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I was so hoping that they would follow that up with a Roger game, starring the man himself. I feel like he would have been up for it, and he barely sounded a day older until he passed, so it would have been great stuff.
Rumor has it Moore was supposed to headline "Agent Under Fire" since Brosnan's contract had not been renewed at that point. There's even some pre-release footage featuring a Bond who looks conspicuously like Moore, though it's hard to tell due to the quality of said footage. For whatever reason that didn't end up coming to fruition. I very much agree with you however, a Moore video game will forever be a missed oppurtunity in my eyes.
It’s more strange that other games were set up to feature Daniel as GF, MR etc. Having him to GE kiiiiiiinda worked but didn’t really.
Sorry folks, read every day but never chime in until my gut tells me to.
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LALD would be awesome to see updated with the whole voodoo angle, avoiding scarecrow assassins in dank forests, learning which yellow cabs not to catch in NY. The game would be fully immersible with the player being able to walk around JFK airport, get information through Solitaire dealing her tarot cards and even being able to deal the tarot yourself when she is not present - remember when Bond dealt the three tarot cards in her mansion, the cards predicted the next event, meaning Bond himself has the power of the Obeah! This is something you discover in the game. As long as you have access to a deck of cards you can gather clues. You can get them from Solitaire, the voodoo shop in NY, San Moniquan hotel lobby but not everywhere. Some traveling back and forth is required. The safe house wouldn't be Bond's bungalow - too many unexpected visitors with spare keys. The only safe house might be CIA HQ in NY?
Having said all that, I would probably pick TSWLM just so I can explore the amazing Egyptian environments and sail down up! the Nile...
So many exciting ideas manifest in the mind regarding what could be, it becomes overwhelming to step back from it all and realize it doesn't already exist, it's forever baffling how it's not 'a thing'. Not to mention, we don't have a single 'next-gen' Bond game to play at the moment... *sad sigh!*
Yes, AUF was apparently going to feature RM. Along with John Cleese as Q/R. That would have been interesting, to see that chemistry. I wish that would have happened, along with the Goldeneye health meter.
Personally, I’d wanna see a heavily adapted TMWTGG as a Moore video game. But out of the two it’s TSWLM as the adaptations for it would be more minor and it wouldn’t outshine the original as much as compliment it.
Never say sorry my friend, love that you contributed and I will need to check out some of that YouTube content. I saw that Cipher or is it Cypher(?) features a Spy level now and I thought it would be cool to see if others thought it would make for a good game.
Since the passing of Fleming, many have written continuation novels some have been more successful than others. For the most part the filmmakers have not adapted any of the continuation novels. Without knowing the legalities of whether such a thing is possible I thought it would be fun to see what you feel about adapting the continuation novels.
Would you rather EON adapt some of the continuation novels OR continue to develop their own original stories?
If you choose the continuation novels let us know which book or author would you like to see adapted for the BIG screen.
So yeah, definitely keep the films original, but always keep something of the books in there.
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The films have many people collaborating and pouring months or years of work and ideas into them, which then get honed - so you have well-crafted and original set pieces, dialogue refined by script doctors etc. Whereas the books are the work of one person putting it together in a month or two - not to disparage their work but if it's plots and set pieces we're talking about, then the films are able to invest way more time and talent. I can't think of any ideas in the continuations which are strong and unique enough as to demand to be adapted over any of the original ideas in the films (with maybe an exception here or there for the Higson books- there's some stuff in there I can see making it, albeit heavily reworked - Bond in a hurricane, a secret island where crooks go to retire in protected safety, an open pit with a sadistic obstacle course, being eaten alive by mosquitos etc. ).
I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking Horrowitz's villains are bland.
They really are, aren’t they? FAAD is the worst one for it. The French villain’s first name is literally ‘Jean-Paul’ and his ‘thing’ boils down to he’s fat and doesn’t speak English. I know his villain ‘gimmick’ is that his throat was slit (although this adds nothing in the sense it’s not relevant to the story and gives him no physical advantage over Bond) and he’s slightly sadistic I guess, but to me he comes across as a second rate Le Chiffre. Horrowitz seems to ham up all the sadistic speeches he gives to Bond as well. It gets a bit boring to read honestly. Then there’s the generic American businessman who has a generic incurable illness, a generic backstory where a son has died which gives him, in part, a generic reason to go through with whatever plan he’s trying to do. Yawn. Even Colonel Boris should be much more sinister in WAMTK.
I like the idea of an older, world weary Bond girl similar to Madame Sixtine (although I’m not sure if I’d want a strict adaptation of that character either - her backstory is a bit dull as well). The idea of the villain dosing Bond with heroin - or at least some sort of mind altering drug - is kinda cool as well. But I completely agree, it’s really little scraps here and there that would need to be reworked.
This is all just my opinion and no more valid or true than anyone else's.
Well, a writer may not be able to counter the thinking-power that's available for the films, but they should stay away from their generic writersschool style and actually do the research, like Fleming did. I like Anthony Horowitz's style, but the stories themselves are unimpressive.
The thing with Fleming is, that he knew how to blend culture and story to something extraordinary. The 'garden of death' holds so much more menace because it is set in Japan, catering to a Japanese cultural trait. I feel the continuation novels just don't manage to get that involved. Even TSWLM (novel) uses the environment in the most menacingly way possible, and we're talking about a pine forest here!
So, films, stick to your original stories, and keep beeing inspired by the master himself.
Horowitz should have named it Murder on Wheels, like the Fleming material. The most memorable thing about the novel was the return of Pussy Galore. Honorable mention goes too the final train fight, aka the climax.
The villain's name being Jason Sin is another thing that comes back to me. But yeah, it's all a bit of a blur for some reason. Weird.
At least something like Devil May Care has the benefit of having such a stupid plot twist at the end that it can't help but be memorable. Then you have Carte Blanche which recontextualises Bond into a 21st Century setting which is quite unique/interesting.
Seafire like Quantum Focus on individual villian who get group behind him.
In Role of Honour a conflict with Mi6 turn Bond be avaible to be hired, the secret be hide in word ''conflict''. Conflict of words and proud as in novel is something that we used too but there should bring it next level with conflict on background story of Daniel Craig era as there drive and Mr White in QOS about Vesper: The real shame is that if she hadn't killed herself, we would have had you, too.
Dealer of both titles be Greene in QOS: This is the world's most precious resource, we need to control as much of it as we can.
Story of two Death ''author's'' sometimes already created inspiration...
It's the only one I read of Horrowitz. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, but for the main villain.
I would like to see them try to adapt some of the continuation novels as they have some interesting ideas and concepts.
Lets move on to another would you rather question.
A few times Bond has found himself in Venice and always with a beautiful lady on his arm. Lets pick out a couple and see who would you rather spend some time with in Venice?
Would you rather spend time in Venice with Tatiana Romanova OR with Vesper Lynd?
Consider the year, the woman, or anything else that might sway your decision.