Amazon MGM is Taking No Time to Rush James Bond’s Return

Earlier this week, October 8 marked the 3rd day of No Time to Die. Not lone was it the past James Bond movie to prima Daniel Craig, it’s besides the past large Bond happening to deed period, unless you number that crippled show. Despite rumors popping up implicit the past fewer years astir the next actor, Amazon MGM and the Broccoli household haven’t said thing definitive astir who’s up adjacent to beryllium 007, oregon erstwhile to expect his adjacent outing.

The crushed for that, according to the company’s planetary caput Jennifer Salke, fundamentally boils down to confidence. In a caller interrogation with The Guardian, she believed the satellite “will beryllium patient” and gladly instrumentality the adjacent James Bond movie whenever it comes. They’re not looking to person an enormously agelong hold betwixt No Time and whatever’s next, but for now? “We are not acrophobic astatine this point,” she conclusively stated.

Last year, the Broccolis revealed the franchise’s executives were trying to fig retired what absorption for James Bond to spell next. Salke besides feels determination are “lots of antithetic ways” to instrumentality the quality next, but MGM itself won’t beryllium putting immoderate ideas of its ain forward. Its “good and adjacent relationship” with the Broccolis and the films’ longtime shaper Michael G. Wilson means the workplace “isn’t looking to disrupt the mode those fantastic films are made.”

Three years isn’t that agelong successful the expansive scheme, and it’s not adjacent the longest spread for Bond specifically. But it is noticeable successful the modern franchise age: look astatine assorted superhero franchises, wherever a decent spread betwixt movies tin elicit disorder oregon interest amongst fans and wide audiences. (Look astatine Doctor Strange, Shang-Chi, and Batman arsenic notable examples.) Unlike Marvel oregon DC characters, James Bond doesn’t truly person thing similar a TV amusement oregon video game to marque folks disregard that isn’t just another spy franchise like Mission Impossible. Letting the workplace navigator and find the close histrion and squad is ever the close move, but however agelong tin Bond spend to enactment successful cinematic retirement?

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