SPECTRE Production Timeline

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  • dominicgreenedominicgreene The Eternal QOS Defender
    edited November 2014 Posts: 1,756
    Snow likely at the beginning. Cold is symbolic of death, harsh times, a time when all odds are against you, survival, etc. Then warmer as it comes to a close, a means of regaining power, resurrection, etc.

    So in my opinion it will be:

    Mexico - PTS
    Austria - **** goes down
    London - M briefing, Q, Moneypenny
    Austria again - Bond investigates
    Italy - Bond follows/tracks/spy things
    Morocco - Finale


    Would make sense geographically, from South America, then south from Europe finishing off in Africa.

    Alternative scenario:

    Mexico - PTS
    Morocco - Post-titles similar to Casino royale in Mada., big plan is about to unfold, meeting
    Austria - **** goes down.
    London - Bond is seen again after not being seen since the PTS
    Italy
    Austria - Finale

  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited November 2014 Posts: 10,591
    Snow definitely at the beginning. Cold is symbolic of death, harsh times, a time when all odds are against you, survival, etc. Then warmer as it comes to a close, a means of regaining power, resurrection, etc.

    So in my opinion it will be:

    Mexico - PTS
    Opening Titles
    Austria
    London
    Austria again
    Italy
    Morocco - Finale

    Would make sense geographically, from South America, then south from Europe.
    But I'm almost certain Morocco will be on screen for no more than 5 minutes, or at least double for another location. They are only filming there for 15 days, making it impossible for them to film any action scene there. The pre-titles sequence from Skyfall took a 3 month production in Turkey, and lasted only 12 minutes on screen. But I agree with everything else.
  • dominicgreenedominicgreene The Eternal QOS Defender
    Posts: 1,756
    jake24 wrote: »
    Snow definitely at the beginning. Cold is symbolic of death, harsh times, a time when all odds are against you, survival, etc. Then warmer as it comes to a close, a means of regaining power, resurrection, etc.

    So in my opinion it will be:

    Mexico - PTS
    Opening Titles
    Austria
    London
    Austria again
    Italy
    Morocco - Finale

    Would make sense geographically, from South America, then south from Europe.
    But I'm almost certain Morocco will be on screen for no more than 5 minutes, or at least double for another location. They are only filming there for 15 days, making it impossible for them to film any action scene there. The pre-titles sequence from Skyfall took a 3 month production in Turkey, and lasted only 12 minutes on screen.
    How about...
    Mexico - PTS
    Morocco - Post-titles similar to Casino royale in Mada., big plan is about to unfold, meeting
    Austria - **** goes down.
    London - Bond is seen again after not being seen since the PTS
    Italy
    Austria - Finale
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited November 2014 Posts: 10,591
    jake24 wrote: »
    Snow definitely at the beginning. Cold is symbolic of death, harsh times, a time when all odds are against you, survival, etc. Then warmer as it comes to a close, a means of regaining power, resurrection, etc.

    So in my opinion it will be:

    Mexico - PTS
    Opening Titles
    Austria
    London
    Austria again
    Italy
    Morocco - Finale

    Would make sense geographically, from South America, then south from Europe.
    But I'm almost certain Morocco will be on screen for no more than 5 minutes, or at least double for another location. They are only filming there for 15 days, making it impossible for them to film any action scene there. The pre-titles sequence from Skyfall took a 3 month production in Turkey, and lasted only 12 minutes on screen.
    How about...
    Mexico - PTS
    Morocco - Post-titles similar to Casino royale in Mada., big plan is about to unfold, meeting
    Austria - **** goes down.
    London - Bond is seen again after not being seen since the PTS
    Italy
    Austria - Finale
    Much better :)
  • Posts: 9,843
    3 weeks till the press confrence.. anyone else getting excited.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited November 2014 Posts: 10,591
    Risico007 wrote: »
    3 weeks till the press confrence.. anyone else getting excited.
    Not at all! I have a horrible feeling about Bond 24.
    Just kidding :P. I wonder where the press conference will be held. Pinewood studios, or perhaps the Corinthia hotel again?
  • edited November 2014 Posts: 255
    When is the press conference? 5. Dez?
  • December 10th I believe...
  • jake24 wrote: »
    Germanlady wrote: »
    Zekidk wrote: »
    Actually, I think Rome is gonna be the PTS!

