Yeah right. The Daily Mail would hate any lefty directing a Bond movie. I can't see how Bond could actually be portrayed as a socialist though, unless the villain has some massive financial hack planned to rob the rich and give to the poor and at the end Bond decides to just let it happen, for the greater good! The only other way is if they went totally unsubtle with it, with him saying in a bar "No. Labour."bjmdds wrote:Jonathan Pryce is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying that the producers parted company with Boyle because "they obviously couldn't take a socialist Bond. There are the Dannys of this world and then there are people who do the blockbusters," continued Pryce, who played the villainous Elliot Carver in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies. Boyle has never concealed his left-leaning sympathies, though he declined to identify himself as a socialist in a 2013 interview. His opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics featured a Bond-based short and a set-piece tribute to the National Health Service. The film may not now be released "until late 2020", according to the Hollywood Reporter's 'unnamed' sources.
I really don't think politics should be brought into Bond movies although I'll allow J. W.'s "Who we after, commies?" as I found it funny.