MI6 Shortlists Man Who’d Apologise to His Assassin LONDON, England — The search for the next James Bond has taken a disturbing turn after British actor Jack Lowden, best known for playing an intelligence officer who routinely gets things wrong in Slow Horses, emerged as a serious contender to become cinema’s most competent secret agent. Why Jack Lowden Can’t Be James Bond Sean Connery walked into a room and women…
Campaigners Want a Carbon-Neutral 007 Who Defeats Terrorists With Dialogue LONDON – Britain’s political left has a problem with James Bond. He drinks too much, drives too fast, carries a gun, pursues beautiful women, wears expensive suits and now and then suggests that Britain is a country worth defending. Apart from that, he is apparently an excellent candidate for modernisation. As Amazon MGM Studios conducts final screen tests for the…
Every Title Is Awaiting Equality Sign-Off Before Release LONDON – A list of ten proposed James Bond films, drawn up by progressive commentators ahead of the next casting announcement, would turn Britain’s most famous secret agent into a government employee with a clipboard, according to draft titles and synopses seen by this publication. The collection, circulating under the working name Progressive 007 Collection, arrives as Amazon MGM Studios works through…
