Everyone from Skyfall (except for the obvious person) will be back in Spectre. They’ll be joined by…
Christoph Waltz as Oberhauser (the villain)
David Bautista as Mr Hinx (his Oddjob-like henchman)
Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann and Monica Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra (the Bond girls)
Andrew Scott (Moriarty from Sherlock) as Denbigh (an MI6 agent)
Christoph Waltz is not playing Blofeld (officially), but I have a theory about that. But what does everyone think of the news?
Craig is the only Bond I have actually liked. So yay! Also loved Ben Whishaw’s Q. I’ve been wanting to see Andrew Scott in more things ever since Sherlock, so yay on that too!
Overall? This may be the first Bond movie I pay to see in the theatre.
Craig is 46 today
Pierce Brosnan was 48-49 the last time he played Bond in Die Another Day
Roger Moore was 57-58 the last time he played Bond in A View To A Kill
I’m concerned about the attempt to repeat, rather than reinvent, the ‘formula’. Skyfall was vary popular but dramatically the weakest of the Craig Bond films to date, with logic and plot holes that one could fly a giant, laser-equipped zeppelin through; in fact minus the Solex Agitator and J.W. Pepper, it was plotwise largely a remake of one of the shittiest Bond films ever made, The Man With The Golden Gun. Skyfall is essentially a live-action extended version of Archer “Heart of Archness” without the (intentional) humor, which has the Bond franchise slipping back into the same kind of self-parody it was in the early Moore or all of the Brosnan eras.
Not to mention Sean Connery, who was 52 in Never Say Never Again. So silly that that movie is intentionally left out of the Bond canon by some. Not that it was particularly good, but there are arguably worse Bond movies.
Yes, they were all too old for the role.
I like Donald Craig the best among all Bond actors as well. But I still think he’s too old for the role these days.
If they’re bringing back S.P.E.C.T.R.E., then you have to suspect that Ernst Stavro Blofeld is coming back, too. Certainly Roger Moore seems to think so.
For years use of Blofeld has been held up because of legal issues – the NcClory people still held title to it, which is why the Bad Guy in The Spy Who Loved Me couldn’t be Blofeld, but had to be Stromberg (they REALLY wanted Blofeld). And why, when they killed off the Bald Guy with the White Cat in For Your Eyes Only, they couldn’t name him. And why McClory’s own Never Say Never Again COULD have Max Von Sydow as Blofeld.
But on the Wikipedia site for Blofeld, we find this:
The footnote refers to this webpage:
So it looks as if they straightened things out, and now Eon can use Blofeld again. Mark my words, he’ll be in SPECTRE. And he probably won’t look like Donald Pleasance with a dueling scar – Daniel Craig has been complaining about how the Austin Powers movies messed things up with the past mythology of the franchise.
Eh, I usually think of the character as being older. He’s a Commander in the Navy before his spying career even starts, and than has had time to rise up the ranks of MI6. He can’t be that young.
As to the new film, I like Craig as Bond, but thought Skyfall was terrible. So, guess we’ll see.
I don’t think there are many who would disagree that Moore was far too old for the last two films. Connery pushed it but managed not to look so… decrepit in his last Bond.
It’s about time. I always thought that Blofeld and SPECTRE needed a reboot more than Bond did. To me, Bond movies are only interesting if the villain is interesting.
I wonder what Blofeld’s origin will be. In Thunderball, he was said to be a Polish communications officer who sold information to the highest bidder.
