Next Bond film will be called 'SPECTRE'
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LONDON: The next James Bond will have a title that nods to the series' past: “SPECTRE.“
Director Sam Mendes announced the title Thursday, along with the identity of several new cast members and a new version of Bond's iconic Aston Martin car.
Academy Award-winning Austrian actor Christoph Waltz is joining the cast, while Andrew Scott, Moriarty from BBC series “Sherlock” will play a government official. Lea Seydoux and Monica Bellucci are the new “Bond girls.“
Daniel Craig will play Bond for a fourth time and Mendes returns as director after 2012's “Skyfall.”
Bond will also return to the ski slopes in Austria and spy chief “M” will be played by Ralph Fiennes.
“We start shooting on Monday,” Mendes said.
“Skyfall” was the most successful Bond film yet, taking more than $1.1 billion at the global box office.
SPECTRE was the terrorist organisation headed by Ernst Blofeld in early Bond films.
This will be the 24th instalment in the hugely successful series based on author Ian Fleming's fictional Secret Service agent, which began with Sean Connery starring in Dr. No in 1962.
