Movie trailer round-up: ‘SPECTRE’, ‘Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation’ & ‘Entourage’

In December, director Sam Mendes introduced to the world the next Bond film, SPECTRE, with the cast and car in tow. Today, we get our first look. Daniel Craig is back as 007 for the fourth time and his past comes to haunt him here. Dangling threads from Casino RoyaleQuantum of Solace, and Skyfall come to a head in SPECTRE and Bond is forced to face the sinister Hannes Oberhauser, played already to perfection by Christoph Waltz. Though Waltz is credited as portraying Oberhauser, I had speculated that he’d end up being Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the actual head of the SPECTRE organization. (SPECTRE, remember, is an acronym that stands for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.) In the teaser, Waltz’ Oberhauser tells Bond, “It’s been a long time. And finally, here we are.” In Bond lore, Oberhauser served as a mentor for Bond before he mysteriously vanished; so perhaps Waltz really is Oberhauser and Blofeld’s portrayer is still being kept under wraps? So much speculation to be had here. It’s just so exciting how serialized Craig’s rendition of Bond has become in terms of his past meeting up with his present to propel the story forward. Watching this latest mystery unfold which has so much to do with Bond’s origins and his connection to SPECTRE and Oberhauser is going to be a fun ride, to say the least.

SPECTRE hits theatres November 6.

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Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in the fifth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise. This one’s called Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation and it finds Hunt and his team on a mission to eradicate the Syndicate–an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF. In the M:I Ghost Protocol trailer, the big jaw-dropping moment was watching Cruise scale the world’s tallest building–the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Here, he hangs into a flying jet for dear life as Simon Pegg fiddles to get the job done. It’s a fun gag, sure, but I’m not convinced they’ll ever top the Burj.

Also starring is Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin, and Sean Harris. Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) directs. Out July 31.

What you saw before was the official teaser trailer. Here’s the full-length main trailer for the upcoming theatrical adaptation of the HBO original series Entourage. Out June 5.

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