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# Is This The End Of James Bond?
- URL: https://alxndrr.com/is-this-the-end-of-james-bond/
- Published: 2025-02-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-22T11:31:49.000Z
- Author: Alex van der Weij
- Tags: Movies

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Some posts were originally written in Dutch and were automatically translated.

A nice dramatic title for this blog about James Bond, because I am not happy.

Amazon Studios acquired MGM in 2022, the studio that makes all the James Bond films, and now Amazon Studios also gets [creative control over the franchise](https://www.instagram.com/p/DGTBypqoxII/?ref=alxndrr.xyz).

The James Bond franchise is one that sits close to my heart. My father died when I was still young, but one of the most beautiful memories I have of him is that we always watched James Bond together.

And if the film was on TV too late and I had to go to bed as a little boy, he recorded it for me and I would often watch it later.

I was obsessed with the British spy. I wanted to be HIM. So I wore a jacket that was far too big to school and put on a tie. Because, well, James Bond wears one too.

So I have a lot of beautiful and loving memories connected to James Bond, and I am afraid Amazon is going to wreck the franchise.

We live in an era where everything in Hollywood gets milked dry, and a film series apparently cannot be successful without immediately having a whole universe attached to it.

After the Amazon takeover, it already came out that Amazon is very interested in expanding the James Bond world with all kinds of spin-offs.

In short: this is very much about money again.

And that while James Bond became great because of the creative vision of the people making it.

Such a deep, deep shame.