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That's my preferred option, and it would work especially well with the books that received unfaithful adaptations, such as LALD, MR, DAF, AVTAK, YOLT, and TMWTGG. But if we had to choose feature film remakes, most of the previously mentioned titles would also be good choices, since the original films neglected a good deal of their sources. A more faithful remake of LALD would be especially interesting--smuggled pirate treasure is a neat plot and the blood-and-shark filled climax would be memorable.
It will keep more to the book but move from Jamaica to Far East story would be KGB deciding to
take control of Far East drug trade so it can use the profits for its own use
Moonraker
The gondola/hovercraft would not be able to use side streets of of St marks sq because they are
small narrow streets so i would have more speed boat chase down the grand canal side and canal network .
And change ms goodhead name and she would be one off felix agents .
Spy who loved me
The major be part off the iron hammer section which are KGB counterparts to the 00 section
I have always felt the filmmaker missed a "golden" opportunity in TMWTGG: Bond, upon learning that he is a target of Scaramaga, should have gone into his office and dug out the gold-plated Colt 45 revolver he took off Goldfinger.
"I, too, have a golden gun!"
The race course scene kept the same but the change Patrick macnee would be S a John steed in-joke
that would be his only scene in the film
Bond meets a French secret service agent who has been investigating zorin
and the chase down Paris river in the lotus will gets damaged
At the Paris station bond gets his toys from Q and gets his legend and the rolls Royce
For your eyes only
Columbo and kristatos should be the sons who took over there family business
columbo took over his father smuggling business but he only smuggles cigs , nuts , gold and silver , money .
Kristatos took over his father business and smuggles arms , drugs also being a KGB agent
There fathers fought in WW2 and then civil war together but kristatos father had worked for Germans and then become KGB agent after the war
So bond in a way gets caught up in a blood feud
More use lotus GTI
Instead of using tanner bond gets his mission orders from 0 the 00 section chief
No moneypenny
Moonraker
Drax is arms dealer because he is arms dealer in book he designs and builds missiles and rockets systems for the armed forces so think drax as baddie tony stark
Sir Freddie gray should be civil servant and be M direct boss or have sir Freddie as O the 00 section head
Good post. Several of the Bond films appear to be unofficial remakes of earlier films. Of course, YOLT/TSWLM/MR, but also GF/AVTAK and FRWL/TLD.
So you remake a good film, except there is already no point, since the film was good in the first place and there is no reason to remake it and you furthermore run the risk of ruining it. People will see it, but chances are people will see it as second to the original.
It is a lose-lose situation.
Hence my rather negative view on remakes. They really should only remake black-and-white films, films that are so old it lessens the ability for people today to enjoy them. And only then if the remake is creative and brings new concepts to the film whilst retaining the original's key ideas and trademarks.
Goldfinger is unquestionably not capable of being remade, at least not for now. It's still remembered as a great and inevitably, nostalgia will get the better of critics and the general population alike, and the remake will be branded as a failure or a poorer carbon copy. We'll have to wait until the people who saw GF (and really, any of the Connery movies) in the cinemas have passed away, maybe 30 or so more years, before GF can really be made without a backlash of some sort. That's not mentioning that GF is definitively a 60's movie - modernising it will be challenge.
The first draft of TND had some good ideas (climbing the icefall during the PTS, fighting in a medieval weapon museum in Venice), but there were a lot of wobbly things too, like wasn't the Bond girl a rebellious niece of Elliot Harmsway or something? Also Jack Wade played a bigger role (not a great idea) and the climax was nowhere near as entertaining as the stealth ship finale. All things considered, I think we got the better draft onscreen.
But I wouldn't be against a version with '97 Monica Bellucci as Paris. ;)
SP is a remake of YOLT.
SF is a remake of TWINE.
QOS is a remake of LTK.
AVTAK is a remake of GF.
MR is a remake of TSWLM.
And:
TND recycled from TSWLM, TSWLM recycled from YOLT, YOLT recycled from DN.
Every film after GF recycles from GF.
I'm not saying all these are true but these are all the arguments one could possibly make.
You know? The way Elliot's lines were written, I didn't imagine Jonathan Pryce in the role, but Anthony Hopkins instead, who was rumoured to have been offered the role for Elliot Harmsway/Carver. Teri Hatcher was miscast, and the role should've been filled with the beautiful Monica Bellucci (but at least we've got her as being part of the franchise!).
However, I will have to agree that the climax was lackluster and dumbed down. I very much prefer the Stealth Boat finale.
Live and Let Die is a remake of Dr. No
True, originally they were going to have Honey Ryder return in it.
Yeah, well it says that in the booklet that came with my Special Edition DVD anyway. And of course it had Quarrel Jr.
That would be superb!
Change the film title to property of lady
She is miss smythe in the film
Has vast business empire and hotels , construction , cargo shipping , freight trains
and smuggling operation where she uses her cargo ships and trains for that.
And she only smuggles gold , silver , money , contraband , jewels .
Khan has using her smuggling services
Khan is smuggling Russian Royal jewels out of Russia and sending fake replacements back to Russia then he puts them up for auction and then buys them.
Khan is spending his wealth doing this but the chest of Royal jewels will make him super-rich.
And he is the middle man in general Orlov plans.
General orlov plans to invade west Europe but for that to happen there has to nuclear disarmament in the west.
General Orlov gained is using Stasi knive throwing assassins and is using KGB agent who
is undercover at American air base in west Germany for he's plan.
The plan the undercover KGB agent who is a airmen at American airbase in West Berlin sets of a nuclear weapon off it is blamed as accident this leads to nuclear disarmament west Germany and Europe will be in chaos then Russians can invade west Europe.
Vijay is head of mi6 station India and does not get killed off
Still have lots of Q and and the sub-croc
Miss smythe is half English /half Indian play by Emily Bolton from bond film moonraker
Miss smythe father is late major Dexter smythe
Instead of having vijay killed one of agents dies instead
Also miss smythe is also into private security and big business spying and her woman for those jobs and her second in command is spying on Khan.
But bottom line - no remakes, no edits of past films.
I found this gem on comments page 100. I'd be interested to know how the author feels about SPECTRE and NTTD. Funny how OHMSS music figured into NTTD.
I am ready to see some faithful adaptations of MR and YOLT. Fine, change the titles. Call them DRAX and SHATTERHAND.
Dune might be successful in remaking, because the original one got the story wrong.
But those others that got it right, they made the remakes looked worse.
That's the thing with the Bond films (particularly the Connery/Lazenby/60's Era), I'm fine with doing faithful adaptations of those films that strayed away from the source materials like DAF, LALD, TMWTGG, MR or even TSWLM, but the others? I don't quite see the point.
Maybe Die Another Day, remake it, make the story more polished, instead of the CGI galores that we've got in 2002, make it modernized and proper, different title of course.
Focus the story on what happened to Bond in the PTS, him being tortured, centered around a North Korea cold war, and grounded (NO DNA REPLACEMENT ANGLE! REMOVE THAT ENTIRELY!), If the villain is North Korean, stay and keep him that way!
They could still have Gustav Graves, but as a separate character, make him a puppet of Colonel Moon (a businessman who's having some negotiations with Colonel Moon regarding the smuggling of diamonds and sports cars), a second villain, think of it like Georgi Koskov and Brad Whittaker, but a more developed character with understandable intentions.
Replace the dialogues, have Jinx be like Camille Montes in that she's really tough, not flashy or showy, with witty dialogues that could counterpart Bond's.
I'm definitely for a Die Another Day remake, especially that the issue about North Korea is getting louder again.