Out Of Sight

22nd July 2024
Producer Barbara Broccoli has a lot of non-Bond projects on the bubble
By MI6 Staff
The next era of the James Bond film series may be much further away than you expect.
It has been almost five years since Daniel Craig filmed his last scene as James Bond, and the world is no closer to finding out who his replacement as the seventh official big screen 007 will be. Behind the scenes, nothing seems to be happening either, well at least as far as Bond films go.
As MI6 first revealed in the recent episode of James Bond & Friends podcast, Barbara Broccoli is once again working with Daniel Craig, this time on his passion project to bring his incarnation of 'Othello' to the big screen (he was the lead in the Broadway production in 2016-2017). Broccoli is once again attached to produce, and it is understood that the duo are seeking investors from Qatar to bankroll the production. Craig is currently shooting the third Benoit Blanc movie for Netflix. Broccoli is also exec producing the second season of '007: Road To A Million' for Amazon Prime.
Further doubt over the timeline for a Bond rebirth came this week through a short clip with movie producer Ashok Amritraj (and brother of Vijay who appeared in 'Octopussy') when he revealed that he is working with his "close personal friend Barbara Broccoli" on two projects for Amazon Studios.
The pair have history as they have collaborated on projects before. Most notably, the big screen adaptation of the thriller 'Remote Control' was supposed to be produced by EON in collaboration with Amritraj's Hyde Park company. Originally set up in 2009 with Sony Pictures, ten years later the project was set to star Gerard Butler and directed by John Matheson. Filming was scheduled to start in 2020 but never got going - presumably because of the global pandemic.
It is unclear whether one of the two projects mentioned by Amritraj includes the 'Othello' movie or not. Either way, Broccoli is very busy with projects, and none of them involve a new James Bond.
To date, none of EON's 'non-Bond' films have turned a profit.