Franchise producer Barbara Broccoli is in no rush to find a new 007 actor as she and her team try to decide the next direction to take the series in. The news comes at a moment of increased cultural sensitivity in the publishing industry, but also when the James Bond movie franchise is trying to reinvent itself. A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.” The re-published Bond novels will include a disclaimer: “This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace. We have made changes to ‘Live and Let Die’ that he himself authorized,” a spokesperson for Ian Fleming Publications told The Sunday Telegraph. “Following Ian’s approach, we looked at the instances of several racial terms across the books and removed a number of individual words or else swapped them for terms that are more accepted today but in keeping with the period in which the books were written.” “We at Ian Fleming Publications reviewed the text of the original Bond books and decided our best course of action was to follow Ian’s lead. James Bond Requires Older Actor with ‘Gravitas’: Young Stars Lack the ‘Mental Capacity,’ Says 007 Casting Director
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