Is Christoph Waltz Playing Blofeld in SPECTRE? Sam Mendes Responds
According to the official press release, Oscar winner Christoph Waltz is playing a character named Franz Oberhauser in the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre. But many have wondered if we'd be seeing another Star Trek Into Darkness-style twist in which it's revealed that he's actually playing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, one of the best villains in the history of the Bond franchise. Everyone involved with the production seems to be playing things close to the vest, with Waltz denying the suggestion outright in interviews. But now director Sam Mendes has spoken about it with Empire in their latest edition, and he mentions "there are depth charges you hopefully don't see coming."
The B-word! We talk about it all the time. It’s the great figure from the Bond vault, as it were. There was this big spectre hanging over the movie and the franchise, which is Blofeld, and what happened to the supervillain. That’s all I’m going to say […] There’s some big stuff the movie is moving towards.
Big stuff, eh? I wonder if all of this speculation is exactly what Mendes and the producers intended when they hired Waltz, because it seems so obvious that he's playing Blofeld just from his status as an Oscar-winner and the kinds of characters he's played in the past. He's such a great fit for the part, but my hope is that he's actually too good of a fit, so good that the film will throw us for a loop and not have him play Blofeld after all. We'll find out on November 6th when Spectre arrives in theaters.
Check out a (pretty dumb) Heineken commercial featuring Daniel Craig as Bond and a snippet of the new Sam Smith theme song below: