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No script. No replacement for Daniel Craig. And disastrous meetings about cashing in on the franchise. The battle royale between Amazon and powerful 007 producer that's left the next Bond film on ice
He was pushed out of a plane and still managed to grapple a parachute off his enemy in Moonraker.
Nearly three years after retail giant Amazon, namely its online TV and film streaming arm Prime Video, paid £5.2billion to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios to get its hands on the lucrative Bond rights, the company’s relationship with the family that oversees the franchise has reportedly all but collapsed. The Wall Street Journal reported that before Amazon bought MGM, the American head of Prime Video, Mike Hopkins, assured senior colleagues that he could win over Ms Broccoli and persuade her to allow them to do more to exploit the Bond ‘brand’. In the years since the MGM sale, for all the billions it shelled out in the acquisition, Amazon has produced just one Bond-related product: A reality show called 007: Road To A Million in which teams compete in spy-themed challenges.
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