James Bond ‘Lashana Lynch 007 for VERY good story reason – spin-off will tempt producers’

We’ve had the first full No Time To Die trailer and as rumoured, Lashana Lynch is playing a new Double-O agent. But what hasn’t been confirmed yet is if her Nomi has replaced Daniel Craig’s retired James Bond.

A leak earlier this year alleged this and it’s looking likely, but will it be a gimmick or a stroke of narrative artistry?

In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Bond expert and author of Catching Bullets – Memoirs of a Bond Fan, Mark O’Connell reckons the latter.

He said: “I think it would make great poetry in the film if she was [007] because the fact she’s a woman, a black British woman – it’s so contemporary.

“If she is 007, it will be for a very good story reason to remind us why James Bond is 007.”

Mark pointed out: “After 25 films, isn’t that enough of an extended universe already?

“I mean, yes, I’d love to see a Ben Whishaw does Q film, but actually Q isn’t in the film for two hours.

“His role, his point and his beat, is that he’s in it for two or three important, fun and information-giving scenes. So I don’t know those characters can be opened out.

“The temptation would be to end up making a Q film or a Moneypenny film that’s actually a quasi-Bond film with a pre-title and a song and lots of cars and gadgets…so ultimately you think, ‘well, what’s the point?’”

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