John Murdoch
Senior Member
Originally posted by Robtard
As a huge fan of James Bond, I am sad to see the franchise go this way, they could have made another movie with a female 00# and connected it to the Bond-verse, while still keeping James Bond.
Yep agreed. James Bond is 007, and I know he supposedly passing the codename of "007" to Captain Marvel's friend, but even the "007/James Bond is a codename" fan theory got debunked by Skyfall. Yes, this is different, but the point is that James Bond IS 007. The James Bond 007 franchise is a franchise about one spy that Ian Fleming created. It does not need to be made into a "00-universe" or whatever the producers are trying to do to emulate the MCU yet again.
Good grief, women of many ethnicities have been represented in just the spy/adventure genre: Tomb Raider, Salt, the Mission: Impossible series, Colombiana, and Atomic Blonde spring to mind. Shoot, the James Bond series has had Wai Lin, Vesper Lynd, Triple X, Olga Kurylenko's character in Quantum of Solace, Judi Dench's M, plenty of strong female counterparts to Bond. Not to mention how lukewarm if not poorly received gender-bended films in franchises have been so far, from Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters.
This makes zero sense from a storytelling standpoint. Bond is 007. Leave it alone.