Amazon has found its Ringmaster for 007’s way to a milliona Amazing raceJames Bond film-style game show: Brian Cox, the veteran Scottish actor, is best known lately for his role as the monstrous media patriarch Logan Roy successor.
In fact, it sounds like Cox was specifically recruited to bring that Logan Roy energy to the controller role. A shadowy figure who watches over the fates of the show’s contestants, the Controller is seemingly equal parts Bond villain and equivalent of Bond’s spymaster M.
“Rogue and sophisticated, the controller revels in the increasingly difficult journeys and questions that participants must overcome,” reads the press release. “He’s got millions of pounds to give away – up to £1million a couple – but he’s not making it easy on himself. As he lurks in the shadows, he watches and controls everything.” So he’s rich, cruel, and a control freak. got it
“I enjoyed my role as both a villain and a tormentor, with license to see the hopeful contestants through the laceration,” Cox said in a statement. It was not announced if he would get contestants to play wild boar on the ground.
007’s race to a million teams of two players face physical and mental challenges as they compete in a globe-spanning adventure that includes many famous Bond locations, including the Scottish Highlands, Venice and Jamaica.
With successor comes to an end with its current, fourth season, 007’s race to a million offers Cox the perfect opportunity to redeem the prestige he’s built on the lively show. It’s a perfect fit – not least because Logan Roy would probably make a great Bond villain. There’s even precedent to prove it. In the 1997 Bond film Tomorrow never diesJonathan Pryce played antagonist Elliot Carver, a megalomaniac media tycoon who, like Logan Roy, is said to be based on Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch.
