The way forward for the James Bond franchise stays in a holding sample as a result of a soured relationship between producer Barbara Broccoli and Amazon, in keeping with a brand new Wall Street Journal report.
Amazon closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM, the longtime house of the James Bond collection, in March 2022. Nonetheless, as a result of a standoff with Broccoli and her stepbrother, Michael G. Wilson, over the franchise’s inventive course, there was no motion towards a sequel to 2021’s No Time to Die.
Broccoli, who took over the keys for Bond from her father in the course of the Pierce Brosnan period, stands against Amazon’s reported push for a “Marvel-style” enlargement that would come with movie and tv present spinoffs, and is described as having taken the franchise “hostage.”
Based on WSJ, an Amazon Studios exec’s description of Bond as “content material” in an early assembly was like a “loss of life knell” to Broccoli. She has since referred to the parents at Amazon as “fucking idiots” to associates and expressed deep considerations in regards to the e-commerce firm being the suitable match for Bond.
This isn’t the primary time the Bond films have taken a beat. There was a six-year hole between 1989’s Licence to Kill and GoldenEye because the Broccoli household took time to determine a successor to Timothy Dalton and a brand new course for the franchise.
On that be aware, there hasn’t been any official motion towards choosing the subsequent Bond, although Broccoli and Wilson recently confirmed the brand new actor shall be a person and certain be in his 30s.
