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Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson told Variety:
So that makes it clear: EON doesn't want any direct-to-streaming-deals, and I think we can nix any wild spin-off tv show ideas for the time being as well.
Sure. You mean like this:
EON: Timothy Dalton will star in GoldenEye.
MGM: No, we're not making another Bond movie with Timothy.
EON: Pierce Brosnan will star in GoldenEye.
or
EON: It's too difficult to put a Bond movie out every other year.
MGM: Credit Lyonnais is trying to show that MGM is still a major player in the industry. You're doing a Bond movie every other year.
EON: We're doing a Bond movie every other year.
So it's not a change in situation then.
Besides, there’s no way a studio would have signed off with a casting choice like Daniel Craig. That was all EON.
This is really a topic for another thread, but John Calley & Jeff Kleeman at MGM/UA did not want Dalton for GE (this was reported in a couple of places, including a Kleeman interview for MI6 Confidential). It was never going to happen even if EON had approved Dalton's request to do one more film.
As for Craig's casting, you can be sure that Craig (and EON) would not have gotten a green light without the studio's approval.
I'd say they will keep the lion. It's an instant slice of iconography and it would be a waste to bin it.
That doesn't really prove it to be false though. As Escalus says, the execs at the time have said they didn't want Dalton back and that would seem to make an awful lot of sense.
Dalton may well have decided he didn't want to do it as well, but the decision would have been the studio's. The story about him choosing to leave the role always sounded like a PR cover story to me, much like the official story that he was actually first choice for Daylights and not Brosnan.
I don't really see why not in that case: Eon have proven themselves to be trustworthy. The studio must have signed off on it.
Surely all of the leaked emails from the making of Spectre show that the studio have input into these films?
I'd say keep MGM logo if they return to the original, the CGI Leo can be binned.
Money is not an issue with Amazon.
+1
Amazon whatever we think about their dubious tax arrangements are a successful, contemporary tech company and are proven to make sound business decisions. They will not mess with a golden goose.
Can't help but agree!
VesperVision
Bond and the Southern Sheriff
This is a great point!
They should put my avatar on the logo for a one-off. That'd make the audience feel really cosy and ease them nicely into the film.
And that MGM logo is ripe for the gunbarrel placement.
This is confirmed by the same sections in Nobody Does it Better which goes into the studio politics from multiple sides quite a bit better than most sources-it's especially helpful in trying to understand the TND scripting scenario. Kleeman's quotes in the book are indispensable.
Ultimately it's EON but the linked studio throws their weight around and the major decisions can't be passed without both being on board. With Amazon there's no way of knowing their approach and that's why I'm very leery.
I'm worried for MGM and UA catalog titles on disc and of course the delayed Bond UHD release. However dealing with the studio became a major never ending issue when MGM and their nightmare swallowed up UA and took over a significant chunk of Cubby's time trying to keep them at bay-and of course they never lifted the budget cap for the entire 1980's. The ongoing problems led to the six year gap and all the headaches since that have caused gap after gap after issue. I may despise the modern films but I always commend Barbara and Michael for having to navigate through these increasingly treacherous waters that go back to Saltzman's shares being bought out by UA in 1975.
The really interesting notion is that Cubby wanted Harry's price to go down super low before he bought him out and UA finally stepped in instead.
And of course no one knows UA anymore. The MGM purchase is really all about the UA library and what was the most artistic and honest of all studios is now a footnote inside the footnote that is MGM now inside the Amazon behemoth.
Also, Amazon just released 'Leonardo' starring future Bond potential Aidan Turner. Let's just say I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if this could turn out very well for mr. Turner. Perhaps Amazon sees a lot of potential in him as well, we shall see ;)
Thank you glad to see I am not the only one worried
Look I have no control over anything and will watch the films and either enjoy them or not and if they do something I really don’t like I will probably walk away not in an angry or annoyed way but just realizing that I guess things change and oh well../
I just fear the future but at least for the immediate future we have No time to die and the new game so I am happy with that
That accurately sums up how I feel about the news as well. This is certainly not my area of expertise within Bond but I like to know what's going on in a more general sense. Hopefully it will be seen as good news when the implications of the deal become fully clear further down the line. That's what we've got to hope for.
The only relationship I could see continuing with this deal and if No TIme to Die works out is Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who already has a good relationship with Amazon.
Maybe the "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" series she is working on with Donald Glover will be backdoored into the Bond universe. Mr & Mrs Leiter.