how could this possibly be a good investment?
They are currently making zero films, so no profit. (They dis make a reality game show, so not zero zero, but basically nothing.)
genuinely confused, i didn’t think this franchise still had much of a fanbase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
It’s made about $10 Billion, similar to Jurassic Park and Dragon Ball. It’s also one of the older franchises, so years and generations of people.
That’s my point, with a good producer (or more accurately writer/director) we could get something excellent. I agree it’s a change, and there is reason to be concerned, but with the right people we can get an excellent Bond.
Hell if you look at the Broccoli years, the Brosnan & Craig era, you have great films, good films, bad films and terrible films. I appreciate the work she did, but the end product did not always come out fantastic.
If the concern is someone new coming in, first acknowledge that while Broccoli may have grown up with Bond, it didn’t come into her control until the Brosnan era. So it’s changed hands before.
Second, look at something like Star Wars. Lucas sold it to Disney, and admittedly Disney fucked up when it came to the sequels. They actually did OK with the first, but lack of planning after that lead to two sequels that were ultimately bad.
Alternatively, look at Filoni & Favreau. Overall I’d say they’ve done a great job with Star Wars. Is it perfect? No, they’ve had missteps. But hey, so did a few Bond films.
So obviously fuck Amazon. And Broccoli recently stated that Amazon are fucking idiots and “Don’t have temporary people make permanent decisions.”
So I think it makes sense to be cautious about this news.
That said if you look at The Boys or Invincible, it’s clear Amazon can make some good content.
I’m looking forward to more James Bond and I’m looking forward to who exactly they put in charge of it.
Flexo outranks me?
“Heihei” translates to “chicken”.
So there is no guarantee that childhood “Heihei”, Moana 1 “Heihei” and Moana 2 “Heihei” are all the same chicken.
Sure Moana 1 & Moana 2 are probably the same. But childhood “Heihei”, probably a different chicken.
Season 2 is different from season 1.
Season one explored a science fiction idea, what if we could separate ourselves from ourselves.
Season two however is world building. Don’t get me wrong season one has that as well, for instance the weird Kier dinner in the house, but season two has world building as the focus.
Season two needs to ask all (many) of the questions that will pay off in the finale, so it needs to expand.