SPECTRE is the 24th upcoming official movie of Eon Production and fourth for the 47-years old star Daniel Craig. The upcoming highly anticipated movie is going to release in this fall, the movie makers has wrapped up the production work recently and now the marketing work is gearing up. With only 007 weeks remaining in the upcoming thrilling movie we are going to discuss 007 fascinating things you should know about Bond’s upcoming thrilling movie.
James Bond Theme Singer
The 23-years old musical powerhouse Sam Smith officially announced that he has performed the latest Bond’s title track “Writing on the Wall”. Even after the Oscar winning performance of Skyfall theme singer Adele was not offered to do the honors second time. The new theme song is written by Grammy Award winner Sam Smith along with Jimmy Napes in just 20 minutes. Sam also posted via his official twitter account that he is so excited to be in the list of Bond theme singers, he further added that fans would definitely enjoy the song as much as he did while recording it. The latest Bond theme song will be available for sale and streaming on 25th September. The director Sam Mendes along with producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson praised the renowned British singer for his valuable addition in the movie series.
Tom Ford Dresses Bond in SPECTRE
We all knows that the superstar Daniel Craig presented all of us as modern 007, beyond his fantastic performance Craig’s exceptional clothing has played a major role to update Britain’s all time favorite spy. It is recently unveiled that Jany Temime has again chosen Tom Ford consecutively third time to dress James Bond. Tom Ford has previously worked twice with costume designer to provide costume made clothing and casual wear including suits, evening wear, coats, cardigans and various accessories including shirt, tie, and cufflinks. We have already seen the glimpse of Bond wardrobe in movie trailer, TV spots, and Vlogs. The latest Bond formalwear includes three-piece suit, classic white tuxedo to homepage Goldfinger, elegant Windowpane blue suit, and few other outfits including black greatcoat, navy Crombie coat.
It Could be Longest Bond Movie
The new James Bond movie probably going to break one more record of 007 franchise as it is expected to become the longest running movie throughout the series. The booking of new Bond film is started on 7th September, and according to the advance booking site of UK cinemas it is revealed that SPECTRE could be the longest Bond film with a run –time will be 2 hours and 40 minutes. Early reports also suggesting that original movie duration time is 155 and extra 5 minutes for the adverts. Although it not confirmed yet, it might be the estimated time given to cinema schedulers. Until now Daniel Craig’s debut Bond film has the longest time duration of 145 minutes, beating classic 007 flick On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by 3 mantes, whereas the latest movie Skyfall has the third longest run-time of 143 minutes.
Oldest Bond Girl
Bond girls are one of the vital elements of 007 films, from Ursula Andress to Bérénice Marlohe everyone has played a significant role to populate this film with a real talent. There is more than five decades completed since the debut of franchise but it is the first time iconic character of 007 finally matches his age. The 52-years old Monica Bellucci has been cast for the character of Lucia Sciarra, who is even five years older than Daniel Craig. It only happened twice before when the actress performed the character of Bond girl is elder than the actor, Ursula Andress was the first women who was older than actor Connery in Dr. No, whereas Diana Rigg who played Tracy Bond character was two years older than George Lazenby. The Academic Award winner Sam Mendes praised the performance of Monica in newly released Vlog #5.
It Will Be The Most Expensive Movie
The SPECTRE is set to be the most expensive James Bond film with huge budget of $300 Million. The hacking group named Guardians of the Peace attacked Sony Production Entertainment couple of times early this year and revealed many details regarding Daniel Craig’s latest outing. The leaked emails revealed that the head of MGM studio Jonathan Glickman emailed the co-producer of the movie Barbara Broccoli to reduce the cost by suggesting few ideas. Glickman first said that they can show more footage of Mexico to get the financial incentives of $6 Million, he then suggested to reduce the number of carriages from four to three used in a dramatic fight scene between Bond and Hinx on the location of Morocco to reduce the cost. The president of MGM has also said that they should meet the expectation of the auditions, but still it is necessary find further cuts for reducing the budget.
Sony Distribution Rights
The Word’s famous spy needs new distributors after the release of SPECTRE as the Sony Film Entertainment agreement expires with MGM in just few months. Sony Entertainment is currently co-financing and has distributing rights for 007 since Craig’s debut appearance in Casino Royale. The head of Sony Tom Rothman assured all 007 fans saying that they will be again compete for the Bond rights, but it expected that Warner Bros has the upper hand to takeover Sony once the movie hit the cinematic screen as both the MGM CEO Gary Barber and Warner Bros president Kevin Tsujihara are close friends. The head of Sony Production is quite confident that the upcoming 24th installment of the movie series will do the as great business as Skyfall did, which achieved the 1 Billion Milestone.
Lea Seydoux Will Play the Lead Bond Girl Role
The 30-years old French actress who is famous for her notable performances of Sabine Moreau in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, and Emma in the Blue Is the Warmest Colour going to portray the lead Bond girl in new hugely anticipated film. After seeing the movie official trailer and recent movie posters we all can determine that Madeleine Swann is the main Bond women whereas Monica Bellucci on the other side will play seducing Bond women role. Dr. Swann is the daughter of Bond’s old nemeses Mr. White who previously appeared in Casino Royale and then Quantum of Solace, now after the gap of Skyfall he is again returning for third time as bad guy. In the newly released Vlog the gorgeous French actress described her character saying that Madeleine is a sensitive Bond girl and key for Bond to reach the brutal and terrorist organization Other than Sam Mendes her co-actress Monica Bellucci admired the work of Lea Seydoux, she said Lea is very beautiful, talented, and great Bond girl.
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