Deal is struck with heirs to film producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli, long-serving stewards of franchise

James Bond has fallen into the hands of a billionaire’s business empire, after Amazon revealed that it has acquired “creative control” of the spy franchise from the Broccoli dynasty.

Amazon MGM Studios said on Thursday it had struck a deal with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, the British-American heirs to the legendary film producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and longtime stewards of the Bond films.