[VadeRetro]

Thinking about it, Bond has this way of every decade or so turning up as a ten-years-younger man. So now, 42 years after Dr. No (1962), he's going to turn up as a ten-years-younger black guy.

As I said, it was getting silly anyway.

[Calvin Locke]

As I said, it was getting silly anyway.

There's a book out on the Bond franchise. Everything you may or may have wanted to know about it.

According to them (during book promotion tour), the Bond storyline went South when Fleming
sold the rights, and the producers sacrificed story for gadgets.

As the article indicated, the producers want to reverse the trend, that is more story, less gadgets.

Somehow, casting a black Bond is like a product flair, such as "The Wiz".

Casting a black Bond will also draw attention from the story AND the money the producers
saved in coming up with special effects and new gadgets. And probably, writers.

The Bond cachet ended with "Diamonds are Forever", IMHO.

[Modernman]

Thinking about it, Bond has this way of every decade or so turning up as a ten-years-younger man. So now, 42 years after Dr. No (1962), he's going to turn up as a ten-years-younger black guy.

Because 007 isn't actually a real guy- it's an identity adopted by a series of British super-agents.