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- Sam Mendes announced the 24th movie in the James Bond franchise and all its related details in a press conference.
- The movie is set to release in November, 2015
The new cast includes Christopher Waltz, David Bautista and Monica Bellucci, Penelope Cruz and Lea Seydoux.
It’s been 25 months since Skyfall hit the theatres and Bond fans were eager for the next movie. Wait no more, Bond hiatus is over. Director Sam Mendes announced the title of the new Bond movie and the cast ensemble.
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While most of the team will be returning for the project with Daniel Craig as Bond and Ralph Fiennes as Agent M. Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear and Naomie Harris will be reprising their roles from the Skyfall installment.
The production team, to our pleasure also announced the new cast members. Christopher Waltz, David Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Andrew Scott (Sherlock) will be playing the new Bond villains and anticipation is all time high. Monica Bellucci (Matrix), Penelope Cruz and Lea Seydoux (Inglorious Bastards) will be the new Bond girls.
Now that the cast has been dealt with, we come to Spectre. The title is actually an extension of SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. It is a secret organization run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Bond finds a cryptic message from his past which sets him on the path to uncover the secret organization and its evil plot.
Meanwhile Agent M tries to keep the Secret Service up and running. It is interesting to see Ralph Fiennes in Judi Dench’s legendary shoes. Christopher Waltz was anticipated to play Blofeld who was seen last in 1983’s Never Say Never Again as Bond’s main antagonist.
He would instead be playing Oberhauser. Oberhauser would be the son of Bond’s former teacher Ian Oberhauser. Waltz was the first antagonist character confirmed in November. David Bautista and Andrew Scott will add to the villainous ranks in the 24th installment of Bond movies.
The Skyfall team including writers John Logan, Robert Wade and Neal Purvis will be returning along with Sam Mendes as the director. New additions include editor Lee Smith and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar). The locations of the movie would include, London, Rome, Mexico City, Morocco and Austria laced in snow. The shooting is expected to last for seven months.
Other details include the Bond car which would be an Aston Martin DB10. Finally a Bond worthy car! The cat is definitely being featured again. The wardrobe glimpses have revealed big black boots, purplish navy blue jacket and a black bomber jacket. The wardrobe is definitely going to be featured in the fashion shows for spring and fall collections for next year.
The main concern however comes to the theme song. After the Oscar winning performance by Adele for Skyfall; the speculation is what the new theme song would be like. Words rhyming with Spectre are really not an exciting perspective but who is singing it is more of an intriguing guess. The male Adele, Sam Smith is a probable shoo-in to sing the next theme song. However Lana Del Ray is also great with theme songs and people definitely want to hear more of her.
Finally the revelation of the new Bond poster featuring a simple bullet hole crack in glass. The title of the film and the release date featured at the bottom which is November 6, 2015.
Love! #JamesBond teaser poster. pic.twitter.com/3pKTs1EKlZ— Darren Bell (@darren_bell) December 4, 2014
The pure Bond fanatics are well known to the Spectre phenomenon which has been featured in the Bond comics and video games. It’s time for the movie fans to face Spectre in full force and witness some Waltz greatness once more.
