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Bond fans shaken over $1bn Amazon franchise takeover
Megafans fear tech company’s deal could mean an end to the films’ unique characteristics
“I can’t help but picture a sort of Happy Meal mass-reproduced version of James Bond; everyone knows what they’re going to get and it just becomes quite stale quite quickly. Photograph: Cinetext/United Artists/AllstarMark Wooldridge, film and media director of the 007GB Fan Club, who still gets goose bumps thinking of the first time he saw Golden Eye in the cinema, said the handover of creative control to Amazon threatens what he sees as the most important legacy of the franchise – the real-life action scenes. David Zaritsky, the creator of the YouTube channel Bond Experience, said: “Many fear that they’re going to take the films to online streaming, et cetera.
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