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2019-06-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Idris Elba doesn’t want to play James Bond because... racism

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Posted by Fred 2019-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10325 views ] Top

#1 Michael B Jordan doesn't mind playing Superman. Maybe Halle Berry will be Lois Lane. Only, Lex Luthor will have to be white.

Who wants to bet the next Bond is gay ? And Moneypenny a needlessly sashaying crossdresser.

OK, Bond, a muslim convert ? He doesn't drink and takes time out to pray four times a day and punctuates every one liner with shit like 'inshallah' and 'mashaalah'.

"James. James Ismail Bond."

Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-29 06:09|| 2019-06-29 06:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Black Superman ?

Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-29 06:12|| 2019-06-29 06:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Reboots... Confucius say, in latest Variety:

"Into world where his paper bring pain
For reader who fail to abstain
Hop young Shaolin priest
Singing, 'News from back East!'
In hot horse opera, Citizen Caine."

Posted by Herman Clains9053 2019-06-29 07:18|| 2019-06-29 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Says the black racist.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-06-29 07:51|| 2019-06-29 07:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, if one actor could pull off the black James Bond, it'd be this guy.

Posted by Raj 2019-06-29 08:50|| 2019-06-29 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, if one actor could pull off the black James Bond, it'd be this guy.

Certainly true, but why take an established, well-loved character from literature and film and re-imagine him as a black guy? Other than "because we can. Neener neener neener!" Bond wasn't the only British secret agent. You're writers, dammit! Show some imagination.

Posted by SteveS 2019-06-29 09:49|| 2019-06-29 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Bond's getting old, right? I've been hearing that for... decades, I guess. And everyone's oh-so-fatigued with everything white, right? Fine. Let's have a black James Bond. Big frickin' deal. But let it be a black James Bond, carrying on in the current Bond "reality," not some smarmy shithead of the moment playing himself and running his woke minstrelsy checklist. Bond's game... Bond's horrible vengeance on Laser Louise... Bond's endzone dance... all that crap. No. Let the brother play James Bond as James Bond. Time for a brain transplant. And an actual actor. Elba'd probably be fine.

Posted by Pearl Protector of the Slytherins4761 2019-06-29 10:13|| 2019-06-29 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 James Bond is a Timelord, and regenerates into a new body every so often.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-06-29 11:19|| 2019-06-29 11:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Bonus Retro Rehash points for brain-swap: Former Bond (doesn't matter which, all except Connery looking more or less alike) can play wacky West Indian body-donor sidekick to new Bond. Hijinks galore!

Posted by Pearl Protector of the Slytherins4761 2019-06-29 11:59|| 2019-06-29 11:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Who? Oh I know who James Bond is but...

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-06-29 12:36|| 2019-06-29 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Do they have to take everything away from us?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-06-29 13:42|| 2019-06-29 13:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Oh well, I got to where I couldn't watch James Bond as portrayed by Pierce Brosnan either. So, if they dumb him down again, I just won't go to see it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-06-29 13:45|| 2019-06-29 13:45|| Front Page Top

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