One word provides the comfort of continuity to James Bond fans, and perhaps elicits confusion or a chuckle from anyone else watching: Broccoli.
I think he did this because he wanted a challenge, and he sure pulled it off.
Broccoli’s father, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, didn’t invent James Bond — that was British writer Ian Fleming.
Her first memories were watching tea ceremonies on set were in Japan while Sean Connery was filming 1967’s You Only Live Twice.
An associate producer on The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill, she moved into her own as an producer on the movie that rebooted Bond for a post-Cold War world, 1995’s Goldeneye.
Over a quarter-century later, one thing that’s safe is Bond’s place at the box office.
I don’t think there are enough great roles for women, and it’s very important to me that we make movies for women about women.
But with those parameters set, the production side of Bond is entering into the next of it’s many chapters: Amazon ownership, established when the e-commerce, cloud computing, artificial intelligence.
“I’ve never spoken to Jeff Bezos,” Broccoli says.