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Disarming

By MI6 Staff

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Last year, for April Fools, we ran a spoof news story about cigarettes being digitally removed from the James Bond films due to pressure to distance the character from smoking. It touched a nerve, and many commented that this could happen in the future.

In a disappointing case of fiction becoming fact, Amazon has decided to remove guns from the key art used on all the James Bond films on Prime. Whilst it may be appealing to have a unified look for the series on streaming, removing the Walthers has left Bond with some awkward poses.

Some covers have been achieved by cropping the image so the gun is outside the lower edge, but in some cases the images have been digitally manipulated to varying levels of success, including: Dr No (awkwardly folded arms), A View To A Kill (long arms), GoldenEye (contemplation), and Spectre (clumsily shortened empty holster).