As to James Bond with a Southern accent? Who knows.
I had trouble associating the remaining characters' accents, or lack there of, with the alleged location of the stately manor being in Massachusetts.
The movie does claim the family hadn't lived there all that long, so it wasn't their native territory, but that doesn't explain why nobody in the movie, including the local police, had the slightest trace of any accent one might hear in Massachusetts.
I willing use my suspension of disbelief to not be overly concerned, but don't know why they chose to name a location.
