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What could it mean for the next James Bond movie, a franchise now owned by US giant Amazon, but based on an iconic British character who works for MI6, based in London?

"So MI6 don't operate a lot in the rain," Lowden - who has been touted as a possibility for the new James Bond - said.

Taylor-Johnson is among a handful of stars speculated to become the newest heartthrob MI6 agent with a license to kill.

Gordievsky, a colonel in Russia's KGB, spent many years as a double agent, passing vital intelligence to both Britain's MI6 and MI5.

After teaching at Eton for two years, he joined the Foreign Office and also worked at MI5 and MI6.