We’re hearing that there’s a there there to Amy Pascal and David Heyman being in talks with Amazon MGM Studios to steer the Bond franchise once the hand-off is finalized with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.
Talk about the melding of two great producing minds: Pascal, who at Sony, saw the 007 franchise to its best grosses of its franchise with Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Spectre and Skyfall, the latter the highest grossing in 007 history with $1.1 billion alone. Post her times as Sony Motion Pictures Chief, Pascal currently produces Sony’s mega-grossing Spiderverse animated movies and their Tom Holland Spider-Man movies with Marvel Studios’ boss Kevin Feige; at $1.95 billion Spider-Man: No Way Home is the 7th highest grossing movie of all-time, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is an Oscar-winning animated movie.
Then there’s Heyman who is the captain of the Harry Potter blockbuster series (which is now getting spun off into an HBO series) as well as multi-Oscar winning movies like Gravity.
The priority is for Amazon MGM Studios to make a movie first before they start thinking about any series spin-offs. The studio had no comment.
Puck first had the news last night about Pascal and Heyman.
