Interesting… Gregg Wilson and her niece were supposed to take over…
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Her being that controlling doesnt surprise me, but its certainly interesting to speculate what would have happened had she it go just once for a name like Nolan.
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Giving him final cut or selling to Amazon… hmm…
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One thing I want to make sure to point out from the Variety article - Amazon can’t do anything until the deal is finalized, and that requires regulatory approval.
It could be awhile yet until anything interesting starts happening.
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I think we should agree to disagree. I have made my case and you are unconvinced as am I with your view.
I prefer to wait and see what happens instead of pre-judging everything that Amazon will do. It may turn out that your right. We will see.
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If you’ve tried to make heads or tails of Tenet (or zoned out during Interstellar), then maybe not letting Nolan have final cut is not the most heinous crime…!!! 
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I’ll repeat this here:
Stuff like that pirate challenge to the 007 brand doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Whatever Broccoli is, she has seen enough to know how draining such a freak show can turn out - in a climate where it’s entirely unpredictable how long this idiocy would take. Or how it ends.
At our age - we’re roughly the same generation - you start valuing your time more than many other considerations. I could entirely understand if that was her reasoning: let the ***ing idiots have their way. 
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Does anyone know what regulators need to approve this? The Variety article did not specify what organization it was.
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We may safely assume if you try to reach them you’ll talk to the mailbox…
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@Arbogast777 Thanks for the link!
But some say Broccoli was too cautious and exerted outsize control — to the detriment of Bond.
Skyfall: $1.1 billion worldwide (2012)
Spectre: $879 million worldwide (2015)
No Time to Die: $758 million worldwide (2021)
Casino Royale: $594 million worldwide (2006)
Quantum of Solace: $591 million worldwide (2008)
Now that is what I call detrimental to Bond.
Odd how when women are decisive, their behavior is described as “exerting outsized control”. When a man does it–like Christopher Nolan demanding final cut and a say in how his film is distributed–he is being thoughtful and prudent.
But their move to limit the exposure of the man with a license to kill may have proved prudent, considering that the ubiquity of über-brands like Disney’s Marvel and Lucasfilm sparked audience fatigue and prompted a pullback on output.
OMG!! Maybe she was right after all.
“And if you make Bond more politically correct, you’re going to have a lot of pushback.”
Not to be feared happening in the Age of the Oligarchs.
“You have to make a realistic assessment of your team’s capabilities and what are their strengths and what are their weaknesses, and [a Bond TV series] plays right into their weaknesses,” says one industryite.
Good news for the Bond-film–as-event cohort. Will Amazon pay heed?
More of a misdemeanor.
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Babs didn’t want to do it any more. So found a way to get a billion for not doing something. And keep half ownership to boot.
Good on her, 'cos I wish I could get paid for not doing something I didn’t want to do anymore…
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Had it, felt great 
Long complicated story. Low five digit sum for not getting a job I didn’t want anyway. And more than usual in such cases, because it involved age discrimination (at 41!!). Best thing that could happen, put me in the position that I was able to wait out on a certain job I really wanted – and which I still have today. 
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I couldn’t agree with you more. If they’re going to mess it up, let them actually do it before we pounce on them. Who knows, maybe they won’t?
I’ve been clamoring for something different from this franchise for years. We’re finally getting it.
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“We don’t have a plan yet on what the next theme is going to be,” he told CNBC, according to a transcript furnished by the network. “We haven’t – nobody’s written the story yet.“
Awkwardly put. The next theme… the story yet.
This Executive just had no clue. Nor would he have disclosed anything at this point. It’s just obfuscating things, as PR these days urges everyone to do.
„But we will take great care. It’s an amazing franchise that we care a lot about and that we expect to develop over a long period of time.”
They care a lot about the franchise. How thrilling.
And they will develop it? You mean, change it.
Over a long period of time… So, expect them to hold on to it forever. And should Amazon ever go broke (never) it will hold on to the rights. Bond will now always remain Jeff Bezos‘ pet.
But you know: „Personal liberties, free markets“…
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I’m actually feeling optimistic about their first film at the very least. While I’m not going to be a doomsayer just yet, I also think it’s healthy to put them on notice early on. Let it be known just how valuable this property is. Andy Jassy says they will take great care, and I’ll hold him to that.
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I think it’s perfectly fair to give Amazon the benefit of the doubt. Also from the business point of view, to have a specific producer / manager for this franchise to guide things in the right direction.
A Moneypenny tv series doesn’t sound Interesting,
at least to me, but an adaptation of Charlie Higson’s Young Bond could be intriguing.
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I’m excited to see what happens and I’m hopeful.
I do think broad change may actually be positive for the series going forward.
However, I don’t think I’ll give them many chances before I make a call to jump off and ignore what they produce going forward, and focus my fandom on the Eon Era.
These conglomerates that have aquired franchises do not hold much goodwill, so I feel no obligation to support any franchise helmed by one.
I once never would have thought I could be so uncaring and uninterested in new Star Wars, however Disney quickly proved I happily could.
I would always have kept an eye on Bond if Eon (Broccoli and Wilson or ayone that took over) remained at the head, and would always have at least watched a new film. With this Amazon Era, I’ll have no problem dropping it cold turkey.
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SPECTRE was released in 2015. If we assume no Bond movie will be released next year, that means a 10 year period will have gone by with EON making 1 Bond film.
The more I think about it, the more I think this will be a net positive.
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I do want to see new Bond films.
I do hope that Amazon can make good, maybe even great Bond films.
I just fear that everything going on at this time and probably for many years to come will impede this, and then we end up with a product which will be the equivalent to a Big Mac.
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