[dfwgator]

Time for Bond to retire, like Tom Brady. It had a nice run, but it’s over.

[TBP]

Not quite. Do what Star Trek did. Remember Generations, where the Kirk crew essentially handed off to the Picsrd crew? Remember that one scene where Picard does something for Kirk and when Kirk thanks him, he sayd, "The lest I could do for hte captain of the Enterprise."

If they wanted to retire Bond but keep the franchise alive, they could do something similar.

[BillyBoy]

Post #54 makes a good point, too. The producers announcing they will cast a male actor is essentially meaningless in today's warped society, because the mindset of modern Hollywood is anyone who 'identifies' as male IS one. They could cast 'Elliot' Page and these producers would be jizzing themselves about how they kept Bond's "traditional masculinity intact" but "modernized" the role with the "first transgender Bond"