So much for “no time to die” or “die another day”. This disturbing day finally arrived with such an astonishing announcement which has never shaken the James Bond franchise, and certainly since Amazon and MGM fused for the first time in 2021. After decades of maintaining a prudent and regular hand on The steering wheel, the broccoli, always cautious the family decided to take a decisive step back and to give in the creative control of the films of Bond – which are nothing less That the heritage of the family since the same creation of the property, the broccoli having jealously keeping every detail of what made these films – at the Amazon MGM studios.
The bomb is gracked with a joint declaration Released by Amazon MGM studios and producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (via Variety). It is a reshuffle that suddenly throws the whole future of the franchise into the air. As the declaration arises:
Amazon MGM Studios, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced today that they had formed a new joint venture to house James Bond’s intellectual property rights, and these parties will remain co -owners of the franchise. Under the terms of the new company, Amazon MGM Studios will take creative control of the James Bond franchise after the transaction fence.
However, writing may have been on the wall for some time. This development comes after months and months of prolonged rumors, delays concerning the official cast of our new James Bond, and finally reports who broke at the end of last year, revealing troubles between Amazon and the Broccoli family. With this company transforming the three parties into co -owners and putting Amazon Creative Control in addition to the distribution rights that he had already, it is not an exaggeration to say that Bond films will never be the same again.
What the loss of the Broccoli family means for James Bond
While fans are trying to look at what happened between the Broccoli family and the Amazon studios, the reverberations of this announcement will continue to be felt in the James Bond franchise for, well, the rest of its existence. The obsessed pure and hard know that the Broccoli family has retained a close and inflexible control of the property almost since the moment he arrived with “Dr. No” with Sean Connery in 1962. Chaired at the time by the late Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, the family’s patriarch has essentially defined everything we know is affair films. The immense popularity of the films meant that everyone wanted a piece of the creative pie and, with the only exception of a brief moment when Broccoli fell from their functions as a result of creative differences, the Bond franchise continued to stay Under the field of himself or his daughter Barbara in the years that followed.
So what does it mean to go ahead? Well, consider that / film recently reported that the biggest fear of Barbara Broccoli when Amazon went on board the Bond franchise had to do with the conglomerate essentially exploiting the brand for the rooms, with frames that have called on spin-offs, direct versions for dissemination, and all kinds of modern commercial practices that feel entirely in contradiction with the single and Special (and yes, old -fashioned) Bond property has always been. For his money, Broccoli explained his decision to resign with the following declaration:
“My life was devoted to the maintenance and construction of the extraordinary heritage which was given to Michael and I by our father, the producer Cubby Brocoli. I had the honor to work in close collaboration with four of the Extremely talented actors who played 007 and thousands of wonderful artists within the industry.
Goodbye the Broccoli family, hello to a new strange world of a shared Bond universe? In the short term, this change of guard can accelerate the revelation of our new James Bond and an announcement for the next restart will finally enter the production. In the long term, however, there is no say how much this deductible can be revealed under the direct control of Amazon. Stay listening to / film for much more.
