A remake of classic Roger Moore James Bond film For Your Eyes Only could well be on its way thanks to a curious bit of Canadian law.

Due to Canada refusing to acknowledge the Berne Convention, an international agreement designed to protect artists' works, Ian Fleming's 50-year copyright of the original novel has run out north of the border.

Elsewhere in the world, there's a 70-year limitation on authors' copyright, but Canada doesn't play by those rules. Puts pay to that "polite Canadian" reputation, doesn't it?

This means Ottawan producers Lee Demarbre and Ian Driscoll are technically free to recreate the story on screen, with the idea being that as Canada is a setting in the book - and not in the film - here is the chance to right that wrong.

But who should play James Bond in this Canadian re-imagining of 007's famous adventure? Ryan Reynolds has been suggested, which makes a lot of sense considering this is the guy behind Van Wilder and Deadpool. Ahem.

The two producers in question announced their intentions on CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with Driscoll explaining their plan is thanks, in part, to his grandfather:

"When my grandfather died, I inherited his collection of James Bond paperbacks, and I started re-reading them. I stumbled across the short story For Your Eyes Only, in which Bond comes to Ottawa, and it flipped a switch in my head.

"It's a no-brainer to bring Bond to Ottawa, because he's this Cold War icon, and the Cold War started in Ottawa when Igor Gouzenko defected, and blew open the whole idea of stealing nuclear secrets and sleeper agents. That all happened when he was living in downtown Ottawa.

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"So bringing James Bond back to the epicentre of the Cold War absolutely makes sense."

Or does it?

Of course, this isn't the first time a James Bond movie has been remade - or, at least, a James Bond novel has been re-adapted - with non-Eon (and non-canon) Never Say Never Again a do-over of Thunderball.

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