It might dissuade some, but I don’t think it will most. James Bond is still just about the biggest role in films. It has the biggest and longest history and it will open a lot of doors/opportunities for those hired as 007. And those who sign up for the Bond gig are one of a very select few who have played the role–and will be remembered forever. Yes, they (and their films) can get overly criticized by fans and critics, but that happens in just about every series role. But with Bond, they will still have their backers/fans during AND after their tenure–and as history has seemed to show, the worst of the criticism ends after their successor’s tenure is over and the plaudits come back to them like a boomerang–so they will have their place comfortably nestled in history. They were Bond, James Bond, secret agent 007–a very exclusive (and memorable and cool) club.
A ridiculous decision and doesn’t bode well for the future if that’s their attitude towards the property. James Bond uses guns, period. Those poses, particularly Sean from DN, are historical and editing them isn’t just changing history but turning them into something else entirely.
But it’s not April 1st… surely not!
Not sure which Amazon that should be. On the German site as well as Amazon.com there’s been no change that I would notice. 
I’m seeing the erased-gun version on the UK product results pages, but when I click through to one of the films (Dr No), the gun is back.
I did wonder if this might just be based on Amazon’s content guidelines for thumbnail artwork on Prime Video – but then I looked up The November Man, and there’s ol’ Pierce with his pointing-a-gun face, pointing a gun. So either this is just for the Bond series, or Amazon are in the process of gradually erasing guns across their entire catalog in this particular context.
It’s a bit daft, sure, but on product thumbnail images, I can’t say it bothers me too much. The bigger crime is that it’s giving my culture war opponents a new hook for their “Bond’s gone woke” snowflakery.
Considering all the terrible and harmful guns on display in really bad films it just seems to be a glitch for Bond.
Very weird to say the least.
Very funny. Without his little pop gun, Bond looks particularly imbecilic. Perhaps that’s the character.
Oddly it’s only the digital versions. The new blu ray covers still have guns.
The logo still has the gun. Thank Goodness. Or should it rather be redesigned?
It looks patently awkward. As if he’s imagining holding a gun.
sigh oh Amazon, just do it right. In both of the above posters it looks like Bond is trying to kill us with his mind.
That’s pretty funny. Connery looks like he’s waiting to speak to a manager.
James Bond’s next weapon of choice:
This has to be a mistake. Just wait until Big T finds out that someone got taken his gun away, he’ll immediately command Bezos to pull his head out and re-equip him with automatic rifles…
When you look at all the new posters together it just looks like an upscale men’s clothing catalog.
007: A Guy Wearing Clothes
Live To Wear Clothes Another Day
I saw the Spectre poster with DC wearing the holster with no gun… Why would he have a holster if he can’t have a gun?
" It’s ok teenagers, that’s where he keeps his smartphone. Now go play Battlefield where you can kill aimlessly and trash talk online without purpose…"
These brands dive so deep into wokeness and ‘snowflakery’ that they don’t even realise how ridicule they become.
Let’s just hope they don’t do the Spielberg/ E.T. thing.
It would be a bit ridiculous seeing Bond in the gunbarrel pointing a walkie talkie to us.
He looks like he’s about to accuse Kirk of cheating on the Kobayashi Maru.
I’ll be here all week.
Not sure there’s really anything to see here. There hasn’t been a good Bond poster since the teaser for Casino Royale and before that, you had to go back to 1987 for the next good one. The decades-long streak continues.
That´s from Moonbase Alpha, right?