Waltz has been cast as the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the film "Reykjavik", based on the 1986 peace talks between the United States and USSR. In April 2013, he was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. He directed a production of the opera Der Rosenkavalier at the Vlaamse Opera, in Antwerp in late 2013, and in Ghent early 2014. In 2014, he was selected as a member of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. He starred as Walter Keane in Tim Burton's "Big Eyes", which opened on 25 December 2014, and appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in "Spectre", the 24th film in the "James Bond" franchise. In July 2019, it was reported that Waltz would reprise the role in "No Time to Die" (2021).