John Cleese to Star in Bond TV Commercial
#1
Posted 18 November 2001 - 01:14 AM
Reprising his role from The World Is Not Enough, John Cleese stars in the Agent Under Fire television commercial, which begins airing today on MTV, MTV2, ESPN, ESPN 2, Comedy Central, TNT, and TBS. You're certain to catch the ad during basketball on TBS, WWF Wrestling, and the special airing of A View To A Kill on TBS.
#2
Posted 05 December 2001 - 12:19 PM
I really wanna see this advert!
#3
Posted 05 December 2001 - 07:51 PM
Blue Eyes (05 Dec, 2001 12:19 p.m.):
You're right, very cunning. There's an interesting anomoly in the game that I want to work out. Q is played by Cleese but there is a character of R as well on the official website. Is this Cleese as well? Or are we going to have an assistant from now on much like we did with Smithers in the Moore era?
I really wanna see this advert!
From what I've gathered from the EA website, the character of "R" looks nothing like John Cleese. Shame.
#4
Posted 05 December 2001 - 08:03 PM
#5
Posted 05 December 2001 - 08:34 PM
scaramanga (05 Dec, 2001 07:51 p.m.):
From what I've gathered from the EA website, the character of "R" looks nothing like John Cleese. Shame.
I suspect that it's a licencing issue, if the character looked like Cleese then Mr. Cleese would get a cut of every game sold. Probably for the same reason Bond's pistol is a Wolfram P2K (that looks remarkably like a Walther P99).
I, for one, don't like the idea of a character named 'R'. Bond's joke calling Q's successor 'R' was mildly funny but it has just made it confusing for the novice fans and a headache to explain it all the time. And EA Games isn't helping anything either. I wish instead of a character named 'R' that doesn't look like John Cleese, that they used a character named 'Q' that doesn't look like Desmond Llewelyn.
#6
Posted 05 December 2001 - 10:00 PM
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Posted 05 December 2001 - 10:13 PM
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Posted 05 December 2001 - 10:57 PM
#9
Posted 06 December 2001 - 04:11 AM
Only really bad parts is that the multiplayer gets old fast and the game is too easy and a little too short, but otherwise well worth the money.
I saw the commercial too BTW. I especially like how Cleese flicks the tie aside to reveal the lipstick print. The Zoe "oh James" scene at the end was funny when she pushes him down and off of the screen(it doesn't appear in the game though, unfortunately. the ending is rather uneventful).
#10
Posted 06 December 2001 - 04:21 AM
An early version where Cleese is indeed in the game. The same scene appears (naked woman in shower turns out to be R getting your attention with "the latest in holograph technology"), but of course with a more detailed shower and the new R.
#11
Posted 06 December 2001 - 06:59 AM
#12
Posted 06 December 2001 - 08:22 PM
#13
Posted 05 December 2001 - 11:47 AM
#14
Posted 05 December 2001 - 12:02 PM
Blue Eyes (05 Dec, 2001 11:47 a.m.):
What happens in the ad MKKB?
The one ad I've seen has Cleese as Q holding up various pieces of destroyed equipment and complaining to Bond, intercut with scenes from the game. My favourite one is when a technician hands Q a steering wheel, and Q says "And just what did you do with the rest of this?"
It also struck me that using Cleese in the games is actually a very good way of preparing a significant portion of the Bond target audience for his full role as Q in Bond XX. When games players see and hear Cleese on the big screen, it won't be as much as a shock because they've already experienced him as Q in at least three games beforehand.
Cunning, eh?
#15
Posted 18 November 2001 - 02:11 PM
#16
Posted 18 November 2001 - 06:02 PM
#17
Posted 18 November 2001 - 11:34 PM
#18
Posted 05 December 2001 - 11:42 AM
John Cleese plays the part of "Q" (or "R") very well and look forward to seeing him in the new films.