By Todd Allen
The latest Skyfall trailer trailer has dropped. Have a quick view and let’s discuss:
Well, now… that’s 007 vs. Wikileaks isn’t it? Not literally, but Wikileaks adapted into an active espionage threat. The time honored tradition of adapting/address a current trend in literature.
Wikileaks raised a few eyebrows when it’s public display of classified documents effectively outed a few people having otherwise confidential conversations with the U.S. State Department (whether this was actually exposing agents is more a matter of opinion at this point), it also has done some work on exposing spying activity in the private sector. Shifting that to grabbing a list of active operatives is a pretty easy literary leap. Wikileaks is the face of espionage hacking to large portions of the global public, after all. (This may not be an entirely accurate perception since a lot of _leaks_ were involved, but perception and reality differ at times.)
Then you’ve got the language around M in the trailer: “They weren’t targeting her, they wanted her to see it.”
And that would be close enough to the public shaming / exposing motif of Wikileaks.
At this point, it could all have been independently developed. Hacking has been part of the 007 franchise before, notably in Goldeneye’s satellite hacking. And then you see Javier Bardem, a bad ass’s bad ass, with that dye job.
This is what Wikileaks grand poo-bah Julian Assange looks like. When Javier Bardem is a pale shade of blonde and the hackers have leaked all the agents names, all I can think of is: “They made Julian Assange into a Bond villain.”
I like it.
We’ll see if there’s more to the plot than that, but that’s sure what I got out of this trailer.
Past that, these trailers continue to look gorgeous, but with Sam Mendes directing, gorgeous film is a reasonable expectation.
The film debuts in the U.S. in November.
See what you have started Christopher Nolan?!???!! There’s no turning back now.
Bond fought Roman Polanski in Quantum of Solace, so the strange trend continues, I guess.
I do, however, fear somewhat for Assange’s reputation as a result of this.
Look Amazing. An actual story as well. Nice.
Looks like a respectable companion to From Russia With Love. Looking forward…
It can’t be worse then QUANTUM OF SOLACE was.
Can it? :-(
Favorite moment: Bond makes a mad leap onto a train being ripped in half and then stands to his feet non-chalantly and straightens his cufflinks. That’s a Bond moment. Definitely looks much better than “Quantum of Solace,” which IMO was outdone as a spy film by “Cars 2.”
“Quantum of Solace” looked like a Bourne attempt. This looks like Bond to me. And agreed on the cufflinks.
Looks lke Bardem is playing the brother of Christoher Walken’s Bond villain “Max Zorin”.
Ben Wishaw, the new Q, is completely adorable.
November seems so long from now … Quantum did suck but this s**t looks Gonzo!