Next James Bond might be a female

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diablofdb wrote:

some people think I'm sexist for saying that, but I would say the same if they would make a remake of Alien and instead of having Ellen Ripley as main character they would have a random guy.

This is an interesting example because the original Alien's script was written with none of the characters' genders specified. Ripley could have been male or female, depending on who got the part.

I like this idea though because unlike the Alien movies, James Bond has always been written as an idealized male power fantasy.

Placing a woman in that role would require a serious re-evaluation of the character, which honestly feels overdue at this point.

The series has had a problem with women from the beginning, but even recently Daniel Craig called Bond a misogynist. This would force them to confront that fact and hopefully modernize Bond a bit. In a way that wasn't making him more grim and serious of course.

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diablofdb wrote:

I think beloved classic characters shouldn't be changed like that.

James Bond has already been through several different actors, so there's really no point in drawing the line now. The worst that could happen is a bad Bond movie, which is hardly anything new at this point. On the other hand we could get a result like Lucy Liu in Elementary or Michelle Rodriguez in Doctor Who and end up with a really interesting take on the character.