For Prime Eyes Only

In the grand the scheme of today’s news, with the White House being occupied by a Golden I, for whom The World is Not Enough, our government agencies being hit with a Thunderball, our international posture toward allies turning into Live and Let Day, leaving many of them to Never Say Never Again, our talking points coming From Russia with Love, and a bunch of Octopussies from DOGE gaining access to personal data that used to be For Your Eyes Only and being given Licence to Kill any program, the fate of the 007 franchise hardly seems like Skyfalling news. But the new controller of the James Bond market is indicative a broader trend. A very few mega-companies owning everything. WSJ (Gift Article): Amazon MGM Studios Gains Creative Control of James Bond Franchise From Broccoli Family. (They’ll probably want to acquire me next. After all, I’m the Man with the Golden Pun.)

+ John Gruber: “The villains in Bond stories are often bald billionaire industrialists who either build rockets or own media companies, with lasciviously-dressed women on their arms. It’s hard to imagine how we could come closer to a real-life Bond villain taking control of the franchise. (At least it wasn’t Musk.)”