HAVEN’T WE MET BEFORE MR BOND?
Spectres from the past in trailer for 007’s £200m new movie
AFTER 23 adventures in 53 years, James Bond really has seen it all.
And, if the first trailer for Spectre is anything to go by, so have audiences.
The latest, £200million instalment appears to have lifted key scenes, characters and setpieces from previous Bond movies.
The two-and-a-half minute clip, released yesterday to much excitement from fans, contains sequences reminiscent of classics such as From Russia With Love and Thunderball.
The opening seconds show Bond, played by Daniel Craig, blasting his way through Mexi- co’s Day of the Dead festivities, harking back to 1965’s Thunderball when Sean Connery’s 007 is pursued through the Junkanoo Mardi Gras celebrations in nassau by agents of Spectre – the same criminal organisation that gives the new film its name.
In Mexico a character is shown in a skeleton mask, similar to the look of the villainous Baron Samedi in 1973’s Live And Let Die.
Another homage is a sequence on a train in which Bond enjoys a rendezvous with love interest Dr Madeleine Swann, played by Lea Seydoux, 30. It appears to be a nod to an encounter on the Orient Express between Connery’s 007 and Daniela Bianchi’s Tatiana Romanova in From Russia With Love in 1963 as they try to escape the clutches of Spectre.
Christoph Waltz, 58, is the new film’s villain, claiming in the trailer to be responsible for all of 007’s ‘misery’. The Austrian actor is rumoured to be playing Blofeld, the head of Spectre in a string of previous films, although there is also a resemblance to Dr no.
The trailer also shows Bond being chased by a plane, performing a barrel roll in a helicopter and driving an Aston Martin DB10 with built-in flamethrowers.
One spectacular moment sees Bond grappling with a man while hanging on to the edge of an airborne helicopter, recalling 1981’s For Your Eyes Only in which 007 wrests control of a flying helicopter and hoists a wheelchair-bound Blofeld into the air.
David Black, chairman of The James Bond International Fan Club, said: ‘There are definite nods back to old films, but that’s what people want.’ Spectre, directed by Sam Mendes, is due to be released in november.