    They cant and wont do another car chase as pts

    In Italy again! Agreed, the part in Rome will be imbedded in the film, maybe half way through or so. My hope is that they don't chose to front-load the snowy parts of the film and make them the PTS. I want the snow at the end.
    The snow will probably be featured close to the beginning of the movie (but after the pre-titles sequence), as the plane crash in Austria is said to have a lot of relevance to the plot.

    I thought I read that the plane sequence went something like this:

    Bond is in Morocco tailing one of the villains. He learns that the villain has chartered a private jet. So Bond infiltrates the plane, posing as one of the wait-staff. Bond then engineers the plane crash into Austria.

    Don't know if that is the case, but I read it either here, or CBN or Alt.Fan. Jamesbond. Can't remember. Someone claimed it to be the rumor they heard. But if true, it would seem that Morocco is in the early part of the film
  • dominicgreenedominicgreene The Eternal QOS Defender
    edited November 2014 Posts: 1,756
    mdileo007 wrote: »
    jake24 wrote: »
    Germanlady wrote: »
    Zekidk wrote: »
    Actually, I think Rome is gonna be the PTS!

    They cant and wont do another car chase as pts

    In Italy again! Agreed, the part in Rome will be imbedded in the film, maybe half way through or so. My hope is that they don't chose to front-load the snowy parts of the film and make them the PTS. I want the snow at the end.
    The snow will probably be featured close to the beginning of the movie (but after the pre-titles sequence), as the plane crash in Austria is said to have a lot of relevance to the plot.

    I thought I read that the plane sequence went something like this:

    Bond is in Morocco tailing one of the villains. He learns that the villain has chartered a private jet. So Bond infiltrates the plane, posing as one of the wait-staff. Bond then engineers the plane crash into Austria.

    Don't know if that is the case, but I read it either here, or CBN or Alt.Fan. Jamesbond. Can't remember. Someone claimed it to be the rumor they heard. But if true, it would seem that Morocco is in the early part of the film

    Where would someone even get information like that? I call bull.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    Posts: 10,591
    December 10th I believe...
    Where did you read/hear that? Do you have a link?
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    Posts: 10,591
    mdileo007 wrote: »
    jake24 wrote: »
    Germanlady wrote: »
    Zekidk wrote: »
    Actually, I think Rome is gonna be the PTS!

    They cant and wont do another car chase as pts

    In Italy again! Agreed, the part in Rome will be imbedded in the film, maybe half way through or so. My hope is that they don't chose to front-load the snowy parts of the film and make them the PTS. I want the snow at the end.
    The snow will probably be featured close to the beginning of the movie (but after the pre-titles sequence), as the plane crash in Austria is said to have a lot of relevance to the plot.

    I thought I read that the plane sequence went something like this:

    Bond is in Morocco tailing one of the villains. He learns that the villain has chartered a private jet. So Bond infiltrates the plane, posing as one of the wait-staff. Bond then engineers the plane crash into Austria.

    Don't know if that is the case, but I read it either here, or CBN or Alt.Fan. Jamesbond. Can't remember. Someone claimed it to be the rumor they heard. But if true, it would seem that Morocco is in the early part of the film
    I remember reading that here to. But the member who posted it made it up.

  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    jake24 wrote: »
    mdileo007 wrote: »
    jake24 wrote: »
    Germanlady wrote: »
    Zekidk wrote: »
    Actually, I think Rome is gonna be the PTS!

    They cant and wont do another car chase as pts

    In Italy again! Agreed, the part in Rome will be imbedded in the film, maybe half way through or so. My hope is that they don't chose to front-load the snowy parts of the film and make them the PTS. I want the snow at the end.
    The snow will probably be featured close to the beginning of the movie (but after the pre-titles sequence), as the plane crash in Austria is said to have a lot of relevance to the plot.

    I thought I read that the plane sequence went something like this:

    Bond is in Morocco tailing one of the villains. He learns that the villain has chartered a private jet. So Bond infiltrates the plane, posing as one of the wait-staff. Bond then engineers the plane crash into Austria.

    Don't know if that is the case, but I read it either here, or CBN or Alt.Fan. Jamesbond. Can't remember. Someone claimed it to be the rumor they heard. But if true, it would seem that Morocco is in the early part of the film
    I remember reading that here to. But the member who posted it made it up.

    Guilty as charged. I was having a self-indulgent laugh with that one.
  • mdileo007 wrote: »
    jake24 wrote: »
    Germanlady wrote: »
    Zekidk wrote: »
    Actually, I think Rome is gonna be the PTS!

