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Who will become the Bond heir after Broccoli and Wilson leave?

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  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    TripAces wrote: »
    I would think that nothing Mendes or any scriptwriter wants would ever be put on screen without Babs and Michael giving it a thumbs up. Period. The buck stops with them--and thus, the blame starts with them on anything you might not like.

    But there is such a thing called leverage. Without Mendes Craig would quit, so he had immense power BB/MGM. He said jump, they said how high.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    TripAces wrote: »
    I would think that nothing Mendes or any scriptwriter wants would ever be put on screen without Babs and Michael giving it a thumbs up. Period. The buck stops with them--and thus, the blame starts with them on anything you might not like.

    But there is such a thing called leverage. Without Mendes Craig would quit, so he had immense power BB/MGM. He said jump, they said how high.

    I agree with you both.

    Babs and MGW are like George Lucas used to be - no decision gets greenlit without their approval.

    The big mistake they made was in assuming that the spectacular success of SF was down entirely to Mendes hence they basically promised he could do whatever he wanted as long as he came back. They even held up production by an extra year just to accommodate him FFS.

    And what did he bring to the table? A poncey tracking shot and f**k off massive explosion that cost more than Greece's interest payments.
  • Mack_BolanMack_Bolan
    edited June 2017 Posts: 377
    Disney
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    edited May 2016 Posts: 15,423
    Mack_Bolan wrote: »
    DISNEY! WE NEED YOU! WE NEED YOU! DISNEY! LISTEN TO US!

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    @DisneyBond007, you didn't have to make another account. ;)
  • Pierce2DanielPierce2Daniel
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    Isn't the big rumour at the moment that Wilson has retired?

    He's been working on these movies now for nearly 40 years. He's done practically every role in the production process, so I think it would be apt if he stepped down. The general understanding is that his involvement with the Craig films has merely been symbolic. We all know that Babs is really in charge.

    He was also said to have been ill during the production of Spectre and was rarely on set.

    Personally, I think Babs will continue doing them by herself. Gregg Wilson will eventually produce them but I feel Babs will go it alone for a while.

    Also, Barbara has a daughter, Angelica Zollo who is an aspiring filmmaker.

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  • SzonanaSzonana Mexico
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    I hope Bond stays in the family with a third generation of Broccoli/ Wilson. No one would take care of James Bond better than them.

    Bond should always stay as a family buisness
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Agreed!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    +1 =D>
  • Pierce2DanielPierce2Daniel
    edited July 2016 Posts: 4,425
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  • LibrarianLibrarian
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    Szonana wrote: »
    I hope Bond stays in the family with a third generation of Broccoli/ Wilson. No one would take care of James Bond better than them.

    Bond should always stay as a family buisness

    100% truth :)
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    Whatever the Broccoli/Wilson families' flaws, they view Bond as a personal property and care about his well-being, both out of self-interest and pride in a familial legacy. That will always be preferable to Bond being a corporate asset manipulated by executives who have plenty of other properties to choose from and no personal investment in OO7.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    I don't think Barbara will retire soon. The next leader probably hasn't even been born yet.
  • SzonanaSzonana Mexico
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    Revelator wrote: »
    Whatever the Broccoli/Wilson families' flaws, they view Bond as a personal property and care about his well-being, both out of self-interest and pride in a familial legacy. That will always be preferable to Bond being a corporate asset manipulated by executives who have plenty of other properties to choose from and no personal investment in OO7.


    Couldn't agree more. Like you said they have some flaws but at the end no one would care for Bond as much as they do, so I hope Barbara and Michael's children suns get interested on doing Bond.


  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    Looks like a young Gregg Wilson standing next to Cubby in 1990.

  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited March 11 Posts: 4,577
    Szonana wrote: »
    Revelator wrote: »
    Whatever the Broccoli/Wilson families' flaws, they view Bond as a personal property and care about his well-being, both out of self-interest and pride in a familial legacy. That will always be preferable to Bond being a corporate asset manipulated by executives who have plenty of other properties to choose from and no personal investment in OO7.

