Amazon is officially gaining creative control of the James Bond franchise

jason10mm said:
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The stewards of these old IPs are all cashing out. The ones who give a shit are old or dead, the younger generation doesn't care, they would rather have the $$$ and go yachting. You are seeing this with all of the old stuff, musicians as well. If your kids are shits or don't care/aren't interested in managing your cultural legacy, particularly if it's just something a dimly remembered grandpa made, why not take the $$$ and punch out?
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Just commenting because as I recall they had a meeting with Amazon some time ago whereupon Amazon had their company culture insulted and were rejected as the wrong fit for Bond.. Maybe someone acquiesced or literally died.
 
The only thing that will make me watch the next Bond movie is if it's made by Christopher Nolan. Or Tarantino.

BlackTron said:
Just commenting because as I recall they had a meeting with Amazon some time ago whereupon Amazon had their company culture insulted and were rejected as the wrong fit for Bond.. Maybe someone acquiesced or literally died.
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I heard that the Broccoli woman and some bloke was offered a billion dollars.
 
BlackTron said:
Just commenting because as I recall they had a meeting with Amazon some time ago whereupon Amazon had their company culture insulted and were rejected as the wrong fit for Bond.. Maybe someone acquiesced or literally died.
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My guess is that she knew she would get torched no matter what. If Barbara put out a strong white male, the twitter shrillers would screech and caw about "oh noes, ANOTHER white male bond!!!!!" but if she allowed anything OTHER than a white male Bond then the audience wouldn't show up. So rather than stress about this for another couple of years and deal with the Amazon marketers, she just gave a number and amazon met it, buying her out creatively but allowing her some $$$ as the franchise continues on.

She is 65, Wilson is over 80, maybe their kids aren't as interested, time to cash out. Wouldn't surprise me if there are some "must make content every XXX years" in there or the rights revert back to the kids, so Amazon has to produce or lose it. Maybe they think they can cash in now, invest, and then get it back cheap if Amazon bungles it.

I'm actually curious if Amazon will survive Bezos or get chopped up. Most of the massive tech companies are still riding on the impulses of their initial founders, we'll see if Apple, for example, can innovate again or get dustbinned when smartphones make a leap they can't capitalize on. I feel like amazon is reliant on a lot of international shipping and trade that could rip it up if the global community stops being so nice to each other, or if the EU and US govs stop letting them be massive multi-pronged conglomerates and force them to break up.
 
Trilobit said:
The only thing that will make me watch the next Bond movie is if it's made by Christopher Nolan. Or Tarantino.
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McQuarrie, once he is done with these endless M:I movies.

I'd like to see Jon Faverau do one as well, so long as he tones down the CG stuff. Peter Berg as well, get that gritty feel. Fair number of accomplished action directors with a sense of technical flair that would work for Bond. They need to stay away from the artsy directors, for sure.
 
More than anything, I don't want it set in current day. 50s/60s was prime bond timeline. Modern day spoils too much of the mystique and appeal of Bond. Cell phones, geolocation, drones, etc would take away any agency for Bond or reason for him to exist at all.

I have zero faith in Amazon studios making anything good though, not sure why I'm even wasting my time typing this out.
 
Pejo said:
More than anything, I don't want it set in current day. 50s/60s was prime bond timeline. Modern day spoils too much of the mystique and appeal of Bond. Cell phones, geolocation, drones, etc would take away any agency for Bond or reason for him to exist at all.
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So true. Nothing kills my excitement in a bond film more than him handing a flash drive to some pencil necked geek who then bangs on a keyboard for 5 minutes until bond gets the next bread crumb to follow.
 
jason10mm said:
So true. Nothing kills my excitement in a bond film more than him handing a flash drive to some pencil necked geek who then bangs on a keyboard for 5 minutes until bond gets the next bread crumb to follow.
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I will say that the last act of Skyfall was pretty great, once he left all that behind and was isolated at the house.
 
From Broccoli 'no fucking way' a couple of weeks ago to 'this is the best thing' must have been some serious bezos-buxx handed over.

That or Amazon Prime delivery for life no questions asked for Barbs and Michael...
 
