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.

The James Bond franchise’s longtime casting director is quitting after a storied career working on 13 of the iconic films. Debbie McWilliams told ScreenDaily she was throwing in the towel just after the franchise rights were sold to Amazon—adding that the company’s filmmaking history “does not fill me with any great enthusiasm.

In a huge shakeup for the James Bond series, Amazon will take creative control as longtime producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli step back.