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If he doesn't end up playing 007...


Then nothing makes sense. He'll be absolutely perfect and the franchise would make another couple of billion off the 3 or 4 films they could do with him.

I mean...https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZmM5ZTg3ZjUtNzFmYy00ZTBlLWE0OGQtY2ZhMzQxYmJjMzEyL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzQ2NzcxOTk@._V1_SY1000_SX685_AL_.jpg

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They're already making a ton of money so there's no need to take a chance like this. No actor is an automatic guarantee of success in Bond.

That being said, Craig is very likely to return for one more film, and the next Bond film after that won't be around until 2020 at the earliest, and Elba will be 48 by then. That'll be way old to be starting off as Bond, the oldest actor ever to start in the role. Plus he's said in interviews that he doesn't want the role, saying he doesn't want to be known forever as "the black Bond." Word is that annoyed the producers and now they'll never consider him.

Plus...there's so much talk and speculation....if they cast a black actor, how will they handle it? They can't do the code name thing, it's stupid. They can't just pretend it's the same person, audiences will be confused. They'll have to reboot the series yet again.

How will black audiences take to it? Sure, putting a black actor as Bond may seem very enlightened and cause for activists to congratulate themselves, but at the same time other projects where black actors have been cast in traditionally white roles have not gone over well. An all-black remake of STEEL MAGNOLIAS was a disaster; audiences complained that it was just black actors giving lines written by a white writer for white characters, and there was no attempt to make the characters reflect the realities of the African-American experience. We don't live in a race-blind society. While Elba fans claim they can put a black actor in the Bond role and not change anything else and it will be acceptable (or even more idiotically, claim that nobody will notice or care if Bond suddenly turned black), the reality is that there's a very, very, very, very, very strong possibility that this will be seen as trivializing the issue of race, and plunking a black actor in a traditionally white role and not doing anything to tweak the character's background so he reflects the black experience will seem condescending and offensive. It's playing with fire and opens an enormous can of worms that the producers are likely to just steer clear of. They're filmmakers, not civil rights activists.

So, get used to it. Elba will never be Bond, and I think he's just fine with that.


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I hope Craig makes one more, has to redeem the snooze fest that is SPECTRE

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Then nothing makes sense.



AND PLEASE

go and learn something about fitted suits.

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Just don't. He's going to make a terrible Bond.

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He would have been better than what they ended up choosing.

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He doesn't want to play Bond. He has said so several times.

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