Monday, September 28, 2015

New James Bond novel shows a softer, gentler side.




Anthony Horowitz is writing the latest James Bond book, titled "Trigger Mortis," but admits this Bond isn't the same one we're used to reading in books or seeing on screen.

"My wife Jill Green [...] read the first draft and was quite angry about some of the language and some of the words I used and the descriptions," Horowitz told England's Radio Times.

"And she was right as she always is and I had to cut back and cut back. I had to really bring it back over the line again. Bond's whole attitude to women, although it's part of his character it doesn't really play very well these days."

And let's not forget Bond's smoking, which is a 30-a-day habit, created out of Bond's original writer Ian Fleming's own smoking habit.

"To give Bond his 30-a-day habit was against my instinct,” said Horowitz. To feel morally acceptable allowing Bond to smoke, Horowitz added a scene in the book where Bond reads a label about the dangers of smoking.

To recap, this Bond doesn't sleep around as much and is cognizant of the dangers of smoking.

In other words, future Bond novels will probably have him doing papier-mâché and taking a quality multivitamin, all while inviting the story's villain to come by for a lovely dinner of chicken Marsala.




Trigger Mortis? Really now? That sounds like the name of the worst Walt Disney character ever created.



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