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From Mata Hari to Gabrielle Petit to Gertrude Bell, women have played a big role in the history of intelligence.
And yet, the heroes of the great spy sagas in cinema such as "James Bond", "Jack Ryan", "Jason Bourne" or "Kingsman" or "Mission Impossible" are usually worn by male characters.
Will James Bond find his female alter ego in the years to come?
This is the wish of Netflix and Gal Gadot.
Indeed, the Los Gatos platform has acquired the much disputed rights to the film Heart
of Stone
, developed by the production company Skydance Media.
With this spy thriller featuring big-budget action and international ambitions, the Wonder Woman star and Netflix hope to launch a James Bond-style female spy franchise.
If successful, it would be the first part of a long line, announces the American site
Deadline
.
Judy Bench brought a feminine touch from 1995 to 2012 by camping M, the director of MI6, in the James Bond franchise, succeeding its previous performers, all male.
A choice which could be due to the fact that the British MI5 (Bond and M are in MI6) saw for the first time, in 1992, arrive at its head a woman, Stella Rimington, who directed it until 1996.
007 will be played by a black woman
As the dithering over who will be Daniel Craig's successor in the James Bond costume rife, the English tabloid
Mail on Sunday
revealed in July that after the adventures of
Specter
, James Bond has retired, and so on. abandoned his famous number 007. MI6 then reassigned him to a new spy, or rather spy, played by the British actress Lashana Lynch, seen in
Captain Marvel.
So it seems that women will take more and more place in spy films.
A step that the world of series has already taken with the successes of
Homeland
,
Killing Eve
or
The Americans
.
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