Actor tipped to be first black Bond

The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | December 3, 2004 | By Hugh Davies

[cmsgop]

I have no problem with it, he looks the part, I love the Bond series as well.

[Grenada]

Mom- ya gotta show this to dad.

[bushisdamanin04]

There is, and always has been, only one Bond. And he hails from Scotland.

[finnman69]

The Spy Who Loved Me was the most fun, best sets, props, hot girls

[Strategerist]

Being Bond has a heck of a lot more with the way the body is carried, and the accent, than skin tone.

[hosepipe]

Kramer..(Seinfeld) would/could make a good 007 spoof..
Ala'.. Pink Panther..

[slapshot]

Other than Live and let die, Roger Moore was a clown.

Bonds:
Sean Connery
Pierce Brosnan
Roger Dalton (I liked him he had an edge)
Roger Moore (Quantity of bond films do not alway equal quality)
The guy who was with Dianna Rigg in On his Majesty's Secret Service

How about Listing and rating BOnd films
Classics

Thunder ball
Goldfinger
GoldenEye
Live and Let Die

Dogs
For your Eyes Only-
Moonraker
On His Majesty's Secret Service

[cmsgop]

How bout Micheal Moore he is classy elegeant and loves the ladies

LOL! He could protest the Bad Guys!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Every ten years they start the "black Bond" rumor, or even the "female Bond" rumor, while they negotiate with someone. It's their way of publicizing the series during downtime.

When you consider that Hollywood is notoriously stingy with leading roles for black actors whose names aren't "Will Smith" or "Denzel Washington," you realize that there is no way they will hire an unknown black for one of the most iconic roles in film history.

[Revolting cat!]

You've gotta be kidding! Here's her evil twin.

[Perdogg]

The real fictional James Bond would be 82. If he were real: http://www.klast.net/bond/jb_obit.html

[nightdriver]

This guy, Salmon, won't work.

'Course, they have already pretty well ruined the Bond mystique with Judi Dench as "M" and by replacing the gorgeous, big hearted, Lois Maxwell-type Miss Moneypenny with some shrewish, snotty feminist.

[FrankRepublican]

LOL! This guy is pretty good in the Bond films but the Broccoli family should think this through.

The movie version of the Wild Wild West had Will Smith. I think that one bombed big time. Will Smith is a big draw but a black secret agent cowboy post Civil War?

Cubby Broccoli was an NY Italian-American who ended up with the rights to the movies from Harry Saltzman. Cubby's daughter Barbara now runs the show and I think lives in the UK. The UK has institutionalized political correctness.

i.e. white people = bad. Blacks & Muslims = good.

However when light skinned black Muslims attack black Caribbean blacks who have been in the UK for 40 year or are born there - the UK media sides with the Muslims.

The somalis were calling the UK blacks Ni**ers as they attacked them. A black islands UK documentary maker did a film about it.

Anyway, I think Denzel and Wesley Snipes have A1 action films but a Black Bond? Black actors I don't like? Super liberal Danny Glover plus Samuel L. Jackson is tedious as is white actor Tommy Lee Jones. Their "attitudes" are tiring.

[DTogo]

Undercover Brother! SOLID!

[Perdogg]

Actually today's James Bond would work for the EU.

[Pylon]

I personally think that James Bond has run it's course and is done. The last few Bond movies have been nothing more than special effects and a weak plot. Sean Connery will always be James Bond. Roger Moore did an adequate job, but since then I feel Bond has lost it's place in the movie world. Let James Bond go off into the sunset before the series wrecks the whole image and tarnishes the name.

[Sloth]

He'd be okay, though I prefer Hugh Jackman.

[mitchbert]

I have to admit that I don't know this guy but if he's a classically trained Brit-style actor there's no reason it won't work. Bond as a black man working in Her Majesty's Secret Service is totally plausible.

Twas a big Empire once, after all.

[FrankRepublican]

The UK bookies are usually right. Their odds had Bush all the way. The odds switched in the afternoon after Kerry's bogus exit poll "suprise" but they quickly went back to Bush. The bookies were right all along.

[ken5050]

Amazing..77 posts and NOT one "Mandingo" reference..