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

Earlier this week, October 8 marked the third anniversary of No Time to Die. Not solely was it the final James Bond movie to star Daniel Craig, it’s additionally the final massive Bond factor to hit interval, except you depend that sport present. Regardless of rumors popping up over the previous couple of years in regards to the next actor, Amazon MGM and the Broccoli household haven’t mentioned something definitive about who’s up subsequent to be 007, or when to count on his subsequent outing.

The rationale for that, in response to the corporate’s world head Jennifer Salke, principally boils all the way down to confidence. In a latest interview with The Guardian, she believed the world “will probably be affected person” and gladly take the following James Bond movie at any time when it comes. They’re not trying to have an enormously lengthy wait between No Time and no matter’s subsequent, however for now? “We aren’t involved at this level,” she conclusively acknowledged.

Final yr, the Broccolis revealed the franchise’s executives have been attempting to determine what path for James Bond to go subsequent. Salke additionally feels there are “a lot of other ways” to take the character subsequent, however MGM itself received’t be placing any concepts of its personal ahead. Its “good and shut relationship” with the Broccolis and the movies’ longtime producer Michael G. Wilson means the studio “isn’t trying to disrupt the best way these great movies are made.”

Three years isn’t that lengthy within the grand scheme, and it’s not even the longest hole for Bond particularly. But it surely is noticeable within the fashionable franchise age: take a look at varied superhero franchises, the place a good hole between films can elicit confusion or concern amongst followers and basic audiences. (Take a look at Physician Unusual, Shang-Chi, and Batman as notable examples.) In contrast to Marvel or DC characters, James Bond doesn’t actually have something like a TV present or video game to make people ignore that isn’t simply one other spy franchise like Mission Unattainable. Letting the studio cook dinner and discover the precise actor and workforce is at all times the precise transfer, however how lengthy can Bond afford to remain in cinematic retirement?

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