And the next 007 is..

Agreed Casino Royal was good too. The other two are somewhere between bad and bang average.
Genuinely surprised at how bad the other 2 were in comparison.

Because at the end of the last film he had retired, to be honest I was happy to leave it at that considering I have seen all the bond films, so that passing on the 007 codenumber to someone else makes sense, makes no difference to me who it is.
I think there's nothing wrong with it if that is all it is.

I wouldn't be a fan of making a bond franchise around a lass, bond has certain original characteristics that wouldn't really work with a girl imo.

I'd rather them make something original or fix one of the franchises that have female leads. Tomb Raider is crying out for a good writer to make a three part trilogy and all of them have been various shades of rubbish.
 
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It's nothing to get upset about, just a different take on 007. They're very poor films generally anyway.

Gammons are Forever though so this will enrage a few regardless.
 
Well, Bond wasn’t always 007. He doesn’t own the code name. They don’t retire it like a football shirt when the previous holder dies or retires after long service.

So presumably the character James Bond will remain in the subsequent films with the female 007 and the franchise will become buddy spy action films?
 
Genuinely surprised at how bad the other 2 were in comparison.


I think there's nothing wrong with it if that is all it is.

I wouldn't be a fan of making a bond franchise around a lass, bond has certain original characteristics that wouldn't really work with a girl imo.

I'd rather them make something original or fix one of the franchises that have female leads. Tomb Raider is crying out for a good writer to make a three part trilogy and all of them have been various shades of rubbish.

They don't need to, an interesting way of doing it, the agent keeps the code number and James becomes a mission specialist, he's doesn't need to be 007 to be James Bond Skyfall showed that, at the end all he had was a knife to kill the villain.
 
They don't need to, an interesting way of doing it, the agent keeps the code number and James becomes a mission specialist, he's doesn't need to be 007 to be James Bond Skyfall showed that, at the end all he had was a knife to kill the villain.
It's an interesting concept but I think this one will be some sort of conclusion and then I imagine the next will be another reboot after a long hiatus.

Craigs said it's his last so yeah they might leave the lass as 007 as he walks off into the sunset, or dies.
 
So presumably the character James Bond will remain in the subsequent films with the female 007 and the franchise will become buddy spy action films?

At one point they were going to spin off Halle Berry’s ‘Jinx’ character from ‘Die Another Day’ into a separate franchise but they decided against it. Maybe that idea never fully went away.
 
It's an interesting concept but I think this one will be some sort of conclusion and then I imagine the next will be another reboot after a long hiatus.

Craigs said it's his last so yeah they might leave the lass as 007 as he walks off into the sunset, or dies.

The above would do for me, frankly had they just finished at the end of last film i would of been happy, i suspect that Fleming himself would of had him retire/die eventually.
 
As much as I like the Bond series in general, I never really warmed to the image of Craig as Bond but his fillums have been OK.

But recently on a series of flights I saw the last three Mission Impossibles and they are Bond fillums in all but name - you don’t have to look too hard to see the Bond ‘influence’ if not direct ripoff in many scenes. They are very well done and hit the sweet spot between action, stunts, a bit of humour, a despicable villain and even bother to have something of a logical storyline and plot behind all the expected big budget stunt scenes.

In many ways they have eclipsed the Bond franchise - I always reckoned Sam Mendes just didn’t “get” Bond (at least as I see it) - so the new lad has got some way to go to bring the ‘franchise’ back up to speed or they are in danger of fading away into irrelevance the way they did during the Moore era.
 
Bond 25 ‘will see actress Lashana Lynch take over from Daniel Craig to become first female 007

"There is a pivotal scene at the start of the film where M says 'Come in 007', and in walks Lashana who is black, beautiful and a woman.

"It’s a popcorn-dropping moment. Bond is still Bond but he’s been replaced as 007 by this stunning

I’ve got nowt against 007 being someone other than a white bloke considering James Bond would be what 110 year old now? I’m just bored of rehashes where characters are cast to tick boxes and to apologise for the originals being too racist or white. Just make something f***ing original and new and I’ll watch it, i don’t want to see another remake or tedious strung out franchise ever again.
 
I'm not a fan of casting minorities or women to score virtue points, but I've got to admit Idris Elba has got more of a Bond vibe to him than Daniel Craig.
 
At one point they were going to spin off Halle Berry’s ‘Jinx’ character from ‘Die Another Day’ into a separate franchise but they decided against it. Maybe that idea never fully went away.

That's the way to go surely. There's plenty room for Bond, who can go and do his thing where women aren't allowed to drive the Aston, and a female 007. 007 implies there are at least another six knocking about too. It makes perfect sense in universe for there to be a male and female of every colour. You're not going to infiltrate Daniel Craig into a middle eastern terror cell are you.
 

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