Posted on 02/26/2025 7:27:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The James Bond film franchise, a British institution, is now creatively "under threat of woke Amazon executives with zero Hollywood experience", according to an insider.
Yesterday, Hollywood was struck with the bombshell news that EON Productions made a new deal where their creative control of the James Bond film franchise now goes to Amazon MGM Studios.
For over 60 years, the British-American Broccoli family has maintained a non-compromising oversight over the much-cherished 007 movies, which they treated like a luxury brand.
Following rumours of internal clashes over the future of the next Bond, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are getting out. However, they will still receive credit and a cut of 007 going forward.
The casting, script, director, and everything else for the reboot are now in the hands of Jeff Bezos’s mammoth company, which purchased MGM Studios for $8.5 billion a couple of years ago.
Daniel Craig exploded out of the franchise in 2021’s No Time To Die, and with Amazon referring to the British institution as ‘content’ behind the scenes, many fear that Ian Fleming’s spy is well and truly dead.
As with George Lucas selling Star Wars to Disney, dedicated Bond fans are petrified that quality control of 007 will go out the window in favour of churning out lacklustre spin-offs. Bezos’ recent social media polling of fans on who should replace Craig is enough to make any Brit cringe. And given the backlash to what many perceived as woke narrative elements in recent Star Wars series The Acolyte (which was cancelled) and Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV show, are we about to witness the same happen to Bond? According to a Hollywood insider, it’s certainly looking that way.
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The modern James Bond writes propaganda for Ukraine at the “Daily Mail” or the BBC IMHO.
James Bond is dead in the last movie.
Just refuse to see any of the fake Amazon woke Bond crap they try spewing out. Simple as that.
It’s dead, let it go.
Besides, Sean Connery was the only decent Bond.
Exactly.
Agreed.
Bond is dead. They will now make Moneypenny girl boss movies that nobody will see.
Wasn’t Daniel Craig supposed to be the metrosexual James Bond?
LOL good ‘un! I imagine a room of Amazon snowflakes all aflutter:
“OMG, so toxic.”
“What are it’s pronouns?”
“What does he/she order at Starbucks?”
“License to kill - with fashion!”
“How do we get the gadgets onto the Prius?”
“The code names should have meaning. Can we have get Eddie Izzard for “Q”?”
When they killed Bond, they killed the franchise.
Bingo. Sean Connery was the only Bond.
The rest were amateurs and fakers.
James Bond needs to be managed by sleazy Italian and Jewish impresarios.
Obviously, it should go to a fat,lesbian, POC. Preferably trans.
Timothy Dalton deserves an honorable mention.
Put a chick in it and make her gay.
Amazon belongs to Bezos and he has been doing some strangely conservative things lately.
Yep
Now its female Dr Who
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