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, in fact, is that after greater than sixty years, the Broccoli household has given up inventive 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 inventive Stewarts over the franchise. Michael G. Wilson, the stepson of the OG bond producer, Albert R. Broccoli, truly co-wrote the entire 007 films from For Your Eyes Solely via Licence to Kill. Barbara Broccoli got here alongside just a little later, stepping up across the time Albert (or Cubby as he was typically known as) grew to become sick throughout the Pierce Brosnan period, with him dying in 1996. Barbara is the one who famously championed Daniel Craig, ignoring widespread fan derision, who known as him James Blond. After all, he wound up being one of many biggest James Bonds of all time.
With Amazon in management, one of many inevitable issues that may occur is that they’re going to make extra 007-related content material. That may seemingly contain spin-off TV exhibits (prepare for The Moneypenny Diaries or The Q Chronicles) or too many films, with the important thing to the franchise being their shortage, with no multiple Bond movie each three years, making them an occasion. My worry is that Amazon gained’t give you the option to withstand having a 007 film making its premiere on Prime, making 007 as an solely 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 inventive affect on the sequence prevented any actual A-list administrators from approaching board. I feel Amazon ought to strive one thing utterly totally different. Christopher Nolan has made no secret of the truth that he’s an enormous James Bond fan, however he would have seemingly 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 provide him carte blanche to do a single James Bond film his method. This could possibly be finished as a one-off. Nolan would by no means permit himself to be handcuffed to a franchise, however might you think about if Amazon approached him about doing a one-and-done James Bond film?
Furthermore, Amazon might flip it into an enormous 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 could do some fascinating issues that would vastly profit the franchise. It might 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 folks revisit the opposite films 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 cause the franchise has survived for sixty-three years is that every film had worth and wasn’t simply content material being churned out. Mainly, have them do the other of what Disney is doing with Marvel and Star Wars, or what Paramount is doing with Star Trek.
What do you suppose? Tell us what you’d do with the franchise going ahead.
