Amazon takes over Bond franchise

[Deset Gled]

Amazon has had the distribution rights for Bond since it acquired MGM a few years ago. Creative control was held by EON (the UK film company headed up by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson).

James Bond's long-serving producers give control to Amazon

Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson step down after decades of tight family control of the franchise.

www.bbc.com

Can anyone confirm if Amazon now owns the complete and and total rights to everything 007? I don't know all the details, but I know some weird stuff went down that lead to a non-EON Bond in Never Say Never Again, and that bizarre Blofeld/not-Blofeld scene at the beginning of For Your Eyes Only.

Could this also mean a return of James Bond Jr?

 

[payn]

Could this also mean a return of James Bond Jr?

James Bond Jr is a real enigma. Since he is not actually James Bond's son, but his nephew. That implies that James Bond had a brother also named James...

 

[J.Quondam]

Sure. But they are either enjoying it or are idiots.

That's solely matter of personal taste. Some people simply don't feel a compulsion to spend or show off their wealth. So be it. That doesn't make them "idiots".

 

[trappedslider]

well folks wanted them to branch out,and and amazon will do that...so I guess "be careful with what you wish for"?

 

[aco175]

I'm guessing another childhood franchisee going the way of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Dr. Who.

I just saw an article about how phones and technology are making kids/adults less cognitive in thinking since they can just ask the phone how to spell or what is the capital of, or how to do something. People are lazy and not trying to figure it out, or in this case (and all the others recently) trying to come up with something new.

Make a 008 movie and come up with something cool.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That's solely matter of personal taste. Some people simply don't feel a compulsion to spend or show off their wealth. So be it. That doesn't make them "idiots".

It’s nothing to do with wealth. They are idiots if they carry on doing something they don’t enjoy when there is no need for them to do so.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

well given what people were wanting in the other thread, this will give them that. Bond without Bond

Talk about "be careful what you wish for". I was engaging in that conversation as an intellectual exercise. I do think that it could be done well (Bond without Bond) but I also think that there's a really good chance that they will screw it up (the phrase: "Exploit the IP" always worries me - the problem is in the word "exploit".)

This sounds more likely to be like Sony's use of Spider-Man Villains than it does like the ideas we were discussing in the other thread. I should have known better.

 

[delericho]

Not Northern though. It's reit time for Yorkshire Bond.

Patrick Stewart?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Patrick Stewart?

Brian Blessed.

 

[Morrus]

Really?

Yes.