Most “female version of” media I’ve seen ends up being derided, in Marvel, in games, etc. Take the fun concepts you’d feel from seeing this Bond parody, and ideally use it to build up a fresh, cohesive character from scratch - an experienced spy who gets chewed out by her superiors for getting drunk on the job and banging too many women, but gets the job done well.
We already cast different actors to play Bond. They’re already quite physically different. They have different accents. Craig looks to me like he was hit by a truck, contrasted to Brosnan.
Why exactly is it OK to cast across many dimensions but gender is the “bad line”?
I have my own answer, and that whenever Hollywood does this, they just can’t write the character as a woman. Like, thier idiot writers and algorithms and focus groups and marketing departments just fuck it up every time, just assfuck the source material with the express goal of buzz.
But this post?? They GET it. If OP had creative control, I’m genuinely ok with it.
I don’t have issues with different actors playing characters. They just have to be written in a way that respects the characters and by extension the fans.
Take the ambition, but not by stealing the name.
Most “female version of” media I’ve seen ends up being derided, in Marvel, in games, etc. Take the fun concepts you’d feel from seeing this Bond parody, and ideally use it to build up a fresh, cohesive character from scratch - an experienced spy who gets chewed out by her superiors for getting drunk on the job and banging too many women, but gets the job done well.
The line, this line, I just see as arbitrary.
We already cast different actors to play Bond. They’re already quite physically different. They have different accents. Craig looks to me like he was hit by a truck, contrasted to Brosnan.
Why exactly is it OK to cast across many dimensions but gender is the “bad line”?
I have my own answer, and that whenever Hollywood does this, they just can’t write the character as a woman. Like, thier idiot writers and algorithms and focus groups and marketing departments just fuck it up every time, just assfuck the source material with the express goal of buzz.
But this post?? They GET it. If OP had creative control, I’m genuinely ok with it.
I don’t have issues with different actors playing characters. They just have to be written in a way that respects the characters and by extension the fans.