@knocturnalzen10 - lol not on the evidence of Casino Royale. Most male stars would only dare knee length shorts but Craig rocked a speedo in that film no problem. ha! Jokes aside, he's getting injured but Cruise still runs like crazy at 56. So Craig could definitely pull off a few more.

@KingLeonidas - I love Idris Elba, and if he was younger I wouldn't mind if he was chosen to be the new Bond (he is not too old yet, but next Bond movie after Craig's last could be too many years away from now, and he would also be needed for a few sequels), but I don't get the "I'm just another white guy" thing, James Bond has always been white, I don't see the problem with that, like I don't see the problem with a white Superman or a white Batman, or a problem with a black Blade or a black Luke Cage or Black Panther, and I don't see how making Bond black would change the character, Craig is blond and Brosnan or Connery had a black hair when they played Bond, but that didn't change the character, other factors did, but not the color of their hair, not sure why the color of his skin would change Bond, he is just a british superspy, he used to be played by white actors, he could be played by black actors, but it should still be the same character if it was played by Henry Cavill or by Idris Elba, I don't think that being played by a white or a black actor should make any difference storywise or characterwise.

"He is different because he is played by a black actor", ok, but how would that make Bond different besides having a different skin color? Should that have a significant impact in the story or the character? How and why? He should just be Bond imo, no matter the color of the skin, the eyes or the hair of the actor that plays him.

@theFUZZ008 - Agree. He doesn't want to play Bond either, so I don't see the point of people still suggesting it.

@Super12 - There is absolutely nothing about Bond that prevents him from being a POC. Nothing. It is not a visual creation like a comic book character - it is basically a playboy spy. And a POC can be a playboy spy just as well as a white dude. So yeah, Bond can easily be POC.

@Super12 - The characters in the movie is not even the Ian Fleming version anymore. It's taken on a life of its own. The setting isn't the same, the stories aren't the same, the character isn't the same. I have read the books. The Craig Bond is not what is described in the books. Neither was the Moore bond, nor the Lazenby nor Dalton nor Brosnan. Bond in the movies its own creation now and there is no single Bond - each has evolved. What has remained is one characteristic - a playbook spy killer for the British government. And that characteristic can be played as well by a POC as a white guy.

@Super12 - The movies HAS no connective tissue save for having the same producers for 50 years. THAT is the connective tissue. The auteurs of this franchise are the producers, not the writers, not the directors, not the technicians, not the actors, not Fleming. They all come and go. What remains always is the producers. We watch it for the legacy as much as the story. It is a brand. It has a promise. We know what to expect going on. That's the connective tissue. You could, in essence, start a similar character and it could be just as good. What it would lack is the prestige, the iconography, the legacy, the brand - THAT is the connective tissue which keeps us coming back.