For over six decades, the Broccoli family has been as much a part of the James Bond film franchise as vodka martinis (shaken, not stirred, of course), beautiful women and henchmen with terrible aim.

Amazon reached a deal with the Broccoli family, the James Bond franchise's longstanding producers, to form a new joint venture.

Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos posed a question to his X followers: “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?” Just one day prior, that inquiry may have felt a bit presumptuous: while Amazon’s $8.