Next James Bond?

Bigga said:
...last year Idris said if he were to become the next Bond he would not be happy if the attention was purely focused on the colour of his skin.
Talking to U.S. radio station NPR, he said: 'My Dad and I were talking about this the other day because he said 'You could do it, would you do it?' I was like 'Yeah, I would do it, but I just don't want to be called the first black James Bond'. Do you understand what I 'm saying?
'Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond.
'So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.'

However, the actor who is famed for taking on the role of drug baron Stringer Bell on HBO hit The Wire, quipped that if the role of 007 became his he would accept it in true Bond style.
Idris joked: ''If Sony decided to call me and said hey, we wanted to do [James Bond], I'd definitely consider it.
'I'd not only get in the cab, but I'd take the taxi driver out of the car, hostage, jump out while it was moving, jump onto a pedal bike that was just past the door as I got on it, and then get onto a plane - on the wing - and land on top of Sony Studios, slide through the air conditioning, and land in the office.
He continued: 'I'm never shaken or stirred.'
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I don't remember 'Bond' having a racial denomination from the books, just an assumption.

Yay or nay...?
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Eddie Murphy would be a better Bond.
 
He'd be fine for me.

Portraying Bond as white/black is no big deal, you can look at the descriptions in the Fleming books and they're of their time (so 50+ years ago), when a black agent would have been pretty unthinkable to someone like Fleming.

The recent films don't have Bond as a chain smoking homophobe, yet he is in the books. He's a character that has developed with the times, colour isn't relevant at all.
 
Im pretty sure being black would of excluded you from being a spy back in the 1950's. So im guessing Ian Fleming did not have a black Bond in mind.
Although I dont think it would work I said that about Mr Potato Head and he has turned out to be great.
He has said he doesn't want to be the "black Bond" but well he would be wouldn't he it would be all people would talk about the whole time because it would be such a dramatic shift in perspective for the franchise<br /><br />-- Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:47 am --<br /><br />
Johnsonontheleft said:
royle said:
If we are going to go down this route why not have the next Bond as female.
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THIS.
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JAMES Bond
 
You can have a black James Bond no problem. The James Bonds you can't have are Ginger or Gay.

That's because the character traits are set, he must be British (a bit posh), good looking and straight (because he's a womanizer).

Harsh on Gay and Ginger peeps but thats the way it is, I doubt we'll ever get a James Bond with a strong Manc accent.
 
If they have a black bond it won't be for the right reasons. It will be a gimmick
 
Apparently a few people think he's an up hill gardener.

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