Final week, for James Bond Day, Amazon revealed up to date poster artwork for the films. However followers instantly observed that the tremendous spy’s signature Walther PPK was conspicuously lacking from each picture. In some circumstances it had clearly and reasonably clumsily been Photoshopped out. Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan had been left awkwardly holding skinny air, within the posters for Dr. No and Goldeneye, respectively. Roger Moore seemingly acquired a physique transplant on the quilt Dwell and Let Die, and for A View to a Kill his arms had been lengthened to inhuman proportions to coverup his firearm.
Unsurprisingly followers went right into a tizzy concerning the alteration. Some had been merely astonished that Amazon would do that to such an iconic property, others accused the corporate of being “woke.” Since then the thumbnails have been quietly up to date to make use of stills from the films, although followers had been fast to notice that every one the photographs chosen additionally gunless. At the very least one, the nonetheless for Skyfall, nonetheless seems to have been altered to take away a firearm. On the time of publication Amazon had but to reply to a request for remark.