Re: OT: Amazon to take over James Bond

In article <[email protected]>,
Blueshirt <[email protected]> wrote:
>The Doctor wrote:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Blueshirt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > The True Doctor wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Let's hope Amazon/Eon lose the trademark and then in 10
>> >> years time all of James Bond will become public domain and
>> >> anyone can make it without a political and sexual agenda
>> >> aimed at grooming children. Still, they can't copyright a
>> >> number so anyone can call James Bond 007 and make new
>> >> movies that are faithful to Ian Fleming's original vision.
>> > 
>> > The thing is, making films and TV shows "faithful" to the
>> > original books is not the way production companies like to do
>> > things... more so these days. They always make changes...
>> > often for the worse. If the next Bond movie doesn't do well
>> > you are more likely to see a "Jane Bond" Amazon Prime
>> > mini-series in ten years time than something faithfully
>> > adapted from an Ian Fleming novel.
>> 
>> Let James Bond end.
>
>Yeah, Amazon paid all that money to take over "James Bond" just
>to let it end...
>
>There's a bigger issue at play here as it's things like this
>that show how rich and powerful the big streaming companies are
>these days and why most of the decent content is now on those
>services whilst regular TV is full of reality crap, quiz/game
>shows and cooking shows...
>
>Normal TV channels, even the BBC, cannot compete with all the
>money that the Amazon's and Netflix's are throwing at things...
>so it will be the consumer (i.e. us) that is going to suffer in
>the long run.
>

Who knows what Amazon is aiming at.
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