Christopher Lee was wasted on that part. He would have made a much better Blofeld than any of the ones that we got.
That’s interesting, I saw a tweet today asking if Little Christmas or Nollaig na mBan (women’s Christmas) as it’s known, is a thing outside of Ireland. Most replies seemed to give the impression that it’s not.
Hell, DAD barely had the CURRENT Moneypenny!Maxwell should've returned for DIE ANOTHER DAY. Even if it was only during the epilogue.
In NTTD, when they had the pictures of the former Ms on the wall, might’ve been a nice tease to have included one of her - Maxwell used to complain that she, rather than Dench, should’ve been M in Goldeneye.Maxwell should've returned for DIE ANOTHER DAY. Even if it was only during the epilogue.
You can do that when you're as good as Judy Dench. Which at current count is still almost nobody. We're talking a level where Ralph Fiennes is a step down!
Eh, I think Savalas more than held his own against a hypothetical Lee Blofeld.
I got to talk with one of the Superman: The Animated Series guys back in the day. (Dini? Timm?) I asked if Luthor was intentionally reminiscent of Savalas' Blofeld. He said that the writers and Clancy Brown would be quoting OHMSS all day long when they were between takes.
Mario Puzo’s first draft script for Superman The Movie had a scene where Superman is searching for Lex, sees a bald headed man in a crowd, flies down and grabs him by the shoulder, only for Telly Savalas to turn round and say “who loves ya, baby?”
IIRC it's part of a larger sequence where Supes keeps finding OTHER famous bald men. Har de har har.
This is why Puzo is quite possibly one of the most overrated writers ever. He produced one great novel, and even that had a shit-ton of fat that Coppola wisely trimmed away in making the film adaptation.
