Waller-Bridge is only the second woman in the history of the Bond franchise to get an official screenwriter credit. The first was Johanna Harwood, an Irish writer who wrote Dr No and From Russia With Love – two of the best Bond movies, stuffed to the brim with iconic scenes – and who worked on the script of Goldfinger but went uncredited.

Also uncredited for her work on a James Bond movie is Dana Stevens, who did a rewrite of Brosnan’s The World Is Not Enough in order to strengthen the female roles in the film. How much of her work ended up being used, though, is up for debate. After all, The World Is Not Enough is the movie that contains a female character called Christmas Jones (Denise Richards), whose nomenclature exists purely for the purpose of Bond making the joke that you think he would make.

Waller-Bridge joining the Bond franchise is cause for serious celebration, in that finally this series is going to get the female voice that it so desperately needs in a post-#MeToo era.

The early signs are boding well. Returning cast members Naomie Harris and Léa Seydoux are leading the movie alongside Knives Out and Blade Runner 2049’s Ana de Armas and Lashana Lynch, last seen as Captain Marvel’s enterprising best friend in Captain Marvel. (Rami Malek will play the villain.) If rumours are to be believed their characters, called Paloma and Nomi respectively, are sizeable ones, a CIA agent based in Cuba and a MI6 professional snapping at 007’s heels. Their inclusion reflects the need for the film to feature nuanced female characters driving the plot forward, as opposed to thoroughly male gaze-oriented eye candy, as the franchise has blunderingly erred towards in the past.

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