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EoN sells up - Amazon MGM to produce 007 going forwards (Steven Knight to Write)

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  • MSL49MSL49 Finland
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    Escalus5 wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    There are no action scripts in the last 60 years which were written by just one writer.

    Shane Black is an exception; he writes scripts either alone (LETHAL WEAPON, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, KISS KISS BANG BANG) or in partnership (IRON MAN 3, THE NICE GUYS, THE PREDATOR). And he's considered one of the best genre writers in the business and is a script doctor himself, so his scripts don't usually have other hands involved beyond who's credited.

    Predator 2018 was too much of a mess simpler would have been better.
  • TroyTroy
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    Earlier this week, the Mail had a story about Tom Holland being ruled out. This may or may not be true, but there was a throw-away sentence near the end of the article which said: ‘The franchise's 26th film will go into production next April at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire.’

    I’ve not seen this timeline before. Has anyone else?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15206479/Tom-Holland-007-revealed-new-James-Bond-storyline.html
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Here's a report saying Eon got $20 million, not $1 billion:

    https://deadline.com/2025/10/amazon-mgm-studios-eon-productions-20m-james-bond-1236594201/
  • K2WIK2WI Europe
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    echo wrote: »
    Here's a report saying Eon got $20 million, not $1 billion:

    https://deadline.com/2025/10/amazon-mgm-studios-eon-productions-20m-james-bond-1236594201/
    Sources say that Amazon’s deal with EON is structured as a joint venture, and over time the Broccoli company is going to get paid. Amazon has the majority stake. The $20M is believed to be an initial payment, with EON getting recompensed in different ways over time. This payment was part of the deal, not the entirety of the deal.
  • TroyTroy
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    $20m is very very nice, but knowing you may get another $980m is Amazon get it right - or a lot less if they screw up must be stressful as you no longer have any control.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 22 Posts: 19,480
    Arf! I love the amazing bit of journalism here:
    Sources say that Amazon’s deal with EON is structured as a joint venture

    Here's the news article on 007.com breaking the news back in February:

    Amazon MGM Studios Announces New Joint Venture with Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli

    What a scoop :))

    Also:
    Another interesting detail in the EON note is that the transaction was completed on February 20, meaning Amazon MGM Studios’ spy signing went under the radar for more than a month before being announced.

    What absolute nonsense. Look at the date on the first post in this thread. Or are they trying to say that the deal was a secret before it was completed, which is kind of obvious isn't it? I thought Deadline were better than this?
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    Troy wrote: »
    Earlier this week, the Mail had a story about Tom Holland being ruled out. This may or may not be true, but there was a throw-away sentence near the end of the article which said: ‘The franchise's 26th film will go into production next April at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire.’

    I’ve not seen this timeline before. Has anyone else?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15206479/Tom-Holland-007-revealed-new-James-Bond-storyline.html

    I simply don't know what they could mean. Are they saying that Villeneuve will have completed Dune to a stage that he can leave and shoot Bond 26, and hopefully complete principal photography on Bond before the Dune press tour? That's the only way I could see that working.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s likely nonsense, but I think it’s not uncommon for people to have a short pause on the movie they’re making to promote the previous one, they don’t have to have finished it.
  • 007HallY007HallY
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    So basically the Daily Mail Bond rumour mill’s been fired up again, and Deadline got giddy and swept up in sensationalist writing?
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    Hey, at least the rumour mill means news is close. It's much better than the endless void of nothing.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
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    Maybe Villeneuve would wrap up Dune by December or so..I don't know exactly, but something like that. So we'll get to know more about Bond 26 soon.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    Maybe Villeneuve would wrap up Dune by December or so..I don't know exactly, but something like that. So we'll get to know more about Bond 26 soon.

    As @mtm says, production of Bond 26 could go on a 2 week hiatus in the start of December 2026 to allow Denis Villeneuve to fulfill his press commitments. It's a novel idea but it just might save some time overall.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
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    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    Maybe Villeneuve would wrap up Dune by December or so..I don't know exactly, but something like that. So we'll get to know more about Bond 26 soon.

    As @mtm says, production of Bond 26 could go on a 2 week hiatus in the start of December 2026 to allow Denis Villeneuve to fulfill his press commitments. It's a novel idea but it just might save some time overall.

    Yeah. Something like that.
  • TroyTroy
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    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    Maybe Villeneuve would wrap up Dune by December or so..I don't know exactly, but something like that. So we'll get to know more about Bond 26 soon.

    As @mtm says, production of Bond 26 could go on a 2 week hiatus in the start of December 2026 to allow Denis Villeneuve to fulfill his press commitments. It's a novel idea but it just might save some time overall.

    Bond productions are huge, so presumably there will be plenty of work that can done in his absence. Given Christmas break, I would guess he would be away for 4 or 5 weeks. Everyone takes holidays, so allowing key staff time away from the office is no big deal on a two/three-year project
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    Troy wrote: »
    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    Maybe Villeneuve would wrap up Dune by December or so..I don't know exactly, but something like that. So we'll get to know more about Bond 26 soon.

    As @mtm says, production of Bond 26 could go on a 2 week hiatus in the start of December 2026 to allow Denis Villeneuve to fulfill his press commitments. It's a novel idea but it just might save some time overall.

