So my feeling (as a white guy) is that the problem isnt that there are white male characters. Its that Minorities, are under represented and often times (stereo)typed casted, and mischaracterized and put in the roles that end up making it looks like systematic racism is alive and kicking.
It feels odd to change a character from whatever they were supposed to be into anything else. I sure as heck dont want to see a Black Panther movie staring Ryan Reynolds. 007 AFAIK was supposed to be a male (part of his character), British spy, I was in support of Elba doing it. So it seems strange to me if they’re trying to write that into a Black Female character.
Really in my opinion, what the goal should be is to write more good original characters that arent white dudes!
Really the movie could still be good or great, but I think what my problem is, is this type of move is more about using minorities than it is meant to help them. The hype around this will be all about wow (007) James Bond is a Black woman now. When I would rather we just had amazing new original characters written for all genders and skin tones.
My idea is to make a Perfect Dark movie, my generation would absolutely watch that, it was the female version of James Bond originally (literally built on the engine of Goldeneye), and has a good story with a strong female lead.
