This one's a bit different, in that there has been a confirmed role for the actor, but it's so incidental a part that there just has to be more too it. Officially, Christoph Waltz is playing Franz Oberhauser in Spectre, the twenty-fourth Bond film. Named after a background character from Octopussy (the original short, not the Roger Moore campfest that stole the name and little else), he's ostensibly Bond's ski instructor during the Austrian Alps-set segment. But come on. The two-time Academy Award winner best known for his cold and calculating Hans Landa is playing the MI6 version of Mickey Goldmill? Nope, not buying it. A leaked early draft of the script revealed there was more to Oberhauser than initially meets the eye, but don't be shocked if the character twist in the finished movie is a little different (and more expansive). Who He Could Be Playing? The film's named after the supervillain conglomerate that menaced its way through the Sean Connery era and Waltz was the only actor whose character wasn't named at the official announcement back in November; it's just impossible to shake the idea that he's really playing the iconic Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Unless there's some major misdirection going on, and it's actually Andrew Scott's Denbigh or Monica Bellucci's Lucia Sciarra who's the modern take on the bald mastermind (don't expect the latter to shave her head though). Meaning Waltz is just a massive red herring.
