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.

A big piece of that is because James Bond has been shepherded by a very exclusive group of people since he hit the screen. Albert Broccoli, one of the co-founders of Bond productions company Eon Productions,