More than six decades after James Bond first appeared on the big screen, the search is under way for a successor to Daniel Craig. According to the source material, that search has become a revealing debate about the future of one of cinema's most enduring and endearing franchises.
The description traces the range of portrayals the role has encompassed, quoting that "from the cold-blooded sexual magnetism of Sean Connery to the more tongue-in-cheek take of Roger Moore, to Daniel Craig's gritty realism, there's really a James Bond for everyone."
At the centre of the debate is the question of who will inherit the licence to thrill. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell covers the subject, framed in the description as an edge-of-your-seat adventure with a "view to a kill." The description poses the choice facing the franchise: whether Bond should remain faithful to his traditional identity or reinvent himself to reflect changing attitudes towards gender, diversity and contemporary heroism.