As Amazon MGM Studios takes full control of the iconic James Bond franchise with a reported additional $1 billion payment to longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, fans worldwide are questioning what direction the spy series might take under its new corporate ownership. The deal, which comes on top of Amazon’s initial $8.5 ... Read more
I mean, it tracks to me that Amazon would want more Bond films- they have always been just shy of extended luxury advertisements. The woke nonsense is just the excuse some people will use to talk about it.
I don’t watch much of anything, but there’s apparently such a market for decrying wokeness, you could probably make decent viewercounts revisiting old movies with the same lens.
That would shatter the narrative these people are trying to push: that Hollywood has only recently been engaging in “wokeness”. In reality, like you said, just about any movie or TV show could be viewed through the same lens and yield similar results. Hell, here’s a great video where the author literally does this: https://youtu.be/MZtRabDCLyY. Timestamp 14:25, but the whole video is a good watch.