The way forward for the James Bond franchise stays in a holding sample on account of a soured relationship between producer Barbara Broccoli and Amazon, based on a brand new Wall Avenue Journal report.
Amazon closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM, the longtime residence of the James Bond sequence, in March 2022. Nonetheless, on account of a standoff with Broccoli and her stepbrother, Michael G. Wilson, over the franchise’s inventive route, 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 through 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.”
In accordance with WSJ, an Amazon Studios exec’s description of Bond as “content material” in an early assembly was like a “demise knell” to Broccoli. She has since referred to the oldsters at Amazon as “fucking idiots” to buddies and expressed deep considerations in regards to the e-commerce firm being the proper 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 route for the franchise.
On that be aware, there hasn’t been any official motion towards choosing the subsequent Bond, although Broccoli and Wilson lately confirmed the brand new actor will probably be a person and certain be in his 30s.