By telling a tight standalone adventure in less than 100 minutes, Bond 26 can offer something completely antithetical to No Time To Die’s operatic, super-sized story.
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Since the franchise’s producers vetoed a James Bond TV show, the best way for Bond 26 to stand out in a crowded blockbuster marketplace is to repeat this trick and offer something that the series has never provided before. Much like Goldeneye immediately established that Brosnan’s Bond as a quippy, self-aware, ironic take on 007 and drastically lightened the tone of Dalton’s grittier outings, Casino Royale made it clear from the movie’s opening sequence onwards that the era of winking 007 was over and fans were in for a brutal, post- Bourne take on the spy. It has never been easy for transitional Bond movies to set up a new take on the uber-famous character, but the most successful changeovers in the franchise have been marked by a total tonal transformation of the series. While Bond has never been concerned about keeping runtimes tight since the franchise's inception, the changeover between actors is the perfect chance for the series to turn a new leaf and tell a shorter story than ever before. This taut time limit would surprise longtime fans of the series, prove that this new Bond isn’t like his predecessors, and give viewers a reason to see the punchy adventure on the big screen instead of waiting until they can stream the spy’s next lengthy adventure from the comfort of their home.Īs proven by the success of Venom 2 (starring potential Bond Tom Hardy), audiences are interested in briefer blockbusters. Bond 26 needs to make the franchise fun again after the darkness of Craig’s grounded movies, and the best way to do this would be to make an unprecedented for the franchise by releasing a Bond adventure that wraps up within 100 minutes.
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No one wants a Bond movie that runs as long as a modest miniseries, and the prospect of a lighter, funnier iteration of Bond whose movies drag on for over two and a half hours sounds exhausting. If Bond keeps up with this trend as one of few franchises that have always boasted a lengthy runtime, it will spill into the three-hour mark. By 2019, this number had gradually ballooned to 125 minutes. In 2009, the average length of the year’s top 10 biggest movies was 115 minutes. Bond’s adventures have always strayed toward the longer end of the blockbuster runtime spectrum, which is all the more reason that Bond 26 should shock viewers by being the fastest and punchiest offering from the franchise so far. Bond 26 needs to bring back a lot of what made the series more light-hearted and fun pre-Craig, and shortening the runtime of the movie would actually be a first for the long-running franchise. However, Bond’s next outing needs to curb this trend and go back to a tighter, faster pace. There is an argument to be made that No Time To Die’s gargantuan runtime worked in favor of the dramatic swan song, since it was the end of Daniel Craig’s tenure as 007 and had a lot to add to the franchise.
Related: Spectre’s Blofeld Twist Was Identical To The Worst Scream Movie In fact, with the exception of 2008's Quantum of Solace, every Craig-era Bond movie ran comfortably over the 2 hours and 20-minute benchmark. As if trying to justify the movie’s many release date delays, No Time To Die clocked in at a massive 2 hours and 43 minutes.
However, this trend was taken too far by 2021’s long-delayed No Time To Die. Even as far back as 1969, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service ran for 2 hours and 20 minutes, matching the runtime of many modern spy thrillers.
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