Female James Bond on the horizon.

Did i just get trolled?

Bat girl has been around since 1961 but shure Fk facts

I can't see this being anything beyond a female 00 agent in the same film universe. Gender-swapping the Bond character just won't work, particularly with the more recent movies having the "Bond is a relic out of touch with the new way of working" subtext.

I echo Daniel Craig's sentiments about this issue that there doesn't need to be a female James Bond, just create other female roles. I've always thought this myself. Create a new female character who is a 00 agent and give her a spin-off series or something. No need to gender swap the role.

If this female bond sleeps with a lot of people will she be Double Ho 7?

Why not 00X.... exactly, create a new character, a spin off, if it’s a success, then she could appear in 007 films playing that character, maybe even Bond stepping across as a supporting role in the spin off...

every 007 is James Bond... James is a guy... James is played by a multitude of actors.... he transcends time, generations but not gender.

its no longer a James Bond film if there is no James Bond... and the lead character is called Fred, Martin, Tony, Alexis, Angus, Ann-Marie, Pauline...

I’m a James Bond films fan (meaning I have a slightly more than passing knowledge of the franchise - but not obsessive either) but I don’t take it too seriously, especially since they’ve started making a hash of things from Skyfall on (in my humble). It’s not really James Bond to me any more, they’ve gone too dark, too psychological, and too chamber music with it. I mean I’ll still watch it for old times’ sake, but meh. Let them do their worst now, and it’ll probably be better films than the last two, and with more laughs as well. A woman, a black man, a child, whatever. It has stopped being Bond some time ago.

I actually think the Daniel Craig Bond films are the best, apart from Quantum Of Solace. They're more gritty, unlike say Pierce Brosnan who could fall down the edge of mountain and there wouldn't be a scratch on him. Joe Rogan said it best, "the difference between Daniel Craig and all the other actors who have played Bond, is that Daniel Craig looks like he has been punched in the face a thousand times."

Or maybe it was just a crap series

I can't wait for the uproar from adult Star Trek fans ripping apart the new kids cartoon series that clearly is for kids.

Moaning about "canon" and "in world" rules on a show for primary school kids

To be fair, Bond needed to grow up a little. You just cannot do a Connery era Bond any more and a Moore era Bond will slip into parody too easily and that seat is already taken by Austin Powers. Plus the bland Bonds that came after won't really work nowadays either.

So the Craig era "serious" Bond was going in the right direction as far as I was concerned. 'Casino Royale' was probably one of the best Bond films ever made. But they kinda shit the bed with the last one, though, because they tried to fall back on the old formula a bit too much and making Blofeld Bond's brother was just an awful idea.

I don't expect the next movie to be anything special either however.

I understand the difficulties that the producers are in with regards to the next iteration though. It must be very difficult to try and figure out where to go next with this. I mean the whole thing has really run out of steam.

I actually liked 'Quantum of Solace' (what a dumb title though) and I, too, think Craig is the best Bond so far. Bond is essentially an assassin and Craig fits the bill better than anyone. It's just a pity that 'Spectre' undid everything that came before it.

But Bond is just stupid anyway. In reality spies are low key and rely on stealth and subterfuge to do their work. If Bond was real he'd have blown his cover after one job and never be able to work again. 😄 There are good spy movies out there, like 'The Spy that Came in from the Cold' or the George Smiley TV shows with Alec Guinness, but most people would find that kind of thing pretty boring these days.

As you say a young Connery with a modern script could work and I think Craig is closer to Connery's portrayal than any of the other Bonds, even if he lacks the swagger in a dinner jacket. But with regards to the movies themselves, I can't that Connery era type film just wouldn't work today. I watched all the Connery era Bonds back to back a year or so ago and it was surprising just how mediocre (while still relatively enjoyable) they were. Plus that kind of scene in 'Dr. No' is nowhere to be found in the later Connery movies, where wisecracking (to soften him) was more the order of the day.

Connery will probably always have an edge though, by virtue of the fact that he was the original. Whenever someone mentions Bond, I automatically think of Connery.

Well this shows you've no real idea what you're talking about so, as Ripley wasn't written as a woman at all. Ripley wasn't written as any gender.

But your basic problem with someone like Idris Elba, probably one of the best British actors to show up in the last decade or so, is that he's black? Now I'm no expert on James Bond, but last time I checked, his skin colour wasn't on the list of actual qualities of a special agent.

edit: Had a super quick look there, but when I look up Ian Flemings description of Bond I get this.

In the novels (notably From Russia, with Love), Bond's physical description has generally been consistent: slim build; a 3 in (76 mm) long, thin vertical scar on his right cheek; blue-grey eyes; a "cruel" mouth; short, black hair, a comma of which rests on his forehead. Physically he is described as 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) in height and 76 kg (168 lb) in weight.[27] During Casino Royale, a SMERSH agent carves the Russian cyrillic letter "Ш" (SH) (for Shpion: "Spy") into the back of Bond's right hand; by the start of Live and Let Die, Bond has had a skin graft to hide the scars.[28]

No description of skin colour (happy to be proven wrong) but a lot of the actors haven't lined up with this.

So you can't just let your brain accept the black guy is Bond but you can accept it's the same man still looking young and fresh (not Moore) and fighting bad Guys for over 50 years.

Ripley is from a different show with a different set of rules for that world. If let's say Ripley's brain was cloned in some sci-fi way into a man then so be it that's the story.

The whole who is gonna play Bond thing has just been a massive marketing stunt going back to before Craig and about everything in Bond is a publicly stunt.