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Bond doesn't really have a deep canon. They long ago moved on from the source material, and the first 20 movies were connected only in the loosest sense. For Craig's movies they tried to make a cross-movie continuity, but it didn't really work and required some retconning.

But the movies do have a unique sort of character and consistency that is widely believed to be due to one family running the show for 60+ years. I'm not sure that be replicated with a data-driven, committee-based approach. I also believe it was Broccoli's veto power that prevented over-saturation, and direct-to-streaming releases.

My guess is it will be closer to Star Wars than Lord of the Rings or Wheel of Time. Some of the movies may be "good" and some may be "bad", but they'll be missing that bit that made them special.

    My guess is it will be closer to Star Wars than Lord 
    of the Rings or Wheel of Time.

Yeah. Not all Bond movies were good, but they were at least rare which made them feel special.

Now? Oh boy. Amazon did not buy this franchise to turn out three movies a decade, that's for sure.

I promise there will be a James Bond streaming series, and probably multiple James Bond streaming series. And there will be spinoffs. Ever wonder what Q does when he's not making gadgets for Bond? You're going to find out in his own series. How about Miss Moneypenny? Oh yeah. Another important load-bearing column in the James Bond Cinematic/Streaming Universe. It's absolutely going to be a Star Wars / Marvel kind of thing.

I hate it, even though... if we're honest, it's not like Bond was some highbrow thing. Most of the movies were fun, but few were what people would really think of as "great." Nearly all of them had a camp factor between "moderately high" and "very high." But still.

> My guess is it will be closer to Star Wars

I mourn about what's become of Star Wars.

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