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I hope we'll get some new photos or videos today.
There never have been so many photos/videos from the Bondset. We're spoiled here with SP ;-)
Totally. They look like characters instead of just "another bad boy"
I think at this stage that's indeed quite the bold statement ;-). But I always thought that bringing back "SPECTRE" in a completely new, re-invented way could really help the franchise as much as the novel "Casino Royale" helped the necessary kick-off of an entire new Bond timeline.
Promotion-wise, publicity-wise "SPECTRE" is also shaping up to become big, very very big. A recent dark James Bond fan film concept ( http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=11693&t=mi6&s=news ) and the upcoming comic-relief sketch with Roger Moore and Daniel Craig as 007 ( https://www.list.co.uk/article/68959-sir-roger-moore-reprises-role-as-james-bond-for-comic-relief/ ) are wonderful means of free marketing for the film. Add up the official video blogs, the craziness surrounding the Rome filming (I haven't seen this with "Skyfall". It's literally crowded with guys making selfies there, day after day!) and an unprecedented early teaser trailer release later this month, and the publicity machine for this Bond film clearly shows that they wanna be an even bigger box office success than "Skyfall".
"Mission: Impossible 5"? "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."? "Furious 7"? "Kingsman"?You're here to serve Her Majesty's Most Loyal Terrier: Agent 007 ;-)!
By the way. The bald villains look absolutely DOPE :-P! Just look at Mr Lanzetta. Simply scary!
Both are not mutually exclusive. I do think they are using elements from MR (again) and using the baldness as red herring.
http://websta.me/p/934320201588157399_33822185
http://websta.me/p/934333560379287798_33822185
http://websta.me/p/934295065897291273_519013410
http://websta.me/p/934263003975196339_29283782
By "the real thing", do you mean Blofeld? They won't cast a no-name actor to play the main villain of the Craig era...
Whilst I'm sure that he isn't playing "The Big Bad", I disagree with your assessment. Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric and Jesper Christensen weren't big names in English speaking movies. Similarly, Peppe Lanzetta isn't unheard of in Italy, but he isn't a big name over here.
Eon look world wide when casting for the Bond films, and if they find an actor who is strong enough to handle the role of Blofeld, he will be considered - regardless of whether he's a "no-name" actor in mainstream movies.
mmm not a so big name here either. I never heard of him before he was cast for Spectre
The reason I don't think they'll hire a no name actor for Blofeld is because the reveal seems somewhat inevitable. Having a no name is a bit of a damp squib, where someone like Waltz would bring gravitas to it and if was to turn out he would be back, that is a big draw for the wider audience. The film is called SPECTRE, so for those that 'know what that means' as Sam said, that indicates we'll see Blofeld or at least allude to him, so the reveal will be as much about the journey as the reveal itself I would guess. When Silva says 'Say my real name' in SF, that would've been a genuine twist, but in SP I feel like the joy will come from the inevitable, but the twists and turns along the way will hopefully make for an enjoyable ride. That's why my gut says Waltz as Blofeld.
True. But in all honesty I'm also way more confident now that the Blofeld-reveal will be done at least way more smarter and more ingeniously as compared to, let's say, the Khan-reveal in the blunted "Star Trek: Into Darkness".
And this article is hinting to that:
http://www.filmdivider.com/8910/the-first-promotional-video-for-spectre-and-a-little-extra-information-on-what-it-shows-us/
I'm still not entirely convinced though that the character Franz Oberhauser IS Ernst Stavro Blofeld. As there's a 2nd, more secondary, story about Bond's childhood with the Oberhauser family in "SPECTRE", I can not believe that the character Franz Oberhauser is actually entirely fake in the film.
The Hoffler Klinik in Austria could have something to do with this unresolved question. Could Christoph Waltz play two characters? Is there a doppelgänger in place? Also, I'm starting to believe that Blofeld won't be revealed yet in "SPECTRE"...just hinted at.
I also have an idea that at the end of "SPECTRE" we'll get the title reveal of "Bond 25" ;-). Last time it was done with "Octopussy". So perhaps it could be something like this:
"The End of SPECTRE"
"But James Bond Will Return In:"
"The Hildebrand Rarity"
Do we know that the familial angle is a subplot, though? It feels to me like it will cast quite a shadow over the film. I honestly don't believe this is a straight mission, even if it appears to be. I'm still hoping that Oberhauser is a pseudonym. I like the idea of Blofeld toying with Bond psychologically by appearing to be such a character. This is Blofeld after all, his ability to shapeshift is well known. It's very personal, but if Quantum is a faction of SPECTRE, Bond could be seen as the key thorn in the side of their operations. For someone like ESB it wouldn't be a stretch for him to build up a background story of Bond. Who knows, maybe it'll be revealed that Silva was under the employ of ESB too.
Thanks to Ilario Citton for the photo
For the record I've been against a bald Blofeld but it is an hypothesis.
Like you, I really don't want them to go down the bald route, but with Mendes clearly favouring visual cinematic tropes over Fleming visuals it wouldn't surprise me. Your hypothesis is in line with what Mendes has been doing with reintroduction of characters, where they 'become' the character later in the film. Perhaps, rather than pro-actively changing his appearance, he's actually disfigured in some way during a confrontation or in a set-piece or something? Maybe we see how he got the YOLT scar?
Thanks for the photo @SkyfallCraig
Because I think Mendes enjoys character too much, I just get the impression that the thrust for him is Bond as a human being. I keep reading that this is Bond back to normal, gets a mission from Mallory, goes out and kicks ass. Maybe that will happen in a sense, but I don't think it's going to be quite that simple. I feel character and Bond's personal neuroses will come to the fore again, as it did in SF. I guess what I'm saying is I still feel like this will be a character story again, in a way that the bulk of the canon aren't. I might be way off, just a feeling I've had ever since he came back.
I hope they don't go for the scar. Beside let's not forget that Blofeld has been to say the least very inconsistently pictured in the movies. And they have also often mentioned the spoof of Myers as the place not to go. Furthermore, they seem eager also to use as much of the novels as they can.
Another hypothesis: in the first drafts, which I believe was before they had the rights to Blofeld, they may not even have him at all and Oberhauser may have been the main villain, Blofeld without the name. They may have turned him into Blofeld at a later rewrite.
I hope they don't go for the scar either, I just wonder whether he'll go full on Fleming or nod to the Pleasance incarnation. It wouldn't surprise me if it was a twist on the scarred face. Re. your second point, this would be interesting to know. I'll be intrigued to see what happened with P+W stepping in. I suspect Logan probably pushed things into soap opera territory and P+W were brought in to dial it back, given the Bond's childhood talk we've been privy to.