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Using Russian as villains in Bond movies is no Boyle copyright. :D
NTTD is based on P&W story, not Boyle.
"The Russians" and "Russian villains" is not synonymous.
This is 2nd Unit and sometimes, so slate numbers don't double up with the Main Unit numbers (which are using the American scene numbers system) when the 1st unit arrive to shoot the same scenes with the lead actors (ie close ups of Craig and Lea in the car etc.), they use the UK slate system which is shot number and the slate number and then a scene number underneath. And they use letters to designate whether the clapperboard is for an A camera, B camera or a C camera etc. I'll take a look at the clip, but that's my first thought.
Correction.
This is a very messy discussion.....but it goes a little like this:
At the moment it is very confusing as to who will get the final credit. We don't really know the situation at all .......though I suspect when the creatives have to go on the interview circuit we will hear a lot more detail.
Currently, the official press release revealing NTTD as the title suggest that all 5 will be credited (no John Hodge).........................................
Well, I remember the timeline but I also remember that P&W had a treatment already signed off til the bromance with Boyle & Hodge. Then, after the divorce, P&W were re-hired to pen a script based on their treatment. That's what Baz said one year ago. I don't remember reports saying that Boyle was using P&W idea as the basis of his "uncompromising" film and I honestly wouldn't be so sure about that, based on the director approach. BTW since Hodge got not credit it is logic to believe that almost nothing from Boyle's version survived, if not nothing at all...
And somewhere in between is a rumoured-but-totally-not-confirmed Paul Haggis doing work on it too. But I think that's neglectable in all of this.
Gemita was Lea's stunt double in Spectre. The new stunt lady looks different to Gemita (in the background)
To all extents it seems Bond is solo when the film starts in Jamaica, whilst all rumours suggest he is with Madeleine during the PTS, with potential for a time jump between the two. Madeleine appeared to be a psychologist in spectre. Psychology is classed as a science and therefore if the synopsis is relying on wordplay, could the scientist in question not be Madeleine? It seems so far the presumption is the missing scientist is involved in developing the "dangerous new technology" - but the synopsis implies nothing of the sort. It says that the mission to rescue a scientist becomes treacherous, which leads to the trail of a mysterious villain armed with a dangerous new technology. Of course I could be clutching at straws massively (and if honest, I feel I am) but I have been wondering if perhaps Madeleine is kidnapped (By Spectre?) rather than killed off like everyone seems to expect, explaining why Bond is alone. He then heads off to rescue her based on info obtained by Felix (thus explaining why he randomly decides to return to action). This leads him on the trail of the villain responsible and the technological threat they hold, based on what Madeleine learnt whilst being held, and subsequently forces his reconnection with MI6? Furthermore this may give credence to the rumours that Madeleine visits a certain rumoured to be returning character rather than Bond - because she wants answers as of to what happened to her and why?
Of course my thinking could be all nonsense but it's nice to have so little confirmed so we can speculate so wildly :')
The bold text is key.
Here's my theory:
Bond then goes into retirement and slips into depression in Jamaica. From there, Bond is asked by Felix to save the kidnapped scientist in Cuba. I imagine Felix needs the job done ‘off the books’.
So why would Bond – who has likely avoided returning to active service after 5 years – finally decide to return to the field? Well, I think Felix has intel to suggest that Dali Bensallah – that man who killed Madeline Swan – was behind the kidnapping. This gives Bond the dramatic agency required to carry out the rescue mission and kill Bensallah. We know Bensallah was also filming in Jamaica and was on the Cuba set in Jamaica.
@leas_mole Yeah maybe you're right.
That's one cool bobber. I guess they're going with Triumph motorcycles for this one. I've seen the assassin in one, a Scrambler maybe, or something like it.
Is that just sun light reflecting off the Aston as it goes round burning wood, or is it firing its guns?
Must be the sun. They wouldn't waiste squibs (or the time/money fixing them) as this is a rehearsal.
Right?
Daily mail:
Leaked image shows the new Land Rover Defender two weeks before it's due to be unveiled - and it's all James Bond's fault
duda duda dudada da da duda ;)
Wish I had saved some of those from SP. Going to hold on to these NTTD ones.
Plus, for all I know, they used a Triumph Tiger in the woods (and a Kawasaki).
I speculated about the same months ago. Why this makes sense:
- Lea is first billed among the women
- Lea mentioned she would further explore the character in the movie
- She woudn't return for a role that only requires her character in the PTS where (as we see) it is 90% stunt double!
- We get a sense that she is mostly featured in Pinewood scenes
- It was said she would meet another character later in the movie
- "scientist" is the best way of describing her role without spoiling too much
- We know she is in the PTS, but we know Bond is alone on Bahamas. They cant "kill off" Bond again like in the SF PTS so it is very obvious that Maddie disappears at the end of the PTS
- it makes perfect sense that LEiter could convince Bond to return with a personal reason
So I think the PTS ends with Madeleine getting captured, or assumed dead.
It could well be that Leiter doesnt know that she is alive but then Bond encounters her during the Cuba mission
No...wait. Bond is with Paloma, also, so there goes my theory. Unless of course, Swann is alive, but has betrayed Bond.
This all makes very much sense. But what about the kidnapped scientist? Maybe she's there forced to work on Malek's scheme?
Interesting...