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Who says 007 has to be White, British and male?

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6 pointsGalenErso12 comments

Isn’t the whole point that 007 is a member of “his majesty’s secret service?”. I can see losing the ‘white’ and ‘male’ bits but making 007 work for Singapore or Poland or someplace else doesn’t seem right.

The formula is just so long in the tooth anyways. Daniel Craig did a great job holding the role down, but the recent Bond films range from "watchable" to "hopelessly derivative". Like, the villain from the past 5... 10 Bond flicks feel the exact same: maniacal and sadistic monster threatens utopia with their wide-ranging connections and myopic, sad personal viewpoint. It's so played-out by now that it feels more like watching Batman serials than a golden-era spy thriller.

I don't know if the franchise is salvageable. I do know that I'd pay good money to see a 007 reboot in satirical service to BJP-era India or Jair Bolsonaro.

The Ian Fleming books and the resulting movies are not 007 books and movies. They are books and movies about James Bond who is white, British and male as described by Ian Fleming.

I would love to see a movie focused on a non-white, non-male and possibly non-British character in the same universe, but they should not be James Bond. You could create a series of 007 universe characters with their own movies and eventually cash in Avengers style when they all come together in one movie working together to save the day.

Yeah by the way they're going to do a biopic of Frederick Douglass, and the actor portraying him is going to be Colin Farrell.. how do you feel about that?

Who says that? The same people who have decided that creating a new character, story or franchise is impossible, so they must endlessly recycle, renew, revisit and revise the old ones.

Tell new stories.

He is actually Scottish

Half Scottish, half Swiss.

Scotland is a part of Britain. Same as England and Wales.

+1 I came to comment about the British stipulation and this put me right in my place. Thank you for the humble pie. I just hope they don't go for American. Though to be honest they're the only audience.

https://youtu.be/9kptp9SmM5Y

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