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UPDATE: Amazon paid $1B to get creative control of James Bond and turn it into a ‘universe’ just like Marvel.
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. The last time an attempt was made to spin off the Bond franchise was in 2003 with a stand-alone movie about the spy’s girlfriend Jinx, played by Halle Berry in Die Another Die. Bond scribes Neal Purvis and Rob Wade were attached to pen that, with Stephen Frears circling, but Broccoli and Wilson put the kibosh to the idea due to creative differences.
So yes, black female secret agent is coming.
A while back I noted that the only thing keeping Amazon from turning James Bond into woke slop after it brought MGM was the control that the Broccoli family had over the film rights.
In a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), longtime Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Amazon — which bought MGM studios in 2021 — are in an “ugly stalemate” over decisions about the future of the franchise. These include decisions on whether Bond should be turned into a streaming series, or more philosophical ones, like whether the titular character is even a hero.
“I have to be honest, I don’t think James Bond is a hero,” one Amazon executive said during a recent meeting about upcoming Bond content, the outlet reported.
Some say a person of color in Bond’s tuxedo would better reflect the U.K.’s changing demography, and even nod to its ugly history of colonization. Take it a step further, others say, and cast a woman or a gay man.
Broccoli has told friends that she doesn’t have any qualms with casting a nonwhite or gay actor, but does believe Bond should always be played by a man, and should always be played by a Brit.
Before the purchase closed, Amazon executives brainstormed among themselves how Bond could be plugged into their machine. Would Amazon produce a James Bond TV show for its Prime Video service? What about a Moneypenny spinoff? Or a TV spinoff centered on a female 007?
Broccoli’s response to such enthusiasm, one friend said, is often the same: Did you read the contract?
Whether or not they did, Amazon can afford a whole lot more lawyers. Or threats. Or just infinite amounts of money to cut a deal.
The James Bond movie franchise has gotten a shake-up, with Amazon MGM Studios and Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli forming a new joint venture to house the movie property’s intellectual property rights. Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise, while Wilson and Broccoli will remain co-owners of the 60-year-old property.
Wilson added he was stepping back from producing James Bond movies to focus on art and charitable projects. “Therefore, Barbara and I agree, it is time for our trusted partner, Amazon MGM Studios, to lead James Bond into the future,” Wilson said in his own statement.
News of the joint venture comes amid continuing speculation about Bond 26, the next iteration of the 007 franchise, after Daniel Craig hung up the tuxedo for good in 2021’s No Time to Die. Barbara Broccoli echoed that it was time for her to step aside and allow Amazon MGM Studios to take over the creative reins.
This is the opposite of what she was saying recently, but it doesn’t especially matter.
What does matter is that James Bond is dead. A preview of his fate can be found in every creative property Amazon Studios has gotten its hands on. Expect the black lesbian Bond to arrive shortly.
Jeff Bezos and Amazon turned out to be the one supervillain and megacorporation 007 couldn’t beat.
Ironically there is now going to be an examination of Fort Knox to see if Goldfinger managed to escape with some of the loot 🙂
I think they should keep 007 as an Englishman, but the setting in contemporary Britain. First, to protect diversity, he uses his super- secret satellite GPS facial recognition watch to help Muslims locate Christians and Jews to stab. Next, he dashes across the countryside with his female social media expert sidekick to identify eliminate those whites who mention on Facebook that they do not like getting stabbed by Muslims. Along the way he can use his top-secret, lab-developed umbrella poison dart shooter to do in those dastardly old ladies silently praying down the street.
That is the most accurate spin on a new Bond yet. Perhaps his female assistant could wear a hijab.
don’t even jest …..
Maybe a Kefiya (checkered – kill the Jews – pattern) one and they arrest anyone mentioning it online (Ooops).
Life is already ahead of your satire.
Ready or not, Sherwood debuted the new zeroes who prioritize “inclusivity, female heroes, and heroes of colour” including a black gay disabled 004 and a Pakistani Muslim 009.
Sid Bashir, the Muslim replacement for James Bond, remembers standing by his mother’s side at an Islamic cultural fair under a banner reading, “Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic.” Another scene quotes the Koran and has Bashir saying, “May Allah bless your family.”
“I was born poor, black and gay, I know about hard times,” 004 who, it is important to note, is black and gay says. This isn’t just bad writing, it reads like a right-wing parody of wokeness.
In the new feminist novels, Miss Moneypenny has been promoted, Q has been replaced by a computer, and Bond by a woman, a black man and a Muslim man.
Good. Let the entire franchise die. It can only be ruined for so long because the public won’t buy that offensive “woke” shit and it’ll die. “Go woke, go broke,” right?
South Park Episode:
“Put a chick in it and make her gay!!”
Do NOT insult the franchise and the majority of people who are white Christians by making 007 a black female gay person. His sidekick could be a gay black female. Stop the WOKE or go BROKE!!!
Tit for tat, Ms. Bond?
My name is Bond, Jane Bond!
If you might recall, that incompetent CIA analyst, Valerie Plame was sometimes called “Jane Bond” after she was “unmasked” as a secret agent.
(She wasn’t NOC, as her position was known to all her acquaintances.)
She and her blowhard husband didn’t do Intel for the country, but rather used CIA resources to slander & undermine Bush43.
(Bush43 did his signature submissive response by allowing Scooter Libby to be hung out to dry.)
Backed by a compliant press, the “unmasking” of desk jockey Plame yielded fawning articles, a book deal, followed by a movie “Fair Game”, a malicious prosecution of Libby, cheesy magazine covers, fame & a resulting pass for abusing her CIA position.
