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  • Agent_Zero_OneAgent_Zero_One Ireland
    edited January 2023 Posts: 554
    mtm wrote: »
    The problem then is if you continue you get a period version of Goldfinger, set only a few years before the film was made so looking not that much different only less authentic, with a pretty similar plot only a bit less interesting, where there's no laser beam and a girl gets painted in gold paint but you never see it; no Connery, no Ken Adam, no John Barry, no Brownjohn titles, no Shirley Bassey, an older Aston Martin which is a bit less sexy and doesn't do anything... I don't know about you but I'd rather watch the film. See also FRWL, OHMSS, TB etc.
    Yeah, if you went down the period pieces on streaming route I think you'd have to skip the stories actually filmed in the 60s.
  • ImpertinentGoonImpertinentGoon Everybody needs a hobby.
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    For the longest time I thought the way they did DAD or MR would be the closest possible way to do Moonraker, the novel. The idea that there is an industrialist who just goes and invents and then gifts to the UK a ballistic missile (I can’t recall whether it was bockest or not, but it doesn’t really matter) and they just let him go ahead with that in his own little compound was just so outlandish for the longest time. Now, I’m not so sure anymore. Maybe the ballistic missile part is still too much and DAD did the space laser, but I guess there could be some variation. I don’t want to spoil it too much, but there is one comic that does a pretty convincing MR meets TWINE meets FYEO were the plot has to do with upgrading Trident and given the privatisation the UK has seen in the last 50 years, it’s not too far fetched that some private person would be involved in that. So they could go off of something like that. That one also has a very good „what is patriotism in the 21st century for someone like Bond?“-subtext that I’m a sucker for.
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
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    https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/phoebe-waller-bridge-sign-here-series-adaptation-amazon-1235503190/
    The series falls under Waller-Bridge’s Amazon overall deal, which she recently renewed.

    I wonder if any Bond spec scripts are part of her Amazon deal?
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
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    LucknFate wrote: »
    https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/phoebe-waller-bridge-sign-here-series-adaptation-amazon-1235503190/
    The series falls under Waller-Bridge’s Amazon overall deal, which she recently renewed.

    I wonder if any Bond spec scripts are part of her Amazon deal?

    God I hope not. Since reading Being Bond, almost every scene I disliked in NTTD, PWB had a hand in.
    I hope her association with the series ends with NTTD
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    edited January 2023 Posts: 1,651
    Jordo007 wrote: »
    LucknFate wrote: »
    https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/phoebe-waller-bridge-sign-here-series-adaptation-amazon-1235503190/
    The series falls under Waller-Bridge’s Amazon overall deal, which she recently renewed.

    I wonder if any Bond spec scripts are part of her Amazon deal?

    God I hope not. Since reading Being Bond, almost every scene I disliked in NTTD, PWB had a hand in.
    I hope her association with the series ends with NTTD

    I'm stuck in a spiral with that. I want to know more about NTTD but I don't like NTTD and don't want to invest in the related materials. But you have me curious so I'll probably pick it up, as I always have before with the other editions.

    I'm a big fan of Fleabag and want to see her ideas, regardless of NTTD. They should be prodding everyone in the stable before they kick them out.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    LucknFate wrote: »
    Jordo007 wrote: »
    LucknFate wrote: »
    https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/phoebe-waller-bridge-sign-here-series-adaptation-amazon-1235503190/
    The series falls under Waller-Bridge’s Amazon overall deal, which she recently renewed.

    I wonder if any Bond spec scripts are part of her Amazon deal?

    God I hope not. Since reading Being Bond, almost every scene I disliked in NTTD, PWB had a hand in.
    I hope her association with the series ends with NTTD

    I'm stuck in a spiral with that. I want to know more about NTTD but I don't like NTTD and don't want to invest in the related materials. But you have me curious so I'll probably pick it up, as I always have before with the other editions.

    I'm a big fan of Fleabag and want to see her ideas, regardless of NTTD. They should be prodding everyone in the stable before they kick them out.

