{"id":32587,"date":"2025-06-26T01:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=32587"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:54:30","slug":"amazon-mgm-studios-names-denis-villeneuve-as-next-james-bond-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=32587","title":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios names Denis Villeneuve as next James Bond director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=39a2f822-380e-43b7-873f-a8815423bd76\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Amazon MGM Studios has named Denis Villeneuve as the director of the next James Bond film in a sign that the company is moving quickly to revive the franchise just months after it took full creative control from the Broccoli family.<\/p>\n<p>Villeneuve is known for his science fiction works, including two <em>Dune <\/em>films,<em> Arrival<\/em> and <em>Blade Runner 2049<\/em>. The French-Canadian director will also serve as an executive producer of the new Bond film alongside filmmaker Tanya Lapointe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a diehard Bond fan,\u201d Villeneuve said in a statement. \u201cThis is a massive responsibility, but also, incredibly exciting for me and a huge honour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company is starting to talk to potential screenwriters, but is remaining tight-lipped about the most-discussed detail of the next film: who will be cast as the next James Bond. <\/p>\n<p>In March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/stream\/84cf4073-a674-4a93-aef9-dcc1832a65cb\" data-trackable=\"link\">Amazon<\/a> gained control of the Bond intellectual property rights from Barbara Broccoli and her stepbrother, Michael Wilson. Broccoli\u2019s father, Albert Broccoli, oversaw the franchise for decades before his daughter and Wilson took control of it.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon had been eager to capitalise on the rights to the Bond franchise, the crown jewel of its $8.45bn acquisition of MGM in 2022. But no Bond film has been released since <em>No Time to Die<\/em> in 2021, as Broccoli clashed with Jen Salke, the former head of Amazon MGM Studios. She stepped down in March.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Amy Pascal and David Heyman were appointed as producers of the new Bond film. Both have a record of blockbuster successes. Pascal was the head of Sony\u2019s motion picture division and launched the studio\u2019s successful Spider-Man franchise. Heyman produced the Harry Potter and Paddington films.<\/p>\n<p>With Villeneuve in place, the focus will intensify on Amazon\u2019s search for an actor to play James Bond.<\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"aside-label\" class=\"n-content-recommended--single-story n-content-recommended--inset\" data-component=\"recommended\">\n<p class=\"n-content-recommended__title o3-type-body-highlight\">Recommended<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser o-teaser--article o-teaser--small o-teaser--stacked o-teaser--has-image js-teaser\" data-id=\"ae9bd1e3-9d55-4a22-ba03-c5d6b799d4b5\">\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-container js-teaser-image-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ae9bd1e3-9d55-4a22-ba03-c5d6b799d4b5\" data-trackable=\"image-link\" data-trackable-context-story-link=\"image-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-placeholder\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2493\/1402\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cJames Bond is in the hands of one of today\u2019s greatest filmmakers and we cannot wait to get started on 007\u2019s next adventure,\u201d said Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Broccoli named Daniel Craig as the new 007 in 2005 and appeared to struggle to come up with a replacement. When it was announced that Broccoli and Wilson were handing over creative control, Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos\u00a0crowdsourced the search for the next 007. \u201cWho\u2019d you pick as the next Bond?\u201d he posted on X, receiving more than 30,000 replies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/39a2f822-380e-43b7-873f-a8815423bd76\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}