If Idris Elba Becomes 007... I'm out...

No, I really don't. I don't understand why it is that you'd be okay with going from Connery to Lazenby, but not from Craig to Elba.

Except that those aren't really comparable. The ethnicity and gender of those two characters is an integral part of the character, since they are from monocultures - Black Panther isn't just a guy who happens to be black, he's a guy who is the leader of a nation of black people. Wonder Woman isn't just somebody who happens to be a woman, she's from a culture made up of only women.

Bond, however, is not a character whose colour is especially important. He's from a country with both men and women of many different colours and ethnicities. It's perfectly reasonable that he could be black, or anything else.

Now if you were making a biopic of, oh, say Nathan Bedford Forrest, then I'd be the first to say that you couldn't reasonably cast a black man in that role; it would make no more sense than a white Black Panther. Nor could you reasonably cast a black Lincoln.

But when the race isn't important? Take... oh, say Idris Elba's character in Pacific Rim. There's no particular plot-related reason why he should be black, he just happened to be. If Pacific Rim were remade, there'd be no reason not to put a white, asian, female or other character into that role. 


So no, I'm afraid I still don't see your point. Perhaps you would care to explain it : why must Bond be white?