Lashana Lynch as the new 007 in “Bond 25?” That’s the latest, wild speculation courtesy of The Daily Mail.
But, as gimmicky as it seems at first blush, it’s just the kind of shake-up to be expected from director Cary Fukunaga (“Maniac”) and scribe Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who are doing their best to make Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as topical, inclusionary, and memorable as possible.We already know that Lynch (“Captain Marvel”) plays MI6 agent Nomi, who shadows a retired Bond in Jamaica while CIA buddy Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) tries to recruit him for one last mission.
It apparently involves a kidnapped scientist (Ana De Armas) and a genetic engineering scheme hatched by Rami Malek’s baddie.
There’s even the supposed return of Christoph Waltz’s Blofeld in a cameo right out of “Silence of the Lambs,” in which “Spectre” Bond lady Madeleine (Lea Seydoux
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