Re: Bond 25 (2020)
I guess this is the best place to post this since someone else said Idris Elba earlier in the thread. I have to say, I don't think he should be Bond. For me, it's an age thing, definitely not a race thing at all. Dude is unbelievably talented and definitely good looking, I don't question that he would kill the role, he would have been awesome at it. If they wanted to go that way though they should have hired him on in 2005 when he was an appropriate age to be Bond for a reboot.
Now though, he is too old to start. He turns 47 in September. Craig just turned 51 in March. Taking on a guy only 4 years younger than Craig doesn't make any sense. Craig has now held the role for 14 years and only done 4 movies (5 in 2020). So, one Bond film every 3 years. That means the next Bond film would be in late 2023. That would make Idris Elba 50 years old before the first film even came out. That doesn't make any sense for a reboot. If he agreed to 4 movies he would be doing his last film around age 62. Roger Moore held the role wayyy too long and looked awful in A View To A Kill. Even he later admitted how awful and awkward it was to be 58 and kissing 22 year old models. 50 is just too old to start the role and I hate to say that because in some ways I'd love to see what Elba could do with it.
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