[quote]. Who's making demands? The 25th Bond movie is not at the top of the list of any average American's priorities. Is the race or the sexual orientation of the character important to everyone? No it is not. For some of us it's just not important.
It's not important to me at all. What is important to me is a good story, well told with interesting characters. What I think is a cop-out is retconning characters from established stories simply to achieve some pc purpose of diversity in order to meet the demands of insane sjw. If someone desperately wants to see characters who look like them, then they should write them, not demand that other people's fictional creations be changed for them.
[quote]Using the Bond franchise certainly has its benefits, including budget.
Yes, stealing the entire backstory, plot, situation of established characters and worlds is always easier than coming up with one yourself. It's very difficult to come up with compelling characters who matter to an audience.
[quote]If the character is pattered after James Bond, he will still be the gay James Bond
Yes, a completely derivative character would have that problem.
Yes, it order to sell ideas in Hollywood, it's easier to say "my movie is XXX meets YYY" to give people the elevator speech.
[quote]2. What have you created?
What does this have to do with anything? Whether I could or could not create something, I wouldn't create a rainbow flag character unless it mattered to the story. Characters fill the role necessary to tell the story.
In Paris Review: E. M. Forster speaks of his major characters sometimes taking over and dictating the course of his novels. Has this ever been a problem for you, or are you in complete command?
NABOKOV: My knowledge of Mr. Forster’s works is limited to one novel, which I dislike; and anyway, it was not he who fathered that trite little whimsy about characters getting out of hand; it is as old as the quills, although of course one sympathizes with his people if they try to wriggle out of that trip to India or wherever he takes them. My characters are galley slaves.
