2. Perpetuating The Blofeld Mystery
Ever since he was linked to the film, there's been heavy speculation about who Christoph Waltz will be playing in Spectre. Officially he's Franz Oberhauser, a character who shares a name with Bond's print ski instructor, but given the film's title many are predicting he's actually the Craig-era's version of definitive Bond villain Blofeld. After the teaser trailer, we're no close to knowing if that's the case or not; there's confirmation Oberhauser is in a controlling position of Spectre, but whether he's the cat-lover or not is still unclear. Now, of course, a teaser trailer actually teasing a film is a sad rarity nowadays (Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the only other 2015 movie that's shown proper restraint), so it's hard to criticise this one ending on that in-shadow shot, but given how prominent those Blofeld rumours already are, this could see the marketing for Spectre toeing a very dangerous line. The last time a big mystery was made out of a popular actor playing a series' most iconic villain was with Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness. And it didn't end well. Everyone who cared a bit about Trek saw through J.J. Abrams pleas he was John Harrison, making the film's "shocking" reveal a bit lacklustre. If Spectre repeated this trick of a twist for the fans that those same fans have already guessed, it won't
hurt the movie itself, but it will stop it being as delightful an experience for the faithful as Skyfall.