I think he'd make a great Bond personally, and think there's more relevant things to worry about:
I think he'd make a great Bond personally, and think there's more relevant things to worry about:
If a Black actor is the most popular actor in Britain you can know it is because of PC. We have to love him he is Black and Black is better in every way than White. We are taught that constantly by the media and just like Pavlovian conditioning, they have been taught to believe what the media wants you to believe.
That is why we have a Black Muslim President with a Muslim name. The average fairly dumb American thinks that has just got to be the perfect man. So they voted him president despite him never accomplishing anything on his on.
I’m sure liberal PC Hollyweird will give you your wish. If it happens the movie will be a bust. Movie studios are in the business to make money. If they were so sold on a black man to play James Bond, Denzel Williams was available 20 years instead of Pierce Brosnan.
I’m not that worried about it. If someone is going to make a movie about it and make money from it, that is their business. I can choose to see it or not.
It is, after all a movie.
But, there is more to it than just finding a cool role for a supposedly popular actor who happens to have a different skin color. It panders to the “Well, the role of (insert role here) has never been played by a man/woman/hispanic/black/asian...” and lends credence that there is value in that pandering approach, as if diversity is valuable in and of itself.
Add to that the hijacking of someone’s work who cannot speak for themselves because they are dead and gone.
For all we know, Ian Fleming, if he knew, might be just fine with it. Or not. Who knows? It is a given the Ian Fleming would be completely on board with any and all technological advances that have come about since he wrote his works. Of that there is no doubt. It fits completely with the character of his work.
But one cannot reasonably speculate that Ian Fleming would approve of a woman in the role. Or a black. Or a hispanic. Or a homosexual. Or anything except the character that he created and described in great detail.
But people want to make money off of his concept, and aren’t honest or creative enough to create their own character or series...they have to use HIS (Ian Fleming’s) work and make their money off of that. That is what I disagree with.
I don’t know who the guy is or anything about him, and I wouldn’t have any issue at all seeing him in some film if he can act well.
I will say, though, I think your picture is going to get pulled. I don’t think we can post Getty images here at FR due to copyright limitations.
IMO, he’d make a good 007, but Bond should just be dead, now. Or at least passing the torch. (I had NO problem with Avery Brooks as Sisko in Deep Space 9 — I thought he did a very good job with the character, overall, even if the show itself was somewhat a rip-off of the better Babylon 5. But the writers did not try to make Sisko into Kirk, thank heavens. Sisko I could / would trust around my daughter!!!)