Sean’s movie thoughts

 No Time to Die is good. This is Daniel Craig’s last time as James Bond. (This time it really is.) It is nice to see his supporting cast Q,Moneypenny, and M, one more time. Jeffrey Wright returns as Felix Leiter, a CIA agent, and it was nice to see him again too. Ana De Armas has a supporting role as a younger agent. She was fun. James Bond is pulled out of retirement. There is a new threat, something that M had ordered created but it is now in the wrong hands. Is a new idea for the series? There is a history of British agents going rogue but this is different. There is a new 007, a woman. She is played by Lashana Lynch. (007 is a code name, so if James is retired, someone else can take it up.) James eventually takes his code name back.  I don’t think Lashana Lynch will return as this character. (Lynch will probably be in some other good things.) I liked this but it is a little long and this is the second time that Craig’s Bond has come out of retirement. With 2 retirements in...

 The new rumor on the James Bond movie No Time to Die is that MGM wanted $600,000,000 to sell the movie to a streaming service. No streaming service could make money off of that deal unless they got a massive amount of new subscribers. MGM says they don't comment on rumors. Now there is a rumor that the producers of the film killed the deal.  I am not sure why the producers would have the power to do that (the studio spent the money to make the film). The rumor is that the producers felt the reputation of the franchise would suffer if the movie did not play in theaters. There were also some licensing and distribution deals that complicated "selling" the film to a streaming service. I guess this is slightly more fun to talk about than what movie is being pushed back into 2021 this week.