Amy Pascal and David Heyman are being eyed to help Amazon MGM Studios oversee the James Bond franchise.
The pair are described as being “in talks.” No deal can be signed, however, until the streamer finalizes its pact to buy creative control from Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, the producers whose family has overseen 007 for decades.
Pascal, the former head of Sony, has reinvented herself as one of the industry’s most successful producers since she left that job in 2015.
In addition to producing the “Spider-Man” franchise, she also is involved in such critical hits as “Challengers” and “Little Women.”
At Sony, Pascal oversaw the studio’s deal to distribute several Bond films, including “Skyfall,” the highest-grossing movie in the history of the spy series.
Heyman is also familiar with the demands of overseeing a massive franchise like Bond, having played a similar role in the Harry Potter films and its less beloved “Fantastic Beasts” spinoff series.
He also produced “Gravity,” a sci-fi blockbuster that won several Oscars, and the “Paddington” films.
Amazon announced its deal to take over creative control of the series last month, stunning Hollywood.
The Broccoli family, through its company Eon, has fiercely guarded the series for decades.
However, the family and Amazon were at loggerheads over how to move the series forward following the departure of Daniel Craig as 007 with 2021’s “No Time to Die.”
Development on a new movie, as well as the casting of another Bond has been stalled.
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