It may be some time before we get another “James Bond” film as executives haven’t even started working the next chapter. With Daniel Craig bowing out after “No Time to Die” two years ago, you’d think the franchise would already be working on what’s next.
Longtime franchise producer Barbara Broccoli addressed the fact that the next iteration of Bond needs work. The character will have to reflect how the world has changed in the nearly 20 years since Craig took the role. “I think these movies reflect the time they are in, and there’s a big, big road ahead reinventing it for the next chapter and we haven’t even begun with that,” Broccoli told The Guardian.
“I go back to ‘GoldenEye‘ when everyone was saying ‘the cold war is over, the wall is over, Bond is dead, no need for Bond, the whole world’s at peace and now there’s no villains’ – and boy was that wrong!” The reinvention of the Bond character to fit the times is an interesting choice. It could lend credence to the longstanding theory that James Bond is another codename. Which is why we’ve seen different actors take on the role.
Amazon currently owns the rights to the Bond franchise, which came with their purchase of the MGM catalogue in 2021. Broccoli emphasized that any future Bond film will remain on the big screen. “We make the Bond movies for the big theatrical screen and everything about the Bond movies is for audiences to see around the world on that format, so we’ve not wanted to do television.”
There will be a Bond-themed competition series on Prime Video next month. “007: Road to a Million” is a game show like “The Amazing Race” with Bond-inspired challenges. The show will be hosted by “Succession‘s” Brian Cox and will begin streaming on November 10th, 2023. Broccoli calls the show “a nice fun thing to be doing in the meantime.”
