It's an exciting early morning all around the world folks, as the cast and title of Bond 24 was revealed at a live press conference in Pinewood Studios in England an hour ago. The title of the movie will be... SPECTRE. Those of us who are hardcore Bond fans know what that name means, and how it signals the modern Bond mythos merging with the past one, bringing everything full circle.
Even more exciting is the revelation of the official cast, which includes Christoph Waltz as the lead villain, and Monica Belluci and Lea Seydoux as the Bond Girls. Or Bond Ladies, as director Sam Mendes (returning from SKYFALL) introduced them. Belluci and Seydoux previously played femme fatales in THE MATRIX RELOADED and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL, respectively, and their casting is very promising indeed. Belluci will play Lucia Schiara, and Seydoux will play Madeline Swan. No word as to which one of them will be good, bad, or good/bad.
Naomi Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Rory Kinnear, and Ben Whishaw will be returning as the MI-6 stalwarts aiding Bond. And, of course, there's Bond himself, the great Daniel Craig.
But without further ado, watch the live stream from England:
It's going to be great...
