James Bond’s future is shaken by corporate clashes

The world was waiting on pins and needles to find out what happened James Bond. Now that Daniel Craig’s 007 story has been discontinued, there’s been some mild rumblings. what’s next for the super spy. But it seems that there is no time to plan, or there is no time Broccoli family at least it clashes with Amazon.

A new report from The Wall Street Journal It claims that the relationship between Broccoli and Amazon has “disintegrated” since the latter MGM bought it He returned in 2022. The outlet claims that longtime Bond producer Barbara Broccoli doesn’t trust “algorithm-centric Amazon” with James Bond, so much as she doesn’t want to make a movie with the company. (According to the WSJ, he openly told friends that the people at the tech company were “idiots.”) Work on the new film largely stalled, and Broccoli announced this fall that he had “no script, no story, and no new Bond.”

Broccoli has one quite tight Catching James Bond and getting their consent to do anything with him can be difficult. Amazon executives wanted to expand James Bond after acquiring MGM, according to a WSJ report. Such ideas ranged from a Prime Video show to spinoffs for certain characters or even a project with a female 007 in the title. But the family (and especially Barbara) retain creative control over the franchise and don’t want to turn Bond into a movie. just “content”, so those dreams are closed. There were also reportedly objections over who would play Bond in the future: sources told the WSJ that people of color, women or gay men should be considered, and of the three, Barbara was more open to people of color or gay men. His thinking? Bond should always be British.

You can read the full story hereBarbara Broccoli explores James Bond’s rise to stewardship and strained relationship with Amazon. It’s unclear where things are going here, or which party might be backing down to make the movie happen — but you’ll have to assume James Bond will be finally come back.

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