Even the thought of making Bond black is so stupid to beggar belief. 50 years you got a winning formula and now you want to change it. Didn’t work for Coca Cola and it won’t work for Bond.
The problem is Jeff Bezos owns Bond now. This is going just as Democrats envisioned when they allowed him to buy MGM (which is why Trump is trying to protect Warner Bros from Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos, along with Obamaites).
Hollywood has bastardized other classical and historical films and series, ie., the black actress Jodie Turner-Smith who played Anne Boleyn in the miniseries of the same name, the black actor Jordan Peters, who played Edward VI, Henry VIII's son in the short-run series "My Lady Jane," and the black actress Lupita Nyong’o who is playing Helen of Troy in the upcoming movie "Odyssey." I'm sure there's been other instances of black actors and actresses that were cast to portray white historical figures.
Well, quite often it wasn’t “winning”. Before Daniel Craig it was in the doldrums.
And quite a few of the older Bond movies are unwatchable now, and I’ve tried. Good for their time in their time, but the pacing etc are infuriating today.
If Bond is a 007 title not a personal name, as seen by the shifts from Connery to Moore to Lazenby to Daltin to Brisnan to Craig, as long as Bond is aggressively male it can work.
Idris Elba in his younger days would have been great in this role. Look at some of his roles like Luther etc and you can see a good Bond