On Thursday, Amazon MGM Studios — which owns the long-running James Bond franchise — announced the studio would be taking over creative control of the series. The franchise has been creatively managed by the children of “007” producer Albert R.

Amazon has acquired the creative license to the long-running James Bond franchise. But how do they plan to deliver?

The James Bond franchise’s longtime casting director is quitting after a storied career working on 13 of the iconic films. Debbie McWilliams told ScreenDaily she was throwing in the towel just after the franchise rights were sold to Amazon—adding that the company’s filmmaking history “does not fill me with any great enthusiasm.

Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos posed a question to his X followers: "Who'd you pick as the next Bond?" Just one day prior, that inquiry may have felt a bit presumptuous: while Amazon's $8.

That last dig in Debbie McWilliams’ message wasn’t just random shade either, but rather a targeted reference. On the same morning that Amazon-MGM Studios was announced to be taking complete creative control over the 007 movies, company founder Jeff Bezos put this post onto social media:

Amazon being what it is and the Bond franchise being what it is, there’s no way Amazon won’t milk this thing for what it’s worth, capitalizing on every last aspect of the spy series until we’re clamoring to get away from Young Bond or Bond: The Early Years or Bond X Reacher.

In a huge shakeup for the James Bond series, Amazon will take creative control as longtime producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli step back.

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In a new interview, Timothy Dalton, who played the infamous agent in “The Living Daylights” (1987) and “License to Kill” (1989), reacted to the news that Amazon MGM Studios gained creative control over the film franchise after producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announced they would be taking a step back.

A movie star from classic James Bond films warned that the series' acquisition by Amazon MGM may bring changes to the long-running franchise.

A big piece of that is because James Bond has been shepherded by a very exclusive group of people since he hit the screen. Albert Broccoli, one of the co-founders of Bond productions company Eon Productions,