Posted on 12/21/2024 6:18:17 PM PST by bitt
Ultimately, the bell tolls for everyone, and it may now be tolling for the suavest man ever to hit the big screen. That’s right: we may have seen the last of Agent 007. The James Bond series is currently tangled up in red tape that woke executives have spooled out, and the dashing, unflappable, impeccably dressed, outrageously smooth special agent may finally have reached the end of the line. As we prepare to attend his wake and say some word of sympathy to Miss Moneypenny, however, the real question is this: how has he lasted this long?
Fox News reported Saturday that “the next installment in the ‘James Bond’ franchise is still in development limbo due to a rift between the series' main producer and its new owners, Amazon.” It seems that “longtime Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Amazon — which bought MGM studios in 2021 — are in an ‘ugly stalemate’ over decisions about the future of the franchise.” If you suspect that this “ugly stalemate” has to be over whether this dashing, upper-crust, womanizing agent for the forces of good is going to be turned into a woke shadow of his former self, you’re right on the money.
During a recent meeting to discuss Bond’s fate, one Amazon executive laid it on the line, saying: "I have to be honest, I don't think James Bond is a hero." Of course. How could he be? Think about all the ways in which Bond is not a hero from the standpoint of a grim, humorless, doctrinaire leftist. Bond, in all his incarnations from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, has been white. And that’s just the beginning of his sins.
He is most decidedly not gay. He doesn’t believe in body positivity. He is not trans: for all his interest in
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Ever since Bond turned gay a decade or so ago, I’ve been done with him...but I realize that the Zeepers might still want him to be around.
I would rather 007 die than become some woke gay trans can’t-figure-out-his-own-gender non-biologist pajama boy.
Agreed.
That’s cold. Funny, but cold.
Well done
IMHO, the best hope for the series at this point would be retro prequels. Fleming’s Bond was a WWII vet. Go back and do films covering his service in the Special Boat Unit, or whatever, recruitment into SOE, etc. and then some early cold war stuff leading up to the original Dr. No.
There you go. Bond is woke.
Time to end the franchise (or at least for a couple of decades).
Oh my, making Never Say Never Again look like From Russia With Love or Goldfinger, lol.
That can work. But there's no way Hollywood can make it right now.
My opinion, Great Britain is no more so 007 should die right along with it.
The day of pretending that the UK is a great country anre over. The UK is a tiny country swamped with Muslims with no military. Screw it.
For a long time there has been a distribution deal with MGM, I don’t know if they were involved with financing or not. Amazon will end up killing any chance for a new film due to their continued DEI crap. So that is fine, it had a great run and all things end like that sooner or later. There are about 25 or 26 good films out there to watch and the legacy will continue.
Congratulations to Ms. Broccoli - James Bond is an icon, not a DEI shill.
Worse still, Amazon owns the rights to Bond now. So even if there was a movie production company to try to fill in the void and make a good Bond movie, Amazon would have to green light it first.
Have to add obese and black.
“Maybe they can hire him to be the new Bond after he’s run out of Kiev.”
Crap, does that mean I still have to deal with a Trans-007?
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