Now that Amazon has management of 007, the time has come to let Christopher Nolan make a 70mm, one-off 007 epic.
The massive information this week, after all, is that after greater than sixty years, the Broccoli household has given up creative management over the James Bond franchise. As the positioning’s long-time James Bond superfan, I need to admit that this information despatched a little bit of a chill down my backbone, because the Broccoli’s have at all times been very good creative Stewarts over the franchise. Michael G. Wilson, the stepson of the OG bond producer, Albert R. Broccoli, truly co-wrote all the 007 motion pictures from For Your Eyes Solely by Licence to Kill. Barbara Broccoli got here alongside just a little later, stepping up across the time Albert (or Cubby as he was usually referred to as) grew to become unwell throughout the Pierce Brosnan period, with him dying in 1996. Barbara is the one who famously championed Daniel Craig, ignoring widespread fan derision, who referred to as him James Blond. After all, he wound up being one of many best James Bonds of all time.
With Amazon in management, one of many inevitable issues that can occur is that they’re going to make extra 007-related content material. That may possible contain spin-off TV reveals (prepare for The Moneypenny Diaries or The Q Chronicles) or too many motion pictures, with the important thing to the franchise being their shortage, with no a couple of Bond movie each three years, making them an occasion. My worry is that Amazon received’t have the opportunity to withstand having a 007 film making its premiere on Prime, making 007 as an completely theatrical expertise a factor of the previous.
Being a James Bond superfan, I’ve one other thought. If the Broccolis had been ever criticized, it was over the truth that their creative affect on the sequence prevented any actual A-list administrators from approaching board. I believe Amazon ought to strive one thing fully completely different. Christopher Nolan has made no secret of the truth that he’s an enormous James Bond fan, however he would have possible by no means made a 007 film for the Broccoli household. Amazon ought to put the franchise on ice till Nolan wraps The Odyssey (wishful pondering) after which supply him carte blanche to do a single James Bond film his means. This might be accomplished as a one-off. Nolan would by no means permit himself to be handcuffed to a franchise, however may you think about if Amazon approached him about doing a one-and-done James Bond film?
Furthermore, Amazon may flip it into a large theatrical occasion. They need to permit Nolan to shoot the film together with his favoured IMAX-cameras and provides it an unique theatrical run in 70mm or IMAX. Later, they may do what Disney Plus does and debut the IMAX model of the movie on their streaming service. This is able to do some fascinating issues that would vastly profit the franchise. It may reignite fan pleasure, giving the sequence a way of status and opening the door to extra A-list administrators placing their very own stamp on the character with a sequence of one-off theatrical movies. Making every a one-and-done occasion would give the character contemporary for many years to come back and solely bolster the worth of {the catalogue}, as one factor that already occurs each time a 007 movie comes out is that individuals revisit the opposite motion pictures within the franchise. It will even be a powerful sign that Amazon values the sequence as extra than simply IP, permitting them to acknowledge the truth that one purpose the franchise has survived for sixty-three years is that every film had worth and wasn’t simply content material being churned out. Principally, have them do the other of what Disney is doing with Marvel and Star Wars, or what Paramount is doing with Star Trek.Â
What do you assume? Tell us what you’d do with the franchise going ahead.Â
