Next Bond is a black girl

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EVR

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Nexus Icon

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Monday 15th July 2019
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Not "next Bond", next 007.


Buster73

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152 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Nexus Icon said:
Not "next Bond", next 007.
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Aphex

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199 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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hehe how many more franchises do they have to kill

Watchman

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244 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Charlene Theron showed that a woman can definitely hold her own in a fight (Atomic Blonde) so I'm absolutely not opposed to the idea of a woman working in the field. And maybe showing Bond without the support of "Universal Exports" could be interesting.

DB9VolanteDriver

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175 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Atomic Blonde...great action, setting and twists. It's Charlize, not Charlene, BTW.
I could defo see her as 007...hard drinking, hard fighting, no feelings, 'womanizing', yet sophisticated when necessary. Her I'd go see...

Edited by DB9VolanteDriver on Monday 15th July 13:36

RobDown

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127 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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I'm in two minds

On the one hand I'm relieved that its "007" and she's not meant to be "James Bond" (or would that have to be Jemima Bond?). I'm not sure my head would cope with the lack of continuity there

But I'm slightly concerned that it simply won't be James Bond. Instead won't it just become a somewhat more generic spy film? I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and go watch it, but for me part of the enjoyment of the films is the links back to the ones of my youth. Will be interesting to see how they try to capture that essence while taking the franchise forwards

Brads67

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97 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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So the next Bond film will not be a Bond film.

Way to go. Kill an entire franchise and a decades old character. If it is true.

Edited by Brads67 on Monday 15th July 13:41

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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It's no secret that the plot involves Bond having retired from active duty - hence 007 as an operator reference has been re-assigned. Bond as a character hasn't been replaced. If we're to get into whether the lead in the franchise should be male / female / white / black - tbh I don't care, if they're a good actor. The thread title reads like the start of one of Donald Trump's angry tweets though, unfortunately - and we know what direction that normally takes.

The media seem to have made a story out of something without thinking about it. In reality, it's no different to the more active role Moneypenny has had in recent films, with more female field operatives.

I'm a massive Bond fan, and I'm open to the idea of significant changes - but so long as Michael and Barbara are at the helm, it isn't going to deviate from the norm too much (because they appreciate some of the audience are somewhat set in their ways), so anybody getting their panties in a bunch about a female 007 (NOT a female Bond), can relax.

EVR

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Monday 15th July 2019
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Well, you don’t know me but I’m as far as I can be from Donald Trump.

Having said that, I just think this is steering too far from Ian Fleming’s source material. I could not care less about the fact that new 007 (not Bond, you guys are right) is girl and black, but to me it’s just like making him German. Or Italian, why not, driving around in a F8 Tributo. biggrin

A travesty? Definitely, but not because it’s a black girl.

Jasey_

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177 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Wait til you see the next Jasmine Bourne ...


pschlute

714 posts

158 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Jasey_ said:
Wait til you see the next Jasmine Bourne ...
....and the same difficulty in remembering what her mission is

Foliage

3,861 posts

121 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Brads67 said:
So the next Bond film will not be a Bond film.

Way to go. Kill an entire franchise and a decades old character. If it is true.

Edited by Brads67 on Monday 15th July 13:41
BCU

Bond Cinematic Universe? add some flavour.

Muzzer79

9,806 posts

186 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Nothing on the James Bond website, therefore it's not 'official' as the website purports.

Barbara Broccoli has repeatedly said the replacement for Craig won't be a woman so I'd be surprised if this were true.

Fittster

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212 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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ash73 said:
Ridiculous, but it doesn't matter we will always have Casino Royale; the perfect Bond film.
Woody Allen did a fine job.

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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NFC 85 Vette said:
It's no secret that the plot involves Bond having retired from active duty - hence 007 as an operator reference has been re-assigned. Bond as a character hasn't been replaced. If we're to get into whether the lead in the franchise should be male / female / white / black - tbh I don't care, if they're a good actor. The thread title reads like the start of one of Donald Trump's angry tweets though, unfortunately - and we know what direction that normally takes.

The media seem to have made a story out of something without thinking about it. In reality, it's no different to the more active role Moneypenny has had in recent films, with more female field operatives.

I'm a massive Bond fan, and I'm open to the idea of significant changes - but so long as Michael and Barbara are at the helm, it isn't going to deviate from the norm too much (because they appreciate some of the audience are somewhat set in their ways), so anybody getting their panties in a bunch about a female 007 (NOT a female Bond), can relax.
Another article I read earlier said to the effect that "a scene early in the new film shows M in his office saying "come in, 007" and in a popcorn-dropping moment, it isn't Daniel Craig, its a young black female"

Well that's hardly popcorn-dropping then is it?

And yes, I'm sure its a little plot point but it will get resolved by the end of the film and the next 007/Bond actor will be a late 30s/early 40s age white man ready to pick things up where we left off.

J4CKO

41,287 posts

199 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Bond films are generally a bit crap anyway, all down hill since Moonraker and Roger Moore in his pastel leisure suits.

Seems everything is getting a female go, Doctor Who, Ghostbusters and now apparently James Bond, with a headline set to set the internet off wibbling about it, JB retires, his 00 number gets re-assigned and he comes back out of retirement, seems pretty simple to me.

I am fine with it, as long as not everything has to go to the opposite gender for the sake of it, like every advert seems massively contrived to fit in all the different racial groups in and it seems a bit forced.

cayman-black

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215 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Jasey_ said:
Wait til you see the next Jasmine Bourne ...

pmsl, i nearly died just looking at that thing.

Watchman

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244 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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DB9VolanteDriver said:
It's Charlize, not Charlene, BTW
Ah yeah. Don't even think I can blame the autocorrect that time.

Europa1

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187 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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J4CKO said:
Bond films are generally a bit crap anyway, all down hill since Moonraker and Roger Moore in his pastel leisure suits.

Safari suit as opposed to leisure suit, surely?

Leisure suit to me conjures up an image of a close relative of the tracksuit.

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