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Barbara Broccoli (James Bond) buyout reportedly to cost Amazon $1B
The James Bond Dossier ^ | 21 February 2025 | News Desk

Posted on 03/30/2025 6:53:07 AM PDT by dennisw

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To: dennisw
I grew up watching the real James Bond, Sean Connery. Everything that's come after is ... small potatoes.

Sort of like, Saturday Night Live. I was in college when it first aired and never missed an episode. And when the original cast left, I stopped watching because everything after was ... small potatoes.

21 posted on 03/30/2025 7:23:02 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist)
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To: DesertRhino
So say no once and refuse any further discussions.

That was my thought too. You don't have to be much of a fighter to just say no and back away from all discussions on the matter. Jeez.


22 posted on 03/30/2025 7:23:04 AM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: dennisw

Well, there’s another franchise going to h***.

re: Star Wars.


23 posted on 03/30/2025 7:31:39 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: dforest
Amazon has backed away from producing things with woke content.

They found that they lost financially doing that.

Is that so?

24 posted on 03/30/2025 7:34:41 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: dennisw

Waving $1 billion under my nose would sap my fighting spirit.


25 posted on 03/30/2025 7:36:51 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: dennisw
Best case scenario is that Amazon puts a solid man in charge of its James Bond movies. They get a solid actor to play James Bond. No politically correct DEI scripts.

James Bond was killed in No Time to Die. So that's how I see 007. He's dead. That's it.

Amazon can do whatever they want to do. But he's not Bond.

I'm not watching The Rings of Power. Why would I? When we have the The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

26 posted on 03/30/2025 7:39:00 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: dennisw
If they hadn't killed off Judi Densch's 'Q' character, NONE of this shiite would be happening. ;)

There is only ONE James Bond:


27 posted on 03/30/2025 7:46:20 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Strict9

As long as Bond resembles the Bond of the books that hooked me, I’ll stick with Bond. That and a few movies like Mission Impossible are the only ones that draw me to the cinema. Well, before The Great Stay-at-Home, anyway. LOVE 1960s folk music. Don’t know much about 1970s. Never watched Spanky and Our Gang. More into 1940’s ghost and military movies. Stood in line forever in the 1960s for the openings of each new movie in the freezing Chicago Year New’s cold. Fond memories of turning blue.


28 posted on 03/30/2025 7:49:19 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

I do not understand why every bond movie needs to be set in modern day. Gadgets play just as good in 1957 era as 2027. Just a laser is fun enough, a computer virus or bioweapon never had any story behind it in the movie anyway, they were shallow as the sorta girlfriends.

Classic brands will still pay top dollar for the watch, suit, and liquor contract. Every watch that is desirable to collectors is 1980 or earlier.


29 posted on 03/30/2025 8:01:02 AM PDT by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: dennisw

I used to have Prime, and I was interested in the premise of “The Man in the High Castle” on Amazon. They used different writers for different episodes,and there was a real clunker (young Nazis in the ‘60s taking LSD). The lead actress was EXCEPTIONAL.

By Season 3, they took a se;fless, likeable character (”Ed”), and made him a homo (which was funny, because the antiques dealer, a “Dr. Smith” type, would have been the obvious candidate, but he wasn’t a good enough person). When they had him about to do an on screen homo kiss, I turned off the show for good. Waited six months, and read what happened in Wikipedia.

Amazon ruined a pretty good series. I don’t trust new stuff (post 2015).


30 posted on 03/30/2025 8:02:40 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: FLT-bird

In other words, a typical current British government official.


31 posted on 03/30/2025 8:04:14 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: dennisw

mould it in the image of marvel

thats scary


32 posted on 03/30/2025 8:05:34 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Dr. Sivana
BBC stuff runs the same way. A series begins with a traditional and likeable theme, the star actor/actross will deliver the art, and then, boom, there comes what they really produced the show for.

Nowadays I've come around and I eat less sugar and same habit spills over into having less and less need for entertainment. Sure, there is the occasional curiosity that returns with a vengeance, but it can kill the cat.

33 posted on 03/30/2025 8:08:27 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: Brian Griffin

vito stepped down

and put freddo in charge


34 posted on 03/30/2025 8:08:44 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Dr. Sivana

““The Man in the High Castle” on Amazon.”

It was very good but confusing in the last season. Sometime I will watch the last Season again but with a viewers guide. I just tested Grok3 and it generated 12 paragraph synopsis for me


35 posted on 03/30/2025 8:09:14 AM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: dennisw

Hasn’t it already been proposed by elements within Amazon, that the next Bond be played by and as a Black female lesbian actress?


36 posted on 03/30/2025 8:12:40 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: Cinnamontea

amazon with very deep pockets was suing for control of the ip

this was a settlement


37 posted on 03/30/2025 8:13:19 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: dennisw

Meh. The last Bond film was in 2002. Bond is dead, lest him RIP.


38 posted on 03/30/2025 8:13:35 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Can’t think of an Amazon original that I liked. High Castle started good, but it got old quickly. Reacher idea is great,, but grew tiresome mid-way through season one. I skipped LOTR.

Different writers only work if the show is comprised of non-contiguous episodes.

. I wonder if Brocolli mandated that Salke be removed as part of the deal. It will be decades before AMZ gets a return on Billion Dollar Bond, if at all.

39 posted on 03/30/2025 8:13:49 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: dennisw

I only watched it to see: Alexa Davalos.
I hated the gay stuff in it, with passion.


40 posted on 03/30/2025 8:14:30 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10-10-10-10)
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