Daniel Craig always wanted to make sure that his version of James Bond went out with a bang, and it looks like he managed to do that in more ways than one. As well as setting a number of records in relation to the Bond franchise itself, No Time To Die also managed to set a Guinness World Record in the process by detonating the largest number of explosives ever used in one take during its devastating finale. For those who still have not seen the movie and want to avoid spoilers, eject your seat now.
In the final moments of No Time To Die, it dawned on millions of Bond fans that the super spy had managed to get himself into a situation that he was not going to make it out of alive. As Craig’s Bond faced his own death squarely in the face, the mass missile strike that ended both his life and destroyed the virus processing factory used by the main villain Lyutsifer Safin featured a total of 136.4kg of TNT equivalent, which was enough to shatter the previous Guinness World Record which stood at a measly 65kg.
The breaking of the record was not exactly coincidental, as is explained in a new behind-the-scenes video that was posted on the official James Bond YouTube channel, which feature’s No Time To Die’s Chris Corbould. The visual effects supervisor discusses the huge detonation that finally killed off James Bond for the first time in nearly sixty years since the franchise began, and having discovered that there was a world record that the scene looked like it could well beat, the people at Guinness World Records were brought in to confirm the feat, which was clearly a mammoth explosion in comparison to the entry it overtook.
No Time To Die Broke Many James Bond Records
Daniel Craig’s final appearance as Bond saw the movie become one of the biggest James Bond movies ever. The film created new records for its opening weekend box office and managed to become, until a certain Spider-Man arrived in December, the biggest film of the Covid pandemic thanks to a vast turnout overseas. Daniel Craig also clinched the record as the longest-serving Bond actor, a feat that was aided by delays in the film, both from the early departure of director Danny Boyle and the subsequent ever-changing release date due to the pandemic.
This is not the only time that Corbould has been involved in the creation of records on the Bond franchise. In the penultimate film of Craig’s tenure, Spectre, a slightly different record was broken for the largest film-stunt explosion. Even way back in Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s iteration of the character was creating history, breaking the record for the number of most cannon-rolls in a car in the sequence when Bond’s Aston Martin crashes to avoid hitting his then love interest, Vesper Lynd.
While it has been well documented by the cast and crew that there were a number of other suggestions on the table for how Bond would meet his maker, including being poisoned or shot by an anonymous bullet, there is no doubt that his record-breaking demise is one that will live for a long time in cinema history and there really was no better way for Craig to exit the franchise.
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