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How did they deal with the Doctor having been married? How did River Song feel about being married to a woman trapped in a man’s body?
Please let me know of any female roles that have 'become male....'
I think it will be interesting as to when the BBC production team deem this 'acceptable'. I'm a big Dr Who fan and have no issue at all with the Doctor being a woman because as previously stated the Doctor's body is completely fluid as an in-universe concept. (The fact we had 13 men in the role prior to Jodie Whittaker is just a fluke!)
However I was keen on her take on the role. Not sure if it was her personally or the scripts/new show runner. Anyway this is just a long way of answering the question. We will see a female role change to a man here but not anytime soon because of the nervousness around the inevitable backlash that would occur if done after just one woman.
She’s not been in it for several years. Based on their previous treatment of such things it wouldn’t make any difference.
Once Ian Fleming’s novels are out of copyright, which is only fifteen years away, then yes, anything goes. Any film or TV company will be able to use the James Bond character, and use the character any way they want, like put the character into a comedy or a rom com or a tv sit com.
I think that after 2034 we will see a female actor playing Bond, it’s pretty much a given.
What some people don’t seem to have realised yet is that all of Ian Fleming’s other characters enter the public domain too. Dr No, Goldfinger, Largo, Rosa Kleenex - they are all out of copyright in fifteen years’ time, so any film company can use these characters in any way they want.
Sometimes I love spelling autocorrect lol
Thanks, @IGotABrudder – that was what I thought. We should just brace ourselves for a another CR67, or rather a CR34 then!
Haha!
Nah, not going to happen. I would imagine 'James Bond' and '007' are trademarks of Eon: the copyright on the books may run out but if Bond himself is trademarked you're not going to be able to make a movie featuring him any time soon.
Where did you read that, in The Daily Mirror?
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:D
I think the best medium for a strict adaptation of the novels would be something like Netflix. Watching it at home, the movie wouldn't carry the same kind of connotations and baggage of a cinematic experience. You would just watch it as a straight up spy period piece, without any of the EON iconography glamorizing it. Bond could be as in the novel as a very prickly English gentleman, no one liners or anything that softens his image. He's just a blunt instrument, rather than something to idolize on the big screen.
Wow, what a smug opinion.
Let's take Hamlet, there have been countless play adaptations where his gender was bended, and they usually play to small audiences.
Nonetheless, when a work is public domain, it naturally attracts people wanting to bend it.
Mmmmm, I'm pretty sure it's been said before by some famous Producer or Director?
I think the "problem" with top line actors in an ongoing part, is that they get bored and push to have their character put in ever more dramatic situations, so they can improve their skills and grow as a performer, which on the one hand is fine and only natural for an ambitious and committed thespian, but on the other hand is not always what best serves the character or the production itself.
The production is a collaboration, but when an ongoing franchise becomes popular and the money is rolling in, and where the actor fronting it becomes strongly identified with the lead character, he or she gains more and more leverage until they can end up in a position calling all the shots and over-shadowing the input of the Director and other stake-holders.
So you can end up with everyone wanting to make a melodramatic exit, Wolverine, Iron-Man, Captain America... and now Craig-Bond
Daniel Craig was never satisfied with just playing the part of James Bond, the character always had to be struggling with some internal demons, so that Craig could satisfy his need to do some "real" acting.