Oh sure people, I’m nonetheless very a lot feeling the reverberations of the James Bond rumor mill being such a scorching matter on the 2025 film schedule. Whereas we’re not technically nearer to James Bond 26, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli’s current resolution to shift 007 inventive management to Amazon-MGM Studios would possibly change that. Like most loyalists of this cinematic legacy I’m nonetheless on the fence about what to anticipate, however there’s one thing that I’m a little bit extra hopeful about on this new period.
Amazon-MGM Studios Is Method Extra Open To James Bond Tie-Ins
The Wall Avenue Journal, by its personal reporting on the rumored Amazon/Barbara Broccoli debacle, famous a reasonably enormous issue that’s at all times been a sticking level: tie-in media. The iron clad grip that EON Productions has at all times had on the mass media imprint for Ian Fleming’s creation has, at occasions, felt like a draw back. So a possible vivid spot in Amazon-MGM’s stewardship of Commander Bond is the truth that the flood gates may open for all kinds of initiatives – together with my featured instance, video video games!
Whereas Goldeneye 64 launched a variety of 007 followers onto the market, the powers that be apparently weren’t too thrilled with its shoot ‘em up ahead gameplay. To haven’t had a Bond online game available on the market since 2012’s 007 Legends is dismaying to me, particularly within the period of battle royales like Fortnite and RPGs corresponding to Fallout. Each of these genres may very well be promising battlefields for 007 and his best foes to combat it out.
I do know that’s supposed to alter actual quickly, due to IO Interactive’s very mysterious Undertaking 007, which was formally sanctioned by EON Productions. However on the identical time, this optimistic does result in my ever current issues on how this potential “content material pump” would possibly flood us with some questionable strikes.
I Nonetheless Have Considerations About EON Manufacturing’s Lack Of Inventive Management
It figures that I’d be speaking about wielding the 007 legacy just like the One Ring, as the identical company mother or father that’s at present working The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy is on the controller. My fears aren’t unfounded although, and the earliest indicators we had have been Amazon-MGM’s alleged notes on Bond 26’s tone. Meme-worthy advertising and marketing isn’t the one downside although, because the report that impressed this dialogue additionally famous that when EON Productions was nonetheless in energy, it wasn’t solely video video games that have been rejected.
TV spinoffs, and extra importantly “no less than one tie-in on line casino” have been apparently given the chop as nicely. Anybody who’s seen advertisements for on-line betting, or set foot into a significant on line casino, would let you know that the quantity of film tie-in slots alone are type of ridiculous at this level. With out the correct restrictions, I concern we’ll begin to see 007 machines sitting alongside the models that exist already for crowdpleasers like The Large Bang Principle and Ghostbusters.
It’s a must to surprise if EON’s earlier experiences in advertising and marketing the franchise have led to the at present sparse period that doesn’t readily present undercover agent spy package toys, or Visa commercials with Pierce Brosnan being requested for ID. And no, I’m not kidding about that final one, as you’ll see within the video offered beneath. (And sure, that is Christina Hendricks):
Regardless of how optimistic you are feeling on the matter, it can’t be denied that EON Productions had a gradual hand when it got here to James Bond. Even within the model partnerships it did have interaction in, like the selection Daniel Craig Heineken advertisements filled with comedy, there was a steadiness that appeared to harken again to Roger Moore-era camp.
I do know that it is a little bit of a shift from the optimism expressed earlier, however that’s what occurs when a interval of such uncertainty reigns. I’m nonetheless hopeful although, as the appropriate perspective in direction of the 007 IP may give us some fairly wonderful choices that you just don’t need to be a Bond villain to afford.
As long as it doesn’t go overboard or betray the integrity of the sequence, the sky actually is the restrict. But when I see Diamonds are Without end collections at Kay Jewelers, or something equally doubtful, I’m afraid that’s once I’ll be as chilled and strained as a finely ready martini – minus the apparent pleasure such a creation would convey.