The New James Bond Movie has a title: SPECTRE

"Spectre" is the title of the upcoming 24th James Bond movie! The past couple of months the rumor mill has been brewing around as to what the next James Bond movie will be like. and now that the title has been unveiled, we pretty much have an idea what to expect. The original arch-nemeses of James Bond are now making its way to the new millenia at last: SPECTRE! [hit the jump to continue]

In a live announcement made from Pinewood Studios, Eon Productions, MGM Studios and Sony Pictures also confirmed new cast members Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, David Bautista and Andrew Scott. They join franchise veterans Daniel Craig (Bond), Ralph Fiennes (M), Ben Whishaw (Q), Naomie Harris (Moneypenny) and Rory Kinnear (Tanner) in the Sam Mendes-directed film.

According to the official James Bond Twitter account, Waltz will play Oberhauser, possibly a reference to Hannes Oberhauser, who taught a young Bond how to climb and ski, and was referred to as his second father before his mysterious disappearance. Seydoux will portray Madeleine Swann, Belluci will play Lucia Sciarra, Scott will play British secret service agent Denbigh, and Bautista will portray Mr. Hinx, earlier characterized as a henchman in the tradition of Jaws and Oddjob.

In James Bond lore, SPECTRE, or S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (which means (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is the global terrorist organization that Bond has fought several times. In the (officially) first movie, we have Dr. No who was a member of SPECTRE, and then in "From Russia with Love" we get to see SPECTRE again, along with the introduction of the SPECTRE mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld (some of you kids might know him as the character parodized by Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies)

SPECTRE is not aligned to any nation or political ideology, enabling the later Bond books and Bond films to be regarded as apolitical. SPECTRE began in the novels as a small group of criminals but became a vast international organisation with its own SPECTRE Island training base in the films, to replace the Soviet SMERSH.

In Ian Fleming's novels, SPECTRE is a commercial enterprise led by Blofeld. Their top-level members are 21 individuals, 18 of whom handle day-to-day affairs and are drawn in groups of three from six of the world's greatest criminal organisations—the Gestapo, SMERSH, Marshal Josip Broz Tito's secret police, the Mafia, the Unione Corse, and a massive heroin-smuggling operation. In the films, the organization often acts as a third party in the ongoing Cold War. The goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice, and SPECTRE was working not for itself but for an unnamed Asian government whose two representatives Blofeld speaks to during the movie.

Spectre is set to begin production on Monday at Pinewood Studios, with additional shooting to take place on location in Rome, London, Morocco, Mexico City and the Austrian Alps. The film opens Nov. 6, 2015.