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Maybe not SMERSH by name. But Russia has yet to become a Democracy.
Again, I highly doubt Russia got rid of all of its espionage groups. They simply re-named them.
And besides. Its the movies, they can bend and snap all they want the rift of time.
An organisation bent on liquidating the covert agents of other services could well be used, but you couldn't rightly call it SMERSH.
Why? I guarantee you the general population has no idea a "SMERSH" ever existed, and for the Bond film it would be a throwback (not the film, just the reference to the organization) to the novels.
I agree, it would be a great plot, thus why MI6 gets attacked in SKYFALL and M comes under fire (maybe literally). She has said she misses the Cold War, and maybe the 'her past comes back to haunt her' part is some -possibly rogue- Russian organization out to destroy a competitive group.
I think it could work SMERSH is a cold war organization? maybe if done propertly it can relate back to M's past or something.....maybe like that SMERSH which is believed to be disbanded returns unexpected where M help to bring them down but they somehow come back to haunt M...I dont know it can work but I dont SMERSH should be front and central just in the background maybe even mention
I could see some Russian Mafia who are basically organized crime but then MI6 would never stoop to chasing common criminals. That is what local law enforcement, Interpol is for.
Post 911 has made funding terrorists the "evil" that Bond squares off with in our world. Cold War is a thing of the past, SPECTRE is long gone.
SPECTRE and SMERSH co-existed, why cant Quantum and SMERSH?
Thats what I'm saying. To repeat, Russia has yet to become a Democracy. They've been lead by the same 'president' for how many years, God knows how corrupt he's made the election process. And what has Russia done lately? Gone to war with a little country called Georgia for nearly no reason. Why would Russia want to add something the size of 1/40 the rest of its nation.
It might work in the modern context, as current fanatics possibly trying to revive it, or it could play into the Skyfall backstory, but otherwise it's not plausible.
Spectre can work any old time, because it is a completely fictitious organization and there is no "real world" history for it to conflict or justify with.
Quantum from CR and QoS was kind of a reimagining of SPECTRE. So, if Ralph Fiennes does come on as Blofeld, he might be a Blofeld that leads Quantum, instead.
A very interesting point, the bit about it playing into the back story.
Perhaps SMERSH is the foundation of a newly founded (post-Cold War) group, with many high ranking officials in charge of the operations of the group ex-SMERSH operatives.
Bardem could play the anti-Bond. Perhaps his father was a covert SMERSH agent, and when he was burned him and his family (or so the MI6 thought) were killed, leaving an Orphaned Bardem. Bardem, now a part of the new-SMERSH or a rogue agent from that group is out for revenge on the woman he finds responsible for the death of his parents, and its up to Bond to defeat Bardem before Bardem gets to M.
Thus continuing the story of Bond's struggle to get past things, with CR and QoS dealing with the loss of Vesper, and SKYFALL dealing with the loss of his parents. Bardem could share the role of Camille, showing Bond what will happen if he doesn't get over what is already lost. Showing him what he will become if he lets his emotions get the better of him.
Many people believe Bond will search for the reason behind his parent's death, but perhaps the film actually looks into a similar storyline with the villain. Once the villain realizes he's up against Bond, he looks into Bonds past, and displays the details to him, thus the finale in Scotland.
Boom.
On the face of it, Fiennes quip that his character would not be stroking a cat, or whatever he said, sounds a lot like Fiennes simply finding a creative way to say he won't be playing Blofeld. Eon's assertion that the film is not derived from Fleming material also strongly suggests no Blofeld as well. I think it also rules out Smersh, as Fleming is rife with Smersh,