The next James Bond could be...
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Soldato
What?.. Slightly different though isn't it.
Obama and slaves are real. (There are also white slaves... so don't know what you're going on about there).
Whereas James Bond is a fictional character... It really doesn't matter to the story whether he is black or white. If you think colour matters, then i really pity you.
Soldato
I think he'd be great, this rumour has been circulating for a long time!
Why is there this belief that anything a "white" person can do, a black person must also have access to also? The likes of bond, is a fairly obvious character with a long uk family history, mentioned as white in one of the books, why would there be a need to change his ethnicity/race? I think people get so obsessed with equal rights they forget that some things need not change. Would that mean that an Asian, oriental, female Bond would have to follow? Imagine if they made a remake of the colour purple and used a white cast, extreme but same premise, the story is built around a set of similarly unmovable underpinnings.
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Soldato
You're looking too far into it. There is no MUST or NEED to change the fictional character's "ethnicity or race".
The fact of the matter is, why should this matter at all? He's a great actor, why can't he be Bond?
Man of Honour
I'm normally against changing the race of established characters just for the sake of it, but I would absolutely love to see Elba's spin on Bond.
Don
I like Elba but I can't see him pulling off the charm, wit, accent, etc that the Bond characters usually possess no matter how good of an actor he is. The cockney Luther in him will always come out. 
I don't know if you're being serious, but this guy is one of the worst actors ever. A bit of a **** too.
Soldato
I like Elba but I can't see him pulling off the charm, wit, accent, etc that the Bond characters usually possess no matter how good of an actor he is. The cockney Luther in him will always come out.
Yeah I'm not sure whether he can pull of the slightly posh "British suave" necessary, I've only seen him in the Wire though, which of course he was excellent in.
Soldato
I like Elba but I can't see him pulling off the charm, wit, accent, etc that the Bond characters usually possess no matter how good of an actor he is. The cockney Luther in him will always come out.
I think he'd pull it off fine. When i first watched The Wire, i didn't have a clue that he was a Londoner.
No I don't care about colour, I'm not racist. I just don't think James Bond fits being played by a black person.
Caporegime
I think Idris would make a brilliant Bond.
I second this. Idris is a fantastic actor and a lovely man
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Soldato
lovely man oO
Permabanned
All this fuss about a black man playing bond but no one batters an eyelid with white folk running around in the main parts for Exodus: Gods And Kings, go figure...
Caporegime
Plenty of people did mind about that, same as they mind any time a film is whitewashed.
Caporegime
Why?
Caporegime
Because he is not white?