    Bond productions are huge, so presumably there will be plenty of work that can done in his absence. Given Christmas break, I would guess he would be away for 4 or 5 weeks. Everyone takes holidays, so allowing key staff time away from the office is no big deal on a two/three-year project

    The big question is, will they be in production by next Christmas 2026, when Dune Part 3 is set to release?
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    edited October 26 Posts: 2,961
    I think once Dune 3 wraps, things would speedily unfold. Plus, there could even be another crew member/members announcement, before the year runs out.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    I think once Dune 3 wraps, things would speedily unfold. Plus, there could even be another crew member/members announcement, before the year runs out.

    For me hearing that Roger Deakins and Hans Zimmer are back would be a huge deal. It would be good to have some people from previous Bond films returning.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    edited October 26 Posts: 2,961
    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    I think once Dune 3 wraps, things would speedily unfold. Plus, there could even be another crew member/members announcement, before the year runs out.

    For me hearing that Roger Deakins and Hans Zimmer are back would be a huge deal. It would be good to have some people from previous Bond films returning.

    Yeah. I would love to have Deakins back too. But I don't think he likes James Bond. So Zimmer's more likely.
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
    edited October 26 Posts: 2,150
    I wonder if they will use Daniel Kleinman for the titles for Bond 26? Will he even be up to it if they asked him?
  • AgentM72AgentM72
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    Deakins and Zimmer back would be the dream combination of Villeneuve collabs, but I wonder if both may have a "been there done that" feel about the franchise now.

    Deakins, almost certainly. But if that means Villeneuve could pull off Greig Fraser or a Linus Sandgren return, either of them would also be terrific gets for DP.

    Zimmer may be the likelier of the two. By accounts, he and Steve Mazzarro were parachuted in to the NTTD post-production and didn't have very much time to actually create and deliver that score. I wonder if Hans could be tempted by a "here's more time, now redefine Bond's sound for the next generation" type of pitch...
  • FrankXavierFrankXavier
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    Not sure I trust Zimmer to redefine Bond's music. I like his work but I feel like his best are behind him.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    edited October 26 Posts: 2,961
    My pick for Bond 26 Composer, to redefine Bond music, while maintaining the familiar Bond sound...would be Ludwig Göransson. But with Villeneuve, it means Zimmer. Zimmer with enough time, would do great things. But if somehow, Villeneuve wants Göransson (which I doubt) I would be happy.

  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    I think too many assumptions are being made, particularly about cinematographer, composer and actor because Villeneuve is directing. Let’s let it play out; no doubt we are in for some surprises…
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    edited 6:58am Posts: 2,961
    My friend who's a casual Bond fan said Amazon should look at the best parts of Die Another Day...like Bond being betrayed and imprisoned. Then I actually paused and thought.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    My friend who's a casual Bond fan said Amazon should look at the best parts of Die Another Day...like Bond being betrayed and imprisoned. Then I actually paused and thought.

    I thought the best bit was when the car did a flip to avoid the missile.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
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    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    My friend who's a casual Bond fan said Amazon should look at the best parts of Die Another Day...like Bond being betrayed and imprisoned. Then I actually paused and thought.

    I thought the best bit was when the car did a flip to avoid the missile.

    Haha! That's typical Pierce Brosnan's Bond action. But I'm sure you're just being cheeky.
  • MalloryMallory Rules Reastaurant
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    Die Another Day has a lot of great ideas buried within it… it just doesnt take advantage of any of them.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited 10:33am Posts: 6,204
    In an alternative world DAD is made into a great Bond film, albeit in a different way to what we got. Even the ‘sillier’ stuff like a villain using an experimental treatment to change his appearance/return from the dead has tinges of Blofeld, and there’s an interesting father/son story in there. Bond being betrayed and imprisoned is a great concept (feels like they should have run with it a bit more). If handled better I’m sure it could have been a big scale, but nuanced (and in even in places quite a dark) final send off for Brosnan, not dissimilar to NTTD.
  • MalloryMallory Rules Reastaurant
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    007HallY wrote: »
    In an alternative world DAD is made into a great Bond film, albeit in a different way to what we got. Even the ‘sillier’ stuff like a villain using an experimental treatment to change his appearance/return from the dead has tinges of Blofeld, and there’s an interesting father/son story in there. Bond being betrayed and imprisoned is a great concept (feels like they should have run with it a bit more). If handled better I’m sure it could have been a big scale, but nuanced (and in even in places quite a dark) final send off for Brosnan, not dissimilar to NTTD.

    The film hints at more of a relationship between Bond and General Moon (Moon looks a little unhappy when Bond is "killed" by the icarus beam in Iceland, and similarly, Bond is pretty enraged when he sees Graves shoot Moon in the plane). I wish they could've worked that angle into the film, maybe if Bond bumped into Moon on the plane, convinced him that Graves is his son, and asked his help to stop him. Something like that.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    I've just seen Calvin Dyson new video, and the concerning thing about Bond 26 is that if Villeneuve is really unavailable to shoot Bond 26 until after Dune premieres, then it's possible that in that time the narrative around AI has shifted and the main thematic pull of Bond 26 becomes irrelevant. There's already talk about the AI market being a bubble, what if the bubble pops in-between Knight finishing his script and Villeueve becoming available to shoot the movie? Then suddenly the prescient and intimidating villains plot suddenly seems passe and slightly comical. Users are already extremely let down by Chat GPT 5, and If the AI market implodes and becomes the next Meta verse or Apple vision pro or Tesla Truck then how useful will it serve as a villain for the next Bond reboot?
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