It's taking around $1 billion to have James Bond stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson cede oversight to Amazon MGM Studios, sources say.

Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli will remain co-owners in a new joint venture with Amazon MGM that hands over the creative reins and control of all future production to the Jeff Bezos-founded company.

One of the rumors that’s consistently floated around in the world of 007 is the possibility of somehow “remaking” the pictures based on Ian Fleming’s original books. Most notably, a lot of people want to see the Cold War period of tomes like From Russia with Love being reskinned with a more accurate representation of their literary origin.