Bring back Blofeld!!!

M

mobby

New member
Im quite fed up of the stupid idividuals that seem to think the legendary figure with the white cat was invented in austin powers!!!!

They have reinvented the Bond franchise,
so now could Blofeld be behind Le Chiffe,

I would love this to happen,

Bring back classic Bond......
 
Smersh was disbanded in the early 1960s and it's currently clearly set in 2006. Mr White represents his organisation, which has been set up for the sequel.
 
Be interesting to see how Blofeld would be cast and played in a post Austin Powers world, as Dr Evil is (as White Guardian pointed towarRAB) such a memorable parody of his original film representations.

I'd be intreaged to see how the Bond franchise would approach him as a character now, and whether they stick with him as a scarred faced, bald, cat stroking villain, or approached him a different way. Not read the novels so i don't know how accurately the character was adhered to in his original outings.
 
funny, as the character would be perfect for my idea for PROPERTY OF A LADY!!!!

i've been thinking out some scenarios for a storyline, it's nice and twisty ..... what would be this "property" though :D
 
I suppose they could bring the character back to the Bond series.In saying that the character of Blofeld was killed at the start of "For Your Eyes Only".If i remember rightly Bond manged to attach Blofeld 's wheelchair to the helicopter Bond was in contol of & Bond dropped Blofeld & his chair down a big chimney.
 
Now I may be wrong but I believe that Blofeld, SMERSH and SPECTRE can't come back for legal reasons. The producers of the Bond franchise don't have the rights. I think that the writers of the first few Bond movies retained them and they famously fell out with Cubby Broccoli in the early eighties. The writers actually produced a rival bond film, Never Say Never Again, which was essentially a re-make of Thunderball, and was the last time we ever specifically saw Blofeld (although, famously, in one of the Roger Moore Bond films, a villain in a wheelchair (who is not actually identified but is very clearly intended to be Blofeld) is dropped down an industrial chimney by a helicoptor piloted by Bond!)
 
Quite right. One of the first attempts to make a Bond film in the 1950s resulted in a script, not written by Ian Fleming, that Fleming subsequently turned into the novel Thunderball. There was a legal battle that ran for over 40 years over various rights in the script, the characters, the book and the films. Kevin McClory, the producer of that first failed film, retained the rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE. McClory died last week, so watch this space.

The rights to SMERSH are probably still with the Russian FSB, given recent events in Piccadilly sushi bars.
 
I don't think anyone owns the 'rights' to Smersh, it was a real organisation set up by the Russians in the Cold War! The Cold War is over, and the Russians are not the enemy anymore, using Smersh nowadays (they didn't even use it in the previous Bond films) would be quite odd and wouldn't go down well with Russia.
 
My comment was meant as a joke with the reference to sushi bars. But I'm not sure that Alexander Litvinenko's frienRAB will agree with all your comments. (And Smersh were in From Russia with Love and The Living Daylights.)
 
It was other posters I was probably more referring to.

Smersh were never the enemy in the Bond films, in fact they were only the enemy in the earliest Bond books.
It was mentioned in From Russia With Love as the organisation Rosa Klep defected from in secret, and Smersh was used by the villians of The Living Daylights in name only as the true enemy was an American arms dealer.
 
I'd like to see him as a darker character,who could match Bond for charm and sophistication.This being the case why not have him played by Timothy Dalton.
 
I think Sony owned the rights to it all along with Kevin McClory. There were rumours that Columbia were going to make another "unofficial" Bond movie based on Casino Royale. The rumours died down, Sony bought MGM and the first movie they bring out Casino Royale. So as far as I know, all the rights are under one roof now.
 
The only rights that came back under one roof are the distribution rights to the film Never Say Never Again. Kevin McClory (or his estate) owns the rights to the cinematic Blofeld and Spectre. That's why Blofeld or Spectre haven't been in a Bond film since 1971. But as McClory died 3 weeks ago, perhaps his heirs will sell the rights to EON Productions.
 
Back
Top