Long-time Bond film fans are reaching the end of their lives.
This year, there have been long-time James Bond fans/collectors who've died. For their friends and family, it's beyond sad.
At the same time, this reflects the demographics of Bond fandom, which skews older. It's also a matter of numbers. The 007 film series began 62 years ago. Even those who were kids when the cinematic Bond began are reaching retirement age and beyond now.
There's no indication that any James Bond movie is coming soon. The last Bond movie finished filming in 2019. That film, No Time to Kill, was released in 2021. Bond 26 has no director, script or lead actor: three elements needed to make a movie.
Some Bond fans are impatient. Others, who dislike any criticism of Eon Productions, preach patience and say anybody who feels differently is entitled.
Except, as mortality makes its presence known, older fans don't have time to be patient. For the older fans, it may be time to take their home video copies of Eon's Bond films, call it a day, and go home.
Today, James Bond is more or less in the same place as Star Wars.
There hasn't been a Star Wars theatrical movie since 2019. Star Wars has had a few streaming television shows. Bond has had *one* streaming TV show on Amazon Prime, a reality program, since No Time to Die.
In the end, Eon controls the James Bond IP. No studio, for now (at least until 007 goes into the public domain), can make a Bond movie without Eon's cooperation.
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