A black James Bond??

[Hoosier_Vol]

Not a James Bond fan but now they're just going to magically make him black??

Idris Elba may be next James Bond after Daniel Craig

 

[orangeblooded2]

Henry Cavill is also in the running.

 

[YankeeVol]

I think he'd make a good Bond

 

[MG1968]

Not a James Bond fan but now they're just going to magically make him black??

Idris Elba may be next James Bond after Daniel Craig

 

[bignewt]

Why not?

 

[mrorange211]

Can we just skip the outrage about this? So dumb

 

[bigdaddy]

I don’t see it as outrage but you have to admit, it’s a bit of a drastic change to a character. Why stop at race? Why not make him a woman?

 

[bigdaddy]

Or how about we redo Malcom X and have a Latino play him? It’s the same concept

 

[NorCalVol67]

Or how about we redo Malcom X and have a Latino play him? It’s the same concept

Malcom X is a real person not a character in a novel, so I disagree it is the same concept.

And if Gal Gadot played Bond and I would be okay with that.

 

[Chris4Vols22]

Or how about we redo Malcom X and have a Latino play him? It’s the same concept

Lmao

 

[bigdaddy]

Ok then have Nick Cage be an Oriental then.

 

[NorCalVol67]

Or James Bond.

 

[bigdaddy]

Lol, one of the worst bond movies ever

 

[Weezer]

I've always looked at James Bond as an alias anyway, inherited when one 007 is either killed or retires. Good way to explain the multiple actors. I mean, what kind of spy uses his real name?

 

[tumscalcium]

Or how about we redo Malcom X and have a Latino play him? It’s the same concept

A white Shaft.

 

[tumscalcium]

Lol, one of the worst bond movies ever

But, you only live twice...

 

[Coug]

Elba said he doesn't want to be cast just so he can be used as a statement. It may not happen.

 

[DaUndergroundMan]

I've always looked at James Bond as an alias anyway, inherited when one 007 is either killed or retires. Good way to explain the multiple actors. I mean, what kind of spy uses his real name?

Exactly. If a black James bond causes someone cognitive dissonance, how did their brain handle multiple actors?
Oh because none of them were black.
So then the cognitive dissonance is indeed racial in its basis, whether they admit it or not. I do sometimes sigh at rigid and forced racial quotas, especially when they are unrealistic and silly....every white guy does not necessarily have a black best friend and a cute Asian kid.....but there is nothing at all unrealistic or forced about a superspy being black, and there have been so many James bond movies with so many different actors claiming rigid guidelines on his character and crying foul at a casting choice is tenuous position to hold onto.

 

[n_huffhines]

Ok then have Nick Cage be an Oriental then.

Elba wouldn't be playing a white person. He would be playing a James Bond that is re-imagined as a black person. There is nothing about Bond that requires him to have white skin. It's not a plot point. Nothing changes if he's played by a black man. Literally nothing. He's still a spy. He's still British. He's still dapper AF.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

I've always looked at James Bond as an alias anyway, inherited when one 007 is either killed or retires. Good way to explain the multiple actors. I mean, what kind of spy uses his real name?

That's what I've thought.

My only issue would be Elba is already 45, and he's only about 4 and a half years younger than Craig, and even if they decided today Elba would be 46 before they started filming. I don't care about making him black part but I think they should shoot for someone in at least their mid-30s. I know Roger Moore was 46 when he started playing Bond but that was a different time and for much different types of Bond films; unless they plain to go back to cheese.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Ok then have Nick Cage be an Oriental then.

You want him to play a rug?

 

[Notorious B.E.N]

A white Shaft.

Twss?

 

[tumscalcium]

Twss?

Ha. I was waiting for that.

I originally typed - I’ve been waiting for a white Shaft for years now. Then I proofread and decided to clean that up. Lol

 

[bigdaddy]

Nick cage Luke cage, who cares

 

[BenGrimm]

Wasn’t he in discussion back before Craig took the roll.

Bond is really about the villain, the action and the gadgets. Doesn’t really matter if he is black.