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Understandable to some degree, but to say the film is "in big trouble" for it? Talk about an overexaggeration.
Understandable but to say the film is in trouble is being a bit overdramatic don't you think?
If Strong had been cast some years ago - sporting a good wig, I'd even be happy to see him play Bond.
Agreed.
She is?
after all it's a tradition that blofeld is never played by the same 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)
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.
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.
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.
It wraps "mid to end of July."
Also, the Blofeld of the novels was a large, imposing guy, especially in Thunderball.
That novel particularly, of course. Not the one before nor the one after.
Vincent Cassel is a Bond villain waiting to happen!
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.
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
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.