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Play The Devil
James Bond - Daniel Craig
Anna Friel - Jacinta Haze
Lars Mikkelson - Luther Furst
Pre title sequence: Bond has not been seen since the end of SP. Bond makes contact with Tanner, claiming that he has vital information that he must give M personally. During his debriefing interview Bond attempts to kill M, but is prevented by Tanner and Moneypenny. Bond escapes from the MI6 building pursued by agents, but eventually gets away.
Bond is suffering from amnesia and unsure what led to his attempt to kill M. He is being pursued by former colleagues whilst attempting to track down who has brain washed him. In Spain another former British agent, Jacinta Haze, is captured after killing the British Ambassador. Bond thinks there is a connection and frees her.
Together they track down Luther Furst, who they believe is behind the mystery whilst avoiding British agents attempting to kill them
This might work whether DC returns or not.
It's a good starting point for a story and owes a lot to the first few chapters of Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun. This deserves to be developed further, but I would be careful where you take it because the notion of Bond with amnesia or brainwashing of any sort is veering perilously close to Bourne territory.
Agreed. I was worried about it being too close to Bourne. And yes the start is stolen from MWTGG. But there is the germ of something there.
As for set piece suggestions, I too thought about a F1 connection which I'll run past you guys here though things are changing in the rules of F1 now and there's no real safety car now!
Even though it played a part in the original Fleming novels YOLT and TMWTGG, many years before there ever was a Jason Bourne?
Considering people think SPECTRE ripped off Hydra recently, it would undoubtedly compared to it sadly.
And therein lies the problem for the modern James Bond film...QoS being a case in point in that regard...
I am not suggesting that change in course, either, mind you. I'm merely pointing out the "realism" and "seriousness" for the thread. However, I do think bio-terrorism (by SPECTRE) is a plausible plotline. Ity was handled in OHMSS, as pointed out earlier. But it can be handled more realistically and terrifyingly in Bond 25, if EON were to go down that path.
Also, every actor (except Lazenby) has had his share of underwater adventure. DC has not. If he's back for 25, I'd lack to see that element added.
Nice ideas, but I see two issues:
1) There was nothing at the end of SP to suggest Bond is injured - I think such a link back to the previous film would be good if there had been a cliffhanger
2) I'm bored with plots that are inwardly looking. I'm pining for Bond to return the Dr No role of being a government agent, the pinnacle of special forces / secret service, being assigned to deal with a threat to British interests. No more "this is personal". Personally I feel Bond is more chilling as a relatively-anonymous lethal government agent being sent out into the night, rather than a dinasour civil servant fighting with his adopted brother with daddy issues
Maybe one for the future?
My feeling is that at the end of SP it appears that Bond has left the service. I was looking at a way for him to come back and the start of MWTGG novel sprang to mind.
I'd like a film that includes maybe Second third of the movie where bond is scared and being pursued or tracked somewhere remote. Like in Butch Cassidy, Capricorn one, no country for old men, the fugitive. He fears for his survival and has to rely on his wits to stay alive.
I love the shot in butch Cassidy where the lanterns follow the false trail then rejoin the true one. Really effective and tense.
Yes, the thread title and the first post are a bit at variance with each other.
Your suggestion of Bond as a fugitive living on his wits is a good one and could work if handled properly. I always like it when Bond demonstrates his resourcefulness, rather than rely on a handy "deus ex machina" gadget that Q has conveniently provided -- obviously after having consulted his crystal ball.
The only problem with a "Bond living off the land while being pursued" concept is that we're sort of encroaching on Rambo: First Blood territory, which is why such a story would have to be handled in a different way so as not to appear derivative.
Actually, this isn't 100% true, now that I think about it. Both CR and QoS dealt with political movements in Africa and South America. QoS was actually quite critical of U.S. involvement in Latin America. I'd argue that QoS was the most political of Bond films, as it also had a not-so-subtle environmental message.
On the whole, though, you're right. EON has always stayed away from deep political positions.
I like your idea. Yes, indeed, that tracking sequence in BCatSD is brilliant stuff.
And DAD and SF... as far as missing etc. Great idea but too similar now.
