In Landmark Entertainment News, as a result of which James Bond fans felt shocked, not moved, Amazon MGM Studios took full control over the franchise 007 from many years of producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. Although there are many reasons here to worry, the fact is that there are already books spinoff, games, comics, etc., etc., not to mention the original novels of Ian Fleming. Dozens of writers, actors, artists and others were solved by James Bond and his extended cast. And with Amazon Reported ambitions To turn James Bond into the “Universe”, and La Marvel and Star Wars and billions of dollars, the bond franchise has no time to die.
Of course, it was one of the fears of Brocoli consisting in giving up the rights that Amazon MGM was trying to develop too quickly or throw the actor a name as a secret agent. Will Amazon be faithful to these ideals or should we get Timothée Chalamet as the next 007? Probably not the latter (all apologies of Chalamet), but Amazon has already tried to create his own espionage franchise from Brothers Russo produced Citadel, and the international Spinoffs Citadel: Diana and Citadel: Honey Bunny. Basically, they lacked the recognition of critics (except for Honey Bunny) and at least in the country they did not really break the audience in the same way as other Amazon hits, such as boys.
… or more to such an extent, Amazon guys with weapons such as Reacher, Jack Ryan and Bosch. In fact, this can be considered that this is a immense part of the justification of Amazon, which throws out a billion dollars more to have a bond: some of their most successful series were already white men, with weapons, their names in the title, based on the book series. Unlike the money that Amazon favors Lord of the Rings (your course may differ in relation to how successful the energy rings were), buying James Bond based on available data is one of the safest purchases that Amazon could do. Prime Video Public is already gathering about guys like James Bond, so why not James Bond?
Another detail that you may not be aware of: Amazon has already created the television program James Bond. Seriously. Entitled 007: Road to a million, the reality show streamed in 2023 became the host of Brian Cox and was picked up for the second season before the first hit movie. Only January related to the bonda idea that Cox plays a pseudo-urban villain, while the players are racing to win a million pounds, the series was not a huge hit, but shows that Amazon has already played in the television space from 007. And as one additional witty tidbit, Cox thought he was signing up for the next Bond movie. He wasn’t, so maybe Amazon could do well through him in the future.
But wait, there is more! In 1954, the anthology series entitled Climax! The first adaptation of “Casino Royale”, the novel by Ian Fleming, was passed in history, before filming was committed many times. The point is that there is no A lot Television history for James Bond, but just like the franchise had some of the most praised hits in video games (have you ever played Golneye for N64?), Comics and others, James Bond is not quite a saint cow, which we think when it comes to adaptation.
Remember that there were no ads, that Amazon completely gives up the movie and probably not. MGM is not a studio, but for every red who hits the theaters, they still have niche nickel boys. There are many reasons to think that even without Amazon MGM broccoli will strive to make a franchise of bonds.
And to be sincere, is there anything that is outside the left field about the idea of expanding the franchise? Although perhaps limiting the bonds completely and instead of performing a streaming television version of Bond can be the ultimate Kinphils nightmare, there is a wealth of fascinating characters that rotate around Bond, which often have a much greater chance of developing character than the main character himself. Bond, for decades, remained relatively stationary – aside the latest Craiga films – while Q, M, Moneypenny, and even Felix Leiter always seem to have much more between the stage or two Bond spends checking them with them for a movie.
Will the series in which Q must leave the laboratory and operate its own gadgets would be so terrible? How do you say to Felix to deal with Fallout of Bond that blow up the latest SUPERVILLAIN plot on the American side? And taking into account the wealth of villains and supporters in the Bond Universe, who inspired dozens of fanfes, tributes and fakes, a series of anthology that gave them more time in the sun can be great fun. Who did not wonder how the jaws got these jaws?
There is also an opportunity to convey the character of James Bond through a served television program in a way that mostly did not receive characters on the huge screen. In addition to a sporadic case in which Bond suffers from a twisted cube at the beginning of the film, the figure was functionally immortal, up to the change of face like a time ruler. It wasn’t until Daniel Craig’s recent films that Bond was allowed to have some height, although even then it fell to “stunning about the death of his girlfriend” by most of Craig and “Old” in “Stary” in the last.
Skyfall is a lonely exception, probably the best movie Bond of all time … because he really challenged James emotionally and went to the series to an almost logical conclusion. Another movie reset things in many ways, but imagine that you can see this type of arch above 10, 20, and even 30 episodes (we do not intend to go crazy and suggest that the streaming program go to 22 episodes in the season or something)? You probably won’t get 10 Skyfalls in a row, but if you can nod with the ambitions of this movie, viewers can be on something really special.
The opposite point is that Amazon could not look at the obvious – i.e. his guys with pistols – and instead choose the path of the Lord of the Rings and deliver the prequel, which leads to the birth of James Bond. Perhaps they do not have to look further than Pennyworth, a stupid program with many steadfast fans, who despite this confused ordinary viewers, why we received a program about the future Batman butler. Or, for example, the rings of power, a program with a balmy Sauron and there are practically no rings in the first season, which checked the patience of even the most steadfast fans.
This is a potential nightmare scenario that Amazon will think about its algorithm instead of the heart. Even in the worst case, there is a charm that the broccoli family and others managed to bring to the Bond series, with the same rhythms, the same great explosion, the same good girl went wrong and the bad girl was well, many times. In the era of streaming, we are far from the place where the poetry of Bond could be provided episodically. Replace it into another serpeble drama (or worse, a seriesized spy drama), which means that she has lost this specialty, and instead invading with the Netflix night agent, diplomat and recruit, i.e. God being your own, unique thing.
This is really a trick and is with every potential film universe: what makes her different? In the case of Bond, until now, it existed mainly on the immense screen, every few years, and provided the level of action spectacle and story comfort, on which television was full of decades. If Amazon wants to change the house of Ian Fleming built into a multi -platform franchise, they must take into account what makes Bond so special. If they can come up with this formula and maybe build this support cast (Ben Whishaw in the Q series?
