The phrase I keep using is “the executives who work on Bond 26 might not be the ones working on Bond 27.”
BB was there to prevent someone like Salke from changing Bond for the worse. That ally is now gone.
It’s the next Salke I’m worried about.
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I share your concern. I just hope the chosen direction for Bond 26 is to our liking and successful, with that favourable response encouraging future executives to continue down that path.
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I believe Amazon has a panel on April 2nd at Cinema con , I wonder if we’ll get any information then.
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One would like to think that mega succesful people are smarter than others.
Most of the time they are not, though. They are more reckless, have built stronger and more powerful alliances and have luck on their sides.
And let’s not forget for one moment: Salke might be the great fall woman for this because she proposed those ideas for Bond.
But it is obvious that she only did so because her higher ups wanted that.
Now it’s easy to point to her and sacrifice her. But the real story here is: EON said no for one last time and at least squeezed out this veto out of Amazon.
And let‘s be very worried about this passage in the THR report:
„ Sources say Amazon is looking to bring on another executive in-house to oversee 007 after formally bringing in producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman to steer the new Bond film.“
So Pascal and Heyman are the big news - but the real producer will be someone else…
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They could lock in a commitment to a 2027 release date, perhaps. Or announce a director and outline more of the creative team, such as the writers? It would be a good chance to elaborate on their general vision for the franchise in any case.
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This all feels like we’re moving into the movie version of continuation novels.
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Something in the vein of License Renewed would feel very appropriate here.
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Why do you think that?
GoldenEye would be the film where it felt like we began venturing into the “Continuation Films” era of the franchise. LTK was something of the last stand for the franchise that Cubby built and it came back as something a bit different after the six year hiatus.
What we’re entering into now, IMO, is the stretch of one-off “prestige” authors having their go at Bond. Maybe Amy Pascal will give herself the credit of “producing as Barbara Broccoli” like Faulks did with that first post-Benson continuation novel.
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Moving from the “official” versions to others coming in with their own take on things.
Just as we moved from Fleming to other authors and their ideas, we’re moving from the EON films to other producers and their ideas (and maybe new ones for each film).
Yes, this.
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And we all know what we got from that. A huge media campaign with lots of fuss, a spectacular launch ceremony (over the course of two days)*, but a mediocre book with Faulks ticking of the boxes most of the time, a wasted opportunity for a great finale and instead a lengthy ending (which still was too short, as the subplot would have made a great novel of its own).
*was a nice couple of days with the boys, 003, zencat, The Admiral, The Quartermaster, Ajay and of course Loomis (cheers mate, wherever you may roam).
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Basically what we got was what every continuation author has delivered after Gardner’s first few novels.
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I’ve been thinking about this. It’s the original executives that give the films the official seal of authenticity, but technically speaking whenever the series diverts from Fleming it’s entering into entering fan fiction, continuation territory. The first four films more or less capture the essence of what Fleming put to the page. From YOLT onwards (OHMSS was the anomaly) the writers were diverging heavily and infusing more of their own ingredients into the recipe.
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He doesn’t say no…
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As one would to keep the name in the headlines 
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Especially as you’re on the promotion cycle for a film and a tv series. All eyes on Pierce is only good for both.
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He says, “They know where to find me.”
Those were exactly the same words he used in 2004.
It didn’t happen then, but it might well now.
I would be very disappointed if I waited all this time to get a new Bond that was just an old Pierce. Bleh.
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