Bond Is Back: Details Of New Film Revealed

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The 24th James Bond movie will be called Spectre and filming will begin next week, director Sam Mendes has announced.

The Oscar-winning director revealed the details at a hotly-anticipated event at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, where he also outlined further details including naming Lea Seydoux and Monica Bellucci who will become Bond girls.

Oscar-winning Austrian actor Christoph Waltz will play a villain in the film while Andrew Scott, best known for his role as Moriarty in BBC1's Sherlock, will join the cast as one of 007's Whitehall bosses.

Bond will once again be driving an Aston Martin, this time a DB10. Movie fans saw a previous Aston, his vintage DB5, blown to pieces in Skyfall.

The film is named after the shadowy terrorist organisation created by Bond author Ian Fleming which first appeared in his novel Thunderball.

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Director Sam Mendes reveals that Monica Bellucci and Christoph Waltz will join Daniel Craig in the 24th Bond film, Spectre

007 will be driving an Aston Martin DB10

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The scene is set at Pinewood Studios prior to the announcement of details about the new James Bond movie. Pic: Rob Dex /PA

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Daniel Craig, who was present at the announcement, will be back for a fourth outing as Britain's most famous secret agent, following his last adventure in Skyfall - which was the highest grossing film of all time in the UK.

Naomie Harris will star as Miss Moneypenny again, while Ralph Fiennes will come back as Gareth Mallory - the new M, whom film fans saw succeeding the character played by Dame Judi Dench in Skyfall.

Ben Whishaw will be back in the role of Q and Rory Kinnear will play Bill Tanner again.

Screenwriter John Logan is another who will return while Hoyte van Hoytema will take charge of photography again.

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Gallery: For Your Eyes Only: Bond Car Show

A photograph issued by the London Film Museum of James Bond, played by Sir Roger Moore, jumping from his horse into a Rolls Royce in A View To A Kill. A collection of vehicles from Bond films will be at the museum from March 21.

The Bond In Motion exhibition will include this Mustang Mach 1 from Diamonds Are Forever. It will form part of the largest official collection of James Bond vehicles to go on display.

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The film will be shot at locations including London, Rome, Mexico City, Tangier and Erfoud in Morocco and Solden in the Austrian Alps - where Bond will return to the ski slopes. Large parts will also be filmed at the Pinewood Studios, which has long been home to the hit movie series.

The movie will be released next year on 6 November.

It will be during a busy few weeks at the box office, with the final Hunger Games film and the eagerly awaited Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens due out around the same time.

Mendes, who is in the director's chair for a second Bond film, said the team were "very excited to be on the verge of shooting" the next instalment.

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Gallery: Bond Movies Over The Years

Ursula Andress in a scene from the very first James Bond movie, Dr. No, released in 1962.

Daniel Craig as James Bond in the latest 007 adventure, Skyfall.

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He said the film locations were all "amazing places", adding: "I'm very excited to be going to these locations over seven months, which is how long we'll be shooting."

Fleming created Spectre as an acronym for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Robotics and Extortion, an organisation led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

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