Amazon takes over Bond franchise

[Paul Farquhar]

Slow news day?

I also have not completely ruled out being James Bond.

They could digitally de-age him, like the did Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Uncanny Valley. That worked really well!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Multiverse Bond!

Well, according to this:

“With speculation rife as to how Amazon will capitalise on its new property, the Daily Mail quotes an insider at the streamer explaining: “There have been so many erroneous rumours about the future of Bond. Amazon is committed to keeping the spirit of Bond alive and that means he has to be British or from the Commonwealth – and he has to be male.”

From Deadline (emphasis mine)

That leaves the door WIDE open to a number of possibilities for alternative Bond castings, because the Sun STILL never sets on the Commonwealth. Even without alternative history/multiverse shenanigans, there’s 56 members nations in the Commonwealth, covering a broad variety of ethnicities and cultures. I mean, look at this list:

Member countries

Forget OBVIOUS dark horses, like a Canadian or Australian James Bond. Imagine instead a James Bond from Trinidad & Tobago, Ghana, India or Samoa! Etc.

(Personally, I’m rooting for a Samoan. I want to see a big fella rocking a tux & driving a Lotus Emira.)

 

[Morrus]

From Deadline (emphasis mine)

Well, Deadline quoting the Daily Mail. So now I don't believe Amazon or the James Bond franchise exist. Or the Commonwealth.

 

[Ryujin]

(Personally, I’m rooting for a Samoan. I want to see a big fella rocking a tux & driving a Lotus Emira.)

I could only imagine some massive Samoan guy having to unfold himself and climb up out of one of those things

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I could only imagine some massive Samoan guy having to unfold himself and climb up out of one of those things

“There’s more to you than I had imagined, Mr. Bond.”

 

[Ryujin]

“There’s more to you than I had imagined, Mr. Bond.”