Sherlock Holmes is a little different. It's a period piece set in Victorian London, and the character is pretty set down to the Sidney Paget illustrations. As for Batman or Superman, while I can see fanboys spazzing out, I don't necessarily see why not. They have a black guy as Jimmy Olsen on Supergirl, and the whole West family is black on The Flash. So much of this stuff came out when everyone depicted were male straight white guys. Some characters-Othello, for instance-definitely need tone cast with a specific ethnicity, but for most, it's easy to work with.

If we're not afraid to cast the first non-British Bond, I could see Oscar Isaac

Usually Tarzan is placed in his period soooooo typically is a white guy cuz his parents were certain personalities in those times that no non white could be, I could be wrong.. I don't follow Brit social status history but I'm heavily assuming it was like that. Mostly cuz if you set it in the period it kind of has to go that way.

I can't say much about The Jungle Book but it's a bit of a outside human culture period piece, no? It's set in the late 1800s, unless there's some date attached to it. I'm not sure how important that is... but it does add a lot to it for the sake of variety. Also.. the region it's based in. Again.. not sure how important that is but for the sake of not having enough non white roles as it is... it's best not to take that away either.

in the case of some comic book heroes, iconically they're defined as visuals for decades. They're iconic in that template. Their skin color is as important as the color of their costumes over the years in terms of recognizing who one is looking at.

Is Deadshot important to be white? No. He's not known much w/o the mask. Is Johnny Storm? No. Cuz w/o the flames he's nothing that audience knows immediately. If you're a comic fan.. sure.. blonde guy in FF suit. That's torch. But... there's no iconic look of him for that. It's the flames that matter.

I vote for Idris Elba, mostly because it would be awesome to see black James Bond!

George Lazenby would beat him by 40 some years.

Hillary Clinton in black-face

I think Henry Cavill or Fassbender would make good Bonds, I love Cumberbacht just dont think he would fit the part Richard Armitage would do well too i think.

How can a Scottish character suddenly become Australian? Then English, Welsh, Irish, and back to English again?

Kung fu star Jimmy Wang Yu played a Bond-like secret agent in a Hong Kong-Japanese co-production made at Shaw Bros. in 1966, ASIAPOL SECRET SERVICE. He was pretty terrible. Read this review:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202217/reference

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Take this report with a grain of salt, but Barbara Broccoli, Bond's Producer, supposedly had a conversation with Antoine Fuqua and said she's interested in hiring a black James Bond after Craig finishes this movie. Apparently Idris Elba would be the frontrunner.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...r-daniel-craig

Nothing even remotely official about this, just Fuqua spilling some beans from an off the record conversation he had.

Ah, something to fuel the fire to get some Bond talk going online.

Yes! Out with Craig and in with Elba please.

Oh Jesus! Enough with Elba talk. The guy will be pushing 50 by the time the next Bond film rolls around. Not exactly what studios want to see when starting a new series in a franchise.

I’m guessing Barbara Broccoli was doing nothing more than trying to stoke a black director’s interest in a future project.

No! We want Elba!

Henry Cavill please.

Chinese transgender female Bond or bust.

Not happening.

New Idris Elba as James Bond Rumor Is "All Made Up Stuff"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...-stuff-1133979

Elba threw cold water on the rumor last year - and probably the year before.

That's why I said in my post take that report with a grain of salt.

From his Twitter today.

my name’s Elba, Idris Elba.

He also followed it up with “Don’t believe the hype.”