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". . . in fact, we both did!"
Priceless.
That exchange will be in Bond 27, in 2045.
I wouldn’t bother mate.
After Craig Bond, the Bond producers should fully embrace sci-fi and make an adaptation of George Adamski's Inside the Space Ships. Not exactly Spang Brothers, but at least Space Brothers. ~X(
How about just a bit larger-than-life.
Seeing Bond get into some desperate situations to the point where I don't know how he'll make it out alive, and then seeing him survive, sounds more appealing to me. Like the torture scene in Casino Royale.
Still, the one Bond death we've had so far in the EON films, while offering room for improvement, was well handled. It's well acted, has good dialogue, and fits the story and the characters. It's just not something I particularly care to see. Survival is more satisfying to me.
It's interesting to ponder if anyone who appreciated the ending would have still preferred one where he survived. That would've been repeating the ending of Spectre but it's not a terrible sin to commit. Bond just had to go back to work to take care of some unfinished business before truly settling for retirement along his family.
I would like that. Let him and his family run a chicken farm in Jamaica.
Right. Works too.
If there's a bond girl who will be a new baggage to Bond, I like it to be Vivienne Michel, and have their relationship be like that of Tiffany Case with her leaving him for another man, then in the next movie she's going to get married like what happened to Gala Brand at the end of Moonraker.
Also they can introduce Loelia Ponsonby as his secretary.
This!
And you can also add SMERSH and General Grubozaboyschikov, and even the SHAPE and that motorcycle in AVTAK short story, also Zographos has the potential to be a great villain too.
Make Zographos a member of SMERSH.
You can have the title of Murder on Wheels.
You can also include some car racing scenes.
I'm going to contact Barbara and Michael for this! 😅
Thanks! @jetsetwilly I will check this out!
Sorry for the late response, I've been busy.
Personally I'd love to see Gala Brand. Bit I'd like to have Vesper referred to somehow. Maybe the seventh Bond had his own Casino Royale, like the post Lazenby Bond had their OHMSS and Tracy. Different continuity, but that doesn't mean they have to be completely unlike each other.
I'm kind of over discussing the end of NTTD, but this got a genuine laugh out of me. Well done.
Has there ever been a Bond woman in one of the films who just tells Bond "Oh, by the way, I'm engaged to that guy over there, so goodbye" or anything like that? Film Bond always gets the girl (or she dies), right?
I'd love to see Gala Brand in the film series one day. Maybe re write her character as Bond #7's Vesper.
If Vesper is mentioned I hope it's as subtly as Tracy was mentioned in the series after OHMSS
Maybe EON can now use the character because Fleming has been long dead.
Personally, I tend to think Bond girls work better when they're femme fatales, not Bond's 'equal', although you could easily have her as a fellow agent a la Gala in Moonraker. Personally would prefer to see a character initially working for the villains though/is more morally ambiguous at first (ie. Pussy Galore or Tiffany Case). It'd be nice to have a Bond girl who's perhaps more world-weary than Bond, especially if they're going with a younger actor for the main role (perhaps she could be slightly older than Bond/what we're used to?) Would like to see Fleming's Bond's tendency to fall in love/try to act as a St. George figure to a woman he sees as a 'bird with one wing down' explored (not in a preachy or 'woke' way - silly culture war term, sorry - but in a way that's organic).
No, never. And it should. I personally used something similar in a short story I've written: my main character has an affair with a woman in a relationship, it gets her into serious trouble (a mobster tries to blackmail her, both financially and sexually), in the end she decides to end things my main character and tell her boyfriend everything. It makes for a better ending than just getting the girl I think. Bit I digress... Yes I'd like something as subtle. I liked how she was explicitly referred to in TSWLM, FYEO and LTK, even though I'm not the biggest fan of the latter movie.
I sense that Eon wants to keep the films as "family entertainment" so we may get more of an affair in the past like in TND rather than an affair playing out in the current film.
We sort of got Gala in QoS (and DAD). The subtext from Camille, I think, was, "Hey, you're stuck on Vesper right now but I'd sleep with you some other time." (So really, the reverse of the MR novel.)
But it would be nice to see a more faithful adaptation of Gala. I don't know if Gala rejecting Bond at the end is dramatic enough for the film series as it now stands. (And what woman would reject cinematic Bond? It's a bit of a hard sell.) I also think the flower line is a bit too, well, florid.
I think that clause flies out the window the day the copyright expires.
Which Disney will never let happen (think: indefinite extension), and their copyrights expire before Fleming's.
I think Gala Brand could work, but maybe not in the first film of the new Bond. Second or third? Yes sure.
Oh, I have never thought of that 😅
Yes, I find him interesting. It was one of Fleming's unfinished short stories.
Fleming based the character on a real life card dealer with the same name.
He could make a great Bond Villain.
And there's also an another unfinished short story from him titled Murder On Wheels, it's really interesting if EON will explore these.
Thanks @Birdleson
Russian Roulette could be a great Bond Title!
https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/ian-flemings-second-uncompleted-short.html