‘James Bond’s long-serving producers give control to Amazon’:-
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mn9gz5x3mo
'The James Bond film franchise will no longer be controlled by the Broccoli dynasty, after long-serving masterminds Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson announced they are stepping down.
The Bond films were launched by Albert “Cubby” Broccoli in 1962, before his daughter and stepson took over.
The pair will now give creative control to Amazon MGM Studios, which was formed when Amazon bought Bond’s parent studio in 2022.
The new deal comes after mounting speculation about the fate of the British spy, four years after his last outing in No Time to Die, which was also Daniel Craig’s final appearance in the role.
'Cubby Broccoli launched the iconic franchise with co-producer Harry Saltzman, and was joined by Wilson as a producing partner for 1985’s A View to a Kill.
Barbara took over from her father to join Wilson as a producer for 1995’s GoldenEye, and the pair have overseen every Bond film since through their Eon production house.
They kept tight control of the character - something that was acknowledged by Craig when he presented them with honorary Oscars in November, external. “Over the years many people and organisations have tried to put their own footprint on Bond,” he said.
“Barbara, Michael, I can’t tell you how much I admire your integrity in holding on to your singular vision as you brought Bond into the 21st Century with a passionate and a protective determination to honour the heart of this franchise.”’
As others have said online… hopefully there won’t now be a version of ‘The World Is Not Enough’ - where Elliot Carver is now the hero. Bezos as Blofeld, or ‘A View To A Shill’…
No remakes of 1979’s Moonraker either - where the villain is a super-rich industrialist and supposed rocket-maker seeking to go to space and cause chaos on Earth because… he’s a power-hungry oligarch and secret Nazi. Far-fetched or what?!