(Leftists unmasked many personnel in Trump’s 1st term, but the press seemed unconcerned.)
My name is Balls, Harry Balls.
If they really MUST do something like continuing the franchise or a spin-off, how about doing it with another agent. Let’s say the introduction of ‘008’, the Black eight-ball, and leave 007 inviolate.
They’ll do that and then kill off James Bond and replace him. It’s what Marvel has been doing.
Look closer; that’s no black lesbian James Bond. Don’t let the disguise fool you; that’s the half-white communist sodomite sometimes called The Kenyan, a/k/a Barack Hussein Obama.
Make that half white half Indonesian Malay Barry Soetoro.
The sun has set on the British Empire AND the Bond franchise.
I’m willing to bet that none of these movie biz shirts ever read a single page of any of Ian Fleming’s books. They can reinvent the 007 character every which-way they want, but let’s not pretend that it’s James Bond. The 007 brand has become just another series of cheesy action flicks destined to last a week in the theaters then relegated to DVD and streaming. Ho-hum.
They’re proud of reading nothing and destroying everything.
Agree. Put whatever woke garbage they want to up there, and call it “007”, but it’s not, and never will be.
The low info crowd will accept it, but “James Bond is gone” pretty much says it. It is, what it is.
Also, the Brocoli’s made some of my favorite other films in the genre, such as the Harry Palmer series, including “Funeral in Berlin” (which I liked better than the “Ipcress File”)
Michael Caine is still making movies, can you believe that? I remember back in the eighties it seemed like he was in every movie. He made a great “Alfred,” too. So does Jeremy Irons.
Reilly Ace Of Spies is the better anyway, and has the advantage of being mostly true …. with minimal speculation to fill in the known unknowns.
Hollywood is dead to me! When they killed Han Solo, when they had his son kill him, it was over for me. And now it turms out Luke has turned to the Dark Side?!? Wow! Haven’t been in a theater in years. When they killed AMC & Netflix dropped classic films. Yeah, dead to me.
Sorry, you lost me at ‘woke’.
Well, a black lesbian is about to play Jesus (Cynthia Erivo in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl), so why not Bond? Sheesh.
They will ruin the franchise i a heartbeat of they present a gay Bond, or a female bond.
I laughed at the Moneypenny spin-off. Who wants to watch a series based on the secretary?
The Colony Is Being Poisoned.
Commence Barfing Procedure
Thanks for the warning – though the last JB movie I saw was streaming on Amazon Prime and it was with Daniel Craig who was also in the movie: Defiance (2008 film)
Defiance (2008 film) Defiance is a 2008 American war film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski, Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski, and George MacKay as Aron Bielski.
I saw a 2 hour documentary about this history that the movie “Defiance: is based on a local PBS channel;
I did not pay much attention to that movie until I saw this: PBS has a documentary called Resistance: They Fought Back that explores how Jews fought back against the Nazis, including those who hid in forests. PBS also has a book recommendation about a family who hid in the forest during the Holocaust. :
https://www.pbs.org/video/jewish-partisans-in-the-forest-fm4qwo/
After this, any fictional JB movie is pointless to watch!
When I was a child I learned my lesson that a stove is hot and never touched a hot stove again.
I have been burned by HellyWeird and the entertainment industry is satanic – I am very wary of anything HellyWeird produces!
In 1987 I had a girlfriend I first saw in the movie 1984 movie: “Reform School Girls” I saw on early cable tv movie channel. I turned on the TV that was set to that cable TV movie channel and it started playing. Every time Linda appeared on screen I had the thought and feeling “I’m going to know that girl” for the first 4 times I saw her.
6 months later we were living together.
I’ve known Arnold Schwarzenegger since 1972.
I met Hollywood celebrities in their ‘A lister’ years in my younger years – right up to seeing Orson Welles setting up to film the opening sequence of: “In Touch of Evil” (https://youtu.be/EhmYY5ZMXOY?si=FmcvCaIyUWgC4lBF)
I was a boy then of course. Welles looked down and me and looked up to the small crowd gathered there on Venice Beach for this night shoot and said: “Why is the child staring at me?” Then Orson turned and walked into the night of Venice Beach.
they actually expect to make a profit on that stupidity?? Okay, go ahead. I’m going to lay in extra popcorn and Stoli and sit back and watch this slow speed train wreck.
idk if this link will work but its my final comment.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/39/a3/77/39a377e2ddf2e68d0e67ca7a751f016e.jpg
And Meanwhile Poltical Correctness is a Virus invading our lives and making total idiots out of those who are faithful servants to it
If a British character were to embody actual heroism it would have to be someone like a Tommy Robinson figure. Everything about the U.K. and the British establishment looks thoroughly corrupted and deviant and/or cowardly.
Much as I love the action/adventure spy movie, I don’t see any way forward for a Bond figure who would be believable as a heroic spy FOR the free world and for the British government.
The black lesbian Bond is not going to sell many tickets. And the Cold War is over.
An Islamist Bond would perhaps seem the most fitting for the Brits—as the curtain closes for Britain as anything but a third world hellhole. But here again, an anti-free world/pro-Islamist script has very limited appeal.
Who cares? There hasn’t been a REAL James Bond since Mr. Connery!!
Hey – I have a GREAT IDEA for a movie – a WHITE IDI AMIN! Who couldn’t get behind all that – EVERYONE could have something to hate!!
Or how about an all WHITE AMOS n ANDY??