Amazon needs Broccoli to furnish them with ideas for a new Bond movie.
Broccoli was irked in one early meeting when Salke referred to James Bond by a dreaded word: “content.” Using such a sterile term, one friend reflected, was like a “death knell” to Broccoli.
It was also antithetical to Broccoli’s approach, which she has said mixes gut instinct with a healthy amount of risk—with no decision more critical than determining who will play Bond. Daniel Craig, for instance, was a relative unknown when he got the part, starting with 2006’s “Casino Royale.” The decision, she has said, is as serious as choosing one’s spouse.
This sounds like nonsense, tbh. The people Amazon have hired will be from the same pool that all people making the biggest films in the world are drawing from.
The idea that Broccoli can inherit the franchise and by that right be the only one who has the power to divine what is correct for the franchise seems like it could be a difficult situation to navigate when she becomes unmanageably offended if someone says "content."
It sounds a bit like the system might have been that Broccoli glides in being flattered for her brilliance and once she's been massaged enough, she finally greenlights things so that people can get on with doing the work.
That's what it sounds like.
But, in her defence, she has credits on other films, so presumably is actually a real producer, and Bond has had a pretty good run during the Craig era, which since she's apparently the road block here, she should get credit for steering in recent years. Perhaps there were some terrible ideas that she vetoed in the past. We didn't hear about it because there perhaps were fewer of them or because she knows what to do with the franchise and steered them correctly.
What I'm saying is that it sounds like you could possibly end up thinking she's a diva who doesn't really do anything but like being in the middle of things and getting paid. But perhaps the success of the franchise under her stewardship ought to be applauded.
Perhaps Amazon ARE fucking idiots.