As Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond, No Time to Die is poised to be the actor's most ambitious film in the venerable franchise, with the movie's lengthy runtime officially confirmed.
Movie theater chains have listed the upcoming film as having a runtime of two hours and 43 minutes, about fifteen minutes longer than the previous longest film in the entire history of the 58-year old franchise, 2015's Spectre.
Most Bond films have run for approximately two hours, with the shortest installment to date being another Craig-starring film, 2008's Quantum of Solace, which ran for an hour and 46 minutes.
Details surrounding the film are still largely under wraps, but it will see Bond emerge from a five-year retirement in Jamaica at the behest of his old CIA friend Felix Leiter so he can help defend the world from a villain using cutting-edge technology to threaten modern society and MI6.
Directed and co-written by Cary Fukunaga, No Time to Die stars Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen and Rami Malek. It is scheduled for release in the United States on April 10.
(via Esquire)