The best way to not make him look like Dr. Evil is to not cast him bald. I don't think he was supposed to be bald in the books.
James Bond franchise--the return of SPECTRE and Blofeld?
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If SPECTRE is featured, I'd like to see it used as a Cold War/immediately post-Cold War precursor to QUANTUM, perhaps in a flashback to a mission performed by one of the other 00s that ties into present day events somehow. SPECTRE would have been more overtly criminal in nature, and made up of ex-KGB/GRU/Stasi guys who decided to go into a life of crime to make money once their Warsaw Pact governments folded.
QUANTUM on the other hand is what became of their organization once those SPECTRE agents amassed enough wealth and power that they were able to take on an air of legitimacy and relegate their criminal activities to the shadows or have it done by proxies. They're our politicians, cabinet ministers, intelligence agency bigwigs, CEOs, bankers, scientific leaders, media moguls, think tank heads, etc. now. They're the ones in charge and developing policy rather than carrying it out like they did during the Cold War.
It could be used as a method of pointing out that many of the criminal activities of the past that we would associate with SPECTRE have sadly now just become standard corporate activities and unfortunately considered an expected part of the capitalist system. They collapse governments and economies with corrupt investments and business practices. They have their own armies with PMCs. Banks like HSBC launder money for terrorists and cartels. They're stealing billions more dollars from investors in Ponzi schemes then they ever asked for with holding the world hostage with a stolen nuke. They're destroying the environment and putting large segments of humanity at risk for their greed rather than just because they're inexplicably evil. They destroy a politician with their media empire rather than assassinate him or her. They're spying on their customers and stealing their personal info with malware embedded in their latest computer program. They use their political influence to ensure that drugs remain illegal so their cartel partners can continue to make tons of money and their private prisons can keep incarcerating more people for nonviolent crimes. Child slavery is used to make their products, not just because they're cruel for the sake of cruelty. All the evil of SPECTRE is sadly just the status quo now.
As far as Blofeld himself goes, he doesn't have to be comically evil. The white cat can be there in his home without being a permanent fixture on his lap, and he doesn't have to be bald and scarred. Maybe one or the other.
Christoph Waltz would be my first choice to play Blofeld if you want the more traditional somewhat crazy take on the character. For a more scary version, I'd choose Jürgen Prochnow. For a more grandfatherly old school corporate CEO type who is up to no good, I'd use Armin Mueller-Stahl. And if you want to go the other way and have him be a younger man, I'd have him played by Michael Fassbender.
QUANTUM on the other hand is what became of their organization once those SPECTRE agents amassed enough wealth and power that they were able to take on an air of legitimacy and relegate their criminal activities to the shadows or have it done by proxies. They're our politicians, cabinet ministers, intelligence agency bigwigs, CEOs, bankers, scientific leaders, media moguls, think tank heads, etc. now. They're the ones in charge and developing policy rather than carrying it out like they did during the Cold War.
It could be used as a method of pointing out that many of the criminal activities of the past that we would associate with SPECTRE have sadly now just become standard corporate activities and unfortunately considered an expected part of the capitalist system. They collapse governments and economies with corrupt investments and business practices. They have their own armies with PMCs. Banks like HSBC launder money for terrorists and cartels. They're stealing billions more dollars from investors in Ponzi schemes then they ever asked for with holding the world hostage with a stolen nuke. They're destroying the environment and putting large segments of humanity at risk for their greed rather than just because they're inexplicably evil. They destroy a politician with their media empire rather than assassinate him or her. They're spying on their customers and stealing their personal info with malware embedded in their latest computer program. They use their political influence to ensure that drugs remain illegal so their cartel partners can continue to make tons of money and their private prisons can keep incarcerating more people for nonviolent crimes. Child slavery is used to make their products, not just because they're cruel for the sake of cruelty. All the evil of SPECTRE is sadly just the status quo now.
As far as Blofeld himself goes, he doesn't have to be comically evil. The white cat can be there in his home without being a permanent fixture on his lap, and he doesn't have to be bald and scarred. Maybe one or the other.
Christoph Waltz would be my first choice to play Blofeld if you want the more traditional somewhat crazy take on the character. For a more scary version, I'd choose Jürgen Prochnow. For a more grandfatherly old school corporate CEO type who is up to no good, I'd use Armin Mueller-Stahl. And if you want to go the other way and have him be a younger man, I'd have him played by Michael Fassbender.
The trouble is, give him just a scar and he looks like Le Chiffre or (shudder) Renard.
Actually talking of Le Chiffre it strikes me that Mads Mikkelsen would have made an awesome Blofeld, he was kinda wasted just being, effectively, Quantum’s accountant. Ralph Fiennes would have been perfect too…oh well!
