Moneypenny (As a Black Woman) Is Getting Her Own Comic Book Series – A Movie Spinoff May Also Be Worth Considering

It’s not directly film related, but it very well could be at some point, and maybe a year or two from now, we’ll look back on this news as the beginning of it all.

Ian Fleming Publications Ltd has authorized an all-new one-off comic book series centering around standard 007 character Miss Moneypenny – originally the private secretary of M, the head of MI6, who also has a flirtatious relationship with James Bond. The character was reintroduced in “Skyfall” (2012), played by Naomie Harris and given the first name Eve, a field agent assigned to work with Bond; although by the end of the film, she decides to retire from fieldwork and becomes Mallory’s (Ralph Fiennes) secretary once he takes over the role of M. She also appears in “Spectre” (2015).

Writer Jody Houser has been tapped to script the comic book series, making her the first woman scribe to write a Bond universe comic. She will be joined by artist Jacob Edgar who will illustrate the series which will be titled “James Bond: Moneypenny.”

Dynamite Entertainment, publisher of 007 comic books, will do the same for the Moneypenny project which, as you can see in the teaser cover above, is inspired by Naomie Harris’ Moneypenny – a black Moneypenny.

Per the release, “James Bond: Moneypenny” will center on what is supposed to be a routine protection mission for the character, “until she uncovers a complicated assassination plot that bears a striking and unsettling resemblance to a tragic, and life-changing terrorist attack from her childhood. In the face of imminent danger, will Moneypenny…

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