Ed Sheeran had already started songwriting a theme song for the 25th Bond film before Billie Eilish got the job in his place. “I had started writing it,” Sheeran said on the English footballer Peter Crouch podcast, “I’m not going to pretend it didn’t hurt not to do it.”
“For a damn pubic hair of a mosquito I’d have one [Bondsong] can do,” Sheeran said on That Peter Crouch Podcast. “But then they changed directors, changed the script, and that was the end of it.” But Sheeran hasn’t given up hope entirely. “I think as an English singer you have to do a Bond song at some point. When they come back, I’ll say, ‘Yes, yes, of course.’”
Danny Boyle was originally intended to direct the 25th Bond film, in whose musical comedy “Yesterday” Ed Sheeran had an appearance. Boyle was replaced by Cary Fukunaga before filming began. The title song to “James Bond 007: No Time to Die”, the last Bond film with Daniel Craig, was finally written with “No Time To Die” by US singer-songwriter Billie Eilish together with her brother Finneas O’Connell. At 18 at the time, she was the youngest artist to ever write a Bond song.