A nice dramatic title for this blog about James Bond, because I am not happy.
Amazon Studios acquired MGM in 2022, the studio that makes all the James Bond films, and now Amazon Studios also gets creative control over the franchise.
The James Bond franchise is one that sits close to my heart. My father died when I was still young, but one of the most beautiful memories I have of him is that we always watched James Bond together.
And if the film was on TV too late and I had to go to bed as a little boy, he recorded it for me and I would often watch it later.
I was obsessed with the British spy. I wanted to be HIM. So I wore a jacket that was far too big to school and put on a tie. Because, well, James Bond wears one too.
So I have a lot of beautiful and loving memories connected to James Bond, and I am afraid Amazon is going to wreck the franchise.
We live in an era where everything in Hollywood gets milked dry, and a film series apparently cannot be successful without immediately having a whole universe attached to it.
After the Amazon takeover, it already came out that Amazon is very interested in expanding the James Bond world with all kinds of spin-offs.
In short: this is very much about money again.
And that while James Bond became great because of the creative vision of the people making it.
Such a deep, deep shame.