Quote Originally Posted by Da Boat View Post
Fury being a different character could be done more easily than with Bond cause we are talking about a World of super-heroes where anything can happen. You could say there was a guy in WW2 called Nick Fury who was trained by special organizations and created Shield in the 60s, then he disappeared and had to maintain the identity/role and there has been many other guys(even girls) since then that have assumed the name and identity.
It's worth noting that a significant amount of Bond fans consider "James Bond" to be a codename, and that there have been many different people who have taken up the James Bond identity over the years.

Although I don't see any benefit whatsoever in doing this with Nick Fury. And it's already canon that Peggy Carter created S.H.I.E.L.D. in the 50's anyway.

Then you bring back the original like they did in the comics in the story Original Sin by saying he has been in space ever since acting as a space protector. It's too late now but Infinity Wars would have been the perfect time to bring him back.
This is not the kind of storytelling (or rather lack of storytelling) that mainstream audiences appreciate.
This space guy is never going to be accepted as the 'real' Nick Fury. Especially not if he's white.