I mean, it may be, just on sheer volume alone.
But that doesn’t mean they’ve all been masterpieces.
Or even consistently good.
The Sean Connery ones are considered the gold standard.
And there’s no denying how cool Connery and those devices were.
The Roger Moore ones had their moments.
And it’s audience.
My sons grew up on the video games of the Pierce Brosnan era.
And the movies were an upgrade for the most part.
But they also included Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist named Dr. Christmas Jones.
So they’ve got a lot to answer for.
This year will be the fourth sinceNo Time to Die.
And no one has exactly been demanding a new one.
So it’s time to reboot for the 8th or 9th time.
Thatd be when the camera panned into the audience to Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.
It was a bombshell development that caught much of Hollywood including, clearly, Oscars musical producers by surprise.
What could have compelled them to do it?
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More pointedly, what does the sale mean for Bonds future?
But now that theyre out of the picture, Amazon can do whatever it wants.
A TV show about Moneypenny?
A prequel about Blofelds teenage years?
More 007 game shows?
But anything is possible.
Amazon is now free to milk the franchise dry.
And there it goes.
This is how the 007 world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Bezos has a streaming service to fill, and cash to burn.
LikeHollywood Reportersays, entire TV series about minor side characters and origin stories nobody asked for.
It practically writes itself!
But they’ll have AI do it.
And let’s not kid ourselves.
Like all the fans want, Henry Cavill:
The character is going to be “reimagined” somehow.
But the odds of it being a traditional 007 in the Connery or Craig sense is practically non-existent.
