What Amazon’s New Deal Means for James Bond
After years of stagnation, Amazon has seized complete creative control of the Bond franchise, but what they’ll do next is the big question.
The James Bond franchise has been in a strange, icy status for years. Daniel Craig’s Bond died in a fiery explosion at the end of 2021’s “No Time to Die,” and rumors immediately started fluttering about who would be the next Bond. Michael Fassbender? Idris Elba?
The answer, it turns out, was “nobody.” The same year that ‘No Time to Die’ released, Amazon purchased MGM Studios, who were co-owners of the James Bond franchise, and were keen to get started making new “00” TV shows, spin-offs, and even a possible alternative version of Bond, played by a female.
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