Proving, once again, that I — BRAAK! — and my superior atomic intellect am capable of predicting the future, I would like to point out that Idris Elba is already James Bond, and his first movie was rad as hell:
James Bond: World’s Edge
World’s Edge (2015) is the twenty-fifth entry in the James Bond film series and the first to star Idris Elba as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is the first to allude to the fan-theory that James Bond is a cover identity. The theory would be stated explicitly in the twenty-sixth entry.
The film centres on Bond investigating an arms dealer who is collaborating with a terrorist organization in Pakistan. The film was controversial both for its casting choices (including the replacement of Daniel Craig as James Bond with Idris Elba, and the replacement of Ben Wishaw as Q with Don Cheadle), and for its choice of subject material, which was found to be heavily critical of American foreign policy.
The film was produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. World’s Edge was well-received by most critics and was also a financial success, grossing $500.1 million in the US, and $1,520.1 million in non-US markets.
That was pretty much the first thing I thought of as soon as the news broke.
We are on the literal bleeding edge of news here, in the sense that news is bleeding into the present from the future.
I guess that is still technically figurative, though.
Nevertheless.
Hell yeah, I really hope this becomes a reality.