The film has an estimated $50 million budget, as a new property, this is considered a big risk, Bond 25 however cost five times that and will be expecting to smash $1billion in ticket sales. Blake Lively stars as Stephanie Patrick an accidental/reluctant spy. Based on Mark Burnell novel of the same name the film promises to be a more gritty and realistic take on the genre.

That said, EON Productions are making a rare departure from Bond with The Rhythm Section due for release early next year, before No Time To Die. I would love to see a different film within the same universe. That’s not to say there isn’t room for a female 00 agent. Putting all this aside, the character would change too much if a woman were cast. A gay friend, who knows a lot more than me on the subject once told me that the secret services actively recruited gay men at this time. The books were written at a time when it was illegal to be gay. There have been many suggestions that Ian Fleming’s character was actually a closeted or repressed homosexual. The first thing I would say is that I am only talking about male actors, Bond is a man, and as M (Judi Dench) says in GoldenEye “a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. As the promotion of next spring’s No Time To Die, the 25 James Bond movie gets underway, the merry go round of who will replace Daniel Craig as 007.

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