Welp.
I can't wait to meet the new queer female Bond of color!
Anyone wanna bet it'll be this lady? 👇
Deadline says the deal cost Amazon an extra BILLION dollars for creative control:
It's taking around $1 billion to have 007 stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson cede creative oversight of their family's storied James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell us.
Amazon originally overpaid on its purchase of MGM in a deal orchestrated by then-MGM board chair Kevin Ulrich. Though valued between $3.5 billion-$4 billion, the legendary motion picture studio was absorbed by the streamer for $8.5 billion, the hefty sum propped up by the potential access of the 007 franchise. However, Amazon couldn't fully freely develop Bond with Broccoli and Wilson in the mix. Hence, it took another $1 billion to ensure that they could fully steer and exploit the Ian Fleming IP.
"Fully steer and exploit" is a good way to put it. These vampires think stories are something to be mined and sucked dry.
Here's a live look at the Bond franchise:
"I expect you to die, Mr. Bond!"
All of this was a necessary step to propel Bond into the immediate future: Amazon has spent an immense amount of money on MGM, and it had to be deliberate when it came to pushing along the 007 IP. Amazon is a volume-driven company, and this morning's announcement of the deal put the pedal to the metal.
Translation: It'll be trash, but we're gonna flood the market with it!
Let's not forget the absolute garbage Amazon Studios tried to shove down our throats with "Rings of Power," one of the most unfaithful book adaptations of all time, if you can even call it that.
Amazon is spending billions on that series, renewing it for a season 3, even though it lost a huge portion of its audience from season 1 to 2 and has become the butt of internet jokes the world over.
Back to Bond:
Also available to come to life in the new deal finally are a slew of Bond villains and women in their own series or features.
OF COURSE!
Why wouldn't you turn James Bond into the Marvel universe?? 🙄
First these woke DEI studios ruined Star Wars, then they tried to ruin Lord of the Rings, Netflix is actively trying to ruin Chronicles of Narnia, and now Amazon gets to sink the Bond franchise.
Well, at least covering this train wreck is job security for me. 😭
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