In an agreement that shocked Hollywood, the rights to James Bond have gone to Amazon. 007 fans are freaking out, but Amazon may do Bond right. The key is to return to the source material: the books of Ian Flemming.

In recent years, Daniel Craig has depicted James Bond as a killing machine, an orphan with very few friends or cultural refinement. Of course, in books such as Casino Royale and From Russia with Love, Bond is an expert assassin. Yet he has always been far different from exterminators such as Jack Reacher or the characters played by Jason Statham.