With news that Amazon has gained creative control of the James Bond film franchise, PA has looked at what impact the deal will have on both the company’s studios and the 007 series.
While there has never been a dramatised James Bond TV series, Amazon’s Prime Video released 007: Road To A Million in 2023, a game show fronted by Succession actor Brian Cox, which will return for a second series.
An array of documentaries have also been made on the film series, including Everything Or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007, and Becoming Bond, which follows the story of George Lazenby who played Bond for just one film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969).
In 1954, CBS aired a TV adaptation of the 007 story Casino Royale, just a year after the Ian Fleming book’s release in 1953, and in 1991 Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and MGM Television launched James Bond Jr, an animated children’s TV series based on the character.
This means the company now has creative control over new projects featuring the spy, amid claims in US newspaper The Wall Street Journal that Amazon MGM Studios wants to expand Bond into TV and other ventures.
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