Bond 25 SPOILER news (Page 1 of 114)

Good. I find it a little odd that "Balkan or simular" is mentioned both the Russian man and woman. Most Russians are Slavs and many people from Bulgaria andthe former Yugoslavia have some Slav blood, that's true. But Ukrainans, Poles and the former Checkoslovakia are perhaps more typical Slav areas.

I also wonder what type the Russians will play. Officials, oligarcs, inteligence officers, criminals or something else? I hope the plot doesn't revolver around the current political climate. They managed to to avoid that during the cold war and they should avoid it this time too.

I've previously speculated that Zeljko Ivanek, a Slovenian actor who is in 3 Billboards, or Czech actor Vladimir Kulich could be candidates for Blofeld. They'd be ethnically sufficient for the Russian man.

Yekaterina Rednikova is the right age, is Russian.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715104/?ref_=tt_cl_t2

And she co-starred in the film Archangel with Daniel Craig.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426911/?ref_=nm_knf_t3

SMERSH was actually an organisation to find and stop German infiltration of the Soviet  military during WWII. Fleming obviously made a fictitious version. I don't think they should bring SMERSH back as a part of the Russian state apparatus (or the "organs" as the intelligence services were often called), but  it could work if the villain starts an organisation inspired by the real SMERSH from Stalin's time.

Pushkin in TLD: That was a Beria operation in Stalin's time. It was deactivated 20 years ago. (More like 40 at the time)

I think this does mean New Zealand will be a location. It's about time Bond visited that part of the world.

Zeljko Ivanek has played villains, FBI/CIA Agents and such in many films. He was born in Slovenia but moved to the USA when he was three so he's probably much more American than Slovenian. That being said, while I don't necessarily imagine him as Blofeld, I'm sure he could do a great job as an Eastern European / Slavic villain or even a CIA or FBI Agent in a Bond film. How about this: he could play a Russian Agent posing as an American (CIA or FBI?) or an American Agent infiltrating the Russians posing as a Russian/ Eastern European? He's another actor that could fit in a lot of different roles in a Bond film.

I hope this is the case, it’s an absolutely stunning part of the world! MI: Fallout filmed a scene or two in a very beautiful area of NZ and I would love to see more of the country in some big budget films.

Here's the MI6-hq.co.uk 2014 story about the casting call for SPECTRE's villain Hinx.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/article … an-casting

Thanks. Both seem to be good candidates. I hope they find two of the best actors from Eastern European countries and cast them. Bond movies can attract people who are movie stars in their homeland, but are unknown to international audiences. That's better than casting an actor like Mark Strong to play the villain when everyone has seen him playing a villain before.
MI:Fallout did the right thing. They cast an international star who usually plays true blue heroes as the main villain. In a smaller villain role they cast Kristoffer Joner, an excellent actor who is a star in Norway but is largely unknown in other countries. .

These casting calls don't prove the rumours of an female American villan and a young British "understudy" Bond girl are wrong. But of course the rumors can be wrong.

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We haven't seen a PTS unrelated to the main plot in very many years and I see no signs Bond25 will change that.

Maori Henchman = Manu Bennett.  He'd be perfect.  He was Crixus on SPARTACUS (STARZ network) and has great stage fighting skills as well as a pretty commanding presence.  I think he is/was on the TV show ARROW as well as a recurring character.