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Reports Say Amazon Is Weighing How to Relaunch James Bond After the Previous Film’s Ending

Reports sourced to Radar Online say executives are weighing a clean reboot against explaining the previous film’s ending.

Overview

  • Multiple outlets re-report a Radar Online claim that Amazon executives are struggling to decide how to start the next 007 entry following the prior finale.
  • Denis Villeneuve is reported as the prospective director with Steven Knight writing, though no plan has been officially announced.
  • Author Anthony Horowitz is quoted calling the previous creative choice a mistake and questioning how writers could plausibly proceed.
  • Commentators argue that audiences historically accept a new actor without continuity explanations, pointing to the franchise’s loose timeline.
  • Recent coverage notes that an origin-style reset or full reboot would sidestep continuity issues, while more speculative fixes remain unconfirmed.