We've seen a teaser, a TV spot, some featurettes and some stills, but what we've really been waiting for is a full trailer for the 24th official James Bond adventure Spectre. And the wait is over: that trailer is now upon us, in all its Austrian, Mexican and Rome-ish glory. Check it out below.
So what have we got? Ralph Fiennes' M tells Bond he has "no authority" and berates him over a "holiday" during the Day Of The Dead celebrations in Mexico City. That would be a holiday including a fight on a helicopter and an exploded hotel room.
Then we've got Naomie Harris's Moneypenny saying, "They say you're finished. I think you're just getting started," and Ben Whishaw's Q unveiling a new Aston Martin (the DB10, specially designed for this film) with "a few tricks up her sleeve" - which we later learn include jets of fire at the back.
Bond also asks Q to make him "disappear", which takes us off to Austria to see Mr White and endure a snowy chase with a plane and a jeep and Léa Seydoux. After which we catch a bit of seduction with Monica Bellucci in Rome; some aggression from Dave Bautista's Mr. Hinx; a wall-mounted list of names "in memory of those who died in the service of their country" all linked by Bond; some of that boardroom scene we've glimpsed before; and another chase through Italy's capital.
And of course, there's Christoph Waltz's new villain, Oberhauser. "It was me, James," he purrs, "the author of all your pain." And he's wearing a Nehru jacket, as has been sported by more than one Bond villain in the past, including one Ernst Stavro Blofeld... Is that a clever bluff to make him look like Blofeld and stir up the rumour pot, before the film confirms that he isn't at all?*
We'll find out on October 26, when Spectre gets its world premiere in London and simultaneously opens across the rest of the UK and Ireland. The US and other territories will see it released on November 6.
*The name Oberhauser, incidentally, comes from Ian Fleming's original short story Octopussy. Oberhauser in that instance was Bond's ski-instructor when Bond was a teenager. A father-figure to the orphan Bond, he was murdered at the end of WWII, and his body showed up years later frozen in a glacier.