By The last four years have been a bit weird for a number of reasons, but something else has been bugging you. You couldn't quite put your finger on it for a while. Then, suddenly, you sat straight up in bed at 4.30am on another sleepless night. That's what it was.
"What happened to Blofeld at the end of Spectre?" you say aloud. Nobody answers. You still can't sleep.
It sounds like that particular cliffhanger could be addressed in Bond 25, though. According to the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye, visitors to the Bond sets at Pinewood spotted Christoph Waltz wandering around. "You haven't seen me," Waltz apparently told them. "I'm not here."
That's a fairly lame attempt at subterfuge for a man who's meant to be the author of all of Bond's pain, the greatest criminal mastermind in the world who lived under the assumed identity of Franz Oberhauser for many years, but there we are.
Bamigboye adds that an executive on Bond 25 told him that "there's unfinished business between Bond and Blofeld. If I told you any more, I'd have to kill you."
Of course, none of this is confirmed yet and it's very much a rumour, and Waltz said back in October 2017 that he wouldn't be back as Blofeld.
"No, I'm sorry," he told Talky Movie. "I'm really sad, but that's the tradition, that there is a new... name. Sorry. I would've liked to."
But that was before all the Danny Boyle business and Cary Fukunaga getting involved, and it would make total sense to pick up that thread from Spectre to tie off the narrative arc that started in Casino Royale.
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