Okay, so what I'm hearing is that Will Smith is going to be the next James Bond. What a bummer that this is the way the industry works, but what an even greater bummer that so much of the world is racist. I'd love to see him play Bond, I thought he was the most captivating actor in the Wire. Like flagamuffin, I didn't realize that Daniel Craig was done. While I'm all for Idris Elba taking up the mantel, it would seem Craig has some gas left in the tank, no? Also, people like Limbaugh seem to think James Bond is an actual historic figure and not a fictional character. They liken it to Idris playing Thomas Jefferson etc, when it's so, so, so very different. That said, Idris as Jefferson would be interesting.
Will Smith is much too expensive and much more likely to have an opinion. The Broccolis are legendarily cheap and iron-fisted. That's probably why Craig is getting the boot - now that they've built him into a movie star they have to pay him like one and treat him like one.