SPECTRE - Next Bond Film, coming 2015

[OJsDad]

The next Bond movie was named this week, along with the cast. 

http://deadline.com/2014/12/bond-24-title-1201308576/

And, now we know. Director Sam Mendes has revealed the title for Bond 24 which will be Spectre. Mendes made the announcement this morning from the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios where the film will shoot along with London, Rome, Mexico City, Tangier, Erfoud and the Austrian Alps. The newest cast members are confirmed as Christoph Waltz, Andrew Scott, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci and Léa Seydoux. Daniel Craig will of course return as Bond along with Rory Kinnear as Tanner, Ben Whishaw as Q, Naomie Harris as Miss Moneypenny and Ralph Fiennes as the new M. Oscar winner Waltz will play Oberhauser, while Blue Is The Warmest Color's Seydoux is Madeleine Swann and Bellucci is Lucia Sciarra. (Bellucci is a nice get for the Bond folks who I hear have been eyeing her for a role for a long time.) Guardians Of The Galaxy's Bautista is playing Mr Hinx and Sherlock's Scott is Denbigh. Interstellar cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema will shoot the film with Mendes. And that same film's Lee Smith is joining as editor. Also rolling in is the Aston Martin DB10 which was designed specially for Spectre.

The logline for the new film is: "A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE." (Check out the animated title sequence below.)

Bond aficionados may recognize the title from the 007 canon. It's an acronym for "Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion." A global crime organization, it's previously been led by evil genius Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the Ian Fleming novels, who also appears in the films From Russia With Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever and For Your Eyes Only. There had been speculation that Waltz would play him in this 24th Bond movie, but his character name would seem to dispel that — unless it's a ruse. Bond lore has it that Hannes Oberhauser was an Austrian climbing and skiing instructor who taught a young James while he was on breaks from Fettes College. They formed a strong father-son relationship, but Oberhauser mysteriously disappeared. The Daily Mail has reported that Waltz will be introduced as Franz Oberhauser, Hannes' son, but later be revealed as Blofeld. (A long-running legal battle was settled last year between the producers and the estate of Kevin McClory which involved rights to the character and other elements of the 007 franchise.) Erstwhile Bond, Roger Moore, tweeted this on today's announcements:

Spectre hails from EON Productions, MGM, and Sony Pictures Entertainment with Mendes directing his second Bond film after global blockbuster Skyfall. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are producers. John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are writers. Spectre releases on November 6, 2015.

[GDS_Starfury]

Monica Bellucci  O0 

[mirth]

Love it. Great cast lined up.

[mirth]

[GDS_Starfury]

very GOOD eye Mirth!  O0

[Centurion40]

Maybe they'll be a Marvel cross-over!  ;)  :P

[mirth]

Hail Spydra!

[bayonetbrant]

For Your Eyes Only

well yeah, but only in the pre-credit title sequence when Blofeld gets dumped down an industrial chimney

[JasonPratt]

Hail Spydra!

!!RUNNING OFF TO TRADEMARK THAT!!

[JasonPratt]

I hope there will be some worthwhile connections to QUANTUM, since that group was already basically SPECTRE.

[bayonetbrant]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECTRE

Led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the supranational organisation first formally appeared in the novel Thunderball (1961) and in the film Dr. No (1962). SPECTRE is not aligned to any nation or political ideology, enabling the later Bond books and Bond films to be regarded as apolitical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(comics)

Hydra first appeared in Strange Tales #135. In its original continuity, it was headed by nondescript businessman Arnold Brown, who was killed as S.H.I.E.L.D. apparently crushed the organization. It soon returned, however, headed by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, with the support of the Nazi Red Skull; Hydra's changing origin was one of Marvel's earliest retcons. After its initial defeat, several of its branches, such as its scientific branch A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics) and the Secret Empire, became independent.

Strange Tales #135 was published in 1965


So SPECTRE came first

[mirth]

^slow day at the office?

[bayonetbrant]

they're all slow...

[GDS_Starfury]

I see what your grammar did there.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Hopefully it doesn't suck as hard as Skyfall does.