After creation, there was a rebellion and many of Presence's angels were cast from him for their actions. Madame Xanadu: She forcefully made herself Aztar's host for a short time, following which Aztar returned to Corrigan again.Īn aspect of the Presence, the Spectre is His Vengeance.In the New 52 continuity, he's Aztar's host once again. Jim Corrigan: Aztar's host dating back from his time with the J.S.A., later succeeded by Hal Jordan.“But we should not ignore the fact that Bond needs to appeal to the family audiences and can’t just become a dark, tortured drama.The Spectre is a former angel named Aztar who functions by using a mortal person as a host. “The screenplays and the narratives have just generally been more classy in the Daniel Craig era and the appeal has been a bit more upscale in general,” he said. “There’s been much more of a narrative line through all of Craig’s four Bond films and there’s been much more of an overall attempt to connect the films and give more depth to the character.”īut while Craig’s always embraced a much darker side of the lothario spy than his predecessors, Gant said that in order to ensure Spectre could break box office records as Skyfall did before it, the film still needed to cater to younger, action-hungry audiences. “They’ve already attempted it to some extent because in the Daniel Craig era, the characters in the films have been related to one another,” he said. The fact that many of the actors have been signed on contracts for two films has also encouraged the rumours that it could be the first Bond two-parter, which Gant said might be a natural step for the franchise. There have been suggestions that he is both an incarnation of classic Bond villain Blofeld and also 007’s adopted brother. A 30ft skeleton and over 1,500 extras went into creating what producer Michael G Wilson has called “the biggest opening sequence we’ve done”.ĭespite much of the storyline having been gleaned from the trailers, there is still much speculation around Waltz’s villain, Franz Oberhauser. The film will open with Bond chasing a killer through a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City. Indeed, Craig has said that Spectre “harks back a little to what has gone before in the 60s and 70s”. But from what I’ve seen about Spectre so far, they couldn’t have done more.” It fell short in terms of quality so it didn’t get the repeat business and generate the word of mouth that made the extra difference. “If the film is great, there’s no reason it couldn’t repeat Skyfall’s success, but we’ve got to remember that Quantum of Solace wasn’t as good as Casino Royale. “I think those names, like Fiennes, Belucci and Waltz, will be essential in getting in audiences who might not otherwise go see a Bond film,” he said. Gant was confident the film’s cast, which boasts Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Monica Belluci and Christoph Waltz – as well as Ralph Fiennes stepping into the shoes of M – gave it a good starting point for box office success. “So the question with Spectre is, can they repeat that trick? They are certainly trying to, particularly with the nostalgic title, and also by bringing Sam Mendes back as the director, which provides some quality reassurance.” He said: “With Skyfall, they managed to draw in the modern Bond audience who come to the film for Daniel Craig but also positioned it simultaneously as retro, and engaged an older audience who had really parted company with the franchise during the Pierce Brosnan era and aren’t usually a cinema-going audience for Bond. The latest film sees Bond travel from Mexico to the Sahara desert, Italy and the Austrian Alps in pursuit of SPECTRE – an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion – the sinister organisation intent on world domination.Ĭharles Gant, a box office expert, said it would take an “extraordinary film” to outperform Skyfall at the box office. However, if the trailers are to be believed, Spectre, which is 007’s 24th outing on screen, will be offering the same balance of explosive action coupled with Bond’s own tortured backstory that made Skyfall such a global hit. It more than doubled the global box office takings of both of Daniel Craig’s first two outings as Bond, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, which took of $599m and $586m. In the UK alone, Skyfall was the most successful film of all time and the first to gross over £100m. Bond’s previous outing in 2012, Skyfall, earned over $1bn at the global box office, making it the most successful Bond film yet.
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