A black female actress is taking on the role of 007 and men are seriously triggered

[Soph0571]

Bond 25 is going to have a black, female 007.

According to reports, British actor Lashana Lynch, who recently appeared as a fighter pilot in Captain Marvel, will be introduced as the new 007 in the next installment.

A film insider told Mail on Sunday that in the upcoming feature film she will be tracking Daniel Craig’s character and bringing him out of retirement for a new mission.

The insider said: “There is a pivotal scene at the start of the film where M [played by Ralph Fiennes] says, ‘Come in 007', and in walks Lashana who is black, beautiful and a woman.”

It’s a popcorn-dropping moment. Bond is still Bond but he’s been replaced as 007 by this stunning woman.

[link:https://www.indy100.com/article/bond-25-lashana-lynch-female-007-role-cast-release-date-trailer-9005131|

Some racist and sexist right wing snowflakes are having a meltdown

My favourite:



A perfect example of why we have to worry about toxic masculinity affecting our young men's emotional development...

[FBaggins]

2. I'd oppose it too... if I didn't read the article

The clear implication is that the role of James Bond will now be played by a female. That would be ridiculous of course.

I can’t see why anyone would object to a retired Bond being replaced as 007 by a different character.

[zipplewrath]

3. This is a serious problem

I don't mean the whole female Bond thing. I mean look at what Mr. Cooper wrote. He wrote about a fictional character that was basically a live action cartoon. He was a goof. He was a joke in many ways. He was a fantasy of a human that represented nothing of reality. And Mr. Cooper holds him up as some sort of model for excellence.

For far too long culture has accepted these absurd characters as some sort of model excellence. They aren't anymore than the road runner or Bugs Bunny. But people grow up accepting the various "action heros" as some sort of example of "how things should be". This isn't new. John Wayne made a career out of portraying absurd characters meant to represent some sort of reality. We've created the concept of the "super soldier" when in reality none exist or have ever existed. Robin Hood never existed. The Godfather was never someone to be admired. There is no John McClain, he would have been dead in minutes. These people aren't real, and don't represent reality.

Look, I can enjoy a bit of fantasy as much as the next person. But at the end of the movie, we're supposed to come back to reality.

[colorado_ufo]

4. Amen

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. So very this!

[Aussie105]

6. Bubbles

You just destroyed a lot of peoples' reality bubbles.

Next, you will tell me that #45 ISN'T a rich, super smart businessman who can run the country like a business better than any politician?

But I agree, people who aren't sure of what their own reality looks like, might think of themselves as another James Bond, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis or Vin Diesel. Then they find out James Bond is a female?
The consequences will be dire!

Personally, I hope that any sex scenes will be handled a bit more maturely and realistically than in any previous Bond movies.
No, I hope there aren't any.

[LessAspin]

8. Good points...

Which also helps to explain why the Military has long sought to use Hollywood as a recruiting tool.

Link to tweet

[Brother Buzz]

48. Does this mean I should stop wearing my stylish James Bond terrycloth 'onesie'?

[ret5hd]

7. "I" don't wonder why men today are so weak...

"I" wonder why Richard Cooper is so weak.

[TommyCelt]

9. :O

A true "Bond Girl".

[OneBro]

10. I'd bet that Cooper's favorite movie is "300."

Men like Richard Cooper have been weak their whole lives. They’ve been artificially propped up by images of Jesus and Santa Clause as white men and a whole host of white comic book superheroes. The election of Obama left them permanently triggered and fearful that in a world where they actually have to compete, people like Limbaugh and Trump would never make it out of the starting gate.

People like Cooper took comfort when Tom Cruise played “The Last is Samurai,” when Scarlett Johansson played the lead in Ghost of a Shell,” but they are apoplectic that a black woman has been cast as Ariel in “The Little Mermaid.” There’s actually a #notmyariel Twitter feed.

In short, adhering strictly to source material is critical to people like Cooper when the material coincidentally portrays white as right because they see those images as part of their HERITAGE. This is particularly true with the weakest of weak men like Cooper and Trump. I’m their minds, James Bond, Jesus, Santa Clause and Ariel all MUST . . . BE . . . WHITE because, well, they just gotta.

[hurple]

11. This is cool

They're not replacing James Bond, just expanding the lore to show that the agent designations are reassigned. I don't see where the indignation comes from.

Thumbs up from me.

[Auggie]

34. It IS cool ... and a welcome update to an aging film franchise (n/t)

[rpannier]

12. Richard Cooper perfect example of a weak man

He's all hurt about a woman being Bond

[cwydro]

39. The woman will not "be Bond." She will be 007.

If you read the article, you’ll understand.

[58Sunliner]

13. But will she have the kiss of death? That will really make them hurl.

Don't most of the women in 007 come to an untimely end?

[wyldwolf]

14. So a female James Bond can't have fast cars and fast women?

[Trumpocalypse]

17. She's not playing Bond

Daniel Craig still is. She is another character who has been given the 007 code number after Bond retired.

[Politicub]

15. The modern world drives them bananas. They should prepare themselves to live a life of misery,

because we're never going back.

[Trumpocalypse]

16. The article doesn't fully explain

that she is not playing Bond. She is another character who has been given the 007 code number.

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. "Bond is still Bond but he's been replaced as 007 by this stunning woman" seems straightforward

to me.

