James Bond will reportedly stay male and British beneath the franchise’s new administration by Amazon MGM Studios.
Final month, it was introduced that the long-serving producers of 007, Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G. Wilson, had stepped away from the artistic course of and handed over management to Amazon, ending over 60 years of the Broccoli household’s management of the Bond property.
Now, a report by the Every day Mail states that an inner memo has circulated inside the studio that stipulates “the spy won’t change gender or nationality”, though it did state that the brand new Bond might come from elsewhere within the Commonwealth.
Amazon haven’t publicly commented on the report.
Bond followers haven’t reacted kindly to the information of the franchise’s sale, with some predicting that Amazon will “wreck” the sequence by over-saturating the market with “mediocre spin-offs”.
A earlier report advised that Amazon government chairman Jeff Bezos determined to pursue the buyout and have the corporate take artistic management of the movies after studying that Broccoli referred to Amazon executives as “fucking idiots” throughout her dealings with the corporate.
The Hollywood Reporter famous that an insider mentioned Bezos “learn her quote within the Journal and received on the telephone and mentioned, ‘I don’t care what it takes, eliminate her’.”
Amazon acquired its share of the rights to the James Bond franchise in 2021 after they bought studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The acquisition gave them entry to the earlier movies and distribution of future motion pictures, however up till no longer the artistic path.
Following the takeover announcement, Bezos took to social media to ask followers who ought to subsequent painting the long-lasting spy. Among the many commonest replies had been Henry Cavill, Idris Elba, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James and James McAvoy.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been the front-runner for the position since Daniel Craig retired as 007 after 2021’s No Time To Die. Final yr, it was reported that he had been provided the position, though the actor averted the query when requested about it on the purple carpet for action-comedy The Fall Man.
Former Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has additionally weighed in on the potential casting, displaying his assist for Taylor-Johnson early final yr: “I believe the person has the chops and the expertise and the charisma to play Bond, very a lot so.”