From Chris Snellgrove
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No time to die Was the last James Bond film for Daniel Craig, and this film ended (spoiler, sweetie!) With the unthinkable: our favorite cinema -superspy. It caused a sad and sober end, but it was difficult to get everything The Depressed because everyone knew that the character would be brought back soon enough. With the news that Amazon bought the creative control of Franchise Shepherds Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, it becomes clear that the streamer James Bond will bring back to kill him again by completely diluted.
Amazon turns James Bond into content
Now Amazon bought back the rights to James Bond when they merged Mgm In 2022 and most fans assumed that we would get a new film soon after. This merger cost the streamer cool 8.5 billion US dollars, but there was a problem: Without the consent of Brokkoli and Wilson, they still couldn’t make any new bond films. Now, Amazon has passed another Billions to maintain creative control from these two, and although this means that we will get new James Bond films earlier than later, this also means that the franchise will never be the same.
This is because the Wall Street Journal reported in December 2024 that between Amazon and James Bond Steward Barbara Broccoli gave serious bad blood. According to reports, she does not trust “Algorithm-Center-Center Amazon with a figure that she mythologized by telling big-screen stories and the intestinal instinct.” The most important thing is that she has pushed back against Amazon’s wish to create a James Bond Cinematic Universe with television programs on Prime.
How does Amazon kill James Bond again? Although not all films were winners (look at each other, spook) This franchise had a consistent style and a consistent atmosphere that cultivated it for 25 films. This is an amazing cinematic recording that we owe how much Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson take care of this franchise, and without their creative control there is no doubt that the streamer take the most famous superspy in the world in a completely different direction becomes.
That does not mean that it will be naturally bad Direction of course. Simply different. Nevertheless, those who feared that they are completely revised (as a black man, a woman, etc.) should reinterpret the creative control of Amazon via James Bond more than ever. Here, too, it is quite possible that such a film would handle us (Idris Elba or Emily Blunt Would both make an interesting 007 casting decisions), but if you like the bond character and the films for your consistency, these important changes have probably more shaken than stirred.
We now have to deal with the possibility that Amazon will publish the next James Bond film to refund the video instead of the cinemas. During initial negotiations with Brokkoli, they were obliged to play a theater, but these additional billions can mean that they can make this and all future bond films Streaming Exclusive. This may not mean much for the digital natives who have spent their whole life, but for old nerds like me it is terrible to believe that the era of James Bond theater events could already be over.
Above all, however, I am concerned about Amazon’s requested request to create an MCU universe for James Bond. Something like a Moneypenny TV show could be fun on paper, especially if it has the creativity and quality of Amazon Lord and Mrs. Smith. But one of the reasons why the audience has become tired Wonder Is it that stopping with their films like homework feels, and the streamer could face serious setbacks if they expect fans to look at a series of draws just to understand the action of the next Bond film or its new characters .
Maybe I’m only alarm and old -fashioned … a bit like Bond itself when he met the young new Q in Skyfall. After 25 films, this franchise may earn reinvention, and Amazon certainly has the deep pockets to do justice to James Bond and his legendary world. But if I am right and we enter into an era of only streaming bond films and television programs with bad CGI and falling viewers, the fans will probably come to the same conclusion that I have: the real bond died back in No time to dieAnd he is never come back.
Source: Deadline
