What, no "This never happened to the other guy?" for a new face?

Even the male Bonds didn't all do that.

Remember?

"This never happened to the other fella" James Bond On her Majesty's secret service when Lazenby was the actor.

Hell, have her leave flowers at Tracy's grave.

Legit one of my favorite action movies. Charlize and Sofia were so fucking good in this movie.

Lmaoooo

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 :|

The world is ready for a Bond Girl who is a beautiful twink.

This is an amazing picture

Who TF is that and likes lobsters so much?

Marilyn Manson, is that you?

Fuck yeah im in, if she can hold the accent

I was confused. Then I realised I was thinking of Leslie Nielsen.

Guys. We should get Leslie Nielsen to play James Bond.

The actress that plays Judy Gemstone.

I was thinking Phoebe Waller-Bridge. she's already associated with the franchise as a writer, and works with Amazon as a producer, and a lot of her work involves problematic queer women. didn't see the new Indiana Jones she was in, so idk how she is as an action actor, but if she's half decent I think she could pull it off

I see Brandi Carlile in this role for some reason.

Tig Notaro was one of the only good parts of some of the modern Star Trek shows. But, she'd be an absolutely awful Bond. It might be fun for a 5 minute sketch comedy parody of Bond, but for a full 90 minute movie it would be terrible.

Her defining trait as a comedian is her deadpan delivery. Bond has a dry sense of humour, but that's very different from a deadpan affect. He's also extremely charming and charismatic, which doesn't work well with a deadpan delivery.

I think he's quite arguably too old now, but holy fuck he would have been perfect

Idris Elba looks like God or the Devil in a suit, and for the life of me, I cannot tell you which one is cooler.

He would have made a great Bond at one point, but yeah, definitely too old.

Nothing against Daniel Craig as Bond, I think he fit the part. I think some of the movies weren't great for plot instead. I would've loved Elba to have been the next one when Craig first said he was done. Maybe Michael B Jordan now or Jamie Foxx back then as well. Bond in his 30s makes more sense in my head unless age is a specific plot point like Bruce Wayne in Batman beyond, but that starts complicating the 007 transfer a little on the nose for the franchise.

Yesssss, they had been planning this at one point but changed their minds!

I want my Idris Elba Bond, goddamnit!

I really liked Daniel Craig's bond but I wish they would have cast Henry Cavill instead. A younger Idris Elba is a bit of a no-brainer but too bad the bond franchise isn't handled well (at least in my opinion).

The line, this line, I just see as arbitrary.

We already cast different actors to play Bond. They're already quite physically different. They have different accents. Craig looks to me like he was hit by a truck, contrasted to Brosnan.

Why exactly is it OK to cast across many dimensions but gender is the "bad line"?

I have my own answer, and that whenever Hollywood does this, they just can't write the character as a woman. Like, thier idiot writers and algorithms and focus groups and marketing departments just fuck it up every time, just assfuck the source material with the express goal of buzz.

But this post?? They GET it. If OP had creative control, I'm genuinely ok with it.

I don't have issues with different actors playing characters. They just have to be written in a way that respects the characters and by extension the fans.