Amazon awkwardly edited the guns out of James Bond art

Last week, for James Bond Day, Amazon revealed updated poster creation for the movies. But fans instantly noticed that the ace spy’s signature Walther PPK was conspicuously missing from each image. In immoderate cases it had clearly and alternatively clumsily been Photoshopped out. Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan were near awkwardly holding bladed air, successful the posters for Dr. No and Goldeneye, respectively. Roger Moore seemingly received a assemblage transplant connected the screen Live and Let Die, and for A View to a Kill his arms were lengthened to inhuman proportions to coverup his firearm.

Unsurprisingly fans went into a tizzy astir the alteration. Some were simply astonished that Amazon would bash this to specified an iconic property, others accused the institution of being “woke.” Since past the thumbnails person been quietly updated to usage stills from the movies, though fans were speedy to enactment that each the images chosen besides gunless. At slightest one, the inactive for Skyfall, inactive appears to person been altered to region a firearm. At the clip of work Amazon had yet to respond to a petition for comment.

On the positive side, Pierce Brosnan’s bare manus provides solid fodder for memes.