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As someone with the shameful distinction of having seen every single James Bond movie, here are Bond's defining attributes:
1. British
2. Spy
3. Cultured/wealthy
4. Usually unflappable, but occasionally gets angry
5. Womanizer at best, misogynist at worst
I don't know if you can make the fifth attribute work. Your only choices are to ignore it, to make her a lesbian, or to have her act toward men the same way the previous Bonds act toward women. My instinct says they'd choose the third option and have a Bond Boy, but I feel like people would react to that differently than they react to Bond Girls.

James Bond is a franchise that's inherently rooted in the Cold War and has been sort of lost and ailing since then. I guess this is a way to shake things up, but I don't think it shakes things up in a way that deals with that core issue the franchise hasn't been able to deal with. I guess the studio might be hoping to appeal to new fans with this move, but I don't know if the social justice crowd cares at all about James Bond of all things.

It is worth noting that this is similar to an idea the franchise had in 2002, where Die Another Day was going to have a spinoff starring Halle Berry's character as another spy in the James Bond universe, but then dropped it because everyone hated the movie.
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Started: July 6, 2005