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[BBassic]

The James Bond film franchise will no longer be controlled by the Broccoli dynasty, after long-serving masterminds Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson announced they are stepping down.

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.co.uk

Guaranteed that there will now be some sort Bond Connected Universe. Mediocre TV shows and spinoffs incoming.

 

[Rambo]

Absolute disaster this.

EON were crazy not to have a plan B, I suspect they thought Babs and Mike would go on forever. With no family coming from behind the sale was inevitable at some point.

With a family business being handed over to corporate scum, watch the franchise go down the shitter with lots of spin offs and tv series ala Star Wars.

Bond died with Craig.

Expect an established (A lister) actor be named in new lead role.

RIP Mr Bond.

 

[Sea Cider]

f*** you Bezos. I for one will boycott all future Bond productions

 

[schmunk]

I knew I'd seen him somewhere before...

 

[A1X]

Well I guess we can now expect a Blofeld origin story, a Q spin-off series, a bunch of other Double-O spies, some sort of vintage Bond from the 1920s and all the usual shite we get with this

 

[nicko31]

Another reason to avoid Amazon

 

[Anger]

For sure that’s at least one future Bond film where they won’t need to look for a villain to cast.

Maybe even 2 or 3.

 

[BBassic]

Well I guess we can now expect a Blofeld origin story, a Q spin-off series, a bunch of other Double-O spies, some sort of vintage Bond from the 1920s and all the usual shite we get with this

They are absolutely going to give us a canonical answer as to why James Bond's face changes every few years and it's going to piss everyone off.

And they'll do it during some sort of prequel series that nobody has ever asked for.

 

[schmunk]

They are absolutely going to give us a canonical answer as to why James Bond's face changes every few years and it's going to piss everyone off.

He's a Time Lord...?

 

[BBassic]

He's a Time Lord...?

Maybe! Or it's a multiverse thing. Multiverses are so hot right now.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Oh dear. This is going to be shite.

 

[JBizzle]

It's be interesting. The franchise was growing incredibly repetitive and stale before Craig took over, and even his latter films started to fall back on the same old tropes.

Be interesting to see if they can make a Bond that works in 2025. If not, it may have been better to just let the franchise die.

 

[US Seagull]

On the bright side, the original Casino Royale (and the Bond character therein) becomes public domain in 5 years time.

 

[Rambo]

On the bright side, the original Casino Royale (and the Bond character therein) becomes public domain in 5 years time.

I think all the Fleming books go public in 2035. So Amazon will absolutely have to milk it between now and then.

5 Films in 10 years?

 

[herecomesaregular]

Oh feck off. Disney have diluted to weak piss the Star Wars legacy and then it looks like ruining the Alien series. Now Amazon with Bond, I have no doubt they will feck it up too. Boo.

 

[keaton]

The James Bond film franchise will no longer be controlled by the Broccoli dynasty, after long-serving masterminds Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson announced they are stepping down.

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.co.uk

Guaranteed that there will now be some sort Bond Connected Universe. Mediocre TV shows and spinoffs incoming.

Didn't they do the connected gubbins already in Spectre?

 

[Wozza]

Christopher Nolan might get the gig now.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I for one can't wait for a spin off series about Bambi and Thumper from 'Diamonds are Forever'.

5 minutes screen time was nowhere near enough.

 

[GJN1]

Absolute disaster this.

Really? Perspective, I guess.

 

[keaton]

Oh dear. This is going to be shite.

Yeah they'll probably do something stupid and artisticly lacking as spending a whole film aping one of their best old ones( like OHMSS) and then desperately kill him off at the end. Let's hope it doesn't get that bad