View original postThen again, I tend to be a canon/continuity nazi, so I suppose people who are less invested in the franchise would have less of a problem with it. And the coninuity of the Bond series is already a hopeless snarl anyway.
They've already given up a long time ago on having a single continuity - going back in the last couple of movies to the beginning of Bond's story, but then set in the modern age. And they never bothered with any explanation of the change in actors, or the fact that he's been played by Australian, Scottish, Welsh and Irish actors as well as English ones.
So yeah, no reason not to have a black actor next time they overhaul the franchise, I think it does have potential as an idea. Depending of course on what direction they want to go in - if for instance they want to play on people's nostalgia and make a bunch of Bond movies in a retro style closer to the original novels, which are supposed to be set in the mid-twentieth century, then probably it doesn't make much sense.
View original postMeh. I still don't like it.
As I understand it, Daniel Craig still has two movies to go on his contract in any case, the upcoming one now with the return of Blofeld, and then another one. So it's not even on the table at the moment.
Oops. I accidentally got involved in a discussion on whether James Bond could ever be black.
- 30/12/2014 03:56:02 PM
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The problem is would be such an obvious politcal statement it would piss people off
- 30/12/2014 06:51:32 PM
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Yes, but
- 30/12/2014 08:59:44 PM
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Re: The problem is would be such an obvious politcal statement it would piss people off
- 31/12/2014 05:58:17 PM
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Meh. I would just view it as "something new." There have been a ton of Bonds.
- 09/01/2015 09:19:50 PM
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The real question is why a tired franchise is squeezed for every last penny.
- 30/12/2014 07:04:29 PM
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Might as well ask why the sky is blue.
- 30/12/2014 09:05:37 PM
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And it's supposed to be stirred, not shaken. Every vodka drinker knows that. The piker. *NM*
- 13/01/2015 05:32:23 PM
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I think the first few took themselves seriously
- 30/12/2014 09:25:25 PM
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Really? Dr. No and Honey Ryder were serious?
- 13/01/2015 04:28:02 PM
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What can I say, I grew up with them and there really was much better in the 70s *NM*
- 14/01/2015 12:56:14 AM
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I completely disagree - but maybe I'm not a typical Bond fan, if a fan at all.
- 30/12/2014 10:51:18 PM
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Problem is, as I hear it, Austin Powers kind of ruined "spy comedy" for anyone else
- 09/01/2015 09:22:53 PM
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Never been a fan of changing the race of established characters.
- 30/12/2014 07:06:50 PM
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I think the last point you make is the key one...
- 30/12/2014 11:03:57 PM
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Shrug. I have no problem with it- there have been plenty of men who played Bond. He's "British"
- 09/01/2015 09:28:12 PM
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