Jeff Bezos has bought the studio which oversaw James Bond‘s worldwide success – but two siblings still control the script, the direction and even who gets to play 007.
Amazon’s $8.45 billion takeover of MGM this week rocked Hollywood, but the Bond franchise is still firmly in the hands of Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, step siblings who inherited the production rights from Ms Broccoli’s father in 1995.
Ms Broccoli was on the set nearly every day during shooting of the most recent instalment, No Time to Die, and handpicked Daniel Craig as Pierce Brosnan’s successor.
The rights to the…
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