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James Bond has overcome a small army of supervillains including Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Goldfinger, and Spectre during his long cinematic career but the British super spy may have met his match in the woke “f**king idiots” at Amazon.

The storied film franchise hasn’t had a new addition since Daniel Craig signed off in “No Time To Die,” his 2021 finale for the role, and faces an uncertain future amid reports of tension between longtime producer Barbara Broccoli and the online retail and streaming entertainment colossus which bought MGM, also in 2021.

A new film still in development is currently trapped in a state of limbo due to an “ugly stalemate” between Broccoli and Amazon with serious differences, including whether the new Bond will be streaming only as well as major philosophical ones about the nature of Ian Fleming’s character himself.

“I have to be honest, I don’t think James Bond is a hero,” one Amazon exec said during a recent meeting about the upcoming 007 content, according to a Wall Street Journal report on the troubled spy franchise.

According to the paper, Broccoli “has told friends she doesn’t trust algorithm-centric Amazon with a character she helped to mythologize through big-screen storytelling and gut instinct.”

Her unhappiness with Amazon has gotten to the point where she’s willing to hold the movie “hostage,” according to the WSJ.

“These people are f**king idiots,” Broccoli reportedly told friends about the Amazon exec, the paper reported in its extensive look at the future of Bond, interviewing 20 people who are “familiar” with the troubles.

It all “boils down to a clash between the 20th-century Hollywood of big screens and big swings and a new entertainment industry ruled by Silicon Valley firms that prize data, algorithms and streaming subscriptions,” the outlet reported.

Broccoli has controlled the rights to the franchise for more than thirty years and is the daughter of Cubby Broccoli who produced the Bond flicks during its golden era when the suave Sean Connery and then Roger Moore played the character.

She “has complained that Amazon isn’t a good home for Bond, since the company’s core business is selling everything from toilet paper to vacuums,” but did not speak out about Amazon’s purchase of MGM because she “didn’t want to complicate what many in Hollywood viewed as a massive payout for MGM’s owners.”

“As part of the deal, MGM executives ensured that Amazon committed to putting Bond on the big screen instead of relegating the franchise to a streaming series. The outlet noted that when one eager Amazon executive floated the idea of various Bond TV spin-offs, including a potential ‘Moneypenny’ spin-off, or a female 007 spin-off, Broccoli shot the idea down,” according to Fox News.

Miss Moneypenny is a longtime Bond character, the secretary for M, the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

“Did you read the contract?” Broccoli reportedly asked.

Broccoli has also reportedly shot down the idea of Bond being played by a woman although she’s not opposed to a gay or black actor, as long as he’s a Brit.

“He can be of any color, but he is male,” she previously said in a 2020 interview with Variety. “I believe we should be creating new characters for women — strong female characters. I’m not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it.

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