![]() ![]() Spectre was shot in Rome, London, Mexico and the Austrian Alps, but it’s 007’s scenes in the eternal city which the teaser seems to be showcasing. Spectre might be masquerading under a religious disguise But the way Waltz’s shadowy outline is presented, front on and one hand poised on the table in front of him, specifically recalls a number of big screen Blofeld incarnations. After all, if he’s not Blofeld, then why call the movie Spectre? We don’t get to see much of Oberhauser in the trailer, but it’s clear he’s not bald (as in many of the films) and doesn’t appear to be stroking a feline. Might it be Bond and his parents? And how does 007’s sad childhood history connect to his present?Ĭhristoph Waltz has a touch of the Blofeldsīy adopting a tantalising title, Bond producers have deliberately set up an is he/isn’t he dynamic around the identity of Waltz’s (most likely) villainous Oberhauser. In this Spectre teaser, Naomie Harris’ Moneypenny reveals that “personal effects” were recovered from the ruins of the secret agent’s childhood home in the highlands of Scotland (following the events of Skyfall) as she shows 007 a photograph of two adults and a child. We discovered that Bond is an orphan who may have developed that steely exterior after both his parents died when he was still a young boy. The denouement of Skyfall borrowed heavily from 007 creator Ian Fleming’s novel You Only Live Twice, which is a very different kettle of fish from the uber-camp Roald Dahl-penned 1967 film. Does this mean Quantum and Spectre are one and the same, or will they be drawing lots to see who gets to dangle 007 over the shark tank this time around? Mendes isn’t done with Bond’s past ![]() And there he is in the new trailer, popping up to tell Bond the proverbial is about to hit the fan all over again. While the middling Quantum of Solace (which continued the Quantum storyline) made few fans’ all-time Bond top 10 lists, we do deserve to find out what happened to the titular crime syndicate after shadowy boss Mr White (Jesper Christensen) escaped at the end of the 2008 film. Remember Quantum, the nefarious entity introduced in Casino Royale largely because Bond production company Eon did not (then) have the rights to Spectre, the evil organisation from 007’s 60s adventures? Well Sam Mendes does, and it looks like he plans to use the new film to connect Skyfall to earlier Daniel Craig efforts. This teaser suggests Bond may be too busy fighting for survival this time around to ramp up the arch-eyebrowed insouciance. There’s not so much as a sniff of a one-liner, and 007 is strictly on his best behaviour with M’s assistant. But there’s no suggestion yet that Spectre will continue along the path to the old school Bond antics that Mendes set out on Skyfall, which reintroduced traditionally comic characters such as Moneypenny and Q. This is a teaser trailer, so we should probably expect a little sombre scene-setting.
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