Although the James Bond torch has yet to be passed, the franchise will have to Die Another Day.
Amazon MGM Studios global head Jennifer Salke recently gave an update on the franchise after Daniel Craig took his final bow as 007 in No Time to Die (2021), as the UK’s EON Productions continues to maintain the majority of creative control.
“There are a lot of ideas [about potential actors] that have popped up that I thought are interesting,” she told The Guardian. “I think there are a lot of different ways we can go. We have a good and close relationship with Eon and Barbara [Broccoli] and Michael [G. Wilson]. We are not looking to disrupt the way those wonderful films are made. For us, we are taking their lead.”
Salke added, “The global audience will be patient. We don’t want too much time between films, but we are not concerned at this point.”
After Amazon and MGM previously closed their $8.5 billion merger in May 2022, which Salke said was “definitely uncharted waters for me,” she also touched on reports of a potential 007 series adaptation.
Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench in Skyfall.
“When you are looking at iconic intellectual property like that, you look at what the entire long-term future might be. Of course you look at every facet,” she said.
In 2022, Broccoli told Deadline that production on the next phase of the franchise was “at least two years” out as they plan “a reinvention of Bond.”
“Nobody’s in the running,” she said of casting Bond. “We’re working out where to go with him, we’re talking that through. There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film because, really, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he is and that takes time. I’d say that filming is at least two years away.”