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Move over Daniel Craig, there is a new 007, a beautiful black woman named Lashana Lynch

Actor Lashana Lynch poses for a portrait for Captain Marvel in Beverly Hills, California , U.S. February 22, 2019. REUTERS/Kyle Grillot - RC19E5185E00

James Bond actor Daniel Craig retains title role but 25th instalment in the franchise reveals codename has been reassigned to British actor Lashana Lynch.

While Daniel Craig is set to reprise his role as James Bond in the next film, the franchise is set for a shake-up, with reports claiming that black British actor Lashana Lynch has been cast as 007 taking over Bond’s secret agent number after his character leaves MI6.

The Mail has quoted from an anonymous “movie insider”, who says that the 25th film opens with Bond (Craig), retired in Jamaica, being called back to action to fight a new villain, The Guardian reports.

“There is a pivotal scene at the start of the film where M says, “Come in 007”, and in walks Lashana who is black, beautiful and a woman,” the source said. “It’s a popcorn-dropping moment. Bond is still Bond but he’s been replaced as 007.”

The news of her being given Bond’s famous code name has been widely praised on social media, coming weeks after US singer Halle Bailey was cast as Ariel in Disney’s live-action remake of the Little Mermaid.

The 25th Bond film which is being shot in Italy and the UK has been plagued by difficulties, beginning in October 2015 when Craig said he would “rather slash my wrists” than play Bond again.

In 2017, he confirmed he had relented, but, the same year, director Danny Boyle who had been brought in to replace Sam Mendes, after Mendes refused to direct any more Bond films also left, citing a dispute over the script. Bond producer Barbara Broccoli told the Guardian last year that there would “never” be a female Bond.

Originally from West London, Lynch, 31, made her film debut in 2011’s Fast Girls, but her breakthrough role came earlier this year, as fighter pilot Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel.

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