If there’s frost between Eon Productions and Amazon MGM over the James Bond films, there was no evidence at the weekend.
Over the weekend, the producers of the James Bond series, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, received their honorary Oscar over the weekend. They picked up their gongs at The 15th Governors Awards, alongside other recipients including Juliet Taylor and Richard Curtis.
There’d been some speculation in the weeks and months ahead that this would be an ideal moment for the pair to finally announce something concrete to do with the future of the James Bond saga. In fact, they pretty much gave us the current position last week, in an interview ahead of the ceremony.
As such, there’s no new James Bond news to report, but just one small nuance that might fly under the radar.
Amazon’s purchase of MGM a few years back gave it an active stake in the future of James Bond, and there had been some speculation of competing ideas. Amazon-MGM can’t make a James Bond film without Broccoli and Wilson’s Eon Productions, and vice versa.
Is there unrest behind the scenes? If there was, in their five minute speech, Wilson took some of his two and half minutes or so to specifically thank Amazon and MGM for their support.
You can find the thanks just past the 2 minute 30 mark…
Barbara Broccoli’s segment of the speech is particularly lovely, noting that her father won the same award, and it clearly meaning something significant to her. Daniel Craig presented the Oscars to the pair.
The next Amazon MGM and Eon project remains not James Bond 26 – although clearly that’s on the slate – but season two of the TV show 007: Road To A Million, which is arriving on Prime Video at some point in 2025. Hopefully by the time it arrives, there’s actual solid concrete news of a new James Bond movie too…
