Amazon MGM Studios is reportedly looking to get James Bond 26 filming this year, for a release in 2027. More on the story here.
It’s cost Amazon a cool $10bn or so, all in, to get itself creative control of the James Bond saga, as this and every website on the planet appears to have relentlessly covered over the past few weeks. Now, with Barbara Broccoli around $1bn richer, Amazon MGM Studios has absolute creative control over the future of James Bond, and a fresh report suggests that James Bond 26 is now being moved forward at speed.
The latest rumour has popped up at The Sun, so take it with a fair dose of salt (you can see The Sun’s previous work here), and it cites a source claiming that the new film will be in cinemas by the end of 2027. This doesn’t sound massively unreasonable and unrealistic either, and would mean that filming on James Bond 26 has to get going next year.
There’s still no known sign of a plot, a script, a director or a James Bond, now that Daniel Craig has left the role. We also don’t know who the ultimate creative overlord of the saga will be, now that Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson have stepped back. The pair have produced Bond films for decades, and the days of it being a family business are clearly at an end.
The Sun report suggests that Amazon MGM Studios is assembling writers at the moment, and let’s face it, there are many out there who’d fancy a crack at 007. Given the lengthy pre-production required for a Bond film, to have the movie locked by, say, the end of 2026 means that assorted personnel have to get a move on. By the sounds of it, now the funds have cleared out of Jeff Bezos’ account, that’s what’s happening.
More on James Bond 26 as we hear it. Sounds like we might not have to wait too long.
