Amazon takes over Bond franchise

[Parmandur]

I’ve read them. If you look at everything that was offensive in the early movies, and dial it up to eleven, you are almost there.

I think a historical setting is a good idea, given the current instability, but it would need to be a revisionist take.

Fair enough: given Bezos and the current cultural moment in tge US, a regressive take wouldn't be out of the question.

 

[Morrus]

I think a historical setting is a good idea, given the current instability, but it would need to be a revisionist take.

All of Bond is nonsense. Why would that be any different?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It’s not awful, it just tries to do to much and should have been a TV series. The ending is good, it remembers it’s a heist movie in the end.

The introduction of the proto-Rebellion was good. Lucasfilm was clearly hoping to do more with them and then backed off after the movie tanked, as though it was their fault.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

All of Bond is nonsense. Why would that be any different?

I guess I could imagine a Bridgeton-esque Bond which completely revised history to basically eliminate -isms and diversify everything (not a criticism, to be clear, it's always an option to revise history in different directions so long as it's conscious and honest), you'd need to return good old Roger Moore-era supervillains I think as the badguys, your Max Zorins and Scaramangas, rather than the faux-realism of the Craig era (admittedly entirely abandoned for the insane No Time To Die), but I could see that working, especially if you went hard into a swinging '60s/'70s aesthetic for the world in general. There are a couple of Moore movies which aren't even a million miles from that aesthetic (A View To A Kill and Moon Raker particularly).

I don't think you'd get the free "Boomer Dad" audience Bond currently gets that way, but I guess you might get a whole new one.

Also imagine all the free press from the Mail etc. screaming "BOND GONE WOKE", good lord.

 

[TiQuinn]

I would take a Bond animated series.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If Amazon can do James Bond, Wish.com, Alibaba or Temu can give us Bane Johns.

 

[trappedslider]

If Amazon can do James Bond, Wish.com, Alibaba or Temu can give us Bane Johns.

Staring Sean Connery's brother:

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Staring Sean Connery's brother:

What a train wreck!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

 

[Paul Farquhar]

All of Bond is nonsense. Why would that be any different?

Because Bond has the CIA and MI5 on the same side. World events could easily put them on opposite sides of a world war. There is patriotic nonsense, and there is treasonous nonsense.