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Deadline broke the story ten minutes ago... "Bond 24 is 'Spectre'"
http://deadline.com/2014/12/bond-24-title-1201308576/
http://deadline.com/2014/12/bond-24-title-1201308576/
James Bond franchise--the return of SPECTRE and Blofeld?
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When you say broke the story, do you mean they reported on the online press conference, or that they pre-empted it?
It seems increasingly likely that Waltz will be Blodfeld now, unless there's some crazy misdirection going on and it'll actually be Andrew Scott! (or there's no Blofeld at all).
I look forward to Craig having a fight with Dave Bautista, and Monica Bellucci? Excellent (the first time a Bond girl's been older than Bond?)
I'm guessing Seydoux's Madeline Swan will be the main girl? Then again I could be wrong.
Will Waltz have a cat though, that's the question
It seems increasingly likely that Waltz will be Blodfeld now, unless there's some crazy misdirection going on and it'll actually be Andrew Scott! (or there's no Blofeld at all).
I look forward to Craig having a fight with Dave Bautista, and Monica Bellucci? Excellent (the first time a Bond girl's been older than Bond?)
I'm guessing Seydoux's Madeline Swan will be the main girl? Then again I could be wrong.
Will Waltz have a cat though, that's the question
And I was sooo hoping for Spacey to play Blofeld! 
Great news and this cast is awesome. Christoph Waltz, Monica Bellucci, Dave Bautista, and Andrew Scott. Who would have thought that Dave Bautista would be the new wrestler to become a movie star. And being in Guardians and Bond is HUGE.
And I was sooo hoping for Spacey to play Blofeld!
I think the internet might explode if the same person were to play both Lex Luthor and Blofeld.
But what a great cast this is.
And I was sooo hoping for Spacey to play Blofeld!
I think the internet might explode if the same person were to play both Lex Luthor and Blofeld.
But what a great cast this is.
And I was sooo hoping for Spacey to play Blofeld!
I think the internet might explode if the same person were to play both Lex Luthor and Blofeld.
But what a great cast this is.
Gene Hackman as Blofeld? (well he certainly made a better Lex Luthor than Spacey!)
Waltz is playing Bond's former ski instructor Oberhauser .
And John Harrison is still not Khan
I wonder if they'll do a story on Bond's parents. They died in a skiing accident and now we have Bond's former Ski instructor, but from how long ago?
I keep waiting for a movie to blow the lid off what really happened to Bond's parents (skiing accident). Skyfall opened the jar, this could be the one to tell it.
Very very cool. I love the direction the CraigBond films are taking.
I'd always thought the death of Bond's parents was just an unfortunate accident, I'm not sure much of the canon has suggested his mother or father were even involved in anything secreative or governmental (though Jeffrey Deaver did seem to suggest they were murdered and that Bond sr may have been a spy.)
At the end of the day I'm not certain Bond should be trying to ape Batman
At the end of the day I'm not certain Bond should be trying to ape Batman
Or Harry PotterI'd always thought the death of Bond's parents was just an unfortunate accident, I'm not sure much of the canon has suggested his mother or father were even involved in anything secreative or governmental (though Jeffrey Deaver did seem to suggest they were murdered and that Bond sr may have been a spy.)
At the end of the day I'm not certain Bond should be trying to ape Batman
True that it has always been a skiing accident and nothing more. But I think there's a story to be told there.
I keep thinking back to an old rumor that 'Die Another Day' was going to reveal that Bond's parents were agents, were murdered and the skiing accident was just a cover up.
I agree, but I think it's even more implicit with Daniel Craig. Both Moore and Dalton made references to Tracy, and Felix in Licence to Kill was the same Felix from Live and Let Die.
I've always assumed that the events of previous Bond's happened to the incumbant, they just happened in a different way, so Roger, Tim and Pierce all loved and lost their own Tracy (whether this means Timothy Dalton had a space battle with lasers is not for me to say).
With Daniel Craig it sems clear that none of the stuff that happened to previous Bond's happened to him, which means theoretically they could introduce Tracy (though I really hope they never go there.)
Of course this was before Bond had a tricked out DB5 in Skyfall that suggested previous Bond's stuff had happened to him!
Well, however you view the continuity, Bond would be extremely old now. Even if the Craig films didn't obviously preceed the others, you'd have to hand wave some things.
In my mind, you can view the previous movies as all happening after Skyfall. Of course, if they do a full reboot of Spectre and start remaking Thunderball etc., that would change things...
Eva Green's character was Daniel Craig's Tracy. He genuinely loved her.
Deaver's Carte Blanche initially drops hints leading Bond to believe that his father Andrew (who worked for an international armaments company) was a British spy turned double agent working for the Soviets who was assassinated by his KGB handlers when they were cleaning up shop after the end of the Cold War in an operation called "Steel Cartridge," but later Bond discovers that the KGB assassination program actually had switched protocol and targeted his mother Monique, who was a Western agent hunting down a Soviet mole at the time, threatening to expose one of their deep cover operatives.
If they borrow elements of that subplot from the Deaver reboot, with the ski instructor Oberhauser played by Waltz, that would be a perfect opportunity to have him be the mole she was hunting (possibly ex-Stasi instead of KGB), and the skiing "accident" that killed Bond's parents was arranged by him to keep Bond's mother (and/or father) off his trail.
Having him kill Bond's loved ones would give it a personal stake for Bond's main nemesis just as Blofeld did with Tracy in OHMSS, so it would not surprise me if Oberhauser changed his name to Blofeld after going into hiding following the Cold War while being hunted by both sides. So he became disillusioned with ideology and decided that he would serve no government and formed SPECTRE instead, to profit from his misdeeds.