So, according to this “movie insider,” Bond 25 opens with Daniel Craig’s Bond chilling on a beach in Jamaica. Back in England, Ralph Fiennes’ M has uncovered yet another big spy emergency, prompting him to call in his top agent, 007. However, it’s not Craig’s Bond that comes through the door, but a new character played by Lashana Lynch—best known for playing Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel. In other words, James Bond is no longer 007. He’s been replaced.
The “movie insider” refers to it as a “popcorn-dropping moment,” saying that “Bond, of course, is sexually attracted to the new female 007 and tries his usual seduction tricks, but is baffled when they don’t work.” Lynch’s 007 “basically rolls her eyes at him and has no interest in jumping into his bed”—or at least “not at the beginning.” Meanwhile, that’s not the only change supposedly happening on the set of director Cary Fukunaga’s Bond 25:
The source added that the phrase ‘Bond girls’ is now forbidden, saying: ‘We were all told that from now on they are to be addressed as ‘Bond women’.’
The wheel of progress moves slowly, sometimes so slowly that it’s unclear if it really moved at all, but even by the strictest definition of the word “progress” that has to count as… something. Again, though, we must point out that this is all coming from an unverified report to The Daily Mail, so we wouldn’t blame you for a second if you think it’s all fake.