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[AMC Hornet]

If the new M intends to spend as much time following Bond around in the field as his predecessor did, he could use someone more capable than Tanner or Villiers (or Mitchell) for backup.

If, however, he stays in London like he should, he won't need a trained and experienced minder.

If Naomi Harris becomes Moneypenny, I'll be fine with it - if she doesn't, I'll still be fine with it. Either way, I'll probably have to stay away from the boards until the bleating from the disappointed faction dies down.

[JCRendle]

Question is, what happened to Tobias Menzies' Villiers character, essentially Mr. Moneypenny.

[AMC Hornet]

My brother says I look like him.

I thought he was practically a non-entity, as was Tanner in QoS.

I guess I must look like a non-entity.

[Pussfeller]

For all the faults of the Brosnan era, at least the MI6 people had some personality. In the last two films, the MI6 staff has been just a gaggle of interchangeable gray-faced sycophants. It makes the MI6 scenes very bleak and unappealing. Every interaction has a Scrooge-Cratchit vibe.

[JCRendle]

It's been denied again:-

http://www.thesun.co...n-Istanbul.html

Suggestions that Miss Moneypenny would return in the form of 35-year-old Pirates Of The Caribbean actress Naomie Harris are untrue.

She said: “No, my character is Eve and she is a field agent.“We see her at the very beginning on a mission with Bond and she is very much a capable MI6 agent.”

In fact Naomie spent eight months getting fit for the role and said: “I did flexibility training by doing yoga, I did stamina training by doing jogging. “I was then out on the gun range twice a week, learning to shoot rifles, Walther PPKs and Glocks.” Even though Eve will be tough, as with all Bond girls she still has to look sexy. And Naomie has had to endure running around in the heat of Turkey dressed in leather.
She said: “She is a field agent so she has very practical clothes, although she also has to be a bit sexy, so instead of normal trousers she has leather ones.”

[AMC Hornet]

Mmm...leather.

[JCRendle]

http://www.cinemable...-Set-30713.html

Naomie Harris isn't Moneypenny, but she's not a throwaway character

Eve is out in the field, totally different from Moneypenny," Harris was quick to explain. "I'm a field agent definitely, not a secretary." And a field agent who offers Harris one of the biggest, maybe best roles of her career-- "I was really excited [when I read the script]. largely because of my part, selfishly. I was very excited. I didn't realize that I would have that size part."

[Dustin]

Mrs Gale or Mrs Peel?

[AMC Hornet]

Cool report, JC. Thanks for linking it.

As long as none of the pigeons in the market scene wink, I'm good.

[Single-O-Seven]

Cool report, JC. Thanks for linking it.

As long as none of the pigeons in the market scene wink, I'm good.

I believe Wilson will be doing his cameo in this sequence, in full pigeon garb.

[JCRendle]

Cool report, JC. Thanks for linking it.

Can't take credit, all the links used were found from this very forum, I just noticed parts relating to this thread...

[Matt_13]

More here http://collider.com/...stanbul/163195/

[007jamesbond]

my bet is that Eve is model after Gala brand........she wont have any love scene just one or two kiss scenes

[Kristian]

If Eve does turn out to be Moneypenny - I will file all of EON's future denials in the circular filing bin, (i.e., trash can).....

[# 11]

I already did - Denying is part of the film business.

[Vauxhall]

I already did - Denying is part of the film business.

Agreed. In fact, there have been so many denials about this Moneypenny situation, that it's made me naturally suspicious!

[Dustin]

I suppose we'll find out once the film is out. Not much point in keeping it secret after that, is there?

[Dan Gale]

Ok then. That press release was a total lie then.

[seawolfnyy]

Yeah, pretty much. Just like how Marion Cotillard confirmed she was NOT playing Talia al Ghul. And how Benedict Cumberbatch has confirmed is NOT playing Khan in Into Darkness....

[Iceskater101]

^ I was about to mention that example.

[Mallory]

Nuh uh, Benedict is not playing Khan.

[MajorB]

Ok then. That press release was a total lie then.

And a well-played one. I have no complaints.

[Bucky]

Nuh uh, Benedict is not playing Khan.

 

I heard he is playing some guy named Robert April.

[graric]

Nuh uh, Benedict is not playing Khan.

 

At this stage it is just as possible that he could be Khan as he couldn't...but what is almost certain is that he won't just be a guy named John Harrison!

 

The fact that they originally looked for Latino Actors for the role, they have had several Wrath of Khan references in the trailers and 9 minutes preview along with the introduction of Carol Marcus (who first appeared in Wrath of Khan) suggests to me that despite some denials by the cast and crew their is certainly enough of a Khan feeling going into this film to make him one of the more likely villains for the sequel (he is also probably the only Star Trek villain with some sort of name recognition, so if he did have a shock name reveal it would get some reaction from most of the audience rather than from just the Trekkies.)

[Guy Haines]

"The Mystery of 'John Harrison'". A detective story worthy of Sherlock Holmes, if you catch my drift! ;-) The name "Gary Mitchell" was accidentally dropped by a cast member during filming of Star Trek Into Darkness. Wasn't Mitchell the Enterprise crewman who was taken over by an extra-terrestrial force and gained super-being-going-on-god-like powers in one of the early episodes of the 1960s series? Is it possible that's who "Harrison" is?

[Shrublands]

Ok then. That press release was a total lie then.

 

I don't think it could really be called a "press release" - in an interview Harris said...

 

‘The idea of me being Moneypenny was a good, racy rumour. But Eve is not remotely office-bound. She gets to see plenty of action. That meant a lot of gun training."

 

Some people read this as confirmation that she was not Moneypenny, but it was just a bit of misdirection.

If you read it again with the benefit of hindsight, she actually does not deny that Eve is Eve Moneypenny.

[archer1949]

Is the fact that her first name is "Eve" a new development, or did I miss some previous reference to it somewhere? I don't think I have, though.

[Vauxhall]

Is the fact that her first name is "Eve" a new development, or did I miss some previous reference to it somewhere? I don't think I have, though.

SKYFALL is the first movie to give Miss Moneypenny a real first name - as opposed to the affectionate nickname "Penny". Apologies if I've misunderstood the question.

[MkB]

 

Is the fact that her first name is "Eve" a new development, or did I miss some previous reference to it somewhere? I don't think I have, though.

SKYFALL is the first movie to give Miss Moneypenny a real first name - as opposed to the affectionate nickname "Penny". Apologies if I've misunderstood the question.

 

 

As far as the literary Bond is concerned, Fleming never cared to give Moneypenny (avery minor character in the novels) a first name. 

The first ever official IFP project to do so was, to the best of myknowledge, The Moneypenny Diaries. Her first name was Jane there, and I remember reading that Sam Weinberg chose it because parents with such a long name as "Moneypenny" would probably give a short first name to their offspring. I guess SKYFALL writers had the same thought