Warbler said:

a black Bond? sorry to be politically incorrect, but no.

I don't think you read my post.

Tyrphanax said:

DominicCobb said:

"Yeah, but you wouldn't make Shaft white." No, because that would be rather insensitive. You have to realize that there are very few famous black characters in the media. If you made them white you would helping this problem grow. Also, stuff like this has been done before. Orson Welles played Othello once.

Double standards?

What I was trying to say is that the history of black people in the media is very different than the history of white people in the media. Black people have barely any action icons as is, so making one of them white would just be helping the unbalance.

SilverWook said:

A lot of people have been considered to play Bond over the decades, even an American bloke or two. Even if Mr. Elba does a screen test, nothing may ever come of it. Just ask James Brolin and Sam Neill. ;)

I don't know for sure if he will actually be the new Bond, I just hope he is. I would like to point out, too, that there is a reasonable con to my argument, and that is that if Elba is Bond, Michael Fassbender will probably never have a chance.