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But i like Pryce as carver and without him possible Greene have look difrent.
"You know what you look like to me, with your Brioni suit and your expensive watch? You look like a cad. A well scrubbed, hustling cad. Eton education's given you some taste, but you're not more than one generation from poor Scottish peasant, aren't you, Agent 007? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure Norf. What is your father, James? Is he a sheep shagger? Does he stink of the moors? And how quickly you dispatched all those anonymous henchmen, all those tedious traps you escaped while you could only dream of getting out, getting anywhere, getting all the way back to M...I...6."
Love it.
I'm also fascinated by the mental image of Anthony Hopkins screaming in panic before being obliterated by the Stealth drill.
I'm not sure what Hopkins could have brought to the role that wouldn't have invited comparison. He would have been a good candidate for M
Had Hopkins played a villain in a Bond film (and he still could), I would rather see him in a better film than TND...and I quite like the film as a few hours of fun entertainment.
On to another topic, I believe suggested by @SIS_HQ but I shall do a slight twist.
As we know, Spy was allowed to be made as a movie with title only. The novel was not allowed to be truly adapted for the screen. As such there is technically one book by Fleming that has yet to become a movie. Barbara and Michael decide it's time to use the contents of the book for the next Bond movie. They assign you the task of deciding what's being salvaged from the book and what's being tossed or set aside.
What if EON did a faithful, or a more complete adaptation of TSWME and used elements of the book in a new film! Also please provide a title of said movie as Spy has been taken!
Perchance To Die.
1. Both Vivine and Paris point out bond sleeps with a gun under his pillow
2. The reason Paris married Elliot is the same reason Vivine slept with kurt (he told me he loved me)
3. Kurt is in the newspaper industry same as Elliot
Again there are a more then a few winks i always felt Tomorrow is to the spy who loved me as goldeneye is to moonraker
And arguably the fiery climax was done in QoS.
Given that they are fond of going back and picking up bits from Fleming, I could see this being adapted if they convince the lawyers. As well as the parts left from (most notably) LALD, MR, DAF, and TMWTGG.
I think we're due for a train climax.
I suppose if TSWLM was used a sort of 'blueprint' for the next film there's still stuff they could adapt. I'd personally have the Bond girl get involved with the main villains of the film during the PTS (it doesn't have to occur in a motel or be a direct adaptation - the Bond girl just has to get caught up in the villain's schemes by accident) and have Bond show up, thwart their plans, and save her. Again, this doesn't have to mean Bond stumbling into the situation by accident as in the novel, and it can be part of an official mission. Flash forward years later and the same villains are hunting this Bond girl down (perhaps she acquires some piece of information or even an object during the PTS that the villains realise could compromise them). She tracks down Bond and gets him to protect her.
I'd have Bond girl initially fall for Bond and even idolise him at first, similar to how Viv falls for Bond in TSWLM. Eventually he falls for her too. Throughout the film, however, she slowly comes to realise that Bond/his line of work is only one step away from the villains (again, much like the policeman's words of warning to Viv at the end of the novel). Perhaps by the end of the film she even gets Bond out of a situation. The film will end with the Bond girl deciding to leave Bond.
I made even three shorts teaser trailers (2011-2012)
Above example of two shot i take be from Ladder 49 and use short Spider-Man trailer. Focus already back then be on return of Dominic Greene and his line from QOS.
Scene from Spectre look like a bit on it.
Story element: Mr S and Miss V run hotel in middle of New York. When at the end Bond is save back in London, Miss V set hotel in fire with her in it and what follow is boat chase between Mr S and CIA and movie end with back of statue of liberty. To Be Contuned in The Hildebrand Rarity. Mr S working for a doctor named Hildebrand. Miss V, Vesper, Dench M and Mathis return.
Statue Of Liberty, symbol of freedom. Possible why Dutch translation is: Vrijheidsbeeld. (English: Statue Of Freedom). One reasen why showing her from other side she is beshamed looking you in to your eyes.
I’m still mad he’s never been a Bond villain. In another timeline, he’s Augustus Trevelyan in the Dalton version of GoldenEye
Here is the scenario and it offers some interesting discussion points.
I was watching some YouTube videos today and in one it was mentioned that originally EON was looking to make TB the first film adventure of James Bond. However because the film was in the courts they had to shelve their plan and set about making DN the first film of the series.
Our first scenario, what if Saltzman and Broccoli had been able to make TB the first film in their James Bond series? Would it work as a first film? Or was the ultimate right choice made having DN has the first Bond film adventure? Interestingly the director would obviously been the same. Could they had pulled off TB with the limited budget of DN? Or would the film fizzle and therefore no series of films to follow?
Mi6 what say you? What if EON had produced TB as the first Bond picture?
Then from what I've heard it would've likely to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starred Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, so that's also interesting too.
Thunderball wouldn't likely to be the title of it, but rather than Longitude 78 West, as already planned out at the time.
And probably if happened, when Fleming published the book, it would've likely to be just some sort of novelization instead of a real book because the film came first before the book, and it would not be named Thunderball, but who knows.
I liked this scenario, as it could've avoid the Legal Battles that would persist at the time regarding McClory and Fleming, I think McClory wouldn't likely to sue Fleming, although it may also be a different situation, maybe instead of Fleming, he would sue the Producers (Cubby and Harry) instead.
I don't know why they've chose Dr. No, as reading the book, it's full of fantastic elements that lowered down from a low budget like The Giant squid, the locations, the set pieces, and etc. It's not for me, the most affordable book to film at the time given the elements in the book.
I think, Thunderball would've been a lot more affordable to film at the time since it's just underwater and didn't have much of bombastic elements in it, that or maybe Live And Let Die, as it didn't also contained some big time elements, just plain grounded.
That's said, it would've been better in my opinion, with Thunderball already setting up SPECTRE, then From Russia With Love where we're already getting into deeply with SPECTRE, I think it would've been great to see the sequencing of events.
And with Dr. No coming up later in the film series, it would've been given a big more budget that would've made it closer to the book (seeing the giant squid appear and the whole fantastical natures of the book).
Sure, Goldfinger could've likely to still be filmed, then Dr. No with Bond facing another SPECTRE operative, and them coming face to face with either in YOLT or OHMSS (depends upon which one would've came first).
It's interesting to see how would it fare.
My instinct tells me that, in DN, they picked the best of the novels to adapt--all more or less in one location on beaches, and more importantly, set outside and giving that travelogue feel. (I don't think they could have convincingly done the squid until at least the 1990s. I mean, *Spielberg* had a hard time doing a shark in 1975.)
Setting aside all the legalities and rights issues, and given a choice of all of the novels to start the series, and considering expense, the obvious possibilities are CR, DAF, and DN.
If they did CR in 1962, it probably would have had more of a soundstage feel, and I can't see a Niven or Grant committing to a series of films.
Somehow, they picked the right story in DN.
Sometimes the what if works out best with the way it happens. DN turned out to be a far superior first film and one that set the tone for what was to follow.