Absolutely terrible news. “Under the terms of the new venture, Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise following closing of the transaction.” www.aboutamazon.com/news/company... - ThreadSky

philnobilejr.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Absolutely terrible news.

“Under the terms of the new venture, Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise following closing of the transaction.”

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-mgm-studios-james-bond

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bmdrew73.bsky.social•3 days ago

This feels like less of a surrender than a concession that Barbara really doesn’t know what to do with the character in 2025.

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well that’s why you hire writers, I’d have thought

bmdrew73.bsky.social•3 days ago

That should’ve made it a period piece. He’s a creature of the Cold War; put him back there.

ralphapel.com•3 days ago

I need a new James Bonding to help me through this.

ralphapel.com•3 days ago

Absolutely gutted.

bighouse.bsky.social•3 days ago

flabbergasted

merpwashere.bsky.social•3 days ago

I, for one, look forward to 6 shows a year set in the JBCU that unceremoniously get disappeared by the algorithm after 3 weeks.

lowellschool.bsky.social•3 days ago

I know he was expected to die, but holy shit.

johnneyred.bsky.social•3 days ago

The absolute worst. At least we still have the Ian Fleming estate. Some good work being done with the books side of things, reimaginings, etc.

abbytoir.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m so sorry. You were the first person I thought of

abstractpo3tic.bsky.social•3 days ago

I opened this app just to ask you what you thought. And you were the first post I saw. This is awful all around. I don’t see any silver lining here

abstractpo3tic.bsky.social•3 days ago

I get Michael’s reasoning for bowing out since he’s retiring. But I don’t get where Barbara is coming from. Especially after that WSJ article

redmenace.bsky.social•3 days ago

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

chrisscalzo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Decided to watch 'The Spy Who Loved Me' as reprieve from all the horrible news, decided to look up the fate of the Esprit, and you just can't escape it.

robgirvan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Do you think Amazon will make it a condition that the only brands that can get a Bond deal will have to sell their stuff on the website?

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Feels nickel and dime-y for a company that makes 1.6 billion a day

joshruben.bsky.social•3 days ago

Barf emoji dot gif man. I’m sorry.

theluckysharms.bsky.social•3 days ago

NOOOO

danwhitehead.net•3 days ago

Genuinely, my immediate thought when I saw this news was "I hope Phil is OK".

kolpitz.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fuck. We're gonna get some Red One bullshit version of Bond now.

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Deeply indicative of the kind of personal human touch we can expect Amazon to bring to the Bond franchise: this is at the bottom of the press release. It’s like a pharmaceutical ad’s list of side effects.

marissak.bsky.social•3 days ago

Never has art felt more authentic than when accompanied by the phrase “actual results may vary”

mteague.bsky.social•3 days ago

What does any of that even mean??? I am so upset by this. How did SMERSH get the upper hand? Gross.

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m so sad about this. Bond was one of the last franchises owned by a family; it was deeply pleasing to know that the billionaire company couldn’t so much as take pitches without the Broccolis’ say-so. Now we’re about to get every shitty idea ever floated on a Bond message board.

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

00 Spin-offs

Young Bond

Remakes

AI Connery Bond movies

The Felix Leiter Variety Hour

talkscaredpod.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yep. Strip-mining for content now. We'll end up with a 'gritty' 13-episode streaming series on the backstory of Oddjob.

ralphapel.com•3 days ago

So basically a bunch of Never Say Never Agains.

attimowens.bsky.social•3 days ago

Phil, I'm so mad.

danwhitehead.net•3 days ago

I remember being on a set visit for something, I forget what, but the unit publicist worked all the Brosnan-era Bond movies. It was around the time there were rumours about Halle Berry getting a Jinx spin-off (2004ish?) and I asked if that was really going to happen and he literally did this:

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s like I knew this was gonna happen today.

mteague.bsky.social•3 days ago

A glimmer of good news. It's funny, this AM I was telling my wife I am *this* close to going on the whiskey and ice cream diet to ice out my despair. This seals it.

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

And this is a kneejerk comment but can anyone name a good blockbuster Amazon movie

xerocks81.bsky.social•3 days ago

only ones I can even remember are Without Remorse and The Tomorrow War and yeah, not exactly great.

drewmcweeny.com•3 days ago

Nnnnnnnope.

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

They could have mindfully vetted replacements and preserved the very unique nature of this family-owned franchise.

Now it’s just content made by a company that only sees it as content. Selling a family business to Jeff Bezos isn’t something to celebrate unless you’re the one getting the check

hq10.bsky.social•3 days ago

I would watch The Felix Leiter Variety Hour, but that’s me.

humanstein.bsky.social•3 days ago

I see our fears are similar https://bsky.app/profile/humanstein.bsky.social/post/3limjpnklp22z

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Haha oh my god

travisjj.bsky.social•3 days ago

Kinda here for The Leiter Side.

vehementvaleman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah, I’ve been deeply in need of some good news (or at least a cool entertainment announcement)……and this……….is the opposite.

davidkittredge.bsky.social•3 days ago

This makes me unbelievably sad too.

cicspypod.bsky.social•3 days ago

The level of cover-ones-asses-never-make-a-promise bullshit that that statement makes. Good fucking grief.

rpdub.bsky.social•3 days ago

Side effects to James Bond may include:

- sneezing
- itchiness
- redness of skin
- martini shakes
- Moneypennitis
- white cat fever
- turning Japanese in inappropriate manner

travisjj.bsky.social•3 days ago

Weirdest tranche of dystopian newspeak I've seen in a while.

mostestghostess.bsky.social•3 days ago

I came as soon as I saw. I'm so sorry 😞

lemonedrosales.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm 200% in agreement with every single point you make. I'm still baffled by the Broccoli's decision maybe no one else in the family wanted to take over and they're just tired of the whole thing, Michael especially must be

gdimelow.bsky.social•3 days ago

M and Q are just IP.

pseigh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just thinking out loud, Bezos would make a pretty good Blofeld tbh

danwhitehead.net•3 days ago

pseigh.bsky.social•3 days ago

I can see him making a cameo at least, just because he can and nobody will tell him it brings no value to the film

philnobilejr.bsky.social•3 days ago

He’d make pretty good lawn fertilizer too

drewhunter15.bsky.social•3 days ago

insertspookyname.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fucking damn it!
This continues to be the absolute worst reality.

seexreadxwrite.bsky.social•3 days ago

Horrific on all levels.

ogmcduck.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can't believe you aren't excited for

Jimmy and the MI6 Babies: The Musical

noonz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Total disaster. The last remaining special franchise will now get bled dry via a thousand lousy “content streams.”

noonz.bsky.social•2 days ago

The fun thing about James Bond is that everyone has a favorite Bond, a favorite Bond movie, and a first Bond movie that they saw in the theater. It’s a generation-spanning universal language. Got nothing to talk about with a stranger? 99% chance you can make a new friend talking about James Bond.

aulllidosp.bsky.social•2 days ago

🤯😵‍💫😭

vehementvaleman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Goddammit.

The final Sign of The End Times.

johnszolscek.bsky.social•3 days ago

I feel like we're entering the era of Bond movies filmed 100% in Atlanta.

lizknerr.bsky.social•3 days ago

The end of a creative era. Devastating.

phirstand10.bsky.social•2 days ago

Geez, am I the only one looking forward to 2027's release of Bond v Goldfinger as Ryan Reynolds and CGI Gert Frobe rid the UK and world of woke?

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