James Bond’s Future Addressed By Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: “We Will Take Great Care”
deadline.comDuring a TV interview focused on Wednesday’s news about new AI features being added to Amazon‘s Alexa voice assistant, CEO Andy Jassy was asked about the topic du jour in Hollywood: James Bond. “We don’t have a plan yet on what the next theme is going to be,” he told CNBC, according to a transcript furnished by the network. “We haven’t – nobody’s written the story yet.
But we will take great care. It’s an amazing franchise that we care a lot about and that we expect to develop over a long period of time.” The exec’s comments follow last Friday’s stunning deal between Amazon and longtime Bond stewards Michael G.
Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The pact gives Amazon, which has already held distribution rights to the franchise after its 2022 acquisition of MGM, full creative control of the property.
There have been lamentations about the end of an era and anxiety in the fan and creative communities about the risk of over-exploitation of the British super-spy.
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