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I tend to agree with this. Maybe an actor known for his nice guy roles, playing fatherly figures, would work best. And I am not necessarily saying King Lear (who is the epitome of lousy father), but someone who often plays friendly characters.
I wouldn't mind if they did some kind of remake of OHMSS, but updating it and re-imagining the plot in order to differentiate it from Peter Hunt's movie, and then adapting (at least partially) the YOLT book for the following movie.
Too old now. Too much like the spoofed Blofeld of old.
Yes, I was kind of just throwing it out there!
DeNiro has been typecast over the last 20 years, but has shown before that he can play anything. Loved him in Angel Heart.
Years ago, Ian McShane would have been great, but he is way too old now.
An observation/hypothesis: judging at the way both Moneypenny and the new M were introduced, if Blofeld is too, I think there's a good chance he'll be in the background and not revealed as Blofeld until the end of Bond 24 (or 25, 26, whatever). So we might want to look at the smaller roles.
The only way that I think I'd be OK with bringing Blofeld back is if there was the promise that his arc would end with a faithful adaptation of You Only Live Twice. Outside of that, I don't think he should be brought back.
In lieu of Blofeld, they could use General Grubozaboischikov. That said, the General's name being a twist of tongue, I think if they want to give Bond a nemesis, they'll go for Blofeld.
And I will make a bet here: if, for Bond 24, 25 or whichever, there is an unnamed villain only referred to by a title and/or a codename/nom de guerre (the Director, the Chairman, etc.), it will be revealed that he is Blofeld.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0269077/?ref_=tt_cl_t11
He's currently playing a dual role on the cable TV series DA VINCI'S DEMONS, as the evil "Pope Sixtus" (an imposter) and the true pope, his twin brother, being held prisoner in a dungeon beneath the Vatican.
Faulkner is an excellent baddie in the show, who uses his gravelly baritone to great effect. Each week on the show, when conferencing with his minions, I almost expect him to say, "Kill Bond... now!"
(He also played the Swiss banker who is memorably threatened by Michael Fassbinder's Magneto in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.)
I really would like to see Charles Dance take on a villainous role.
Going to see King Lear in a week. Will have a clearer idea about Simon Russell Beale, which I could already imagine as Blofeld.
Mike Meyers himself hasn't starred in anything non-animated in 6 years, and his last live-action vehicle, THE LOVE GURU, was a colossal flop, following the horror that was THE CAT IN THE HAT, which didn't make back its production/marketing budget . IMDB lists 'AUSTIN POWERS 4' as 'announced', but not even a projected release year. His hits still get some play, but they are becoming nostalgia, and the majority of younger viewers, whom the studios rely on for the bulk of ticket sales, eventually won't know and won't care.
So, if Eon decides to resurrect Blofeld (which they may or may not, in the short term), bald or with a full head of hair, it probably won't matter. If they do bring him back, I doubt he'd be full-blown Donald Pleasance type from YOLT. He definitely wouldn't be short and squat in that specific light-gray jacket.
Maybe he'd be bald, but with no white cat... or with short, cropped salt-and-pepper hair, and stroking a cat in one scene, as a historical nod to fans, but then cat-less for the duration... or in any number of other ways, possibly only 'Ernst Stavros Blofeld' in name only. However they present him, in the Craig era --and you just know they'd tinker with him, providing some new spin (good or bad) for a reboot-- he'd be a major badass, physically active and eventually fighting 007 one-on-one, like Telly Savalas did in OHMSS, so I think that itself would erase pretty much any residual danger of outright mockery from the majority of audiences, beyond the norm that any major blockbuster receives.
This isn't as crazy as it sounds, because to me the biggest problem is that the original Blofeld has been parodied to death such that any villain with that name bearing a Nehru jacket and a white cat is out of the question for a future Bond film. However just taking a random villain and naming him Blofeld without any visible connection to previous incarnations will seem rather arbitrary - for example Dominic Greene could easily have been named 'Ernst Blofeld' with no other changes to the script.
So an interesting way to get around this would be for the character to reappear as a female head of a criminal organisation, perhaps with a link to, say, her father?