Yesterday, the entire world stood still when the creators of the new James Bond movie, Spectre, tweeted a teaser for a teaser poster. Today, the teaser poster was released, and we now know why it needed to be teased in the first place: James Bond is Sterling Archer, also known as “Duchess.”
James Bond is Archer
And Archer is James Bond
And Archer is James Bond
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Here is the official #SPECTRE teaser poster pic.twitter.com/3cn3iM6tf1
— James Bond (@007) March 17, 2015 Sweet turtleneck, Daniel Craig. Or is it a tactleneck?
The turtleneck really seals the deal (on top of all the murder and misogyny), but evidence of the shared spy identity was first spotted by my colleague, Dieter Bohn:
I'm getting a real Archer vibe here. http://t.co/n38BupgkCd pic.twitter.com/IOsLr4eU9O
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) February 12, 2015 But as Russ Fischer at Slashfilm points out, Craig’s Bond and Archer are really just cheap knockoffs of Roger Moore.
In any event, James Bond looks ready for whatever challenge awaits — especially if it involves being an advertisement in the next issue of Esquire.
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