Eric Schwartzel

And so the first film under their auspices was GoldenEye.

Good. So it was the first one starring Pierce Brosnan as 007, spawned an incredibly popular video game. Spent a lot of time playing that as a kid. An all-time N64 hit. And then also kind of brought Bond into this kind of blockbuster era where these movies were massive events, massive spectacles.

Good. So it was the first one starring Pierce Brosnan as 007, spawned an incredibly popular video game. Spent a lot of time playing that as a kid. An all-time N64 hit. And then also kind of brought Bond into this kind of blockbuster era where these movies were massive events, massive spectacles.

Good. So it was the first one starring Pierce Brosnan as 007, spawned an incredibly popular video game. Spent a lot of time playing that as a kid. An all-time N64 hit. And then also kind of brought Bond into this kind of blockbuster era where these movies were massive events, massive spectacles.

And after the Brosnan era ended, Daniel Craig comes on and the films get yet bigger and even more global.

And after the Brosnan era ended, Daniel Craig comes on and the films get yet bigger and even more global.

And after the Brosnan era ended, Daniel Craig comes on and the films get yet bigger and even more global.

So I talked to folks who worked with her in several capacities. And to a person, they all said, you know, Barbara Broccoli is one of those names that a lot of people outside of Hollywood have never heard. But when it comes to the Bond franchise, she is the keeper of the kingdom. And that goes to decisions big and small. So she decides, along with others in her family, who will play Bond.

So I talked to folks who worked with her in several capacities. And to a person, they all said, you know, Barbara Broccoli is one of those names that a lot of people outside of Hollywood have never heard. But when it comes to the Bond franchise, she is the keeper of the kingdom. And that goes to decisions big and small. So she decides, along with others in her family, who will play Bond.

So I talked to folks who worked with her in several capacities. And to a person, they all said, you know, Barbara Broccoli is one of those names that a lot of people outside of Hollywood have never heard. But when it comes to the Bond franchise, she is the keeper of the kingdom. And that goes to decisions big and small. So she decides, along with others in her family, who will play Bond.

And she really prides herself on having that kind of gut instinct behind Because Bond is often played by an actor who is previously a relative unknown in the industry. And it's very obvious to anyone who comes close to this franchise that whatever idea you have, whether you're a director or whether you are a licensing partner, whatever idea you have, it's going to go through Barbara.

And she really prides herself on having that kind of gut instinct behind Because Bond is often played by an actor who is previously a relative unknown in the industry. And it's very obvious to anyone who comes close to this franchise that whatever idea you have, whether you're a director or whether you are a licensing partner, whatever idea you have, it's going to go through Barbara.

And she really prides herself on having that kind of gut instinct behind Because Bond is often played by an actor who is previously a relative unknown in the industry. And it's very obvious to anyone who comes close to this franchise that whatever idea you have, whether you're a director or whether you are a licensing partner, whatever idea you have, it's going to go through Barbara.

I talked to people who worked on set with her who described it almost as kind of like a den mother mentality. She really will, everything from like individual lines of dialogue to managing relationships between the director and the crew.

I talked to people who worked on set with her who described it almost as kind of like a den mother mentality. She really will, everything from like individual lines of dialogue to managing relationships between the director and the crew.

I talked to people who worked on set with her who described it almost as kind of like a den mother mentality. She really will, everything from like individual lines of dialogue to managing relationships between the director and the crew.

Amazon has this streaming service, Prime Video, and every streaming service needs an almost endless repository of programming to fill with it. And so they absorb MGM, and with that absorption comes the right to distribute James Bond films. James Bond is kind of seen as the crown jewel of the MGM library that Amazon has absorbed.

Amazon has this streaming service, Prime Video, and every streaming service needs an almost endless repository of programming to fill with it. And so they absorb MGM, and with that absorption comes the right to distribute James Bond films. James Bond is kind of seen as the crown jewel of the MGM library that Amazon has absorbed.

Amazon has this streaming service, Prime Video, and every streaming service needs an almost endless repository of programming to fill with it. And so they absorb MGM, and with that absorption comes the right to distribute James Bond films. James Bond is kind of seen as the crown jewel of the MGM library that Amazon has absorbed.

Before the deal closed, Amazon executives got together and started brainstorming just what they might be able to do with Bond in their ecosystem. And they thought maybe should there be spinoffs? You know, there are like all these other characters like Moneypenny who could serve as the basis of their own shows. There was conversations around maybe a female 007 starring on a TV show.