SPECTRE purchases three/four 1980s tech hunter/killer subs from Russia via arms dealer. They hold G7 to ransom by threatening to sink giant oil tankers (they are large, slow and make an easy target), SPECTRE has invested in Russian pipeline oil firms who benefit from the sky rocketing price of oil plus we also have the environmental/green impact of massive oil spills at a global scale. MI5 become involved as SPECTRE sink a tanker at the Finnart Oil Terminal, Scotland as a demonstration of power. Bond finds the central control HQ that co-ordinates the subs, he gives them fake orders to surface at certain locations where Felix arranges them to be met by force and sunk, then Bond blows up HQ. Simple but grand story with a green twist.
True Allegiance
James Bond: Daniel Craig
Sir Achilles Knight: Christopher Eccleston
Tamsin Honeybourne: Miranda Raison
Newton: Jason Statham
Pre title sequence: Bond is on temporary secondment to MI5 at the personal request of Defence Minister John Honeybourne, at a special event at Eton school. Bond and Honeybourne were classmates at Eton and Bond suspects that Honeybourne has requested his involvement because he likes the idea of ordering Bond around. However, before Honeybourne is about to give a speech to the Old Boys, he hints to Bond that he needs to speak to him in private.
During the speech there is an assassination attempt on Honeybourne and Bond initially saves the Minister. Bond suspects a trap and tries to help Honeybourne escape via a different route to the contingence plan, but as Honeybourne desperately tries to impart some vital information, he is shot. Bond goes after the sniper but is nearly killed himself. For some reason however he is allowed to live.
Main film: M returns from holiday in a furious mood. He demands to know why Tanner allowed Bond to be seconded to MI5 for what was little more than the role of security guard. Tanner explains that Honeybourne wanted a fellow Etonian involved. When M states that Bond was expelled for being in bed with the daughter of a School Master, Tanner defends Bond by saying it was a case of mistaken identity. To which Moneypenny says that it was indeed a mistake, since Bond thought he was getting into bed with the School Masters other daughter!
Bond is grilled by M and Christopher Van Asch from MI5. Bond claims to have seen Sir Achilles Knight, a former SAS and MI6 agent who was supposedly killed in Afghanistan some years before. M loses his temper, asks Van Asch to leave but outside the room everyone hears Bond being blamed for what happened. He is placed on gardening leave while the investigation takes place.
Bond retreats to Fowey in Cornwall. While there he is approached by John Honeybourne's sister, Tamsin. She was told to seek Bond out if anything happened to her brother. As she attempts to give a memory stick to Bond, they are attacked by two men. Bond and Tamsin flee through the narrow Cornish streets. They become trapped at the Lost Gardens of Helligan, but Bond manages to kill one of his pursuers.
The information on the memory stick concerns an organisation in Canada. Bond and Tamsin fly to Calagary and they quickly realise they are being followed. Bond is lured to to a fight club, where he boxes against a man who Bond thinks he recognises. The man, Newton, batters Bond but Bond manages to win by throwing a left hook to the solar plexus.
Bond is finally introduced to Achilles Knight. Knight had gone back to rescue some soldiers in Afghanistan, despite being ordered not to. Only Newton and Knight escaped and a bullet in Knight's left wrist left he hand useless and in a permanent claw shape.
Knight and Newton were so disheartened at how military personal were treated they have planned since to overthrow the politicians in the UK. As Knight says, "a desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy." He has assembled a team of retired or discharged British soldiers and their aim is to hit the House of Commons at the Queens Speech.
There is a battle within Parliament, including a fight on top of Big Ben between Bond and Newton.
If they want to add an extra layer of cheese/drama, the tower has been used for New Years eve fireworks for the last couple if years, the colours of the fireworks through the glass clock face would be stunning and a feast for Deakins
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5401441/Lets-hear-it-again-from-Big-Ben.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8989319/Pictures-of-the-day-3-January-2012.html?image=15
It was used as the climax to the 70s version of the 39 steps.
I always thought that tieing someone to the hands so they were slowly ripped to pieces in full view of bond would be a good premise. He'd rescue them of course.