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  • fromswedenwithlovefromswedenwithlove
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    Well as previously stated, since the post has been deleted, that's pretty much as close as you could get without official confirmation. Really liked him in the "Kingsman" movies, which is another thing that surprises me if he's involved with B25. I simply assumed that they wouldn't want to include Kingsman-actors in the Bond-world. Since those films are so obviously pastiche.
  • PanchitoPistolesPanchitoPistoles 2.0
    Posts: 4,619
    Murdock wrote: »
    =))
    No, it's true. I'm sure many here would be very happy with Strong playing the main villain, but in more sophisticated spheres of society him being cast as the main villain would be seen as an incredibly lazy and uninspired choice.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 41,011
    PanchitoPistoles wrote: »
    Murdock wrote: »
    =))
    No, it's true. I'm sure many here would be very happy with Strong playing the main villain, but in more sophisticated spheres of society him being cast as the main villain would be seen as an incredibly lazy and uninspired choice.

    Understandable to some degree, but to say the film is "in big trouble" for it? Talk about an overexaggeration.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,361
    PanchitoPistoles wrote: »
    Murdock wrote: »
    =))
    No, it's true. I'm sure many here would be very happy with Strong playing the main villain, but in more sophisticated spheres of society him being cast as the main villain would be seen as an incredibly lazy and uninspired choice.

    Understandable but to say the film is in trouble is being a bit overdramatic don't you think?
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited June 2018 Posts: 17,821
    Mark Strong is one of those actors I'm always happy to see in a cast list. Him in any kind of role in Bond 25 would be good news.

    If Strong had been cast some years ago - sporting a good wig, I'd even be happy to see him play Bond.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
    Posts: 8,255
    If the main villain is female a formidable, muti-dimensional lead henchman, who possesses a certain degree of sophistication would be a nice compliment; Strong would fit that role nicely. He's physically imposing and could be a physical challenge for Bond.
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    People seriously think the main villain would be announced on social media by his PT? Come on, now. Let’s calm down.
  • LeChiffreLeChiffre
    Posts: 1,548
    Mark Strong as Blofeld?
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    Posts: 10,592
    Personally I think this is the Morocco photo with Strong and Craig all over again.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,361
    jake24 wrote: »
    Personally I think this is the Morocco photo with Strong and Craig all over again.

    Agreed.
  • WalecsWalecs On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    Posts: 3,157
    I bet tomorrow CashleyPersia will claim that a friend of his spotted Mark Strong at EON's office and he'll go like "guys, I've got friends in the film industry, you heard it hear first!"
  • Goldeneye0094Goldeneye0094 Conyers, GA
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    The Instagram Post was just deleted perhaps EON got onto mark strong's personal trainer
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    I’d rather have Mark Strong be the villain than Helena Bonham Carter. She’s overexposed and overacts. He’s underrated and is great even in bad movies.
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    MaxCasino wrote: »
    I’d rather have Mark Strong be the villain than Helena Bonham Carter. She’s overexposed and overacts. He’s underrated and is great even in bad movies.

    She is?

  • GetafixGetafix
    edited June 2018 Posts: 11,425
    i would quite like it if they recast blofeld . it would be an amusing nod to the old films.

    after all it's a tradition that blofeld is never played by the same actor
  • Pierce2DanielPierce2Daniel
    Posts: 4,412
    Previously, I was very keen for a Blofeld reprisal. However, now that we have Danny Boyle and the promise of an exciting new direction, I'm hoping Blofeld can be shelved. You can always bring back the character, perhaps for Craig's sixth film (which " hope we don't see) or even for a new actor.

    I can take or leave Waltz in the role. I'd have loved to see him really own the part, but the script for Spectre never really gave him the opportunity (nor did he really capitalise on the material given).

    I want a new villain. Something purely from the mind of Danny Boyle and John Hodge. I don't think they'd cast Strong as the "main villain". I think he's either an ally to Bond or a secondary villain.

    He really looks the role though (perhaps that's why Hollywood casts him in every bad buy part)

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    Personally, I'm sold on the idea of a female villain. Someone like Cate Blanchett or Nicole Kidman would be perfect.

    Whatever happens, Danny Boyle wraps the Beatles films next week, so Bond news is forthcoming.
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
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    Mark Strong looks like Telly Blofeld.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    fjdinardo wrote: »
    Mark Strong looks like Telly Blofeld.

    Good point. He does rather look like Telly, doesn't he?

    Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind Strong as Blofeld.
  • barryt007barryt007
    edited June 2018 Posts: 19,339
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    fjdinardo wrote: »
    Mark Strong looks like Telly Blofeld.

    Good point. He does rather look like Telly, doesn't he?

    Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind Strong as Blofeld.

    They should have gone with Strong from the start,he is the perfect choice to be a Blofeld who is Bond's equal.

  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,264
    barryt007 wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    fjdinardo wrote: »
    Mark Strong looks like Telly Blofeld.

    Good point. He does rather look like Telly, doesn't he?

    Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind Strong as Blofeld.

    They should have gone with Strong from the start,he is the perfect choice to be a Blofeld who is Bond's equal.

    Agreed, @barryt007! To be honest, I'm cursing myself for never having even considered Strong as Blofeld before. It makes perfect sense. Physically, he looks stronger and more menacing than Waltz in my opinion.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Both are cliches at this point.
    doubleoego wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    I’d rather have Mark Strong be the villain than Helena Bonham Carter. She’s overexposed and overacts. He’s underrated and is great even in bad movies.

    She is?

    Well she was when she was in every Tim Burton movie and Harry Potter. It was always I'm crazy and I'm going to over act. He is slow and builds up menace with his performances.
  • peterpeter Toronto
    edited June 2018 Posts: 9,511
    For those interested in where Boyle is at on the Beatles film, @ColonelSun says it's been incorrectly reported here that it wraps next week.

    It wraps "mid to end of July."
  • AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    fjdinardo wrote: »
    Mark Strong looks like Telly Blofeld.

    Good point. He does rather look like Telly, doesn't he?

    Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind Strong as Blofeld.

    They should have gone with Strong from the start,he is the perfect choice to be a Blofeld who is Bond's equal.

    Also, the Blofeld of the novels was a large, imposing guy, especially in Thunderball.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    edited June 2018 Posts: 15,423
    Recently, whenever I turn the pages of OHMSS, I can't help but see Vincent Cassel as Blofeld.

    That novel particularly, of course. Not the one before nor the one after.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
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    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Recently, whenever I turn the pages of OHMSS, I can't help but see Vincent Cassel as Blofeld.

    That novel particularly, of course. Not the one before nor the one after.

    Vincent Cassel is a Bond villain waiting to happen!
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Recently, whenever I turn the pages of OHMSS, I can't help but see Vincent Cassel as Blofeld.

    That novel particularly, of course. Not the one before nor the one after.

    I always had a hankering for Day Lewis to play that version, but I can totally buy Cassel. It’s the literary version I most want to be committed to screen.
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
    Posts: 1,989
    I always see Telly's Blofeld every time I read the specter novels./
  • timmertimmer
    edited June 2018 Posts: 4,622
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    fjdinardo wrote: »
    Mark Strong looks like Telly Blofeld.

    Good point. He does rather look like Telly, doesn't he?

    Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind Strong as Blofeld.

    They should have gone with Strong from the start,he is the perfect choice to be a Blofeld who is Bond's equal.

    Agreed, @barryt007! To be honest, I'm cursing myself for never having even considered Strong as Blofeld before. It makes perfect sense. Physically, he looks stronger and more menacing than Waltz in my opinion.

    Strong would make a very formidable Blofeld. That would be excellent casting. The scar could be carried over from the last film, included as part an evolved YOLT (film) look, but with Strong's imposing physique echoing book Blofeld.
    Blofeld is a chameleon. Boyle & Strong could shape him as they saw fit. There would be no need to reference the brother angle, even obliquely. That can be left as a narrative quirk of the last film.
    Now the pair could move on, to again being enemies with battle history, which they sure do have now.
    Speaking of YOLT, we may yet see a riff on the Shatterhand story.
    I think that was the plan for a while. Could still be, but Boyle's emergence on the scene, and whatever he's got cooking, may have put off the Shatterhand angle.
    Still Strong as Ernst is very intriguing, no matter what the story.
    I would really like to see Ernst and Spectre continue as recurring presence, which as we learned in the last film, has been going on all along anyway.
    Blofeld could be lead villain or behind the scenes, to fresh foreground villain, such as a Greene or Silva type driving the story.
    There is something very exciting about Spectre as continuing threat to global stability, an apolitical criminal organization bent on world domination and/or control with OO7 as chief nemesis

  • LeChiffreLeChiffre
    Posts: 1,548
    But Mark Strong looks nothing like Charles Gray!
  • RC7RC7
    edited June 2018 Posts: 10,512
    I don’t see Strong as Blofeld, other than a parody, and I’ve no real interest in SPECTRE as a recurring villain. The two things make me cringe, in fact. We already moved on and when we went back it was royally ballsed up.

    Happy to see a fleeting glimpse/mention in future, but they can’t drop the ball again.

    The idea of standalone films with intriguing one-off villains is where I’m at.
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