


Hinx ambushes them en route to the base, but they fight him off and defeat him.Īrriving at the base, Bond and Swann confront Oberhauser, who reveals Spectre's involvement in the Joint Intelligence Service and the Nine Eyes programme. Swann takes Bond to L'Américain, a hotel in Tangier, where a secret room directs them to Oberhauser's base in the Sahara. Q reveals Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene and Raoul Silva as agents of Oberhauser's organization, which Swann reveals is named Spectre. Bond rescues Swann, earning him her trust. Bond finds Swann, who is reluctant to trust him until she is abducted by Hinx and his forces. Bond offers to protect his daughter, psychiatrist Madeleine Swann, who possesses knowledge about "L'Américain". White, a former member of the organisation's subsidiary, Quantum.īond tracks White down to Altaussee, where he is dying of thallium poisoning. Moneypenny identifies the Pale King as Mr. Oberhauser recognizes Bond, who flees across the city in a modified Aston Martin DB10, pursued by Oberhauser's right-hand Hinx. Using Sciarra's ring, Bond infiltrates a meeting where Oberhauser targets the "Pale King" for assassination. Lucia reveals Sciarra's association with a terrorist network run by figurehead Franz Oberhauser, who has been presumed dead for twenty years. Bond, who was operating on a mission posthumously assigned by the previous M to eliminate Sciarra and track down his employers, goes rogue from MI6, with Eve Moneypenny and Q agreeing to aid Bond covertly.įollowing the previous M's instructions, Bond attends Sciarra's funeral in Rome and rescues his widow Lucia from assassins. C campaigns for Britain to join the global surveillance and intelligence initiative "Nine Eyes" and shut down the '00' section. M is engaged in a power struggle with Max Denbigh (whom Bond dubs "C"), the Director-General of the new, privately backed Joint Intelligence Service formed by the merger of MI5 and MI6. In London, Gareth Mallory, the current M, suspends Bond for his unauthorized action. Bond obtains a ring stylized with an octopus from the deceased attacker, Marco Sciarra, uncovering his connection to a secret organization. In Mexico City, MI6 agent James Bond foils a bombing attempt during a Day of the Dead festival. The next film in the series, No Time to Die, was released in 2021. The film's theme song, " Writing's on the Wall", won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song. It grossed $880 million worldwide, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2015 and the second-highest grossing James Bond film after Skyfall, unadjusted for inflation. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences, cast performances (particularly Craig's and Bautista's), and the musical score, but criticised the pacing and formulaic narrative decisions. Spectre premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on 26 October 2015 and was theatrically released in conventional and IMAX formats in the United Kingdom that day, and in the United States on 6 November.

Principal photography began in December 2014 and lasted until July 2015, with filming locations including Austria, the United Kingdom, Italy, Morocco, and Mexico. Following the Sony Pictures hack, it was revealed Sony and Eon clashed regarding finance, stunts, and filming locations Spectre is estimated to have a final budget of $245–300 million, making it one of the most expensive films ever made. The inclusion of Spectre and its associated characters marked the end of the Thunderball controversy, in which Kevin McClory and Fleming were embroiled in lengthy legal disputes over the film rights to the novel Spectre is the first film to feature these elements since Diamonds Are Forever (1971). In the film, Bond learns of Spectre, an international crime organisation led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Waltz).ĭespite initially stating he would not direct Spectre, Mendes confirmed his return in 2014 after Nicolas Winding Refn declined to direct Mendes became the first to direct successive James Bond films since John Glen. It was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. Directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan, and Jez Butterworth, it stars Daniel Craig as Bond, alongside Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, and Ralph Fiennes.
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Spectre is a 2015 spy film and the twenty-fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions.
