“No Time to Die” director acknowledges that James Bond was a rapist, and Reddit’s right-wing culture warriors cry foul

This is a problem for a director because Bond is the same dude, that's been established. In such canon as there is, it's confirmed that it's not a codename, (007 is the codename) James Bond is a one man.

So congrats director-who-doesn't-like-rapist-Bond, that rapist is the central character in your movie. Please to be explaining how you fix this.

Have said it before and will say it again, I'd scrap Bond. I'd take the budget, which is hefty, and I'd make two British spy movies.

In fact fuck it, I'd make Harry Palmer movies. At least that way the iconic 1960s version of the character isn't a rapey douchebag (if you haven't seen the movies, it's peak Michael Caine, he's brilliant in them). You could modernise Palmer and you could definitely modernise stories like The IPCRESS File and Billion Dollar Brain. Also it'd drive culture warriors into a rage because bespectacled lounge lizard Palmer was deliberately the anti-Bond even then.

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