How A New Game Could Decide Who Is The Next James Bond
Yesterday , the latest James Bond video game, was released by developer IO Interactive. In light of much of the media coverage, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a new movie. Not only has the game been covered by major mainstream print, online and broadcast news outlets all over the world, it has been widely billed as the latest instalment in the Bond franchise. There are a number of driving forces behind this excited exaggeration. The first is a drought of Bond-related content as it has been five years since the release of the previous film in the series, . The movie was Daniel Craig‘s last outing as the super spy and since then Bond’s world has been turned upside down. The upheaval began in March 2022 when Amazon paid $8.5 billion for storied studio MGM giving it rights to the Bond movies. However, Amazon couldnt freely develop future films as longtime stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson remained in charge. So the tech titan had to shell out even more money and in February last year bought creative control from them for an estimated $1 billion, not the $20 million that was widely misreported as this article explained. Cutting no