    They cant and wont do another car chase as pts

    In Italy again! Agreed, the part in Rome will be imbedded in the film, maybe half way through or so. My hope is that they don't chose to front-load the snowy parts of the film and make them the PTS. I want the snow at the end.
    The snow will probably be featured close to the beginning of the movie (but after the pre-titles sequence), as the plane crash in Austria is said to have a lot of relevance to the plot.

    I thought I read that the plane sequence went something like this:

    Bond is in Morocco tailing one of the villains. He learns that the villain has chartered a private jet. So Bond infiltrates the plane, posing as one of the wait-staff. Bond then engineers the plane crash into Austria.

    Don't know if that is the case, but I read it either here, or CBN or Alt.Fan. Jamesbond. Can't remember. Someone claimed it to be the rumor they heard. But if true, it would seem that Morocco is in the early part of the film

    Where would someone even get information like that? I call bull.

    I read this somewhere right at the time when we first got the reports from Austria of the production building the house that the plane is supposedly going to crash into. Might have even been in one of the translations of one of the Austrian news reports.

    Where does any rumor come from? Someone on AJB this morning claims that he has a source -- he is saying that the PTS is in Mexico and the villain is a drug baron on the run from the CIA, hiding in Mexico. Also states that Jeffrey Wright is returning as Felix.

    Who knows if any of it is true? Rumors are rumors...
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    Posts: 10,591
    I just thought about something. Austria could very well be featured in the pre-titles sequence of the film, as well as the post-titles scenes. I can imagine the whole pre-titles being airborne and the events leading up to the plane crash. Following the plane crash are the titles, and then following the titles could be the rest of the scenes in Austria (perhaps filming at the log cabin will be Bond's stay there, before flying back to London).
    Thoughts?
  • Posts: 5,745
    All I want in the World is Wright to return. I hope that happens.
  • JWESTBROOK wrote: »
    All I want in the World is Wright to return. I hope that happens.

    I feel positive Wright will return as Felix in either one or both of Craig's remaining films. And who knows, maybe they'll pull a David Hedison and bring him back for the next Bond's tenure as well.
  • WalecsWalecs On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    Posts: 3,157
    mdileo007 wrote: »
    Where does any rumor come from? Someone on AJB this morning claims that he has a source -- he is saying that the PTS is in Mexico and the villain is a drug baron on the run from the CIA, hiding in Mexico. Also states that Jeffrey Wright is returning as Felix.

    Drug? Again? It has only been used in FYEO, LALD, LTK, DMC and what else?

    Drug smuggling has to be the laziest plot thread ever.
  • edited November 2014 Posts: 6,844
    Walecs wrote: »
    mdileo007 wrote: »
    Where does any rumor come from? Someone on AJB this morning claims that he has a source -- he is saying that the PTS is in Mexico and the villain is a drug baron on the run from the CIA, hiding in Mexico. Also states that Jeffrey Wright is returning as Felix.

    Drug? Again? It has only been used in FYEO, LALD, LTK, DMC and what else?

    Solo and The Living Daylights.
    Walecs wrote: »
    mdileo007 wrote: »
    Where does any rumor come from? Someone on AJB this morning claims that he has a source -- he is saying that the PTS is in Mexico and the villain is a drug baron on the run from the CIA, hiding in Mexico. Also states that Jeffrey Wright is returning as Felix.

    Drug smuggling has to be the laziest plot thread ever.

    Smuggling in general. Gold smuggling in Goldfinger, diamond smuggling in Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day, jewel smuggling in Octopussy. Submarine smuggling in The World is Not Enough. ;)
  • Posts: 15,106
    Not keen on drug smuggling myself. I mean as a plot point.

    Funny, nobody talks about Christoph Waltz anymore. Is it only me or doesn't his rumoured casting gives more weight to the return of Blofeld?

    In any case, I would be far happier to see him as a villain than Ejiofor, or even, if I must be honest, than Idris Elba (even though I know Elba more as an actor). I am wondering however how Waltz could now be the villain (if indeed he is), a White German actor who is nearly 60, while a young Black man was considered in the past.
  • Posts: 4,619
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Not keen on drug smuggling myself. I mean as a plot point.

    Funny, nobody talks about Christoph Waltz anymore. Is it only me or doesn't his rumoured casting gives more weight to the return of Blofeld?

    In any case, I would be far happier to see him as a villain than Ejiofor, or even, if I must be honest, than Idris Elba (even though I know Elba more as an actor). I am wondering however how Waltz could now be the villain (if indeed he is), a White German actor who is nearly 60, while a young Black man was considered in the past.

