The new Spectre Trailer

Bond fans got a great start to their day as another Spectre trailer was released this morning. So what does this new footage show us about the newest Bond film?

The first few moments of the trailer give us more scenes of the MI6 regulars, starting with a tense discussion between M and Bond about events in Mexico. It's nice to see that some things never change. It's great to get some more footage of Ben Wishaw's Q, one of my favourite characters from Skyfall. The trailer seems to show a more familiar Q branch scene where he is responsible for introducing Bond to his gorgeous new Car.

Bond is once again going rogue, yet we see him with Q later in the trailer. It's likely that these actions are a result of seeing that photograph that Moneypenny gave him.

We get a bit more of Mr White again and I'm fairly certain his role in the film will be purely for exposition and then death. A bit like Henderson in You Only Live Twice. I might be wrong. He might have a more interesting role, but it's still nice to get resolution to that character.

As the trailer progresses we start seeing more of the newer characters The first of these is Madeleine Swan who, according to the 007 website, is apparently Mr White's daughter. It's not something I ever expected and it will be interesting to see how this affects her relationship with Bond. Will she and Bond put aside their differences for the greater good? Or will she hold a grudge and betray Bond later in the film? Madeleine is the first character to call out the SPECTRE organisation by name, It seems that the organisation is connected to Bond. How will this play out?

We get a proper look at Oberhauser this time around and we are once again teased with evidence that he might be Blofeld such as when we see him wearing a Nehru jacket while he stands in a room that looks like a villain's control room. It's so obviously hinting that he's Blofeld that it might all be a massive feint, like the Mandarin in Iron Man 3. Oberhauser claims to be the cause of all Bond's pain. This would make sense if SPECTRE was actually the true force behind the Quantum organisation from the first two Craig films.

Mr Hinx and the Andrew Scott character only make brief appearances so its difficult to say how much they will be doing in this film. Hinx is probably going to be an old fashioned Bond henchman which we've not had since Elvis.

This trailer shows a lot of homages to the past. Bond obviously gets to wear the Connery White dinner jacket while the theme tune from On Her Majesty's Secret Service plays briefly.  In a nice homage to Goldfinger, Bond's car has a 'backfire' button that burns the pursuing car. As much as a like the 60s I hope it is not the start of dependency to the past.

Overall this was a pretty exciting trailer. It will be a shame after all this hype, Spectre turns out to be a failure. Sam Mendes did a great job with Skyfall and I hope that this film does not turn out to be the Moonraker to Skyfall's The Spy Who Loved Me. On the evidence so far I don't think it will be the worst Bond film by any means.  Strangely, I think, I'm actually looking forward to this film more than I am the new Star Wars, but we'll have to see.