James Bond 24 - Part 3

[DKDetective]

If Waltz is indeed Blofeld, I really hope that it's not a fake-out red herring name reveal like Khan in "Star Trek Into Darkness". No need to tiptoe around it.

Actually, as much as I hate Star Trek Into Darkness, I totally disagree. That is a large part of who Blofeld is in the novels. He is a former spy himself and chameleon. Two Bond novels involve Blofeld posing as someone else. The whole Khan-reveal was problematic for a whole bunch of other issues like the whitewashing of the character, Abrams' silly mystery box, who the character is, etc.

 

[Chesterfield]

Deadline are reporting that Monica Bellucci is in the mix to join Bond 24.

https://deadline.com/2014/12/james-bond-24-title-cast-revealed-live-pinewood-1201305919/

Please let this be true!!

 

[747]

About time for some official Bond 24 news!

The casting & title announcement event was exciting for Skyfall, and this time we don't know as much beforehand – even more exciting!

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

Also, Largo along with pretty much every other Bond villain from the novels/early films is story specific. As you mentioned, Largo's whole being is as the Italian vulgarian, whose weakness for women Bond exploits through Domino. The only villain who transcends that story-specificity and is an independent recurring character who can be transposed from story to story like M, Moneypenny, Q, Tanner, etc. is Blofeld.

Of course he is also second in command at SPECTRE and was groomed to be successor to Blofeld should anything happen to him.
Largo is a character with a very interesting backstory that just didn't go nowhere since Fleming decided to kill him off in the same novel he was introduced.
But I'm not married to the idea of Waltz as Largo, I just thought it would be a nice twist with the expectations of him playing Blofeld

 

[regwec]

Magnificent lady though Monica Bellucci is and remains, she now looks considerably more matriarchal than the pictures above may suggest. I think her time for being a Bond girl has passed.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Deadline are reporting that Monica Bellucci is in the mix to join Bond 24.

Please let this be true!!

My bella, Bellucci, please let this be true! We need to go back to Bond girls/women who are within Bond's age range (Monica is a little bit older than Daniel Craig, but that just makes the sexual energy hotter IMO).

Remember that the very first Bond girl on film was actually a couple of years older than Connery was.

 

[regwec]

Casting a 51 year old woman as a Bond...lady would seem a very cool thing for a studio to do, but I am very sceptical that it will happen.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Casting a 51 year old woman as a Bond...lady would seem a very cool thing for a studio to do, but I am very sceptical that it will happen.

Heck, even at 51 Monica is on my "celebrity exceptions" list. t:

 

[Rodrigo90]

Jane Collins in her 70's is still very do'able to me

 

[JMLZ]

Joan Collins? Jane Seymour?

 

[Chesterfield]

Both lol

 

[Rodrigo90]

Both for me too

 

[Matt Mortem]

So was Waltz confirmed or was it rumor?

 

[The Englishman]

So was Waltz confirmed or was it rumor?

Everything will be confirmed Thursday...

 

[baerrtt]

Casting a 51 year old woman as a Bond...lady would seem a very cool thing for a studio to do, but I am very sceptical that it will happen.

In SKYFALL the Bond Girl pretty much turned out to be Judi Dench's Mt:.

The Craig era, with each film, gets bolder in trying to make the Bond formula not feel as...formulaic as it could get in the past and casting an actress older than their leading man is a surefire way to continue that.

 

[Airwings]

To everybody who's against The property of a lady. It's not more bad than The world is not enough. Both come from a previous Bond film. TWINE was a line in OHMSS and TPOAL was the exclusive egg in Octopussy.
When they named Brosnan's third film, they went back 30 years in a desperate search for a suitable title. To have something "belong to a lady" in the next one wouldn't be far fetched at all.

 

[Pink Ranger]

In SKYFALL the Bond Girl pretty much turned out to be Judi Dench's Mt:.

The Craig era, with each film, gets bolder in trying to make the Bond formula not feel as...formulaic as it could get in the past and casting an actress older than their leading man is a surefire way to continue that.

Bond 24: Goldcougar

To everybody who's against The property of a lady. It's not more bad than The world is not enough. Both come froma previous Bond film. TWINE was a line in OHMSS and TPOAL was the exclusive egg in Octopussy.
When they named Brosnan's third film, they went back 30 years in a desperate search for a suitable title. To have something "belong to a lady" in the next one wouldn't be far fetched at all.

TPOAL is a fine title for a book, but from a business perspective it is a terrible title for an action thriller movie. For a movie that is mass-marketed, you cannot leave money on the table, and a movie title that to most Americans sounds like a British costume drama will create brand confusion and stop a statistically significant proportion of your target audience from seeing it.

 

[MrMaooz]

I won't be able to watch the stream, but I am looking forward to all the news and confirmations!

 

[Airwings]

TPOAL is a fine title for a book, but from a business perspective it is a terrible title for an action thriller movie. For a movie that is mass-marketed, you cannot leave money on the table, and a movie title that to most Americans sounds like a British costume drama will create brand confusion and stop a statistically significant proportion of your target audience from seeing it.

I can assure you that the film will get a lot of commercial exposure beforehand and people will know it's an action blockbuster. The poster featuring Daniel Craig will also be seen everywhere, not just inside cinemas.
If somebody actually is confusing the film with a British rom com, I very much suspect that person to not have any interest in James Bond, to not watch TV, to almost never go to a cinema, or even outside at all. They why suddenly leave home to see a Bond film?

 

[chamber-music]

Casting a 51 year old woman as a Bond...lady would seem a very cool thing for a studio to do, but I am very sceptical that it will happen.

The Milf/Cougar thing is very popular these days

I still wouldn't turn Monica Bellucci down.

 

[regwec]

Nor would I, but its questionable whether the lady herself may want to be perceived in that way. I suppose only she could answer that.

Edit: I don't want to seem unkind by posting them here, but you can easily find photos of Monica from recent months that really do show her looking quite mature.

 

[chamber-music]

Monica Bellucci had no problem playing a breast feeding prostitute in Shoot 'Em Up a few years ago so I don't think she is too worried about how she is perceived.

Bellucci would make a great henchwoman, femme fatale, villainess or informant/contact.

 

[regwec]

I think the last part is correct: she could easily play M's opposite number in the Deuxième Bureau (as she if Francophone), which is a fairly likely role to arise, given that we have a French Bond girl. Or the Italian equivalent.

 

[Dark Raven]

Maybe she's playing Blofeld's wife? That would add some substance to him by giving him a family. Blofeld could be almost like Wilson Fisk the Kingpin.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Edit: I don't want to seem unkind by posting them here, but you can easily find photos of Monica from recent months that really do show her looking quite mature.

A lot of women look pretty haggard without makeup and in the wrong light. She can easily become her usual bewitching self for this movie. I saw her recent photos from Cannes; nothing there that any other actress in Hollywood has to deal with, including those younger than her.