I propose new Bond title - PC is not enough or OctoPC.
I don’t get it. Why all the excitement and why do it at all???
James Bond has always been accepted as a white man so why change, unless there’s a racist element here?
I propose new Bond title - PC is not enough or OctoPC.
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It's like remaking Roots and casting Timothy Spall as Kunta Kinte. How on earth can they veer so far from the original theme of a story.
F.T.F.A.
Doesn't bother me at all and it can't be unexpected in this snowflake era.
Craig will take some beating though IMO.
Daniel Craig must be busy playing as Martin Luther King I guess.
#diversity
Last edited by eagletower; 12th August 2018 at 20:48.
Has this been officially announced?
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For the forth time today Bond had been pulled over by police, "is this your car sir", he dug his finger nails into the palm of his hand and fought the urge to reach for his Walther,
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"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
I don't think that they've been radical enough
Surely its time to have a women in the role?
I would like to nominate Joanna Lumley
Luke Evans is the natural successor for me. I think he'd fit right in to the role.
While it makes no sense to me at all it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Once the acting/action and gadgets are up to scratch.
It's absolutely ridiculous. What next? A female Doctor Who?
I read they’re going the whole hog, one leg’d Black lesbian single mother with Aids.
Yeah because Martin Luther King was fictional wasn't he?
#if it isn't white it ain't alright!
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This is the crap that happens when you give them the vote.
(Before I clicked on this thread I just knew the usual cockroaches would crawl out and post the usual thinly veiled racist drivel)
I think Elba will be a good fit for the role, look forward to seeing it on release.
He's the spit of Daniel Craig, dead ringer!
Times change, Bond has evolved every time a new actor has played him. I'm not a Bond film buff but I've just read he was originally half Scottish/half Swiss and was a heavy drinker.
Elba's a good actor, I'm sure he'll do well.
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I look forward to it, I like Elba, good actor.
"A man of little significance"
I don't think Elba would be good as Bond, although Iike him as an actor (just watched him 'doing Bond' like things with an American accent in The Take, funnily enough)
He's too big and conspicuous to blend in.
He'd make a good Jack Reacher though!
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Wasn't everyone saying that Idris Elba would be too old by the time the part became free. He's 45 now so he'll be not far off 50 by the time production is underway, surely.
Black or not, I think he would have been good in the role. But surely not at his age.
It’s a tired old franchise that’s been flogged to death. Time to draw a line under it.
Stupid idea. I like Idris and I'm sure he could make a cracking spy flick. But it would be a considerable departure from the books and the rest of the canon in which tradition does have a certain currency and in which the principal character is not black.
I’m looking forward to the remake of Shaft with Miranda Hart and I hear Jason Statham is lined up for the Maria role in The Sound of Music movie that should sort those Nazis out good and proper
And once more, the discussion gets drawn into the gutter.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
To keep it real it's long overdue for next Bond to be gay ;)
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Connery was 32 when the first Bond movie was released. Moore was 46 when his first Bond movie was released but many people would say that Moore is not a positive advert for a Bond actor in his late 40s or 50s!
Also, it's all very well the Bond actor being in his late 40s when he finishes his run as Bond but it doesn't mean that it would be a good idea, in the world we're in now, for him (or her?) to start the role in his late 40s.
There is also a then versus now issue. I think attitudes have changed in many ways, not necessarily for the better in all areas. A black Bond would probably have been unthinkable in the 60s and 70s whereas now it is both plausible and acceptable. Conversely a Bond in his late 40s and 50s (at least the start of the actor's run in the role) was acceptable then but, I suspect, far less acceptable now to likely audiences.
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For me bond should be white, however if the next one is black I think chetewel Ejiofor would be a better choice than Elba.
Sorry, but this PC crap is going to far.
I could not give one flying feck if someone is yellow, green, white, brown, red or any other colour under the sun, nor could i care less what god on what day you worship.
What i can tell you is certain things should not change for the sake of PC bollox and Bond is one of them, sorry but thats how i feel. Yes, it was written in a time and an era BUT that is the essence of the books and should be adhered to in the translation of them.
Perhaps someone would like to cast me a 50yr old, fat, white, short Irish bloke as the lead role in the film dedicated to the life story of Nelson Mandela? No?? Thought not.
Racism? No. Sick of the bullshit? Yes.
**for clarity I've had a glass or 2 of wine but the general feeling adheres!
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It's a daft idea. I don't think I would watch it.
Connery was 53 in his last Bond role and Moore was 57 (as was David Niven).
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