James Bond’s future is being shaken by corporate clashes

The world has been waiting on pins and needles to find out what is happening with James Bond. Now that Daniel Craig’s 007 story is over, there have been some rumors about what’s next for the super spy. But it looks like there may not be time to plan after all, or at least while the Broccoli family is clashing with Amazon.

A new report from Wall Street Journal alleges that the relationship between Broccoli and Amazon has “collapsed” since the latter purchased MGM in 2022. The outlet claims that Bond producer Barbara Broccoli does not trust the “algorithm-focused Amazon” with James Bond, so which doesn’t. I even want to make a movie with the company. (According to the WSJ, he allegedly bluntly told his friends that the people at the tech company are “fucking idiots.”) Things have basically stalled with the new film, with Broccoli reportedly saying last fall that there was “no script, no story, and no new Bond.”

Broccolis have a quite tight Controlling James Bond and getting his approval to do anything with him can be difficult. The WSJ report claims that Amazon executives were excited about the idea of ​​expanding James Bond once it acquired MGM. Those ideas ranged from a Prime Video show to spin-offs of certain characters, or even a project headed by a female 007. But the family (and Barbara in particular) maintain creative control over the franchise and have no desire to convert to Bond into mere “content”, so those dreams were closed. There has also reportedly been opposition to who should play Bond in the future: sources told the WSJ that people of color, women or gay men should be considered, and among those three, Barbara was most open to people of color or gay men. Your thought? Bond should always be a British man.

You can read the full story. herewhich delves into Barbara Broccoli’s growth into becoming James Bond’s manager and that tense relationship with Amazon. It’s unclear where things go from here, or what part may end up backtracking just to make a movie a reality, but you have to assume that James Bond willpower return eventually.

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