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added @Samuel001 ;-). Nice list of locations no? What are your thoughts?
It is interesting to see the locations shaping up; some are still being changed it seems.
I thought they will be filming there for 6 weeks, all those 300 men crew included....
:-O Never even realised this Marketto!!! :-bd Itching for more official info! November is almost upon us! Hopefully something for the weekend tomorrow to chew over? Please EON?!!!! :-c
(What if the main villain will be female after all?)
See me previous post on page 270 :-). I think the same @PanchitoPistoles:
If a female will be the villain, then it'll be a big actress. Keira Knightley or Marion Cotillard. Or maybe even Tilda Swinton (I already mentioned her a couple of times. And she worked already with Lea Seydoux and Ralph Fiennes on "The Grand Budapest Hotel")? Or....what do you think @PanchitoPistoles? IF they really write a true villain....not one that starts of as a good girl...and that is simply treacherous.....like Elektra King......then I think a big female actress could be lured into the franchise. Perhaps we get a Rosa Klebb/Red Grant-esquema combo (Dave Bautista with a big female actress).
I still wouldn't rule him out. Not that I'd mind someone else, in fact I would prefer it. But who else has been rumored? I mean seriously been rumored.
Bond 24 will be shooting from December 2014 to summer 2015. How would Ejiofor be able to do Bond 24 if he has already signed up to do two other movies in the same time frame?
Perhaps its only one scene.. At the end.. Revealing him to be, I dunno, the head of a major evil organisation looming over this franchise. And then he'll be there to jump right in to Bond 25
--> Tilda Swinton? As visually striking as Grace Jones back in 1985. Already worked with Lea Seydoux and Ralph Fiennes on "The Grand Budapest Hotel".
--> Marion Cotillard? Muse of director Christopher Nolan. Played the Elektra King-esque villain in "The Dark Knight Rises".
--> Keira Knightley? Now cast as the wife of Jack Ryan in the American spy franchise "Jack Ryan". "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" was a moderate success.
--> Meryl Streep? Famed character actress. Doesn't shy away of appearing in a commercial blockbuster ("The Devil Wears Prada"). Also terrific in "Doubt".
--> Rachel Weisz? Girlfriend of Daniel Craig. Also doesn't shy away for spy movies ("The Bourne Legacy") and played a terrific villain in "Oz The Great And The Powerful".
--> Helen Mirren? Already played a British female spy in the new "Red"-franchise, together with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich.
Also, don't underestimate the "brand recognition" of director Sam Mendes. I think most of the above actresses haven't worked with Mendes yet, and Hollywood loves Mendes. Like with Javier Bardem, it could help in casting such an actress. And, like with Javier Bardem, the screenplay could be written with in mind a certain actress....like the screenplay is 'molded' around a certain actor/actress.
I....I really love @PanchitoPistoles idea!
Gosh I sure hope not! Ejiofor as Blofeld would be a terrible miscast.
Not overly enthusiastic about the possibility, but would rather see him than Ejiofor.
Ski World Cup action at the Rettenbachferner this weekend, for the opening of the 2014/15 season.
Which I mentioned before. Absolutely amazing ski slopes there :-). When Austria was putting forward Augsburg as host city for the 2014 winter Olympics, they wanted to do the alpine skiing events in Sölden, off course on the Rettenbachferner slopes.
I was talking about Quantum, not necessarily Blofeld.
Isn't it possible that Lea Seydoux will be a villain that could be part of the henchman/villainess dynamic even if the main villain is male?
All the same, he looks very young and youthful to be the leader of such an organization. I am sure he is a great actor, but I cannot picture him ordering around Mr White or Dominic Greene. Or Guy Haines for that matter. Anyway, there are less and less chances that he will play a role now, although I wouldn't completely eliminate it until we hear some serious rumours about someone else. I don't think we can take the rumors about Mark Strong nearly as seriously.
Possible but unlikely, if the rumours about the big male henchman villain are true. She could play a Fiona Volpe type of character, but the movies when there was a sexy henchwoman as Bond girl never had strong or very important "physical" henchmen. In TB, Bond fights mano a mano Emilio Largo, the main antagonist, in YOLT Hans is a non entity, in in GE Bond goes against Trevelyan. You could even count AVTAK in the mix. In TWINE Elektra is meant to be the main villain, thus Renard is the henchman (a stupid classification by Michael Apted, but there you go), in FRWL the villainess is repulsive and it could be argued that Grant is the main antagonist, even though he is the henchman.
My hypothesis, but it is entirely speculative: Léa Seydoux might play a Janet Leigh/Marion Crane type of character: important at the first third of the movie, dies in dramatic circumstances and this trigger the development of the plot. I believe Mendes is a Hitchcock fan, so I wouldn't be surprised if something of the sort was happening.
Maybe Léa Seydoux is the main Bond girl? In any case, I think she is more important than the usual minor Bond girl. For the villain, maybe they are keeping their card close to their chest? They have someone in mind and they want it to come up as a surprise. My bet: he will be semi-famous without being a big star, a la Javier Bardem.
If that was the case, then I wouldn't mind. But who would say no to a Bond movie? Okay, unless it is DAD. Maybe they decided after script rewrites that Ejiofor was not right for the role?
I see what you're saying and I agree with your Hitchcock idea, but that idea could also work if Lea Seydux played a Helga Brandt type character. A henchwoman who could have just fallen for Bond and died because of it, but she actually wanted to kill Bond for her own safety and fails, leading to her dramatic death.
But again a character's development and involvement in the film doesn't have to be based on old characters who could be considered similar, especially since henchwomen aren't exactly a Bond trademark.