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Personally I can find enough Fleming Bond in all the actors who portrayed him, but it's each to his own I guess and as Idris is as good as everyone claims, it might work. But somehow I've little faith in that.
Dalton was too much upper class if you ask me, and didn't do all that bad at all, his were one of the first Bond films to score higher internationally then 'domestic'(USA domestic). But I think it was the upper class bit without Roger's charm that got people less interested. Or he was a bit too European for the USA's tastes. I can only guess.
I think Craig played Bond very much in a Fleming way, which is the reason he got away with it whilst not completly looking ideal (even though he's still tall and has blue eyes).
The point I was trying to make, though, is that it didn't even accomplish that until quite late in the literary series, and was only after Connery had proven to be a success that it was added in.
I just don't see a black actor being consistently sellable right now globally. One day, maybe.
Well there you go. It clearly wasn't much of a factor if at all.
The character was changed even though similar background. I guess if Robert McCall was an American guy living in New York under the radar trying to help those in peril then Washington nails it (and he does). If the Robert McCall is a British guy living in New York under the radar then go for the original.
Then you have Person of Interest ...and oh yeah that old school Nottingham guy.
Person of Interest in its first two seasons until the Root arc took over (not a fan of her at all) was Batman meets The Equalizer. I did love that.
If Quentin ever got Bond I could see him casting Jackson as a spoof Bond. What a hoot that would be.
I remember now ...I couldn't remember that much about the original.
The point being both covert specialized backgrounds.
That's true too. Very different cv's.
Yes love the jags... :)
He definitely seems to have the screen prescence and physicality to play Bond and well need to see more of his acting but seems like he also has the sex appeall in a similar way to Daniel Craig.
He is basically Craig 2.0 but with a darker skin color and i think the audience is divided almost in two equal halfs 50% the ones who want to go back to the classic good obvious looks Like Brosnan and the other 50% wants to keep in line with what Daniel settled for Bond.
So like I think Cavil is the best in the Brosnan style, Idris Elba seems to be the best choice in the Craig type. I guess id prefer elba over Tom Hardy.
Now the best of both worlds is Charlie Hunnam who has Brosnan's very handsome face but Craig's Body and though attitude.
Fleming's first recorded choice for Bond was Richard Burton, a Welshman. He later mentioned David Niven as a possible contender, but this has been blown out of proportion.
Before Connery, the books always referred to Bond as being an Englishman. In making Bond part-Scottish, Fleming was not only acknowledging Connery, but also his own Scottish heritage and his penchant for giving characters mixed nationalities (Bond is half Scottish, half-Swiss).
What does this mean for future Bond candidates? Little, beyond that the actor playing Bond. one of Britain's greatest patriots, should himself be from Britain, or at least the commonwealth. The actor should not have to strain to produce a British accent.
The point that I was trying to make, I think, came across somewhat muted because I was trying to wade into the Elba debate without actually getting into the debate. Regardless of where one stands on that issue, I can't help but feel it's a bit disingenuous to say that Bond can't be played by a certain actor because Bond is half Scottish and half Swiss, when that was a very minor part of the character's traits, seeing as how it was only added in at the very tail end of the literary series and as a reaction to Sean Connery's success. That's really the only point I was trying to make.