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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So we will never see a Shan’ika Bond on the big screen driving a lavender Jaguar? Oh dear, I was so looking forward to that. /s
Or the nanobots reassemble Bond into some kind of cyborg. "Bot. James Bot."
Pussy Galore, best Bond character name ever!
Maybe there is still some hope. Woke, at least since the election, does not seem as popular or as acceptable as it was before.
“No Mr. Bond I expect you to go woke”
I would that the BBC had killed off Dr Who rather than trending and interracialgenderfluiding deck that it is now.
Bring back Tom Baker and they may have a chance
“No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to cry.”
There are great Bond plots everywhere you look today - much more than thirty years ago.
How did these changes proposed for Bond work out for the Dr. Who and Star Wars franchises?
No. Amazon didn’t buy it to not make movies. Eventually they’ll find something. Might be good. Might not. But franchises never die.
The new Bond will be Black
Or maybe, a Paki
That was the premise of Austin Powers. He was a 1960s playboy when he frozen, then he awoke in the feminist 1990s.
Probably wanted him to work for the Wakandan government.
M offers that as a possibility for why Bond was sent a golden bullet by Scaramanga.
The Casino Royale TV movie of 1954 was the first.
His thoughts went something like: "Bond felt a moment of disgust. He didn't hate homosexuals. He pitied them. Broken people. Something went wrong during childhood."
Roger Moore was my first Bond, so I’ll always have a special fondness for him. Although his last two Bond films were pretty weak.
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