Licence to thrill: First trailer of No Time to Die reveals James Bond has met his match with new female agent
JAMES Bond comes face to face with the woman who appears to have replaced him as 007 in the first trailer for No Time to Die.
The footage from the highly anticipated film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and co-written by Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-bridge, shows Daniel Craig back in the role but no longer working as the spy with the licence to kill.
It shows his first meeting with Nomi, played by Captain Marvel star Lashana Lynch, who brusquely tells him: “The world has moved on Commander Bond. You get in my way I will put a bullet in your knee. The one that works.”
As they butt heads, Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) jokes: “I knew you two would get on.”
When Bond asks her if she is a double 00, she confirms she has been for two years.
The two-and-a-halfminute trailer opens with
Bond and Madeleine Swann, played by Lea Seydoux, being chased in an Aston Martin, as he suspects her of betraying him.
The preview also marks the return of Christoph Waltz as Ernst Blofeld, who appears to confirm his fears.
Bond and Swann ran off together at the end of 2015’s Spectre and have been living off the grid together until Bond is visited by Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) to call him back into action.
When Swann questions: “Why would I betray you?”, he says: “We all have our secrets, we just didn’t get to yours yet.”
Blofeld, who was the key villain in Spectre, is now under lock and key and is chained up behind glass when Bond interviews him about what he knows.
The criminal mastermind tells him: “You gave up everything for her.
“When her secret finds its way out it will be the death of you.”
As Ralph Fiennes’s M cautions: “The world is arming faster than we can respond,” there are brief looks at Rami Malek’s mysterious villain Safin, who seems to be heavily scarred and covering much of his face with a white mask.
There are even some horror movie echoes when the mask flashes behind glass and the revealed patch of skin is covered in heavy scars.
Very little is known about the character Malek is playing, but we do know that he is armed with dangerous new technology.
The Oscar winner only shows his full face towards the end of the trailer, when Bond tells him: “History is not kind to men who play God.”
There is also mystery in the footage when Swann appears with Nomi and Bond is shocked to see them together. High-octane stunts also feature, when Bond leaps off a huge bridge swinging from a rope and engages in a thrilling motorcycle chase over rooftops.
The trailer ends with Bond in the driver’s seat of the Aston Martin taking heavy gun fire but protected by bulletproof glass, before he releases huge machine guns from the headlights.
No Time to Die was directed by Fukunaga, who replaced Danny Boyle after the Trainspotting filmmaker stepped down due to “creative differences”. Aston Martin’s new hypercar – called the Valhalla and priced at £1.5m – will be one of three vehicles to appear in the new film.
It is unknown who’ll replace Craig as Bond in the 26th outing, but among those expected to succeed him are Aidan Turner, Idris Elba and Tom Hiddleston.