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Not sure if it is an indication of anything. Regretfully, I might add, as I would love to see Scandinavia featured.
No, because Fleming used the name and the original character has yet to be adapted faithfully on the big screen. All the public has is a number of tropes that are foreign to the original Blofeld and completely irrelevant to him as a character.
Sort of like Thrush in The Man From UNCLE, an organization with thousands of employees on the U.S. West Coast alone.
Is it possible that video only plays in the U.S. market? I don't know, just raising the possibility.
I got the message in the beginning that it's only available in the US (I hate it when that happens), but then it decided to play for me anyway. :) Then I tried to watch something else there, and it didn't work. :(
Has it? Who except fans and some critics know the name?
I'd be very happy to see an evil headquarters in the fjords and a skiing scene in the next Bond movie. Sounds like just the dose of OTT the series needs right about now.
I was in Sweden twenty years ago and even then I thought it was an ideal place for a Bond movie.
He has been to Scandanavia--Iceland and the people are considered Scandanavians. So crank up that DVD and re watch DAD...LOL\
Actually, Iceland is not Scandinavia.
"Scandinavia[a] is a historical and cultural-linguistic region in Northern Europe characterized by a common ethno-cultural Germanic heritage and related languages, which includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
Sometimes the term Scandinavia is also incorrectly taken to include Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Finland, on account of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries.[2] Such usage, however, may be considered inaccurate in the area itself, where the term Nordic countries instead refers to this broader group."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia.
There's another link to the Charlie Rose interview for those who didn't catch it beforehand.
Where did Empire mention us?
Craig on skis? Now that is something we'd all like to see. Lazenby started it but he was graceful, Moore and Brosnan I could also buy them donning skis. Craig? Now that would be interesting... :)
I think he'd make it look nasty - in a good way. Accentuating the real sense of danger. There'd be some crunching of goon bone on the way down the slopes.
What does it say Willy? Does it mention what we are all hoping for in Bond 24 to any degree?
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=40906
Here you go @RogueAgent and @4EverBonded. :D
Here's the text from the article:
"Veteran American interviewer Charlie Rose has had plenty of big scoops over the years, but his latest piece of entertainment news is pretty huge (for Bond fans, at any rate). Speaking to Sam Mendes, the topic of 007 and Skyfall naturally came up, and there were quite a few enlightening details, as picked up by Bond fan site mi6-hq.com.
First of all, Mendes explained his decision to direct Bond 24 after initially balking when he realised that he'd started a "number of stories that were incomplete", adding "I cast a new M, I cast a new Moneypenny, I cast a new Q. I felt there was a second part of a two-part story... " He also mentions that hearing the first Skyfall audience's roar of happiness - the "orgy of nostalgia", as he puts it - when the Aston Martin DB5 was revealed helped persuade him.
Also making things easier was Bond HQ's willingness to be flexible. "[It helped] when [Eon] agreed to wait a little longer and not go immeadiately - not go with two movies [and instead] go with one, which I felt very strongly about."
He also mentions that Bond 24 will feel like the second part of Skyfall, although it will not have a direct narrative continuation. Scriptwriter John Logan has so far refused to comment on the two-part story idea now being disbanded, so it's fascinating to learn that Bond will now be back in individual - albeit connected - installments.
The full interview is well worth watching, but if you just want to hear more about Daniel Craig's super spy alter-ego, jump to around 17 minutes in."
"Veteran American interviewer Charlie Rose has had plenty of big scoops over the years, but his latest piece of entertainment news is pretty huge (for Bond fans, at any rate). Speaking to Sam Mendes, the topic of 007 and Skyfall naturally came up, and there were quite a few enlightening details, as picked up by Bond fan site mi6-hq.com."
Congratulations to MI6 for this notice.
It is the connected bit that I find intriguing.
I think it basically means more obvious character development.
I think the central story is going to be unrelated to SF, but that character development and Bond's relationships with colleagues will pick up where SF left off. So there will be character development/continuity in a way that has perhaps not been explored very much in the past, where essentially everything always remained the same.
Just asking. He actually put a link in to our website in the article.
Aston Martin released the announcement that their next generation of vehicles will be built on an all new platform, replacing the aging, decade-old chassis that underpins their current models. The new frame, along with a new Mercedes-Benz sourced engine, should debut with a 2016 model-year replacement for the DB9.
That replacement is likely what Michael Wilson hinted at for the 'never before seen' Aston in Bond 24, as the model year is usually 1 year ahead of the actual production year (i.e. 2016 model year goes on sale in 2015).
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/aston-martin/db9/86806/aston-martin-developing-all-new-platform-for-db9
Which seems highly logical, considering that SF ended with Craig only just having got slightly acquainted with three new central characters.