ODEON Magazine September/October 2015

Watch the trailer Find out how Peter becomes Pan in, erm, Pan pAN TBC RELEASED 16 October spectre TBC RELEASED 26 October DIRECTOR Sam Mendes Starring Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Monica Bellucci, Dave Bautista, Léa Seydoux D aniel Craig (Cowboys & Aliens, Defiance) leads proceedings in his fourth outing as everyone’s favourite spy, James Bond (just in case you weren’t sure who we were talking about!). DC has found great favour in the role thanks to his equal measures of classic British charm and aptitude for action. And then there’s Christoph Waltz, who’s stolen every film he’s been in since his jaw-dropping turn as Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Here he plays Franz Oberhauser, who is strongly rumoured to be Bond’s most famous nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (despite everyone near to the film denying it). Blofeld, don’t forget, is the head of the evil organisation, SPECTRE (hence the film’s title). All of which lines up a showdown between two fiercely opposing sides, in the direct aftermath of the attack on MI6 we saw during Skyfall. Bond receives a cryptic message that sets in motion a series of events to take him on a trail across the world, through Mexico, Austria and Morocco. Eventually bringing him face-to-face with SPECTRE and an enemy from his past. An enemy who holds a dangerous secret that forces 007 to question everything he’s fought to protect. This film promises to be a huge triumph – and we can’t wait! Origin stories are all the rage at the moment, and frankly we’re delighted about it! This one, as the name suggests, looks at the untold back story of Peter Pan – played by newcomer Levi Miller – and it’s a fairy tale in itself. We also get to meet other Neverland favourites, with James Hook (Garrett Hedlund – Unbroken, Tron) and Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara – The Social Network, Her) making appearances. But without doubt, the scene stealer award has to go to to Blackbeard himself, played by an almost unrecognisable Hugh ‘Wolverine’ Jackman! In this prequel to JM Barrie’s famous book, we follow the young Peter as he’s kidnapped from a London orphanage and spirited away to his Neverland home. While he’s there he discovers both fun and danger, and learns how to become the hero we all know and love – the boy who is forever known as Peter Pan. odeon.co.uk 19 PHOTOS: © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures, © 2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. MUST-SEE OF THE MONTH DIRECTOR Joe Wright STARRING Hugh Jackman, Levi Miller, Garrett Hedlund, Amanda Seyfried

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