FabioPorkpie
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Robson Green
It'll ruin the franchise though. Bond has a clear back story.I hope the go with a woman or someone who is BAME, just to see people get triggered
Aye, he’d ever get out of a submarine through the torpedo tube with those jug handles..His ears stick out too much.
The world has moved on significantly since the 50’s and bond has always been brought into the modern world with each version of them. If the world truly wants to progress and help change then having a BAME person playing would actually be quite important. It’s not about ticking boxes either.It'll ruin the franchise though. Bond has a clear back story.
It's very unlikely that a half Swiss, half Scottish, Eton educated former commander in the Royal Navy in the fifties will be anything but a white male. I'm not against it and Elba would be an awesome Bond but it would be the end of the franchise.
To be honest I doubt even today there are many black or female commanders in the Navy. I take your point and maybeThe world has moved on significantly since the 50’s and bond has always been brought into the modern world with each version of them. If the world truly wants to progress and help change then having a BAME person playing would actually be quite important. It’s not about ticking boxes either.
Why couldn’t it be James Bond? Films are only interpretations of booksTo be honest I doubt even today there are many black or female commanders in the Navy. I take your point and maybewe need to change the series to 007 and then you can have a black female doing the role. It wouldn't be James Bond though. Let's just use 007 as the template
So why not create a new action thriller spy franchise and give that character their own identity, personality and background?The world has moved on significantly since the 50’s and bond has always been brought into the modern world with each version of them. If the world truly wants to progress and help change then having a BAME person playing would actually be quite important. It’s not about ticking boxes either.
Because bond is a well established one already, I don’t see why it would bother anyone who played ‘bond’ as it’s changed hands so many times alreadySo why not create a new action thriller spy franchise and give that character their own identity, personality and background?
It'll ruin the franchise though. Bond has a clear back story.
It's very unlikely that a half Swiss, half Scottish, Eton educated former commander in the Royal Navy in the fifties will be anything but a white male. I'm not against it and Elba would be an awesome Bond but it would be the end of the franchise.
Probably because the character is a familiar, understood and recognised one, and by casting a black actor, or a woman in the role comes across more of a gimmick than as the progress you're talking about.Because bond is a well established one already, I don’t see why it would bother anyone who played ‘bond’ as it’s changed hands so many times already
It'll ruin the franchise though. Bond has a clear back story.
It's very unlikely that a half Swiss, half Scottish, Eton educated former commander in the Royal Navy in the fifties will be anything but a white male.
True, he was kicked out of Eton wasn't he?* Fettes educated (Like Tony Blair). He only spent a brief time at Eton in the books.
Never actually read a book but have seen all the movies. The books actually sound terrible. Reactionary, misogynistic garbage from what I've heard.In the books he also smoked over 100 cigarettes a day, I don't suppose that has been portrayed in the films.
Never seen a bond movie and have no real wish to. Read a couple of Fleming books though.