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Peter Bart: As Amazon Decides How To Reinvent James Bond, Past 007s May Have Some Ideas
As all-powerful Amazon seizes control of the James Bond franchise, previous 007s would have ideas for the next phase, Peter Bart writes.
Broccoli and her producing partner, her half-brother Michael G, Wilson, fiercely fought off takeover attempts through the years, but their casting and story structures were not consistently as inspired as their negotiating skills. Perched atop the UA hierarchy at the time, I signed the Octopussy greenlight documents, after first sitting through the obligatory casting debates (a female Bond? Now Broccoli and Wilson will move on and key decisions will lie with Mike Hopkins, Amazon’s head of Prime Video and the MGM studio, who surely has his own road map.
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