Bond Gets the ‘Endgame’ Treatment in Final ‘No Time to Die’ Trailer

 WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS ARTICLE!

As many social media users point out, the next two weeks will determine if the upcoming James Bond film No Time To Die becomes a great movie or a great meme. On August 24, during the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas, MGM’s Michael De Luca screened nine unseen minutes of the pre-credits sequence of the film and assured attendants that the film will be released for good on October 8 in the United States and a week earlier worldwide, on September 30. 

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The Protégé: Maggie Q Serves Up Some Ultimate Lessons in Revenge

 

Is Martin Campbell doing yet another “revenge” movie after we saw Mel Gibson and Jackie Chan avenging their daughters’ death in Edge of Darkness (2010) and The Foreigner (2017)? The most apparent answer is “yes” and the trailers will make you think that way.

Mr. Campbell himself told a Reddit user some weeks ago that Maggie Q’s motivation is avenging a loved one during an AMA session. But the truth is… The Protégé is a little more than a simple revenge story, at least a less evident and blunt one than the aforementioned productions.

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My first ever James Bond article

As you can appreciate, the header image belongs to promotional artwork commissioned by EON Productions to celebrate the 40th anniversary of James Bond in October 2002. And it was, precisely, in October 2002 when the newspaper from the Manuela Pedraza elementary school came out.