James Bond been in the official selection of a film fest,” Variety quoted Christian Jungen, Zurich’s artistic director, as saying.
Jungen continued, “I’m further pleased that ZFF has succeeded in this coup as it sends out a powerful signal that highlights the importance of cinema. The industry has waited more eagerly for this movie than any other.”
Emin Soysaler, managing director of the distributor’s Swiss operation, added, “Due to the pandemic, the theatrical release had to be postponed and now, we are even more pleased to be able to present No Time to Die to the Swiss audience at this year’s Zurich Film Festival. The wait has been worth it: Bond is back!”
The world premiere of No Time to Die will take place on September 28 at the Royal Albert Hall, London. In this film, Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. But, his peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, the film also stars Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Lashana Lynch, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz and Ralph Fiennes.
The Zurich Film Fest, which will run from September 23 to October 3, will open with Taliban hostage drama And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead, by Swiss filmmaker Michael Steiner, and will close with Wes Anderson’s homage to journalism The French Dispatch. Its gala screenings also include the world premieres of Florian Gallenberger’s It’s Just a Phase, Honey and Andreas Schmied’s skiing champion biopic, Chasing the Line, among others.