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I think just some cool tech will do. Whatythat Q-Spider thing in the PS2 game, have some miniaturised version of that he can use. Maybe the bad guys chase him with drones that he has to outsmart. Hmm could he have an AI assisted tech, or is that too Iron Man/Jarvis.
I'd like to see space tourism being featured.
It's time for the MR remake.
I could have phrased that better. Nice car and suits are some of the tools of Bond's trade, as he tends to move among the rich and powerful.
I'll be interested in how Bond is updated to appeal to younger audiences. I don't know what that looks like.
The only time I got a sense that Higson's Bond was 'modern' was maybe when he noted that the villain's meeting was a room full of white people/had no diversity or whatever. Apart from that it's a relatively straightforward Fleming-esque Bond portrayal. The story itself obviously touches on things like right wing grifters and current politics, but apart from me personally not liking the approach/writing, it wasn't unrecognisable as James Bond.
Yeah, agreed. There's always been a consistency of sorts to the Bond character, even with the different actors bringing their own traits to the role.
Bond enjoys the finer things in life: that's always been part of his character right from the books. He doesn't just use them, he likes them. He's not particular about his three-ringed cigarettes and the particular vintage of his Bollinger just for show. That's quite a basic tenet of the character.
To be honest I didn't find that hugely modern, even- Bond was making an observation that it was a very unapologetically old-school white male crowd, and he doesn't make a value judgement on it either way. Bond of the 50s wouldn't have noticed that, no, but that was because of the world around him: if he didn't notice that today he'd be rather lacking in observation skills. Well I say that, even Fleming's Bond would probably make some sort of comment if he were at a drinks party where there were no women! :)
Under the circumstances yes, I can see why it was noticed.
To be honest, I actually felt OHiMSS was a bit safe in terms of what Bond thought about politics, especially far right/far left types (ie. the they inevitably meet in the middle and he views them as similarly militaristic). Fleming's Bond was way more subversive (and I suppose individualistic) in his cynicism. This is a character who openly thought in GF that 'prohibition is the trigger of crime' in relation to a job he has to do involving a drug operation. Or who claimed that the Cold War was a game of 'chasing the red Indian' in CR, and that good and evil didn't truly exist. It felt far more toned down/diluted compared to Fleming, but I can understand why it's perhaps tricky for a continuation author to do.
With SpaceX! Lol
Well, Zendaya is very slim...
They were secretly involved in the intelligence community, and Bond must tie up a loose end they left dangling:
They’re rumoured to be still alive and held by the enemy; is it a trap?
There’s someone assassinating agents and Bond suspects it’s his supposedly long-dead father.
These are the kind of stories Marvel and DC Comics generate for long standing heroes who are still selling. Not something I’d look forward to because things start to get silly or contradictory, but I think if I was a jobbing writer trying to pitch a story to Eon, that’s the sort of story I’d choose.
It's a bit hackneyed, sure, but I don't think I'd be entirely averse to it. The parents were still dead but I think it was part of some grander scheme which Bond was beginning to uncover (was it called Iron Fist or something?). Maybe a bit similar to the Andrew Garfield Spider Man film though, yes.
It tends to be a good source of angst.
I want personal stakes in a Bond film but I'd like to see a new angle, somehow.
Same here; and yes I can't think of a way either!
Unless they do do a proper 'life of Bond' thing, starting earlier than CR did. I don't know if the audience would want that though.
Personal stakes could be the mission itself.
What if agent 007 has lost the faith of M— and Bond knows it too?
What if we hear that the last two missions were barely accomplished because of mistakes and impulses that this once star agent fell into?
What if, because of this, Bond has also lost faith in himself as well? That he just hasn’t let the old man down, but himself too? Has he, at (say) age 30, really lost his edge? Has he really lost his instincts?
And what if the next assignment is a loose adaptation of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN: M knows that the young 007 is at a fork in the road and sends him on a mission that will likely see him fall by the sword, but, if James Bond does survive, it’ll see him become a better man/agent than the one that started this story.
And Bond is fully aware that this assignment could be a suicide mission, but accepts it anyways…
Just spit-balling … Stakes, but without it being about a lover lost, or something floating up from the past…
Hmm, but then that's Skyfall I guess, isn't it! :D
It's tricky.
I wonder if the PTS could be this explosive introduction to the new Bond, BUT, it shows him making the mistake (whatever that may be)? Yes, he finishes the assignment, but just barely, and we see the flaw in his character (with the choice he made).
It can differ from Skyfall.
With Skyfall, Bond “died” and was “resurrected” .
But with this other concept, we have a youthful, charismatic man of action, under control and blasting his way through the PTS, but he makes a near-fatal decision that almost costs him the assignment. And his life.
After the PTS we have M giving him a dressing down. We will hear that this wasn’t the first time he’s slipped up. We can hear (of how his damn (beretta) jammed on the assignment before last). M has no idea what’s got into his double-O. He came into the service as the top candidate, but, he’s been slipping, and slipping badly.
He dismisses Bond and tells him to go home and figure out if he’s actually cut out for this way of life.
A young agent who meets the fork in the road.
So when this suicide mission comes across the desk, both Bond and M know what’s at stake. And the question of, is this the life he really wants, will only be answered by his success, or failure, of the assignment.
It could be very different from SF (?).
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Yes, the brainwashing is a hoary '50s-'60s trope at this point. I suppose it could appear that Bond has turned but Bond is actually a triple-agent against the Russians or whoever and he didn't even tell M for his safety (?).
I feel like this is already turning into a Gardner plot. :-O
Yes, it is a bit of a shame that CB never properly finished its dangling story threads. IFP got COLD when they shouldn't have.
Sure as long as Blofeld doesn't have any connection to the Bond family again.
Battling personal demons, daddy and mommy issues, never having recovered from the lost loves of his life, his love-hate relationship with M, and, of late, adopted sibling rivalry, the mission that almost killed him or will kill him have all become cliche.
Dispense with that stuff and bring us a competent and committed Bond unburdened with angst.
I'd much rather wonder what motivates Bond rather than two and half of attempting to explain what motivates Bond.
The adopted brother nonsense should serve notice how pointless all that was. Connery never had a moment of self-reflection and not for a second did I wonder about his emotional health.
I watch a lot of British crime drama and I am amazed at how almost everyone comes from a broken marriage, they've had some sort of trauma, or they have an aged parent with dementia. Sure, those things affect people in real life, but when all that stuff becomes de rigueur in our television shows and films it becomes a bore.
Let the mission be the challenge, not his head.
That would've likely to happen if Disney acquired James Bond, oh my.....
And you have teenagers or a love teams from Disney films and shows singing the Bond themes 😂
After the Craig Era, this is what we really need for a breathe of fresh air.
Yes. I think my favourite Bond poster might be Live and Let Die: