Mr White, from Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace, is set to make a return in SPECTRE...
One name missing from the roll call at yesterday's unveiling of the new James Bond film, SPECTRE, was that of Jesper Christensen. You may recall that he played Mr White in both Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace. And you may, understandably, have assumed that with SPECTRE now on the scene, that the Quantum organisation from those two films was done with.
That said, the Bond producers reportedly originally wanted Quantum to be SPECTRE in both Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace, and it was only rights issues that prevented that from happening. Now such rankles have been sorted out, it'll be interesting to see how Quantum is dealt with (will it be a corporate merger of sorts, or will it just be assumed they're the same organisation?). For it seems as though Mr White is returning.
The news has come from Jesper Christensen himself, who told the Danish publication Euroman(for that is its name) that "I am looking forward to working with Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig. It is a truly exciting script and a very capable team. So it'll be fun."
The original plan for Quantum of Solace was to kill Mr White off. But as he earned a reprieve that time around, we wonder if that's what'll happen in SPECTRE? After all, Bond may still want to avenge the death of Vesper Lynd, one of the remaining dangling threads set up by Casino Royale.
SPECTREarrives in cinemas in November 2016.
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