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If Waltz plays Blofeld and Sam and the producers don't want to announce that than they will need someone to announce as the main villain. I'm pretty sure there will be a third important bad guy in the movie (and I'm also pretty sure there will be a Bond girl other than Lea, but that's another story).
christ - i am getting myself dizzy with all this assumption and speculation..... there are still what, 2 weeks before the presser?.. supposedly?... i'm sure more will come out between now and then.
"It could well have gone like this. One bit of information says - At the press conference, Christoph Waltz will be unveiled as a character called Franz Oberhauser. Where as info from a different source says - The main villain in Bond 24 turns out to be Blofeld, who has been reimagined for the new films in a non-camp form. All you have to do is assume that Waltz is playing the main villain and you get the Mail's story. I believe that there is a serious possibility that these are actually unrelated bits of news."
so, more or less that the Mail is just taking 2 different rumors and combining them into their own new rumor?.... i could see that.
I said exactly the same @PanchitoPistoles, and you debunked that completely.
I meant the above quote @PanchitoPistoles ;-)
Wouldn't be the first time they'd do something like that. After ask this is the Daily Fail, the only reliable person they have is Baz.
Ok, I wrote that because the way you wrote that Waltz may not be Blofeld sounded like you thinking that the writers of the article simply made up that he IS Blofeld. The columnists mixing two insider infos together would explain Waltz not playing Blofeld without them lying.
Let's see how it goes buddy. But if Blofeld returns, I'm confident he will be revealed-introduced with great care and attention to detail. This will not be a "Star Trek: Into Darkness"-affair. That movie really disappointed me, because I expect.....EXPLORATION in a Trek-film. Like with "Interstellar". No, with Blofeld in Bond 24 we're in for a wunderful piece of nuanced storytelling, spread out over perhaps two films. And with drama-director Sam Mendes the character will come across multi-layered, with gravita and complexity.
If they really end up using Blofeld I think the key is to pretend Blofeld never existed before on the silver screen or at least to assume that the vast majority of the moviegoers toda have NO IDEA who Blofeld is. Star Trek: Into Darkness failed because the filmmakers assumed the moviegoers knew or cared who Khan was, while the reality was that most people (including me) had no idea who this character was or why he was supposed to be so significant and dangerous. In other words, instead of building the character up from 0 in the new movie they relied on the character's past history within the franchise.
They might have written first a villain who did not have Blofeld's name, but could become Blofeld if they had got the rights in time, which they did.
It's possible to write a great Bond screenplay with gravitas and lots of drama without the mission being personal for Bond.
*Plus, Lea would look epic alongside Waltz and Bautista, if Waltz turns out to be a villain of course and would love to see a Bond girl vs Bond girl fight sequence coordinated by Gary Powell.
http://www.kleinezeitung.at/k/kaernten/osttirol/4602113/OBERTILLIACH_Obertilliacher-Ortseinfahrt-ist-Baustelle?from=suche.intern.portal
I have to agree with this. Most, if not all, Fleming books relied upon personal.
Outside the fan community, I doubt that anyone truly knows who Blofeld is. Same about Khan in Star Trek, actually: for trekkers, he was Kirk's nemesis. For others, Kirk's nemesis was that guy from the second Star Trek movie. IF Waltz is Blofeld, at least they got the casting right, which was not the case with Khan in the last Star Trek movie (too young, too British, too whitewashed). Now IF the rumors are correct about Blofeld being only revealed as Blofeld throughout the movie, after being introduced first as an ally, then we can safely assume that he will not have the appearance that has been spoofed by Mike Myers and others. Which is maybe the only thing people remember of Blofeld outside the fan community (IMO and from what I observed anyway).
Now the question is: IF Waltz is Blofeld, how will his antagonism with Bond develop? Holmes considered Moriarty his nemesis as he had a brilliant intellect, matching his own. We don't have this with Blofeld: like many Bond villains he is smarter than Bond. So how will the personal dislike develop?
http://www.kleinezeitung.at/k/kaernten/osttirol/4602113/OBERTILLIACH_Obertilliacher-Ortseinfahrt-ist-Baustelle?from=suche.intern.portal
The problem with Khan IMO was that it was a shamelessly executed copy-pasted-work. That movie came very close to be actually a remake instead of a reboot. And that shows there's a complete lack of creativity in rebooting. That's something I'm afraid of also. BUT, I think Sam Mendes and his writers are way more intelligent with the concept of re-inventing, re-booting, than J.J. Abrahms. J.J. for me is nothing more than a slick marketeer that preys on the "pop corn audience". I don't like that.
I watched TDKR last week and felt it generally gets a bad rap. I thought it did a pretty good job of introducing Bane and incorporating the Bat folklore (broken back etc). It was a very ambitious plot (much more so than SF) and executed quite well given that.
As there's no spoiler in this article -it's mainly about behind-the-scenes work and setting up trailers/tents for the production crew-, this image won't hurt:
But by jolly, this production will be big man :-P.
Are we excited? Or are we EXCITED :D ??? I fucking love Bond hehe :-P. Ever since I saw my first Bond film in 1989....I truly believe with the Craig-era we live in a new Golden Era of Bond. Wun-der-ful actors by the way. Don't forget that Ralph Fiennes could probably get an Oscar nomination for his wunderful role in "The Grand Budapest Hotel".
By the way, this news is truly getting viral now hehe. Even Dutch state broadcaster NOS (Dutch BBC so to say) had this article about the man:
http://nos.nl/artikel/2005293-blofeld-keert-terug-in-nieuwe-bondfilm.html
Let the new reboot breathe some fresh air.
Me! I watched it yesterday... always love the pressconferences. I hope there will be a live video stream...