Posted on 07/14/2019 11:46:59 AM PDT by TigerClaws
ACTRESS Lashana Lynch will take on the iconic spy role of 007 in Bond 25, according to reports.
While titular hero James Bond will still be portrayed by Daniel Craig, 51, writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge has introduced a major twist to the long-running franchise.
She will introduce the Captain Marvel star, 31, as the current 007's replacement within the secret service, while a decision has yet to be made who will take over from Craig in Bond 26.
An insider told the Mail: "There is a pivotal scene at the start of the film where M 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."
The source also revealed that Bond will be brought out of retirement in Jamaica to thwart a "global crisis".
It comes after it was revealed Cristoph Waltz will reprise the role of Blofeld in the flick after he was spotted on set at Pinewood Studios.
The star, 62, played the head of a shadowy organisation of villains in 2015's Spectre, and is back for a second outing despite previously claiming he wouldn't be in the next flick.
The Mail's Baz Bamigboye broke the news on Twitter, posting: "Exclusive:Hello Mr Waltz... we’ve been expecting you.#ChristophWaltz is back as #Blofeld in @007 #Bond25 , shooting scenes at Pinewood studios . When a visitor spotted him , Waltz insisted , “You haven’t seen me.”
The Sun Online has contacted a representative for Cristoph for comment.
Super-villain Blofeld tried to establish a global surveillance network in Spectre that would enable the organisation to monitor and evade criminal investigations at the highest level.
In an explosive finale, Blofeld's helicopter was shot down and the villain was seen crawling from the wreckage.
But with his fate left up in the air, it looks as if he evaded arrest.
Earlier this month Bond bosses insisted the next 007 film will be in cinemas in just nine months' time despite being rocked by a string of disasters.
A spokesperson for the spy franchise told The Sun Online that the 25th Bond movie would definitely be released in the UK on 3 April next year.
The troubled film has been hit with several calamities - including three explosions, a crocked Daniel Craig and Grace Jones walking out.
A triple explosion erupted at the 007 Stage at the movie franchise's Pinewood Studios base in London last month.
A crew member sustained an injury during the blast, which took off part of the roof and several wall panels.
The disaster came after Bond star Daniel was injured while shooting scenes in Jamaica, forcing filming to be delayed.
He has now had an ankle ligament operation and was pictured with his leg in a supportive medical boot following surgery.
The Sun revealed how the troubled film suffered another blow when Grace quit her much-hyped role moments after arriving on set.
Grace, who played villain May Day in 1985’s A View To A Kill, walked away after discovering how few lines she’d been given.
The film was also thrown off course by the departure of original director Danny Boyle, who quit over a script dispute, in August 2018.
Tracy Morgan in a dress.
I don't see a "stunning woman". I see a bug eyed creature of indeterminate 'gender'; male looking features, who reminds me of Godfrey Cambridge except 'in drag'.
Hear here!
So much for the credits.
I refused to watch any of the female Dr Who, cancelled my future trip to Disney and looks like no more buying any new Bond film.
It's happening in Western countries, because freedom (equal opportunity) is being supplanted by 'Political Correctness' (equal results). As we slide towards third-world tyranny, be prepared for future 007s representing additional special interest groups, all 'deserving' equal results, as the Left (once again) attempts to contort reality to fit their comic book ideals! We'll have a transgender 007, an undocumented immigrant 007, and no doubt a physically & mentally handicapped 007. And they'll all be winners (unlike the movies in which they will be depicted)!
She got bumped from also playing George Washington in an upcoming movie, by a higher-scored intersectonal act(x) - a trans-gendered, muslim, black woman, who is gay and openly communist (not DiBlasio’s wife, there is another one).
No, no, just no. I had to Google the name............ ah, no. Not even........ Just no.
I won’t pay for hollywood crap.
They lost me at a transgendered trans-racial Bond.
Better!
The Brits continue their downward swirl into the PC sewers of London.
For some reason, I'm reminded of a comment in that old movie, Extreme Prejudice. Sheriff Hank Pearson (played by Rip Torn) is talking about the possibility of working with a female law enforcement officer, and says, "Hell, I don't care, as long as she's six-foot-six, mean as a snake!" (In other words, can she really do her job? Or would it be like hiring an 80-pound female firefighter, and expecting her to haul 250-pound victims out of burning buildings?)
I don't think this actress looks like she's six-foot-six, and doubt she (or the character she plays ;^) is as mean as a snake...
;^)
They just have to ruin everything
Since the amount of interesting storytelling in this new Bond film is likely to be minimal - replaced by multiple scenes of a slender woman kicking larger and more powerful men in the genitals in the cause of “female badassery” (and certainly not in any cause benefitting the British Government) - this advice becomes even more important.
“Goldfinger”, here I come. :)
Star Wars was ruined when for the same reasons. Bond is dead. No one will go see it.
Yet ANOTHER movie I won’t pay to see
Yawn Hollywood! We’re just not that in to you
Stunning? Hardly. And no amount of snake oil salesmanship will change that.
However, what WILL change is that the Bond franchise is finished. Ruined. Destroyed. As a 50-something dude, I know 50 guys who were devoted to all things Bond but none will go near a PC-movie that transitions to a female 007.
I hope the production budget is $300 million so the moron who let this happen loses his shirt.
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