While there have been many actresses who have played friend or foe opposite James Bond, there has never been a female Bond before. However, there might be one in the future. So far the buzz has been confined to Hollywood, but the details are yet to be worked out. With talk about Daniel Craig resigning, it might be perfect timing for a woman to try the role, but many fans (myself included) don’t want to see him go just yet.

Throughout the Bond film saga, the leading women have served mainly as support to the Bond character, although more recently they have taken on roles more critical to Bond’s success. As far as leading the charge goes, so far television has been in the vanguard, with principal female spy roles in many recent series, such as "Quantico," "Covert Affairs," and "Nikita."In light of this, people have suggested that the next best thing to do would be to cast a female Bond.

Famously, Angelina Jolie revealed that she had turned down a role to appear in one of the Bond films in 2006 and said to the producers of the film that she would rather portray Bond than appear alongside him. In an interview with Britain’s Mail On Sunday a few years ago, she was asked about what occurred during the meeting and she was honest. “They wanted me to play a Bond girl in ‘Casino Royale.’ I said, ‘Actually, I’d prefer to play him; I’d rather be Bond.’ It was a joke – kind of. It was an interesting conversation,” Jolie recounted. And she stood true to her word, when she appeared in the espionage film "Salt"(2010) where she was able to portray a female character, who is strong, independent, and able to defend herself.

There has also been some consideration about retiring the term “Bond Girl.” As Kelsea Stahler from Bustle wrote, “For most of my James Bond-viewing life, I've left each film wishing I could be like James Bond, not — as so many men insist that female Bond fans do — be with James Bond.” In a recent interview that accompanied the article written by Stahler for Bustle, Daniel Craig shared that he would welcome the idea of a female version of James Bond.

“Sure, yeah, definitely. I think it’s a great idea. If it works, it works,” he said. “That’s the great thing about film, it’s all about imagination so of course it could happen. Not that it’s a huge push, it’s just that anything’s possible.”

While he gave a somewhat neutral, undetailed response, it still leaves fans hopeful about the potential prospect in the future.

Even before the rights had been acquired to produce the films based on the books written by Ian Fleming, many people could not sympathize with the unrealistic “lady killer” guise of the British male spy. Neither the screenwriter, Lorenzo Semple Jr., nor the director, Gregory Ratoff, brought on for the first Bond film could identify or make sense of the qualities demonstrated by the complicated male character.

“Frankly, we thought he was kind of unbelievable and as I recall, even kind of stupid. So Gregory thought the solution was to make Bond a woman, ‘Jane Bond’ if you will, and he even had a plan to cast Susan Hayward in the role,” Semple Jr. said, according to an article by Evan Lee in Moviepilot.com in April of this year.

Unfortunately, because of various factors, the film and with that, the idea of ‘Jane Bond,’ were never really considered again to a great degree until now.

According to Lee, the movie was rewritten and released in 1963 and titled "Dr. No" starring Scottish leading man Sean Connery, which fans by a landslide say has to be their favorite Bond.

After fifty years, it seems like the time is right to introduce Jane Bond to the world. Imagine if there was no tuxedo, no Walther PPK, and no vodka martini shaken, not stirred. What would the world of Jane Bond have given us instead?