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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Danjaq LLC, the Broccoli family company that controls 007 copyrights ,said they’ve acquired all of the James Bond rights held by the Kevin McClory family and estate.

Text of a statement:

Los Angeles, CA (November 15, 2013) – Danjaq, LLC, the producer of the James

Bond films, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the longtime distributor of the Bond

films, along with the estate and family of the late Kevin McClory, announced

today that Danjaq and MGM have acquired all of the estate’s and family’s rights

and interests relating to James Bond, thus bringing to an amicable conclusion

the legal and business disputes that have arisen periodically for over 50

years.

That would seem to pave the way for the return of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to the Bond series if Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson want to pursue it. Blofeld was introduced in the Ian Fleming novel Thunderball, based on scripts commissioned by McClory during an ill-fated movie project in the 1950s.

McClory dut a deal with Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman for a co-production of Thunderball. McClory in the 1970s began efforts to launch his own 007 movies.

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Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: Barbara Broccoli, Danjaq LLC, Eon Productions, Fate of Blofeld?, James Bond Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael G. Wilson |