The 2015 arrival of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Daniel Craig's James Bond movies was controversial, and they could have done without the SPECTRE boss.

In the 50-plus years of James Bond, the wait between films has never gone longer than six years. The next entry, and first since Daniel Craig’s dramatic exit, may test that — but things are speeding up.

In the 2021 film "No Time to Die," Daniel Craig repeats one of the James Bond franchise’s most enduring lines to Léa Seydoux: "We have all the time in the world." Well, not quite. Now that Amazon has tapped Denis Villeneuve as the franchise's next director,