    It's simple: Waltz did not get the part Ejiofor was considered for.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    Posts: 10,591
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Not keen on drug smuggling myself. I mean as a plot point.

    Funny, nobody talks about Christoph Waltz anymore. Is it only me or doesn't his rumoured casting gives more weight to the return of Blofeld?

    In any case, I would be far happier to see him as a villain than Ejiofor, or even, if I must be honest, than Idris Elba (even though I know Elba more as an actor). I am wondering however how Waltz could now be the villain (if indeed he is), a White German actor who is nearly 60, while a young Black man was considered in the past.
    I too am overjoyed about the Christoph Waltz casting, and would also preferred him more than Ejiofor (no, I'm not a racist). And if Baz Bamigboye reports it, than it is more or less confirmed (considering that every single one of his reports about Bond were later proven) :).
  • Campbell2Campbell2 Epsilon Rho Rho house, Bending State University
    Posts: 299
    TBH i'm not so fond of Waltz. Good actor though, I just can't stand him. I agree it sounds like they build him up as Blofeld. Maybe they reveal it at the end.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited November 2014 Posts: 10,591
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Not keen on drug smuggling myself. I mean as a plot point.

    Funny, nobody talks about Christoph Waltz anymore. Is it only me or doesn't his rumoured casting gives more weight to the return of Blofeld?

    In any case, I would be far happier to see him as a villain than Ejiofor, or even, if I must be honest, than Idris Elba (even though I know Elba more as an actor). I am wondering however how Waltz could now be the villain (if indeed he is), a White German actor who is nearly 60, while a young Black man was considered in the past.

    It's simple: Waltz did not get the part Ejiofor was considered for.
    I think that given the fact that the Ejiofor rumors surfaced before the rewrites, the villain role that Ejiofor was up for was probably rewritten with Waltz in mind.
  • Posts: 15,106
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Not keen on drug smuggling myself. I mean as a plot point.

    Funny, nobody talks about Christoph Waltz anymore. Is it only me or doesn't his rumoured casting gives more weight to the return of Blofeld?

    In any case, I would be far happier to see him as a villain than Ejiofor, or even, if I must be honest, than Idris Elba (even though I know Elba more as an actor). I am wondering however how Waltz could now be the villain (if indeed he is), a White German actor who is nearly 60, while a young Black man was considered in the past.

    It's simple: Waltz did not get the part Ejiofor was considered for.

    Maybe, but I don't see him as a Bond ally. A little too high profile, something he does share with Javier Bardem and has more than Ejiofor.

    Maybe have him as Blofeld or a Blofeld-like character and Idris Elba/Ejiofor as a Largo-like character? Pure speculation of course, but there you go.
  • DoctorKaufmannDoctorKaufmann Can shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like suicide.
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    Me too.

    \:D/ :-S =D>
  • Posts: 15,106
    Campbell2 wrote: »
    TBH i'm not so fond of Waltz. Good actor though, I just can't stand him. I agree it sounds like they build him up as Blofeld. Maybe they reveal it at the end.

    I liked him in Django Unchained, but have not seen him in anything else. My only issue with him being cast is that he's Austrian. A native German speaker as a villain is a bit too obvious. That said, yes, it does sound like Blofeld may be reintroduced the way M and Moneypenny were in SF.

    Or maybe it is wishful thinking from my part. That said, the quote about friend or foe does sound like the novel's TB's Blofeld.
  • edited November 2014 Posts: 4,408
    Considering Baz's hints that Waltz's character will apparently flit between friend and foe throughout the picture before ultimately revealing himself to be Bond's 'nemesis' suggests to me that the villain is Blofeld and Mendes is doing an Abrams.

    I hope they don't go down the 'Star Trek Into Darkness' route as the grand reveal that John Harrison is Khan had little impact mainly because I had no fucking idea who Khan was. Had the pre-release marketing had the chance to sell to me that Khan is a big deal from Star Trek lore I'd likely have gone into the movie better informed. Instead the film itself has to wheel out Leonard Nimoy for an ill-advised cameo to tell the audience that this Khan geezer is bad news.

    I hope they don't do this and instead take the Nolan/Joker approach and really build up the excitement that an iconic villain is indeed returning.
  • I think we'll have the press conference by the end of the month.
  • Campbell2Campbell2 Epsilon Rho Rho house, Bending State University
    Posts: 299
    Oh but everybody is aware who Blofeld is, no? It's almost like a meme with the baldhead stroking the cat. If at the end of it the name Blofeld appears everybody knows we're in for some serious action with Bond hunting the guy in the next one.
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