“I think you need to treat the audience with a degree of respect, and understand that they have pre-conceived ideas of what these characters are about and who they are, whether it’s Bond, whether it’s Doctor Who, whether it’s Poirot . . . they’re ripe for reinvention. You have to reinvent them. You have to bring them to a new audience. Otherwise all these things become stale and worn. And it can quite easily fall into the trap of the mundane and perfunctory. Whereas what it needs to be is engaging and exciting and thrilling and relevant.”