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Hope springs eternal.
Who will be the host? Calvin Dyson? David Zaritsky?
Oh my god. It probably won't go there, but Zaritsky is probably furiously calling people at the moment trying to get in on the show in some way.
What I do wonder is how far the Bond cosplay element is going to go. Because in the releases I've seen so far, they only talk about Bond locations being the hook. There is mention of physical challenges and contestants having to answer questions. It seems obvious that both of those would be connected to the scenes taking place at the locations they visit, but it could still simply be an Amazing Race clone with a Bond skin on top and very little connection to the actual films. If they are actually going ahead and f.e. have people ski down from Piz Gloria or whatever, wouldn't there be more focus on contestants having to "Be like Bond" or something like that?
PS:
Very likely those with the most active and best-funded tourism board or a big resort with a marketing budget next to it, to be quite honest. I'm quite cynical, but I do assume the locations will not be chosen on merit but rather by production necessities and budget probably plays into that quite heavily. If Eon knows one thing it's how to maximize tertiary budget streams...
Amazon has been trying to splash some serious cash around now in the TV department as so far they have had relatively few popular originals and those that have been (pre-2020s) were usually co-productions with other networks.
I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if this was mostly developed as a generic premise with the action franchise whose locations and iconography would be used, to be determined later.
And it being Bond, came about as soon as Amazon decided to buy MGM. Hence why it was announced so quickly.
But I guess there’s very narrow appeal to that.
Yes it’s being made by 72 Films, not by Eon Productions, so I would have thought it will distract the producers from the next film about as much as any licensed book or documentary with the Bond name does.
It could be fun, who knows. If it’s like Race Across The World but they go to lots of Bond-style locations, showing off some super exclusive top hotels in stunning locations and that sort of thing, I think it could be worth a look. Hopefully they don’t end up doing naff things like driving a couple of Astons around an empty racing track though.
Or they could even throw in a bit of Hunted on Channel 4: that show where people have to disappear anywhere in the country and a surveillance team are trying to find them using CCTV and the like, that show can actually be quite exciting.
My wish are some of the Bond actors/actresses appearing as guest (whether they are a bond actor/bond girls or villains) or maybe appearing in the show to help one of the contestants, for example: Dalton, Lazenby, Craig, Brosnan, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Famke Janssen, or Rosamund Pike will appear on the show as guests, helping those contestants or giving challenges to them, or they can be the ones who will give the prize to the winner.
Have any of you here watched the Running Man Show in Korea?
I don't think there is any harm. People say it cheapens the brand, but honestly they've done much worse things in the past. The other thing I've read is that people see this as the beginning of Amazon breaking open the franchise. The first step towards spin-off TV shows and all that. I don't really buy that, but we'll see.
The upside (aside from just more possibly interesting content) is probably something like Drive to Survive, the Formula 1 docu/reality series on Netflix. The comparison is a bit skewed. It's not the same thing (I'd love a 10-part making of for the next film, though), but that show has lead to a massive uptick in interest in the sport specifically in the US, even though hardcore fans say it's a pretty bad depiction of what is actually going on.
As others have said, tacky shit!
This isn't my idea of something I'd want to associate with James Bond.
Yeah I'd be surprised if any actors turn up. Well, maybe some lesser known Bond girl or two to ask a quiz question here or there, something like that; but I think you're right, they probably won't lean on the Bond thing too hard.
Not really. 72 Films, the company producing the series, reportedly started developing it 4 years ago. So way before the merger. They are also independent. It's not an Amazon Studios show.
But on the other hand, I think we can safely assume that Amazon now being in the Bond business helped in them greenlighting the project.
So it most likely isn't the product of some big Amazon-MGM-EON meeting where they mapped out the phases of the Bond universe to include all kinds of spin-offs, but there might have been a meeting about Bond and they decided that this thing they've had in the pipeline anyway can go ahead now that the merger is through..
Two asides:
I just took a look at the 72Films website and in the casting call there it says "Do you and your teammate have the skills and general knowledge to win?" I really don't think the challenges will be Bond heavy.
When trying to apply, they ask you whether you will be able to take time off over 7 periods within a year and whether one is flexible between now and the end of Feb 2023. So I'd say we're looking at up to 7 locations (maybe one or two of the timeslots are for briefing and training?) and with shooting done by February next year probably a release in late summer?
But I just had an idea that is only tangentially related to Road to a Million:
Do we think there is a chance Amazon will get Eon to licence a bit more down to earth merchandise? Because that's a part of the brand that could do with some cheapening.
Even the "simpler" bits of merchandise and props and whatnot are at ludicrous prices. Think I saw a new 007 cologne that was a small bottle for a few hundred dollars. Who's buying this stuff?
I had seen that they had put out a perfume together with Floris. I had not seen that they sell it for 200 pounds. Bloody hell.