Not in the least. Sean, George and Roger were all the same character in a two decade run. Both Timothy and Pierce were soft reboots. Some ties to past events (ex. Mention of Bonds marriage in LTK) but moving the life of the character to current times. Daniel was a full hard reboot of the character. I am hoping this new 007 carries the mantle in the same ‘universe’ after Daniel’s departure.
Don’t forget grocer and fun runner. All for the greater good.
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(Thinks really hard …) How about … how about an Errol-Flynn style Robin Hood expy in a camp romp based on a 1930s pulp science fiction serial with a glam-rock soundtrack?
Damn …
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I have to say, as soon as I saw this news I was really worried. To me, ‘Lashana Lynch’ just didn’t sound like the right sort of person to play James Bond… but then I went on her wikipedia page and saw she was indeed British, so, phew! It would’ve been weird if they’d got an American actor to play 007.
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Pretty smart move on their part. It doesn’t sound like Lynch has been cast to actually take the franchise over from Craig, just that she’ll be appearing in this one movie as 007. If it ends up making a bunch of money and audiences respond well to the character, then they can bring her back for more movies.
It feels like an Indiana Jones 4 situation where Shia LaBeouf was positioned to take over as Indy but the movie bombed so they dropped that idea.
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Or a female Iron Man? That’d never happen, right?
/s
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Well good luck finding a female actor who can fly …
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It’s a mixed bag. Some of them are really good, some are really bad but still entertaining, some are just really bad.
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Notice how progressives and liberals like to piss off conservatives by making an unconventional casting choice. While conservatives like to tweak liberal nipples by attempting to ban muslims, and locking children in cages.
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Please explain. I’m dying to hear this.
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That’s almost a political litmus test right there…
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At one point in the 1967 ‘Casino Royale’, all MI6 agents were renamed ‘James Bond 007’. This included Vesper Lynd, as played by Ursula Andress. It was a very, very silly film.
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But a Scottish or Australian Bond is totally cool?
didn’t sound like the right sort of person to play James Bond
That’s a pretty heavy assumption to make based on a name alone.
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Most Americans can’t tell the difference between the accents anyhow, so it’s all good.
“Tain’t 'Murican!”
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Not sure why this is challenging in the least. Hell - she’s not even playing Bond - she’s playing 007. A Government cover title.
Also - wasn’t Scarlett Johansson available? 
Hilarious how some of these guys were upset she got called out for playing an Asian and trying to play a trans guy - but this is a problem for them.
Of course- some people were upset that Daniel Craig was the first blonde Bond - and under 6ft tall.
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It’s called sarcasm… I was making a joke.
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I love this! My dad took pictures of Ursula Andress on the set of Dr No (I wasn’t with him; I was 6), and I’ve followed the franchise my whole life. This is great. I mean, didn’t they recast the original Jesus ben Joseph, who was a short middle-Eastern Jew, with a tall blond Nordic guy, sometime in the 19th cent? And that went OK, right?
Anyway, she’s not James Bond (I don’t think). She’s 007.
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I’d say that after 25 films of James Bond as a white Englishman, it’s perfectly acceptable to create a new 007 spy character who isn’t white or male to breathe life into the tired old tropes. The James Bond story has been beaten to death already. A lot of other franchise-movies at least have the main character growing old, playing a different role in the tale-- imagine the Rocky films where it’s now 2019 and the same Rocky Balboa that fought Ivan Drago is now fighting . . . an Iranian boxer. That’s basically what happened to the James Bond franchise.
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