It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Cool! I like the last line "only one man can take them on"!
I want it to be used in a future Bond Film poster.
That might be a bit too near the knuckle at the minute I fear and Eon have never been keen to politicise their villains, especially in potential foreign markets for their film. From DN onwards the villains were working for SPECTRE instead of SMERSH or the Soviet Union more generally as was the case in the original Fleming novels.
Later on in the 1980s and 1990s when they stopped using SPECTRE as the villains they only represented villainy from Russia as being from renegade generals such as Orlov, Koskov or Ourumov. These renegades were out for their own geopolitical or financial ends which were seen as at odds with the general foreign policy of Mother Russia and moderates like General Gogol. I think Eon will continue down this path of not needlessly politicising the plots of their Bond films and so they should. Plus, we've already had Russia as a location in GoldenEye which wasn't really all that long ago in the grand scheme of things.
I think a moment that really underscores the careful yet thoughtful stalemate between Russia and Bond's countrymen that dominates throughout the series is in FYEO, where Gogol wants the ATAC device, but Bond instead decides to destroy it. In that moment, each side is at peace and can walk away from the situation knowing that, although neither nation could utilize the power of the ATAC, at least destroyed it could be of no use to anyone.
As for Greece you could make a great PTS in Athens, with the Pantheon and a chase at the Piraeus Harbour (think Blood Stone) or the Islands (possible Colonel Sun adaption).
1.) Belarus
2.) Poland
3.) Estonia
4.) Lithuania
Also Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Spain was not that utilized in TWINE, those scenes in Bilbao, so yes, I also want to see more of Spain, and better utlized, if they're in Spain why not go to Ibiza too?
I also want Bond to return in Amsterdam, and have him visit a villain lair in Finland with northern lights on the background.
I think you can rule Belarus out as a potential location now.
Budapest, Hungary
Almeria, Spain
Cape Town, South Africa
There's some fantastic roads in Almeria, see Jamiroquai Cosmic Girl video
Bond on the Sydney Harbor Bridge - bit of an homage to AVTAK, eh ? Too soon after QOS to have Bond in an action sequence at the Opera House ? Bond in the Hobbit Village in New Zealand - how terribly cute. Selecting locations in Canada is bound to be problematic, though. Montreal ? Toronto ? Windsor ? Vancouver ? Or just have Bond step his toe over the line, then turn to the camera, break the Fourth Wall and say: "There ! Done it !" or just "Well, the other fellows never did that, did they ?"
1. India
2. Kenya
3. Persian Gulf
4. Kazakhstan
5. Argentina
An Aidan Turner supporter, huh.
Right, the fact that a lot of super rich people have bought themselves vast tracts of land and with it citizenship or at least residency papers in New Zealand, because they think it would be the safest place in any number of possible coming catastrophies makes it a pretty good spot for a Bond villain. So good even, that I think it might be a bit too on the nose and the New Zealand Government might not be happy to give filming permits if that's the premise.
Not sure whether I'm for A Turner as Bond...turns out that, in real life, he's much taller than he was in the Hobbit films
Great choices. Would also be interesting to see Pakistan. Can imagine a nice homage to TLD - “I know a great restaurant in Karachi”.
Acknowledged @Since62! Still ripe for poking fun.
Agreed, I always appreciate a nice contrast between locales but I'm equally a fan of one particular location dominating a film's proceedings (like DN or even a large portion of OHMSS).
And NTTD also makes a meaningful return to the lake house in Norway. Rules are meant to be broken?
I suppose Bond briefly visited Albania (while it was still behind the Iron Curtain) in FYEO when they had the raid on Kristatos's heroin refinery. I guess that was Greece or somewhere else standing in for Albania though as the Cold War was still ongoing at that time and filming there would've been out of the question.
No to Italy. Four of Bond's movies took place there. Loved the Matera bit, but give Italy a time-out.
1. Has anyone mentioned Maldives?
2. Bhutan
3. Lebanon (if the bombing didn't happened, but maybe the country is in a better situation now?)
4. Philippines (particularly Vigan and Puerto Prinsesa, a view of Chocolate Hills, or the rainforests).
After NTTD's succes, that shouldn't be a problem, no? ;-) I love the city, there are so many cultures mixed, old and new mixed, from the Raffles to the rooftop, plenty of places to go to.
La Mont Michel, France
Singapore
Greenland
You're sure about that man? :))