Spectres from the past haunt trailer for latest 007 movie
FANS watching the trailer for the new James Bond film, Spectre, may experience a sense of déjà vu.
The action sequences, including some spectacular helicopter stunts, are as up-to-the-minute as the guns and gadgets. But it also contains tantalising clues that the film will revisit Bond films past – and maybe even feature its greatest ever villain, Blofeld.
Spectre, as Bond aficionados will know, is the name of Blofeld’s shadowy
crime organisation. The villain in the latest film, played by Christoph Waltz, is dressed in similar style to Blofeld, as played by Donald Pleasance in You Only
Live Twice.
Waltz’s character also hints that he has been a presence throughout Bond’s life, uttering the mysterious line: “You came across me so many times, yet you never saw me.”
There are other parallels with previous Bond films in the trailer. Daniel Craig’s 007 pays a visit to a clinic in the Swiss Alps, as George Lazenby did in
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. A train journey on what looks like the Orient Express echoes a trip made by Sean Connery in From Russia With Love. And an opening sequence at Mexico City’s Day of the Dead festival is reminiscent of scenes in Live and Let Die.
The plot of Spectre, released in October, involves Bond going rogue and asking Q to make him “disappear”.
It will be the second and last Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, who recently admitted he initially thought the casting of Craig was a “terrible idea” but changed his mind after seeing him in the role.