Idris Elba as the next James Bond?

[r@mside]

He's also not real

Get out of here

 

[Deleted member 30853]

I'd have a go like. She did a version of "Lady Chatterly's Lover" I think.
Splendid.

Was that the one with Sean Bean as the gardener / game keeper?

 

[the boot]

This has been doing the round recently (again).

Good or bad idea?

Terrible idea.

 

[CatRyan]

I feel like I've had this conversation embarrassingly often, worse I have quite strong feelings on it, worse still I have changed my answer

Before I was a yes to Elba but now I think no.

 

[the boot]

I feel like I've had this conversation embarrassingly often, worse I have quite strong feelings on it, worse still I have changed my answer

Before I was a yes to Elba but now I think no.

Once you gone black you nev......... or ere you know the rest.

 

[PinzaC55]

The Bond franchise has been mined to death. The only question is "would it be a box office success"?

 

[THE_MAINSTAND_BAND]

Bullshit, lets have Tom Hardy as shaft next

 

[FootballFan]

Ridiculous

 

[ilovehorswill]

It's hard to find a British actor of colour who is the right age and looks like a secret agent type but I've managed it

OT Fagbenle - the husband off The Handmaid's Tale

Ricky Whittle - done alright since Hollyoaks

 

[PinzaC55]

It's hard to find a British actor of colour who is the right age and looks like a secret agent type but I've managed it

OT Fagbenle - the husband off The Handmaid's Tale

Ricky Whittle - done alright since Hollyoaks

What does a secret agent look like ? I guess if there was a definitive look they wouldn't be secret.

 

[ilovehorswill]

What does a secret agent look like ? I guess if there was a definitive look they wouldn't be secret.

Less than 60 years old and able to aim, throw and connect a punch for a start

 

[PinzaC55]

Less than 60 years old and able to aim, throw and connect a punch for a start

Well Idris Elba is 45 so I suppose he is in with a chance.

 

[ilovehorswill]

Well Idris Elba is 45 so I suppose he is in with a chance.

Looks 65 mind

 

[Uncle D]

No.

 

[Dave Herbal]

It’s PC gawn mad

 

[raindog]

Bond is so 1960, I doubt he wont ever compete with today rise in DC comics and Marvel heros and villans amongst those who go to the cinema

 

[Cockney Mackem]

It's hard to find a British actor of colour who is the right age and looks like a secret agent type but I've managed it

OT Fagbenle - the husband off The Handmaid's Tale

Ricky Whittle - done alright since Hollyoaks

I'm coming round to this too. Chiwetel Ejiofor would be good as well, if he'd do it. But I think they'll go for a younger actor like Nicholas Hoult

Bond is so 1960, I doubt he wont ever compete with today rise in DC comics and Marvel heros and villans amongst those who go to the cinema

Most of the DC and Marvel characters are that old, some even older

 

[conrad]

Damian Lewis, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy.

Damien Lewis would be mint, not so much the other two like

 

[Gucci Massive]

I don't care either way about a black Bond I just don't think Elba is a good enough actor to carry a franchise of films on his own. (Has Elba ever even been the main star of a film in his career?)

Then again, Daniel Craig is shite and he's had 4 films now...

I still say Henry Cavill was made for this role. He already played a super spy in The Man from U.N.C.L.E and was perfect. Why give it to anyone else if Cavill is available?

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Great shout.

 

[aukq]

Aw ffs. Another 20 pager. Can I sum it up?

Some people will moan about political correctness

Some people will say “Why not a disabled Muslim woman Bond?”

Some people will say his skin colour doesn’t matter.

Someone will make reference to Ian Fleming.

Someone will ask how a man without Scottish and Swiss parents who went to Eton could be black.

Someone will say that Bond is timeless and must adapt, white blokes might have been inconspicuous in Russia but not the Middle East

Someone will be called a racist. Someone will be called a millennial fanny.

Two bans.

can you not just let a thread roll. total attention seeking poster.