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Amazon has made changes to digital posters for Bond movies ahead of the franchise’s next cinematic installments. Girls and guns have been airbrushed out, to the fury of fans. Amazon bought MGM studios earlier this year for around £1billion, but the next actor to play Bond has not been announcec yet. @GelNerd posted a picture on social media of Sean Connery‘s iteration of Ian Fleming’s spy for Dr. No, the first Bon movie, minus his pistol. They wrote: “Notice in these Amazon James Bond digital posters they’ve removed all the guns and given awkward poses? Welcome to a world where promoting James Bond 007 needs to be done without his sidearm.”

@SamsaraSings said: “Amazon digitally removed firearms from all the James Bond movie covers. Oh right. Seeing a gun is what causes murder.” @ChatsunamiPod posted the new A View to a Kill poster, featuring Roger Moore, and wrote: “I genuinely thought people were joking about Amazon removing the guns from the James Bond posters. Seriously why is his arms so long?!” The posters feature the various actors who play the secret agent in the respective movies, and no other characters, including that attractive women he famously womanises.

For the original Moonraker poster, Moore was stood in a silver space suit surrounded by female characters.

He was also pointing a futuristic version of a gun, surrounded by spacecraft and planets.

Now, he is pictured on his own in a golden space suit, without a weapon and seemingly not in space, reports the MailOnline.

It comes as a university has also placed a trigger warning on Dr. No, Fleming’s sixth Bond book, warning students of “racism and xenophobia”.

The University of Portsmouth thinks the author’s portrayal of the film’s villain and other characters is “problematic”, according to the Telegraph.

A note reads: “Please note: James Bond films and novels are popular to this day but contain many problematic issues such as racism, misogyny and xenophobia.

“We will be discussing the problems with this text in all of our seminars.”

A spokesman for the University of Portsmouth said: “Content warnings recognise the diverse lived experience of students and that there can be content they will find challenging or potentially distressing as a result of their experiences.

“It is our duty of care to our students to do so. The warning enables students to prepare emotionally, engage more deeply and discuss the issues raised by the content critically and constructively.

“We do not censure or remove material – we continue to teach robustly, openly and with academic integrity.”

The Express has contacted Amazon for comment.