I like Waltz a lot, and in many ways he would be perfect, I’d just fear it leaning slightly towards Dr Evilness. Fassbender is all kinds of awesome too, but really he’d make a better Bond than Blofeld. I’ve heard Michael Sheen’s name mentioned and he would be interesting, I think the trouble is he’s played so many famous people that I can’t help but hear them pop out on occasion. He was great in The Damned United, but every so often it seemed like Brian Clough turned into Tony Blair or Kenneth Williams…actually the notion Blofeld being a bit Blair like is kinda interesting…maybe he could have a Texan henchman or something
Of course someone needs to mention Idris Elba (as he’s contractually obliged to be linked with any part going)…
Much as I like cats, I think giving Blofeld one would be the biggest mistake they could get (well second biggest after hiring Michael Myers to play Blofeld.)
Actually talking of Le Chiffre it strikes me that Mads Mikkelsen would have made an awesome Blofeld, he was kinda wasted just being, effectively, Quantum’s accountant. Ralph Fiennes would have been perfect too…oh well!
I like Waltz a lot, and in many ways he would be perfect, I’d just fear it leaning slightly towards Dr Evilness. Fassbender is all kinds of awesome too, but really he’d make a better Bond than Blofeld. I’ve heard Michael Sheen’s name mentioned and he would be interesting, I think the trouble is he’s played so many famous people that I can’t help but hear them pop out on occasion. He was great in The Damned United, but every so often it seemed like Brian Clough turned into Tony Blair or Kenneth Williams…actually the notion Blofeld being a bit Blair like is kinda interesting…maybe he could have a Texan henchman or something
Of course someone needs to mention Idris Elba (as he’s contractually obliged to be linked with any part going)…
Much as I like cats, I think giving Blofeld one would be the biggest mistake they could get (well second biggest after hiring Michael Myers to play Blofeld.)
Holy crap, dude, this is good stuff. I mean, it's evil, very, very evil.....
It's also mostly very, very legal - and to the extent that it is illegal, investigating them is a job for journalists, activists, and politicians/civil service inspectors, not gun-toting spies/secret agents... unless, of course, said ideology-free elite gangsters are dumb enough to bankroll actual terrorism, as they did in Casino Royale with the airline plot. One would think that that example alone going public would deter others from trying similar ventures, so maybe that's why we didn't hear from Quantum in Skyfall; they'd all been arrested and charged with various crimes.
Meanwhile, the everyday injustices of the world grind on, and there's not much MI6 has the authority/political backing to do about it...
. Fan casting so far seems to be (predictably):Spacey (with obvious drawbacks)
Stewart (ditto)
Strong (ditto)
Hopkins
Branagh (hmmm...)
Ciaran Hinds
Some wildcards: Toby Jones (interesting) and Viggo Mortensen (better Largo or Drax?)
Christopher Lee would have been a fantastic Blofeld in his prime...they wasted him as the wrong Bond villain.
Honestly I thought when Casino Royal started hinting at the villains being connected to evil secret organization it was going to be SPECTRE.
If true, I should play the rebooted version of Solitaire if they ever bring her back. What, I'm not believable as a hot female psychic?
Locutus of Bored, amateur casting director.
Patrick Stewart would demand far too much money, and would he want another franchise?
I'd rather see him as M than Blofeld, but that ship's already sailed with Ralph Fiennes having taken over from Judi Dench. Fiennes is too young for the role, but I've no complaints at all about him as an actor.
I'd much rather Eon got rid of Daniel Craig.
I'd rather see him as M than Blofeld, but that ship's already sailed with Ralph Fiennes having taken over from Judi Dench. Fiennes is too young for the role, but I've no complaints at all about him as an actor.
I'd much rather Eon got rid of Daniel Craig.
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When Casino Royale came out, I thought it would be a great idea if the evil conspiracy the bad guys worked for was Spectre. I was disappointed when Quantum of Solace established the cabal as being Quantum, but I really liked the basic idea behind what Quantum was.
Personally, I think the smartest thing to do would be to reveal that Quantum is just another name for Spectre. That way, you get to tie up the loose end that is the Quantum arc, call back to their actions in Bond's first mission as a Double-Oh in Casino Royale and what they took from him, and add mythos resonance by establishing that it's the organization that earlier incarnations of the Bond character fought against. (I'm one of those types who categorizes the Daniel Craig films as being their own separate continuity from pre-Craig Bond films.)
Personally, I think the smartest thing to do would be to reveal that Quantum is just another name for Spectre. That way, you get to tie up the loose end that is the Quantum arc, call back to their actions in Bond's first mission as a Double-Oh in Casino Royale and what they took from him, and add mythos resonance by establishing that it's the organization that earlier incarnations of the Bond character fought against. (I'm one of those types who categorizes the Daniel Craig films as being their own separate continuity from pre-Craig Bond films.)
