James Bond’s future is shaken by corporate clashes

The world has been waiting on pins and needles to find out what will happen James Bond. Now that Daniel Craig’s 007 story has been put to rest, there have been some rumors what is next for the super-spy. But it seems that there is no time to plan, after all, or not while the Broccoli family meet with Amazon, at least.

A new report from the Wall Street Journal says that the relationship between the Broccolis and the Amazon has “collapsed” from the latter bought MGM returns in 2022. The outlet claims that Bond producer Barbara Broccoli doesn’t trust the “Algorithm-centric Amazon” with James Bond, so much so that she doesn’t even want to make a movie with the company. (According to the WSJ, he clearly told his friends that the people at the tech company are “fucking idiots”). Things are basically at a standstill with the new film, and Broccoli said that this past fall there was “no script, no story, and no new Bond.”

Broccoli has a pretty tight He plays James Bond, and getting his approval to do something with him can be tough. The WSJ report claims that Amazon executives will expand to James Bond after acquiring MGM. Such ideas range from a Prime Video show to spinoffs for 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 make Bond in. mere “content”, so those dreams were closed. It is also said that there was a push against who should play Bond in the future: sources told the WSJ that people of color, women, or gay men should be considered, and among these three, Barbara was more open to people of color or a gay man. His thought? Bond must always be a British man.

You can read the whole story herewhich digs into Barbara Broccoli’s rise to being James Bond’s steward and that strained relationship with Amazon. It’s unclear where things will go from here, or which party may end up backing down just to make a movie, but you have to assume James Bond. will come back eventually.

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