Spectre: What you need to know about the new James Bond movie

The official title and cast of the 24th James Bond film has been unveiled.

18:36 05 December 2014

Director Sam Mendes has revealed that the next Bond film will be called Spectre – a name that goes back to the very roots of the world’s longest-running film series.

When asked as to what moviegoers can expect, the director replied:  "everything you would expect from a Bond movie" with "a little more variety... maybe a little more mischief".

Filming for the official 24th Bond movie will begin on Monday with a scene involving Daniel Craig’s superspy and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) in her office.

Due to the movie title, some people speculate that Bond’s old nemesis – Ernst Stavro Blofeld – the head of Spectre – will make an appearance in the movie and that confirmed cast member Christoph Waltz may play him.

"I don't see the point of using Spectre unless they are going to use Blofeld as well," said Professor James Chapman of Leicester University, and author of Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films.

He added: "I don't expect to see a man with a stroking a white cat sitting inside a hollowed-out volcano hijacking rockets.

"The recent films have been about modern plausible villains - terrorists and backers of terrorists in big business. I think we might see Spectre modelled along those sorts of lines."