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Breaking Baz: Barbara Broccoli’s Close-Knit James Bond Circle Says Hearing 007 Deal News Was “As If There Had Been A Death In The Family”
Barbara Broccoli made calls to her collaborators to tell them she and Michael G. Wilson were making a deal to relinquish James Bond creative rights.
EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Broccoli began making the calls Thursday, London time, to her most frequent and trusted collaborators to tell them news would soon ricochet around the world like a bullet fired from a Walter PPK, the only weapon used by every actor to play James Bond in the Eon film franchise. This reporter has had relationships with members of the Bond “family” from all departments on the call sheet stretching back decades, and never have they sounded so forlorn. Had the search for a new Bond been successful, as mentioned earlier, might that have given Broccoli strength to continue as the driving force, I asked several sources.
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