Get that shaken martini to go: A James Bond competition show is coming to Prime Video
Contestants will set off to global locales from the James Bond films while testing their intelligence and endurance
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Do you like shaken martinis? Or getting caught in villainous traps that require quick-thinking and nifty gadgets to escape from? Well, you may just be the next 007… or, at the very least, you can win $1.3 million for acting like one. A James Bond competition series called 007's Road To A Million is heading to Prime Video. As its name suggests, the series is inspired by the British spy’s missions around the world.
Per Variety, the upcoming series “will see contestants competing in a global adventure to win a £1 million (or a whopping $1.3 million) cash prize. Filmed in many of the historic locations featured throughout the seminal Bond films, the ‘cinematic format’ will be a test of intelligence and endurance. In addition to passing physical obstacles, the contestants—who will compete in two-person teams—must correctly answer questions hidden in different locations around the world in order to advance to the next challenge.”
The eight-part series is being produced by Britain’s 72 Films, long-time James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, and MGM Television. Filming for 007's Road To A Million will begin later this year, and the series will launch on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories.
As the prized jewel of the MGM catalog, the release of a James Bond inspired series on Prime Video makes sense with the streaming giant’s recent $8.5 billion acquisition of the studio. Though, Variety reports that 007's Road To A Million has been in the works with Amazon for up to four years before the deal was completed.
Casting is currently happening for the series, so if you’re looking for something beyond rationing rice like on Survivor or for a swankier version of The Amazing Race, perhaps auditioning for a spot behind the wheel of an Ashton Martin DB5 will suite you. Of course, with the two-person teams, someone is going to have to take on the Q role and sit in the passenger’s seat. As for the possibility of challenges, we look forward to seeing how the contestants out-surf an iceberg tsunami or thwart a hat-throwing henchman for a million dollars.
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Ashton Martin DB5Whatever it sounded like Sean Connery told you, it’s Aston Martin.
Nonsense – he can clearly be seen driving an Ashton Martin long after the Connery era: in Cashino Royale, and Shkyfall, and SHPECTRE
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I’m naming my next kid Ashton Martin. Little Mercury Sable says he wants a brother to play with.
What’s Mercury Sable got against the siblings Ford Crown Victoria and Lincoln Mark V that he already has? Oh, you’ll go and adopt Ashton Martin (and Volvo Amazon, and Jaguar XKateXK8, and Land Rover, and Mazda Cosmo), but next thing you know, you won’t be able to afford to feed them all, and then you’re dropping the adoptees off at child services, and euthanizing little Mercury Sable.And we don’t talk about baby Edsel.
I mean, I’d have a whole fleet of kids if the Mrs. would agree. She’s got to do a lot more of the work on that bit y’know.
What time did Sean Connery arrive at Wimbledon? Tennish.
Contestants will be judged on their ability to do tedious chase scenes while skiing, burst through walls in pursuit of a bad guy, and recognize when an assassin is in their hotel room.
Every real mixologist knows you NEVER shake a martini. The correct method is frozen and blended, from a slushee machine.
Eh…give us traps & gadgets…keep nasty martinis!
“Do you expect me to talk?”
“NO! I expect you to make an ass of yourself on a dumb TV show!”
Finalists will be judged on their ability to drive a gondola out of the water and through a crowded town square. Points will be awarded for the amount of hilarity that ensues, multiplied by the number of pigeon double-takes produced.
When is the “force her to kiss you until she decides she likes it” part of the competition?
A real martini is stirred, not shaken. Shaking chips the ice and dilutes the cocktail. I guess that’s fine if you want to knock back a couple of doubles and still act like you’re sober as a judge or an not-so-secret agent man.A few years ago my wife was hosting an after-hours reception at work and asked my advice on the easiest way to serve martinis to a large group. She was thinking that she could only make two or three drinks with the shaker at a time. I said forget that—make them by the pitcher!I set her up with the proper ratio of ingredients and the glassware, and the report from the reception was that the martinis were a big hit. Also, all the people who were used to watered down cocktails got knocked on their butts a bit when they got the real deal.
This idea seems like it came out of a time vortex from 2005
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