How director Cary Fukunaga took on the task of turning 'No Time to Die' into both a satisfying end to Daniel Craig's run as James Bond and a personal movie — and won.
Luckily, Fukunaga has a tendency to thrive under these kind of obstacle-heavy, do-or-die circumstances. A former snowboarder, the half-Japanese, half-Swedish Bay Area native spent two years researching and riding migrant trains in Central America for his award-winning debut, the 2009 immigrant dramaAfter getting offered “every border thriller” that came down the pike, he challenged himself to do something completely different: an adaptation of the Gothic-lit classic.
A few weeks later, Fukunaga met with Craig for an informal chat. The actor knew Cary’s work well. The two hit it off, exchanging a number of ideas and talking about what had worked and, in Craig’s opinion, what hadn’t worked during his reign as 007. There were more meetings, outlines, story elements getting batted around.
a.k.a. the only George Lazenby entry in the series, which he says he rewatched more than a few times going intothe first of Daniel Craig’s five movies as Bond, and feeling like something had shifted. “The reboot they did with him was so smart,” he says. “The world had changed. The series had to change. There are things that Sean Connery’s Bond did that would be absolutely incriminating now.
. That was an acknowledgment by the franchise itself about who this character was, and what it needs to become.the ones for my generation,” Fukunaga continues. “What I love about these films is the emotional stuff: There are personal stakes. There are real losses. . . . When I decided I wanted to do something outside the independent-film world, Bond was the character I identified with the most.
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