[Cronos]

James Bond, Hermione are fictional characters. The criteria to be James is really just to sound British - while Connery was very good, there was no mistaking his Scottish Burr, then you had the Welsh Dalton, the irish Brosnan etc. - Daniel Craig is english, but as a blonde, isn't what was in the books. The only bond that was as per the books was Roger moore.

So having Idris Alba as Bond would be just as good. Or even a female Bond. Remember that there have been 20+ Bond films, they need to change this to keep the next installment exciting.

As for chess - it's a musical

if they made a historical movie or a documentary where the characters were not of the correct ethnicity that would be bad - oh wait, blonde blue-eyed Charlton Heston played Moses and also a Jew during the Roman era.

[a fool in paradise]

James Bond books have a historical setting. They take place during the Cold War.

In these days of Globalist cabals and human trafficking, the big baddies of the post Flemming Bond films still are some evil capitalist out to dominate the world.

Frankly the whole series should be given a reboot and the books should be adapted largely as written, not just lifting a character name or story title (some of the films I’ve heard even borrowed characters or plot elements from other Bond stories).

[JBW1949]

The ONLY “James Bond” was Sean Connery....

The rest were all just fakers...

If you read all of Fleming’s books, you can only see Connery in your mind as “Bond, James Bond...”