By The Daily Wire (World News) | Created at 2025-04-03 16:15:09 | Updated at 2025-04-04 18:18:57
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Amazon has provided an update on its newly acquired James Bond franchise as fans speculate who will play the next Agent 007.
Reps from Amazon MGM, the new home of the long-running franchise, provided an update this week during CinemaCon in Las Vegas, per Variety.
“We are committed to honoring the legacy of this iconic character while bringing a fresh, exotic new chapter to audiences around the world alongside Amy [Pascal] and David [Heyman],” studio executives Courtenay Valenti and Sue Kroll said Wednesday night during an appearance at Caesars Palace.
“They’re both in London getting started and couldn’t be here tonight, but we wanted to thank them for what we know to make an incredible partnership.”
Former producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli surprised fans earlier this year when they announced they would step back from the James Bond franchise and give creative control to Amazon.
The company purchased MGM for $8.5 billion in 2022 and, in doing so, acquired the rights to distribute all “James Bond” projects. But before now, Wilson and Broccoli had maintained creative control.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos polled his 6.8 million X followers, asking them who they thought should play the next James Bond role. Commenters mostly agreed that the part should go to Henry Cavill, a 41-year-old British actor.
The role was last played by Daniel Craig, who retired from the franchise after “No Time To Die” in 2021. There has been a lot of speculation about who would be the next Agent 007, but now, with Amazon leading the charge, anything can happen.
“I think [the next James Bond] will be a man because I don’t think a woman should play James Bond,” Broccoli said in 2021. “I believe in making characters for women and not just having women play men’s roles.”
“I don’t think there are enough great roles for women, and it’s very important to me that we make movies for women about women,” she added. “He should be British, so British can be any [ethnicity or race].”