[TlalocW]

18. I've never seen a James Bond movie

But I think this lends credence to the theory that James Bond/007 is a code name for whatever MI6 agent at the time is reckless enough to do all the stupid/crazy shit they do to get the job done, and because of this, they have a relatively short shelf life (we only see the successful mission(s)) so there's no big blowback on MI6.

TlalocW

[RhodeIslandOne]

20. No, this blows that theory up

She’s only taking his 00 code, not his name, as far as we know.

It’s being acknowledged Daniel Craig is still James Bond, but retired and without a 00 number.

[TlalocW]

24. Okay so they have a different codename for women

Which they could have used previously in the Bond world - we don't know, or she could have said, "Yeah, fuck that shit. Just call me by my regular name," and the previous 007 was presumably smarter than his predecessors and retired. If he had been replaced by a man, that guy would be James Bond. Until then, even in retirement, he holds the title.

Theory holds.

TlalocW

[RhodeIslandOne]

45. Skyfall....

....confirmed his family name as Bond anyway.

If you’ve never seen one I’ll give you a pass.

They say that 95 percent of people who’ve watched a movie have seen a Bond film by the way.

[MurrayDelph]

35. I said similar on Twitter yesterday

I always thought that "James Bond - 007" is akin to "The Santa Clause," or "The Dread Pirate Roberts": the name and title go to whoever has the job, not just in "the real world" but in the characters' universe.

But what I said about the Black Little Mermaid is also on point:

My biggest hope is that they write and direct a good movie this time (unlike so many of the "reimaginings" ), because if they don't produce a good movie, and it tanks, they're going to blame the casting and not the product.

[Trumpocalypse]

38. Your loss nt

[TlalocW]

43. Maybe but

Aren't the Austin Powers movies pretty much the same?

TlalocW

[Trumpocalypse]

44. No

They are not!

[tymorial]

21. Sometimes I wish the internet was never invented.

<d

[Auggie]

33. Social media provides a platform to spread racist opinion we'd probably never see or hear ...

in the "old" days. You know, like the year 2000.

[AllaN01Bear]

22. poor baybies. the 13 dr is also female and i like her charchter

good luck to her.
we have the same issue in star trek. must be the original series , must be shatner, deforest kelly etc and musnt deviate from the original show time line or some "fans " go conpletly out of kilter.to me its just a tv show and or movie , give it a break. i wish this new bond well.

[SCantiGOP]

23. I hate to break it to them

but James Bond passed away several decades ago from lung cancer, cirrhosis of the liver and syphilis.
Turned out his lifestyle was more dangerous than the enemy agents.

[packman]

25. Sorry - A bridge too far

And the female Capt. Marvel was a bust also.

- Let the anti-women, misogynist replies begin. HEY, some of my best friends are females--

[HopeAgain]

26. Sarcasm, right?

Right?

[MontanaMama]

27. Hmmmmm.i grew up with that same James Bond

who drove fast cars and surrounded himself with fast women. It just occurred to me that this new 007 might surround herself with fast women too! That ought to make Richard Cooper’s tiny little pea brain explode.

[Wounded Bear]

28. M was a woman for what? 20 years or so...

several movies. The "Bond" movies have gone so far away from the original books it's crazy. I don't bother to catch them any more, usually.

Movies in general are just a bunch of special effects, explosions and shit. Throw in how expensive they are now and I don't go to them.

[EarlG]

29. Lol

Richard Cooper grew up watching James Bond's misogynistic shenanigans and it clearly didn't do him any harm!



I also grew up watching James Bond and I loved those movies -- when I was a kid and didn't know any better. Looking back at them now they are mostly just embarrassing.

Excellence. Focus. Competency.



James Bond.

[Mike Nelson]

30. I've read a few of the Bond books and...

... seen more than a few Bond films. I'm not seeing him as female. However, this casting is for a new character, and it sounds exciting!

[RobinA]

32. It Sounds To Me

like a great way to glom off a zillion dollar franchise while at the same time placating the clamoring masses by adding Identity X, Identity Y and Identity Z in a semi-acceptable way (it's not REALLY James Bond) and all while not coming up with a single new idea.

White guys shouldn't be upset about this stuff, it's just more of the non-white, non-guy portions of the population wanting to play - white guy characters.

[maxsolomon]

36. I've seen a Bond movie or 2.

It's Craig's last Bond role. She'll die heroically and tragically; he'll come out of "retirement" and reassume the number. End credits.

I know Phoebe Waller-Bridge is writing it, but the standard tropes will apply in the end.

Everyone calm down. It's just another movie.

[ismnotwasm]

37. Richard Cooper is the equivalent of a "make me a sammich"

Neckbeard weirdo.

But yes it’s hilarious to watch the freak outs.

[rusty fender]

40. The owner of the rights to to the Ian Fleming books

decides who will play Bond.

Of course the men whining that Bond, 007, or any particular character who has previously been portrayed as a man must always be played by a man will still whine because their weak psyche depends on fictional characters with whom they identify.

[silentEcho]

41. I bet more than simply triggered.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. Either it will be successful or it won't

As the righties like to say, let the market decide.

[Demovictory9]

46. k&r

[Generic Brad]

47. It's a fictional role!

I don’t understand how anyone can get worked up over a made up character.