Naomie Harris» Eve is set up as the next Moneypenny,
although scriptwriters have tried to give her a more independent, confident tweak for the modern age.
As Solomon's first, comparatively humane owner Ford, Benedict Cumberbatch is excellent, too, persuasively a man of rectitude —
although McQueen and his
scriptwriter John Ridley, while aspiring otherwise to minute fidelity to the text, haven't been able to bring themselves to treat him with as much sympathy and respect as Northrup himself did.