General Amazon MGM takes over James Bond

Michael G. Wilson & Barbara Broccoli / the Broccoli family own Eon Productions. They've been producing Bond movies forever.

Yesterday they handed creative control of the Bond franchise over to Amazon MGM.

My initial reaction is / was "FUCK" and that they'll woke-ify TF out of it. I've not watched Rings of Power, Watchmen, etc, as I don't care about those franchises, but I've heard enough to know that they fucked them up.

Amazon is supposed to do a Warhammer project, and brought on Hencry Cavill to star & be a producer. Cavill is an enormous, life-long Warhammer fan & is a stickler for wanting to stick to source material (which is why I guess he left Witcher). He's apparently left the Warhammer project because Amazon didn't wanna stick to source material...not sure how true that is.

On the flip side, Amazon made / is making Terminal List & Reacher, both of which are extremely good, kick a lot of ass, & stay very true to source material.

Amazon also made Jack Ryan - first season was excellent, which each subsequent season getting worse (including a season fighting a right-wing extremist govt in Venezuela...lmao, seriously?)

So...what do y'all think? Is Amazon gonna fuck it up?

As someone that's really gotten into James Bond movies, books, lore, etc in the last year or two, I don't like it, but am hopeful that I'm wrong.

I'm SOOOO hoping we don't end up with a black Bond, Jane Bond, a touchy-feely homofag Bond, or anything else.

I saw something a few weeks / months back that the new Bond was gonna "modernize" him or write him for "modern audiences" or some kinda verbiage like that.

Please shitcan any & all bullshit like that with immediate effect - we don't want it.

Lennybishop said:

The way they messed up. With the Rings of Power. I have zero faith in Amazon.

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This was my exact first thought (or at least with what I've heard, as I've not watched since I don't care about LOTR).

But when I think about it more, Amazon did great with Terminal List & Reacher.

So it's possible it could go either way.

I've seen people saying they don't want a bunch of bullshit spinoff series & such. I dunno about that.

If they did movies every say 2-3 years with a mini-series / limited series not involving Bond, it could be good. Like a tech-based mini-series centered around Q & the shit he makes could be fun. Or maybe a prequel series centered on M or something.

Follow how the John Wick universe is being built out.

Lennybishop said:

Dude they gave us BLACK ELVES. You have way more faith then me.

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hahaha that's hilarious. Like I said, I didn't watch ROP.

Amazon is very hit-or-miss, but it seems to be extreme either way - when they hit, it's fantastic. But when they hit, they absolutely FUBAR it.