They are so desperate in fact, that the studio allowed Mexican officials to dictate characters' ethnicities, make casting decisions, and change the occupation of an unnamed character that never appears on screen, the Independent reports. 'As of now, our shooting period is $50M higher than 'Skyfall' and the current gross budget sits in the mid $300Ms, making this one of the most expensive films ever made.'ĭesperate to save money, producers have reportedly given up a measure of creative control. 'This is not about 'nickel and diming' the production,' Glickman wrote. Now more than $300 million, Glickman said producers are under 'immense' pressure to reduce the film's budget to $250 million. In one email, Jonathan Glickman, president of MGM's motion picture group, wrote that producers are facing a budget for 'Spectre' far beyond what was expected. It's also possible Blofeld was simply playing mind games with Bond and trying to take credit for all of his previous hardships.Millions: Mexico officials are offering Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM millions to portray a positive image of the country in the new 'James Bond' film (photographed is Daniel Craig as James Bond in 'Spectre') As a result, we can view Le Chiffre as a member of the various arms of SPECTRE, but that isn't to say that they are the ones telling him what to do directly or that they would have necessarily endorsed his high-stakes poker game. One example of this would be Le Chiffre-Quantum of Solace already established him as a member of Quantum, and Spectre goes a step further by making Quantum an arm of SPECTRE. Another possibility is that SPECTRE financed and influenced the activities of these prior villains, but may not have expected them to be brought down by James Bond or may not have endorsed all of their actions in these films. It could also be a reference to Oberhauser, as he is thought to have died as a child but is found to still be alive.Īccording to the film, all of the things that happened in the previous three movies were directly or indirectly influenced by SPECTRE and Blofeld and all villains were also (indirectly) working for SPECTRE ("You've come across me so many times, yet you never saw me.") in an attempt to ruin Bond's personal life and gain world domination, which they almost achieved by activating the new surveillance network. Blofeld says he's responsible for all their deaths to ruin Bond. The current iteration of Bond (since Casino Royale) paints him as a broken man, probably haunted by all those people in his past who died from being around him. In a more thematic sense, it probably refers to all the people that died being around Bond in the previous movies (Vesper Lynd, Sévérine, M, Le Chiffre etc.), which is also referenced throughout the film by Blofeld, especially at the old MI6 headquarters at the finale of the film-when Bond walks into the building, he sees the memorial wall that M had talked about when confronting Silva after his capture ("Your name is on the memorial wall of the very building you attacked. The "dead are alive" at the beginning of the film is a reference to the Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico, the setting for the pre-title teaser in the film.
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