The newest Skyfall trailer debuted today on the official 007.com at 2 p.m. in the U.K. and 9 a.m. ET in the U.S. After a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of Javier Bardem’s villain Silva in an NBC commeercial last week, the new trailer includes Silva’s first dialogue. Silva, indeed, is supposed to be blonde.
The trailer also indicates that director Sam Mendes & Co. have borrowed from a literary device Ian Fleming used in his 1964 novel You Only Live Twice. Those who’ve read the book will instantly recognize it.
Finally, the trailer uses a more traditional version of the James Bond Theme. If you haven’t seen it already, take a look:
UPDATE I: The trailer at least partially confirms some fan analysis of clues (some of it based on call sheets and storyboards that were sold on eBay). Bond goes missing, lives the soft life for a while and has to get into shape for a new mission.
That’s not unlike Robert Conrad’s James West in The Wild, Wild West Revisited in 1979, a TV-movie that was played more for laughs than the original 1965-69 series. (And no, we’re not saying that’s a deliberate influence, just noting the coincidence.)
UPDATE II: An amusing Tweet from “Ernst Stavro Blofeld” (well, one of them):
So in #SKYFALL Bond gets ‘killed’ and comes back to life. Haven’t we seen this movie before? #YouOnlyLiveTwice
UPDATE III: This morning we embedded the international trailer. Here’s the somewhat different U.S. trailer:
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The Spy Command 
They used that really eerie “dead” Japanese island as a base for the bad guys, didn’t they? There was some sort of mine on it, and it was abandoned in the 60’s, I think.
70’s, rather. Story of Hashima Island: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7409114n