They don't really have much at the moment. Plus they already control the IP, so I doubt they care much
Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson had existing deals to develop/produce additional Bond movies. Amazon presented enough money to change that deal. Licensing deals like this have multiple milestones set up and at all of them the party licensing out the IP has the option to terminate it. Obviously the farther along you get, the less it makes sense to do that, but Amazon can - at any point - say "not feeling it. We're out. Give us the asset. here's the breakup fee. Bye"
Kind of, it's on their site. They've been recruiting for it for a while now.
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Amazon has owned the IP since they bought MGM in 2021. They could have cancelled it if they wanted to, but have not(smart choice). All that happened last week is Amazon paid the current producers and individuals in charge of the IP to give up that power and stewardship over Bond on screen. All this means is Amazon now can decide when/who/where in terms of Bond on screen
We only know they're working on a game based on this license and it'll be their take at their own version of young Bond. Beside that nah, there wasn't any official reveal whatsoever. It's probably far along though as they announced it like 4-5 years ago
Amazon has no control over the licenses (this IO Interactive Bond game) that had been handed out already by the previous IP holders. And since the game is funded and published by IOI themselves, it is far from potentially turning into a 1313 scenario, in which the Disney-owned LucasArts was both the developer, publisher and IP holder of the game.
It must release for their sake, it's IOI's main project and they've put their Hitman series on hold to make it happen.
They continue cooking the game. In theory IOI got the licenseand as long as they pay the IP holder the agreed royalties everything would be fine.
