A New Team
21st March 2025
Amazon is in reportedly talks with two big names to produce the next era of 007
By MI6 Staff
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With Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson stepping down, the first gap that Amazon Studios has to fill to reboot the franchise is a producer or two. At the start of March, the Daily Mail was first to report that Amazon was looking to woo former Sony Pictures honcho Amy Pascal, who worked with EON and MGM on 'Casino Royale' through 'SPECTRE' (she resigned from Sony Pictures following the email leak). With four Bond films under her watch from the studio perspective, she would be a natural fit.
In addition to Pascal, David Heyman was said to be in talks with Amazon. Heyman was the producer of all eight installments of the Harry Potter film series and all three installments of its spin-off prequel series, Fantastic Beasts. His work makes him the second-most commercially successful producer of all time. He is also British so would provide the quintessential cultural balance to Pascal. Most recently, Herman produced 'Barbie' which took $1.4b at the global box office.
Trade press outlets in the USA are only just catching up to the talk, with the likes of Variety running stories today that the duo are "in talks" to helm the franchise for Amazon.
Back in the UK press, The Sun is claiming that Bond 26 will have a budget of £250m ($323m) - an increase of £30m on the inflated budget of 'No Time To Die'. For context, Netflix recently shelled out $320m for 'The Electric State' which will have a limited theatrical run before heading to the streaming service. If true, it would make Bond 26 one of the most expensive films ever made.
On the extreme end of tabloid rumours, the Weekend Sport has run a ludicrous headline that Amazon is planning to bring back Sean Connery via CGI. If that wasn't bad enough, the rag claims this is to prove the code name theory and that James Bond is multiple people. "They are planning to utilise the same technology Star Wars producers used to bring
Princess Leia back for The Rise of Skywalker," they 'report.' "The plan is for writers to clear up speculation about whether the 007 title is one character or handed down like a rank from person to person. They will bring Sean back to life and then use his character to pass on the mantle of Bond to the next actor. This will be very controversial and is still in the early stages of planning but we have the technology now."
Don't worry. It's not.
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