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March 29, 2010 - Bond 23 / Rachel Weisz rumored to play a villain
Scooped on Monday, March 29, 2010
Count this one as a rumor but one that comes from a solid source working for Cinema Blend: Rachel Weisz could be in the running to play the criminal mastermind of Quantum, the shadowy organization that's been pulling the bad guy strings in the past two Bond films. According to CB, their source is the same one that's proven to have sent reliable insider information in the past including the first mention of the Black Widow character being in Iron Man 2. The source claims that this is just in the idea brainstorming phase of development so far and no one appears to have approached the actress yet about playing the part.
If Weisz is cast or the idea itself is genuine this would be the first time in a James Bond movie that the arch-villain will have been a woman.
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"If Weisz is cast or the idea itself is genuine this would be the first time in a James Bond movie that the arch-villain will have been a woman."
Not quite accurate. Elektra King (played by the stunning Sophie Marceau) was the brains behind all the mayhem in "The World Is Not Enough". Now, if we want to say this would be the first time a woman would have been shown in a James Bond movie in charge of an organization as powerful as SPECTRE...well, that would be another matter.