    Couldn't agree more. Like you said they have some flaws but at the end no one would care for Bond as much as they do, so I hope Barbara and Michael's children suns get interested on doing Bond.

    And there we are in 2025 there are gone..

    I thaught mabey we should use this thread now for the quistion: Who (as in person) should produce Bond movie's now with MGM/Amazon ? (and mabey stil with Universal/Warner)

    Some sugest David Heyman https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382268/ known from Harry Potter series and Paddington. The guy is only a couple of months younger then Barbara Broccoli.

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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    There is nobody to be their heir it seems, hence Eon's decision to sell to Amazon. That's at least part of the reason anyway.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    I would hope that Amazon wisely chooses a showrunner or leader to run Bond properly. Bond needs a face so that it isn't Amazon. They should be downplaying the corporate aspect and give it a face. Like Gunn for the DCEU or Feige for Marvel. Not to say that the Bond property become a universe.

    A face and leader can ensure that proper decisions are made and that there is someone gatekeeping or steering the project. To just hire Executive producers I think is a mistake.

    I would have liked to have seen Gregg Wilson stay on to become that person but he's too tied to the family. It will be interesting to see if Barbara's name is still somewhere in the credits of the film as the family still retains ownership just not creative control.
  • DaltonforyouDaltonforyou The Daltonator
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    Does anybody think Gregg Wilson might get a job working on the films or has that ship sailed?
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
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    Daltonforyou wrote: »
    Does anybody think Gregg Wilson might get a job working on the films or has that ship sailed?

    I think that ship may have sailed. I don’t know what he did exactly to influence EON’s decision to sell, but the James Bond and Friends podcast mentions he may have done something that torpedoed his chances of taking over EON. They go into no detail beyond that however.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    Not totally applicable to Bond but I still chuckled.

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  • MalloryMallory
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    Bill Koenig of The Spy Command has posed a similar question:

    https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/unfinished-business-did-eon-have-a-succession-plan/
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    edited March 12 Posts: 6,562
    Barbara had to have known that it was probable or likely that Michael would retire. It was her decision to continue on or not.

    Unless it was just about Amazon’s money and greater leverage.

    A butterfly effect question: had Trump lost and Bezos not been thrust forward, would Eon still have sold in 2025?!? We’ll never know.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    It seems there were a multitude of reasons beyond just Michael retiring. We knew as far back as 2023 that she was not happy with Amazon’s management headed by Jennifer Salke, believing they were not truly prepared for tacking a production like Bond.
  • DaltonforyouDaltonforyou The Daltonator
    edited March 12 Posts: 666
    echo wrote: »
    Barbara had to have known that it was probable or likely that Michael would retire. It was her decision to continue on or not.

    Unless it was just about Amazon’s money and greater leverage.

    A butterfly effect question: had Trump lost and Bezos not been thrust forward, would Eon still have sold in 2025?!? We’ll never know.

    You're a smart man but your question is silly. What is Bezos' thrust exactly that you are referring to?
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    This thread (which I just discovered for the first time in my eight years on the board) seems to have outlived its usefulness. Or do we know anything about Jeff Bezos' offspring?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited March 12 Posts: 18,522
    "He leaves no heirs." That's what Kingsley Amis concluded about Ian Fleming in his excellent book, The James Bond Dossier (1965) The same can now surely be said of Broccoli and Wilson, some 60 years later. They leave no heirs.
  • DaltonforyouDaltonforyou The Daltonator
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    A couple of recent articles on David Wilson:

    https://blog.streamline-mediagroup.com/media/davidgwilson007



    https://campdenfb.com/article/david-g-wilson-breaking-third-generation-curse

    This article mentions him leaving eon in 2017: and becoming a venture capital angel investor and founding SEAM.
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