Of course not, and they never will have more reach if people don't invest time and effort into it. If you don't believe in your work enough to continue working on it even when things get rough, you can't expect anyone else to believe in it either. People forget that every franchise they love today didn't start out beloved by all. Not to mention not everything is destined for greatness, which is why creatives constantly need to be creating to increase their chances of a success.
Also, "female James Bond" is part of the problem. If your only difference from James Bond is that the lead is a woman, you're already failing at your job. Take inspiration from others for sure, but make new characters with their own personalities, character flaws, wants, needs, and lives. Inject something new into the spy genre instead of just taking over someone else's IP. "Oceans Eleven, but they're women" and "Ghostbusters, but they're women" are not intriguing ideas, they're barely ideas.