No Time To Die will be the longest-ever Bond film

Next month, Daniel Craig will end his run as the world’s lowest-profile super-spy in No Time To Die, his fifth James Bond movie. He started way back in 2006 with Casino Royale — that’s near 15 years of outrunning explosions, shaken cocktails and glowering promiscuity. How time flies.

Speaking of time, according to the Regal theater chain, No Time To Die will be not only the longest James Bond film of Craig’s tenure, but also of the franchise’s almost 60-year history. There’s 163 minutes of movie here: two hours and 43 minutes in all. If No Time To Die sustains the tension of a normal James Bond film throughout its runtime, our knuckles will be so white they’ll be clear.

But as The A.V. Club points out, the Cary Fukunaga-directed film does have rather a lot of material to run through. On top of giving Craig’s Bond a proper sendoff, it has two villains to juggle — Christoph Waltz, returning as Blofeld; and newcomer Rami Malek — as well as Lashana Lynch as the agent who took over the 007 name when James Bond quits the spy business…like that’ll last.

Also, Billie Eilish sings the theme song and we all know how slow and steady she goes. That should add on a couple of minutes.

Incidentally, Craig has also starred in the shortest Bond film ever — 2008’s Quantum of Solace, which ran just 106 minutes — and the second longest: 2015’s Spectre, which clocked in at 148. This Bond lives on the edges.

No Time To Die hits theaters on April 10.

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