IMDb is reporting that the next James Bond film will show us a James Bond we've never seen before. Probably driven by the same people that tried to change the taste of Coca Cola in the 1980's, James bond will be "vulnerable and broken, as it were, because he's captured and tortured in the beginning of the film."

Pierce Brosnan says that "this time you see a much more desperate character in Bond. You see this renegade, a man completely out of his environment." Is this what has kept the movie series alive for 40 years? Or, is it the familiar old Bond, who always got the girl and damned the consequences?

I hope for the sake of the franchise that the PC movement hasn't turned Bond into a wussy. I can see it now, sexual harrassment suits and non-lethal weapons. They'll have Bond driving a Hyundai and remarking on how good the gas mileage is. Rather than face his enemies with guns blazing, he'll sit down with them, and try to figure out "why they hate us."