Richard Madden - from GoT and Bodyguard.
The most famous Richard Meaden I know of is Dickie Meaden of EVO fame.
Lol, yup, a combination of a terrible memory and a withdrawal from the pop culture zeitgeist will do that. That said, Dickie Meaden is a good journo, and I head Richard Madden was quite good in The Bodyguard. Haven't really watched GoT, soooooo I await the wrath of GoT fans for why I haven't and what is wrong with me and if I something against dragons. I don't. I'm rather ambivalent with regards to dragons.
The last 2 Bonds have made over 800m USD at the box office, all Craigs films have made over 500m USD, the formula was working, why mess with it, Bond fans are not happy, we like James Bond and 007 to be the same person!
Undoubtedly, the Craig Bond movies were veritable cash-cows. However, Spectre and Quantum of Solace were not critically well-received and were viewed as middling. The latter was affected by the Writer's Guild strike and the former was following up on Skyfall's insane success. I didn't mind Spectre as much...good cinematography, action sequences, and Monica Bellucci. But as Matski astutely poined out, it's become more about Bond and less about the mission. I'm all for character development, but some of the things are silly, i.e. Blofeld is his foster brother, Silva is exacting revenge on M. It's not as silly as stuff seen in some older Bond films...I mean, it's hard to top Pierce Brosnan surfing (was it a tsunami? I repressed my memory with that film) for sheer silliness, but these manufactured connections in the Craig flicks were just trite. They could have done a better job in establishing that Bond's past haunts him.
Regarding a different 007, until I see how they go about doing it, I'll wait and see before having a conniption. My understanding is that James Bond is James Bond and since he retired in the last film, his 007 code has been given to someone else. I don't see the big deal in it. Let me put it this way: In the halcyon days that came before everyone on the internet was up in arms about something, there was backlash to Judi Dench being the new M in Goldeneye. I thought the way they went about it was fine and Dame Dench did a great job as M. Granted, M is not as iconic and James Bond is often synonymous 007. But it's interesting conceit to separate James Bond from his 007 tag. If it's done well, it'll be an interesting thread to pull.
As for whether this is "woke" or not, well, I leave that up to the viewer. Last I checked, there are women and black people and people who are both who often work in governmental agencies, whether they be British agencies or American agencies. So I don't see it as a stretch that someone who is both female and black would be an agent working in the Double-0 program in the year 2019.
Oh, and that Charlie's Angels movie looks all sorts of silly but I'm sure I am not the target audience.
Also, another personal aside: Ana de Armas is just straight-up fire. I hope she has a decent amount of screen time because I can legit stare at her. Mmmmmm.
