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oh ok i didn't think anyone cared about my thoughts, but here they are @LeonhartFour

So let me first say that I'm not a huge James Bond fan, I've seen a random smattering, like 8 or 9 movies total. I only ever watched them with my dad or uncle and they both have different favorite Bonds so I've seen a good variety.

I have some opinions on the casting but they're more general feelings on the franchise

If they make it that James Bond 007 is just a title that is passed on from agent to agent then I'm fine. I literally don't care at all. But they have to then canonize the previous Bonds and acknowledge them somehow which I don't think is a problem but I'm sure it will cause some kind of continuity issues. I don't care about that at all but some will. From what I've read this is what they're doing.

However, I always felt that it was a wasted opportunity to expand the James Bond universe and formally introduce a variety of Agents.

It would be best to just keep Bond a white guy, and 007 is always a white guy named James Bond, and then you always have 003 who is named, uh, Jason Chen or something and he's always an Asian dude and 006 who is always a black lady named Jessica King (idk I'm not paid to write this).

Then they all have their own franchises and occasionally the actors get retired and replaced and they can cross over and stuff and occasionally bring old actors back for cameos in this big universe they've created. Have Q and M in every movie. Have Pierce Brosnan show up in some of them to say hi. Have Bollywood make 005 the Indian James Bond. But they won't do that probably. idk there's a ton of market real estate for more cool spy movies, especially if each 00 has its own unique style or spin.

I think it actually is kind of important to have a generic white guy agent because he's supposed to be a super secret white guy spy and sometimes you need him to just blend in. It's also important to have agents of all varieties for all kinds of missions. Sometimes you need a lady. Most times it doesn't matter who you send though which is why I'm all for a black lady spy, but you gotta do it right. A lot of people like that James Bond is just some white dude because the entire point of the character is that he's a white male power fantasy. But I'm sure Asian guys want their own Asian male power fantasy.

"Power fantasy" may not be the point anymore, but I do have two friends (one white, one Asian) who hated Skyfall because they specifically see 007 movies because they want to see Bond be an unstoppable force and don't want a character breakdown/study that shows him aging. That movie broke a ton of box office records and then Spectre didn't do as hot but idk if any really felt this way outside of a minority of weirdos. Spectre shouldn't exist tho imo it kinda sucked and didn't really build off of Skyfall enough.

I didn't even see Spectre until I was stuck on an airplane with nothing to do and I've skipped a ton of Bond movies because if the previews don't look good then I don't see them. If they do have Lashana Lynch play Bond and the trailers look like shit I probably won't see it until I can pirate it.

I'm probably a bad person to ask about this because I don't think I think about Bond the way most people do. Again, I really don't care if Bond is a black lady, I don't care who is cast as him or her, I'm just bothered that they waste the potential to really build up the movie franchise to be something more. I also think the market is still there for white guy Bond so it baffles me that they'd change it. We also have a ton of people asking for Idris Elba Bond so why not try that? Lashana Lynch is a weird direction all of a sudden. Could be fine though. Could also not happen, how definitive are these rumors?
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