Change 007? We’re shaken, not stirred
Kylie Williamson has criticised James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli for ruling out James Bond ever becoming female (MetroTalk, Tue). Kylie refers to this being all male, all white and ‘no reflection of the times’. I don’t recall Broccoli ever saying Bond couldn’t be black or any other race.
Bond is a fictional heterosexual male. The key word being ‘fictional’. I imagine Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet would be a gay and/or a trans couple if Kylie had her way.
Kylie, don’t watch the Bond movies if they offend you. Instead, write your own action-packed book about a female spy. In the words of Alan Partridge, stop getting Bond wrong!
Paul, Reading
Kylie Williamson says that another white, male James Bond is ‘no reflection of the times’, but why must everything be changed in this way?
I have no strong objection to Bond not being white but author Ian
Fleming wrote him as a white, British man.
Should Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot become a female, hijab-wearing immigrant? Should Miss Marple become a young, black gang member? Should Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge in
A Christmas Carol be portrayed as a transsexual?
Stop rewriting our literature because it doesn’t suit today’s ‘diversity’ agenda, and let the rest of us enjoy it as it was written.
PS My vote for Daniel Craig’s replacement would be Tom Ellis.
Leave James Bond alone. He’s a man in the books and films dating back decades, which I have grown up with. And it’s a winning formula. If you want a female Bond, ask for a separate film, but let us Bond fans have what we want. Darren Cope, Wolverhampton
The next James Bond should be a man (the clue is in the first name) and all other Bonds after that too.
Matt, London
Unlike Doctor Who, where the Time Lord can regenerate into a male or female body, James Bond is gender specific. Steve Gentle, Rush Green
Kylie, I want Lara Croft to be Larry Croft in the next film – it’s so passé she’s still a woman. Maura, Cambridge