“This never happened to the other fellow!” – James Bond, OHMSS
James Bond has always been king of teasing out info on his upcoming escapades that get the cinematic masses all a bit excited.
It’s a crowded market these days what with all those super folk, people from a galaxy far, far away and dinosaurs jostling for position this year alone.
So post-Super Bowl slots it was only a matter of time before 007 took his hat from his hatstand and toss it past Miss Moneypenny into the ring.
And what we do have is a cool, quite literally, tease of an action sequence filmed in the snow capped mountains of Austria.
With Bonds huge cinematic legacy one can’t help but have memories of OHMSS or The Spy Who Loved Me evoked, or even For Your Eyes Only or to a lesser extent, Die Another Day.
Hopefully not the the cello ski sequence in The Living Daylights though please. I’ve still got a massive soft spot for the pre-title sequence of A View To A Kill, minus the iceberg sub you understand.
It’s hard not to get exited about Bond on a pair of skis, excitement was huge when as a child you couldn’t differentiate between the films and you saw is was a ‘snow’ one.
Daniel Craig is, no doubt intentially, heavily evoking the George Lazenby stance from the OHMSS. And that’s not a bad place to start.
The burning question is, for me, is this the pre-title sequence? If it is then it has big snow boots to fill if it is to (nobody does it) better than The Spy Who Loved Me.
James Bond Will Return 