Remember that award winning movie, Selma? I’ll forgive you if you can’t remember it, that movie is boring. Tried to see it four times and ended up sleeping every single time.

The exceptional black actor that played Martin Luther King Jnr, David Oyelowo, has another massive gig coming up – he is going to be the next 007

“I am officially the only person on planet Earth who can legitimately say: ‘I am the new James Bond’ — even saying that name is the cinematic equivalent of doing the ‘to be or not to be’ speech,” Oyelowo said.

Well, not really. He is actually going to be the voice of Bond as well as a slew of other characters, in a forthcoming audiobook version of Trigger Mortis.

Oyelowo is the first black actor to “play” Bond, although he’s actually not acting the Bond role but he is privileged to be the voice in the audiobook… a black man voicing Bond. He was also the first black actor to play an English monarch in a Shakespeare play, Henry VI.

Trigger is an official 007 novel, commissioned by the Fleming estate and written by Anthony Horowitz (oh, and very much approved by Fleming’s niece, Lucy, who says “[it’s] almost as if Ian had written [Trigger Mortis] himself”). The book, set in the 1950s, reportedly will involve the Soviet-American Space Race and will revive the famous Bond character Pussy Galore. Oyelowo said his fresh take on Bond will show “a man who is very self-assured,” yet imperfect. It would be nice to see that on the big-screen. As Daniel Craig nears the end of his Bond tenure, people are still screaming for Idris Elba; however, if the Trigger reception were good, it might make sense to have Oyelowo do some overtime. (Wishful thinking?)

Trigger will be coming out September 8.

Janeth J