I hope Amazon puts the Rings of Power morons in charge and there's a Jamala Bond/RoP crossover episode in season 5.
 
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jufonuk said:
Jeff Bezos is bond James Bond.

Amazon Lol GIF by FullMag

Fuck if you had that money. Tell me you wouldn't make yourself the star.
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You mean the evil mastermind multimedia mogul orchestrating world disasters for his own profit....right?

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or the space obsessed industrialist willing to let the earth be cleansed while they create the perfect utopia?

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fuck, Peter Dinklage, paired with Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (aka The Mountain from the later GoT seasons) as Jaws....MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!!
 
What they did with Tom Clancy should be a good indicative of what they will do with Bond.

I see two paths there.
Mediocre "dad's" thriller
Or
Mediocre ultraprogressive shit.
 
Gp1 said:
What they did with Tom Clancy should be a good indicative of what they will do with Bond.

I see two paths there.
Mediocre "dad's" thriller
Or
Mediocre ultraprogressive shit.
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To be fair that's basically all Bond has EVER been. They were rapidly thrown together stunt spectaculars that were super popular in an era where that type of film was a rarity due to the stunts.

Now we have CG shit everywhere so a real human death defying stunt is "ho hum" so the exotic locales and big set pieces are no longer novel. There are 'better' Bond films now, like the M:I series, that have borrowed so many of the successful aspects that a true Bond film feels derivative.

Now some would say the way to go is to mix up Bond, hence the call for a PoC or woman. But that doesn't address ANYTHING, as it would (presumably) just be a different face dealing with the same structural issues and tropes. What I think we need are more consistent Bond releases so we can have the "tense thriller" and the "big action" and even a "gadget filled semi-comedy" but since they come out every 2-3 years you can experiment more with the formula while still having the trappings the core audience wants. I can pick a Connery, Brosnan, or Moore bond film to fit my mood because they cover a wide range(ish) of tones and themes. Not so much for Craig, IMHO, and Dalton/Lazenby didn't get enough. Use the change of actor to 'reset' the audience's appetite and then hit them with sequential films for a 4-6 film spread, then pause for a bit and reset again. Rather than put all your Bond eggs into 1 250 million dollar basket every 5-6 years, strive for a 150mill film every 2-3 years because it SHOULDN'T cost so much to make a spy thriller IMHO.
 
YAY! More of our cultural heritage is about to get pissed on by the USA!

I am so sick of that the culture of my country being sold off to the highest foreign bidder. Where the fuck has our backbone gone? When did we become a nation of whores?
 
IntentionalPun said:
MGM does Stathom movies, The Accountant 2… did the Roadhouse movie.

They aren't great films by any means but they also aren't all "woke" like people are assuming. Either are all of their TV shows. I mean they have Nolan's brother making stuff.

And you had the same thought as me.. they may save the girlboss stuff for a streaming series, but mainline Bond films will continue to be… Bond films.

That's what makes the most sense to me.
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I would like to inquire about your wife's perfect butthole, please.
 
IDKFA said:
YAY! More of our cultural heritage is about to get pissed on by the USA!

I am so sick of that the culture of my country being sold off to the highest foreign bidder. Where the fuck has our backbone gone? When did we become a nation of whores?
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Thatcher.
 
notseqi said:
Thatcher.
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Yeah, good point. Selling off our infrastructure to foreign investors was the start of our downfall.

Anyway, the UK could fix this if we could find our balls. We could demand Amazon hand it over to the UK. What are they going to do? Take us to court? lol. Jeff Bezos can motorboat my freshly shaved nuts. They wouldn't be able to do jack shit.
 
IDKFA said:
Yeah, good point. Selling off our infrastructure to foreign investors was the start of our downfall.

Anyway, the UK could fix this if we could find our balls. We could demand Amazon hand it over to the UK. What are they going to do? Take us to court? lol. Jeff Bezos can motorboat my freshly shaved nuts. They wouldn't be able to do jack shit.
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we're copying the same shit here in the G of ermany, it's embarassing. Several communities have rebought their base service companies to not have this shit of a state continue.
 
Next movie:

James Bond is a woman with short blue hair and her mission as undercover user SniperXXX999 is to watch Twitch streams and report gamers cheating.
 
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