It's Time For A Woman To Play 007, Pierce Brosnan Says

female Bond will never happen. It'S hard just to find the right type of person to play the roll.. Thimothy Dalton was the only bad pick. Let the hunt begin. The guy for the roll has big shoes to fill..

I'm gonna miss that guy. the best bond since connery

I'm still intrigued by Idris Elba as James Bond. I'm down for a female James Bond, a female lead in GTA, etc, etc....

Pierce Brosnan, a former A-lister looking to score a few more roles before retiring so he's kiss Hollywoods back side to signal his support for its identity politics push. What a shame.

It's estimated that there are upwards of 100,000 (and yes that's 5 zeros) spies gathering intelligence and operating in the United States from over 50 different nations. It's also estimated that over half of those spies in question are women, because women, not surprisingly at all, are generally much better at being spies than men. That's over 50,000 women in this country alone.

So please, do go on with your limp, fact free assertion that a female 007 is "unrealistic", "makes no sense", and "couldn't work". There's currently a sold out football stadium worth of women operating in plain sight all around us that are categorically certain that you "true Bond fans" are full of shit XD

Ridiculous comment. Look how well a female Dr Who worked out.

For this who don't know, it's now a terribly written show with badly chosen actors.

A female bond is just daft.

Now to make her a spy called Jayne Bond and make an offshoot series, that's a different story. Two bond franchises would be fun.

1994? GoldenEye was still in production. We didn't get to see the movie until late 1995.

Cara Delevingne can't be James Bond she is a woman that wouldn't make sense but I'd defo like to see her as a Bond girl. She he's hot! That I'd totally watch to see her in like a Bikini or some kinda skin tight leather Spy suit that'd be badass but her as Bond doesn't make any sense.

Did Pierce Brosnan (my favorite Bond) really say this? Damn. I haven't witnessed something this painful since Ed O'Neill casting in Modern Family.

Still, I haven't watch a good non-super hero movie for over a decade, so it wouldn't matter much to me anymore.

I wouldn't be shaken, and potentially stirred by a female lead. I've no problem with the idea if its done well.

While I'm not against the idea of focusing on a female spy set in the Bond universe, and even having her own cinematic run, making her Bond seems like a huge mistake. Besides, some things just don't translate over well from one gender to the other.

Instead of making 007 female, why not make a spin-off starring a female allied agent instead..? Something like what Hobbs & Shaw is to the F&F franchise...

For me, it would be a hard sell to have a 007 movie and not be about James Bond, or have James Bond in it. It would basically almost be a La Femme Nakita, Salt, or Atomic Blonde type of movie, but calling the female lead 007. Where is the intrigue in that?

Fact is no matter how you cut it, it wouldnt have as much of a pull as a new male lead. Its just life.

Sure, why not? Just make it an actually good movie, instead of what 2016's Ghostbusters did, which was a trainwreck of a film that used the anger of manbabies as their only spiel.

The truth is, today a movie will only really succeed if it's part of a brand. Making a new agent IP regardless of the lead's gender wouldn't work simply because it's a new IP. It could be an amazing film, but the amount of money the studio would have to throw at marketing said all-new movie would be too much. Instead, they can just have a lady Bond and just have "007" in there somewhere, that's millions of dollars saved.

Only way original movies get made nowadays is through Netflix et al. and even then, it'd just be retooled as a show.

If you want the film to end up with a terrible audience score like the new season of doctor who because you're trying to appease a group that couldn't give a toss about the franchise and just supports anything that pushes their agenda then sure, go ahead. Whenever franchises turn into vehicles for virtue signalling and social points they tend to become shadows of their former selves and get bad feedback from the actual fans of the series. Never turn your back on your main audience for a group that doesn't care about your franchise and will just feed off of it like vampires and move onto something else when their twitter followers get bored of said topic.

The Gamespot commenters never fail. Wow.

007 is a code name. Anyone of any gender or color could play 007. James Bond is a man, sure. But 007 can be anyone. Read before you post.

He should go with the times. Women are everywhere already. I think it's high time that Bond was played by a horse.

No really though. This is Bond we're talking about. This idea is so ridiculous. Oh well, I'll guess we'll be seeing a female Bond, acting all tough and seducing men soon. And everyone will love it I'm sure. Hollywood surely will make it happen, since the more weird an idea is the better nowadays.

Rather than Remington Steele saying "yes" to the question, there should be a beneficial reason to the beloved franchise why a woman, rather than a man, should play the title role instead of changing for the sake of change or appeasement.

I'm fine with them making the gamble and doing all their virtue signaling. The movies typically bomb anyway lol

He can say that but fans can disagree. If they want to make a bond character a woman, call her 008 or something.

It's time for Rebel Wilson to play 007.

I agree with those saying that creating a new IP (I'd add in the world of Bond) with a female lead would be better. I think Bond is one of those roles that really touts its gender, so why try to form a woman into the mold of a male character when she could have her own story? I'd like to see a new agent investigating the DEATH of Bond, making her own way (forgive me, I'm not a huge Bond follower, so maybe he already died in some storyline, but that often doesn't matter when a new movie must be made).

It's time for Jackie Chan to play 007.

Better idea, just make a new 00 Agent who can actually be a character in her own right rather than turning a male character into a woman.

I swear, for all these people pushing for equality none of them ever seem to understand the definition of the word at all. Seriously, superimposing a woman over the role of what was written to be a male character simply will not work and would require such a heavy rewrite to work that you might as well just write an entirely new character, unless you want to make Fembond an extremely masculine lesbian. Ah, but then again, folks would probably eat that up, even if it does completely defeat the purpose of making Bond a woman in the first place.

Lastly, we all know that Pierce Brosnan only made this lame comment to score brownie points in the modern era, otherwise he would have been pushing this for years. I'm all for equality, but this sort of asinine garbage isn't equality, it's peak stupidity. If you want a strong, female secret agent then either write a new one who actually represents women, or simply give one of the Bond Girls a stronger role in one of the future films in which she does a lot to assist Bond, don't just change his sex and act like you've really done something great to further society.