When Amazon bought the classic Hollywood studio MGM a few years ago, it also acquired MGM’s most lucrative, popular and prolific film franchise: the James Bond films, whose distribution rights have been in MGM’s hands since the studio was purchased Dr. No That means Amazon has also inherited MGM’s long-standing collaboration with Eon Productions, the studio that has produced (almost) every Bond film since 1962 and whose co-head Barbara Broccoli has never shied away from making them, it’s clear , that she is dealing with the British super-spy rule. Now there are reports that the relationship between the online retail giant and the veteran producer is becoming quite messy, leading to claims that a feud is brewing that could seriously jeopardize the franchise’s post-Daniel Craig fate.

This emerges from a report in the Wall Street Journal Today, suggesting that Broccoli (who, whatever your opinion on some of her particular views, is taking on the character, including the fact that he is receive being British and receive (to be a man) has more experience “making James Bond movies” than any other person on the planet and isn’t exactly thrilled about getting notes from the people who ship toilet brushes around the globe. The WSJ The report states that Broccoli “told friends that she doesn’t trust algorithm-based Amazon, a character she mythologized through big-screen storytelling and gut instinct,” and “has since complained that Amazon “The company’s core business is selling everything from toilet paper to vacuum cleaners.” When Amazon executives approached Broccoli about the possibility of launching some sort of Bond TV spin-offs To kick things off, she was reportedly blunt and asked, “Have you read the contract?” (That means no, no streaming Bond shows.)

It’s now been three years since the release of Craig’s last Bond film. No time to dieand the lack of forward momentum for a franchise that’s usually pretty shark-like is starting to make itself felt: not only has no new Bond been chosen, but there’s reportedly not even a script for a new film in circulation. Of course, all this mumbling should be taken with a grain of salt, as none of it is attributed to anyone willing to put their name on it. But this special The quote seems insightful and supposedly comes from Broccoli when she’s talking about her new business partners in the franchise that has shaped her professional life: “These people are fucking idiots.”