Screw that, make Modesty Blaise
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Is her own character, so wouldn’t get labeled “the female James Bond.”
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Has a cooler back story than James Bond
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Has a cool cast of supporting characters
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Is canonically awesome at martial arts, but will use guns when pressed
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Already has a bunch of books and comics to use as source material
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Has at least as many sexual adventures as Bond
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Has a long-time male partner with whom she is emphatically not in a romantic relationship or a Will-they-won’t-they situation
Why does she look like Ghislaine Maxwell?
This why not make new franchises instead of gender sealing a character. There are so many stories out there why tell he same ones just gender or race swapped. Tell new ones that feature the gender or race you want.
It makes chuds annoyed. And that’s about as good a reason to do anything! I’m all for race and gender-swapped Bond!
The reason why the industry regurgitates IP is because the general public and the industry are lazy as fuck.
You could make a brand new super hero but it won’t be as popular as retelling the Batman origin story for the 30th time.
Same goes for James Bond. I personally think if they want to continue that universe, and introduce a female spy as lead. Just create a new character, give her the number 005, and make the damn movie. I don’t want a 007 Jane Bond but I’m down with a 005 Jane Smithe. Retrofit some shit about James training her before he died. Put Craig in flashbacks or something, and go from there. Hell, you could even make it Moneypenny. In the universe they had a working relationship, she worked in the field with Bond in the previous movies, and maybe she is promoted to 005 after he died. The first movie could be her transition to spydom, learning the ropes, getting promoted, and stumbling into some super villain storyline - which isn’t fully resolved at the end for the next movie. I’d totally watch Naomie Harris as 005 kicking ass and taking names.
Of course you know that won’t happen. They’ll do the bullshit they did in No Time to Die.
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Since I’d be watching for all the scantily clad males she’d be seducing, I wouldn’t want her to be lesbian or there wouldn’t be any of those.
She can swing both ways, like James. Nobody can convince me he hasn’t dabbled even if it’s not in the movies.
Now, Euronews Culture can officially end all speculation by revealing that the identity of the new James Bond is… Irish actress and singer Jessie Buckley.
You read correctly: James Bond will be played by a woman for the first time, in the wake of Lashana Lynch briefly taking over the 007 mantle in Daniel Craig’s Bond swansong, 2021’s No Time To Die.
Buckley rose to fame following her role as Rose-Lynn Harlan in Tom Harper’s Wild Rose (2018). The 36-year-old followed that critically acclaimed turn with I’m Thinking of Ending Things, The Lost Daughter, Men and The Bride!, before taking home the Oscar for Best Actress this year for her performance in Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet.
She therefore becomes the first Oscar-winning performer to be cast as Bond.
More casting news was also revealed, with Tom Hiddleston playing the franchise’s first Bond boy - named Fitty McCrotch – and the new M is set to be portrayed by none other than Gillian Anderson. Both frankly inspired choices.
Thanks for reposting April’s fools
And please let her be played by Charlize Theron.
I’d be okay with it not being exactly as toxic as James Bond… I think people are forgetting how many times he outright rapes women in those movies. Including one time in GoldFinger where he raped a lesbian who became straight afterwards, because you know… “Lesbians are just women who haven’t been fucked by the right man”.
I was born for this role
Spoilers for 007 flick No Time To Die from 2021:
!spoiler spoiler we find out the next 007 is exactly a seductive woman. The above concept could be written with the actress chosen for that film as the new 007 and it wouldn’t feel like a character change at all.!<
Definitely a recommend if you’re a Bond fan and missed it during the pandemic.
We could also do all of that in an original IP. Why does it always has to be a reboot or a sequel or a remake or any other regurgitation
There is political strength in doing it like the last line said and using the established franchise.
Did you read the last line?
But why lesbian though? Shouldn’t she just fuck twinks and make them straight
It’s anachronistic that this is still a part of it, but womanizing is integral to bond- Daniel Craig pulled it off without the chauvinism from earlier Bonds, but still seduces women like nobody’s business. A woman turning twinks is a different kind of problematic, and is not really identifiable for the core audience of Bond fans.
Straight men can identify with at least one party in the situations of someone relentlessly seducing women or a woman relentlessly seducing straight men. I could see the latter working on that level, but there’s a lot of cultural baggage that comes with a woman pursuing sex with men, and that might distract from the rest of the movie. We can only get rid of barriers by breaking them down, but I don’t know if it would be as commercially successful :|
not really identifiable for the core audience of Bond fans
Ahhh… I forgot the part where we’ve stopped talking about weirdness for the sake of weirdness and started talking about profits.
The world is ready for a Bond Girl who is a beautiful twink.
Lmaoooo
I hate you and wish you had left the internet today
One deeply underrated aspect of this post is a woman taking the name James. Women have taken Leslie, and Ashley, and so many other names. But James, an apostle, the brother of Christ! If this can happen, then women can take Paul, even Peter. Because why not!
Because Paula, Petra?
I’m sure this would sell as well as black Sanpe in Harry Potter or black L in Death Note.
nah, Snape and L are specific characters, but Bond is just a position in mi6. a position that has been different people across multiple movies already.
someone made a comparison to james bond and metal gear solid 3. except in that game, the main character’s point of view is that of the same as Pussy Galore, and the Eva is the actual james bond. and it’s my favorite of the series
Eh, Snape was always a black character. And I’m not sure americans would notice that he is portrayed as negative character without him being played by black actor.
At first I was like “no” then I got to the second paragraph. I’d watch this for sure.
I’d totally watch this in theaters. Also hot. But also fuck vodka martinis. Toxic lesbian James bond would drink pure gin, call it a martini and the only thing she’s eaten that day is about 30 olives and some pussy. She may have some olive juice in her gin solely to make a pass at the bartender by calling it dirty.
Make it a bisexual woman aggressively turned on by older people
That’s just opposite day. What about a muppet Bond who may be an animal/human hybrid?
But then that’s just a muppet episode
