So you're ok with reinventing the race/colour of a written character as long as it makes more money? So much for artistic integrity.

FYI, have you noticed the increase in Hollywood movies of China as a locale and/or Chinese characters? It's not an accident. [Link]

Based on your stated principle, that money trumps art, I'm sure you're looking forward to Jet Li playing James Bond.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

James Bond just couldn't compete with Chinese and Hong Kong action cinema. Chow Yun Fat as James Bond, with Andrew Lau directing - Yes f**king please. That sh*t would be the bomb.

I lost interest in action movies after getting into Hong Kong and Wishu. Once you've seen The Stormriders you realise exactly who should have been directing Lord of the Rings!

Chocolate might be one the best action movies around, and its lead is a 15 year old autistic character.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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It has nothing to do with me. I'm not in the movie business. However, profit is the driving force behind all decisions made regarding casting. Even art for art sake still needs to eat.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (18 Jul 2017 5.05pm)

1950s Bond has to be a white man because it's not credible that he'd be anything else; while a 21st century Bond can be drawn from a much more varied genetic pot. Many other characters are similarly interchangeable. I'm fine with this.

But Hollywood gets rightly criticised for replacing non-white characters with white actors just coz. The money argument doesn't always work either, because big budget movies like "Gods of Egypt" cast Gerrard Butler and some unknown Australian as it's main protagonists and Ridley Scott's "Exodus" had a cast of actors about as Egyptian as that of "Carry on Cleo". I am not fine with this.

As Hrolf showed with his contradiction over money vs. white Bond, there's no simple black and white here (pun intended).

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

White actors usually play foreign characters because they are box office draws where as a whole cast of unknown Egyptians, for example, will sink like a stone.

I don't think this concept is dificult to grasp.

I want Bond to be white because I'm white and his character has always been white. If he ever becomes Black it will be because someone thinks it will make more money, not to further the success of the Black 'race'.

What ever colour he is, I will have more important things to worry about.