    I think her involvement with Indiana Jones will also tell us how big and in demand she will be, both for acting and writing. If she gets bigger named EON might push for her harder to stay or go.
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
    edited January 2023 Posts: 2,641
    LucknFate wrote: »
    Jordo007 wrote: »
    LucknFate wrote: »
    https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/phoebe-waller-bridge-sign-here-series-adaptation-amazon-1235503190/
    The series falls under Waller-Bridge’s Amazon overall deal, which she recently renewed.

    I wonder if any Bond spec scripts are part of her Amazon deal?

    God I hope not. Since reading Being Bond, almost every scene I disliked in NTTD, PWB had a hand in.
    I hope her association with the series ends with NTTD

    I'm stuck in a spiral with that. I want to know more about NTTD but I don't like NTTD and don't want to invest in the related materials. But you have me curious so I'll probably pick it up, as I always have before with the other editions.

    I'm a big fan of Fleabag and want to see her ideas, regardless of NTTD. They should be prodding everyone in the stable before they kick them out.

    There's not a lot of information in it but it's an interesting read. It mentions Daniel's outline for the Blofeld scene and PWB molded it. I think she wrote the M scene as well but I'm not positive
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited January 2023 Posts: 3,154
    Yeh, I can see Phoebe WB having input into the scenes where Bond goes to MI6. I'd imagine the 'has this desk got bigger' joke was hers, for sure. Maybe repeating his name to the security bloke and 'I see why you shot him' too.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    Posts: 2,080
    PWB is a good writer. But I still don't understand why she was needed for a tragic Bond film.
  • Posts: 2,000
    echo wrote: »
    "Grandpa told me once about this evil man called Dr. No..."

    James I’m going to tell you a story… about a man.

    His name was No. Dr No.

    And he worked for an organization headed by the man who is the author of all your pain. If none of that makes sense to you, it's because it doesn't. You're the seventh JB and your history and timeline are unrelated to the six previous versions of you, but sometimes there are exceptions that are callbacks to a previous version of you. It could be a car, a piece of music, an incident, or a supporting character who will never wonder why you are so much younger than the sixth previous version of yourself.

  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    Posts: 2,080
    I love CR and Craig's Bond. But I'm still not comfortable with the idea that it's a complete reboot of the franchise. I still think it wasn't necessary to reboot the franchise completely. Craig's Bond could easily have been Brosnan's Bond....albeit a younger version.
  • Agent_Zero_OneAgent_Zero_One Ireland
    edited January 2023 Posts: 554
    My take on the Bond Timeline such as it is goes:
    Connery, Lazenby and Moore play the same guy active from 62 to 85. (I like the idea NSNA is a little pocket universe following on from GF though). Dalton and Brosnan play a different guy who was born about 20 years later and did some modernised versions of the classic movies. Craig is obviously another new incarnation who again did variations on stories like say, GF and GE between QOS and SF.
  • edited January 2023 Posts: 859
    Was thinink of something : there is no movie with action sequence set in a farm or with tractors. So I checked on internet, can't find one.

    Made me wonder what kind of stunts can we devise ? Stunts not similar of previous Bond movie.

    The setting should be a mix of a traditional farm with a ultra-modern/futuriste one (like autonomous tractor, a lab, weird looking glass house) : something intereting to see. A setting where Bond have to escape.

    So what can we exploit ? In often there some kind of workshop in farm to repair the agricultural machinery : so lot of tools in a same room that could be use in a big hand to hand combat, including welding tools. Plus you can have in the center of the room a plough/harrow under reparation with its cutting/sharp edges.

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    There is also the classic bale of straw room : it's a type of room where a fire can done lot of damage. A hand to hand combat between bale in fire seems a bit cliché howewer ? There is also a place where fuel is stocked for the tractors, so a fire might lead to a big boom in our action sequence.

    Maybe we can devise a foot chase/combat in a milking parlor, taking cover behind cow ; animals panicked with gunshoots. Could have bulls charging too.

    You have also some kind of classic : trow an ennemi in a manure pit.

    After things like that, Bond is outside where there is all sorts of tractors activities, of alls sort of brand, some existing, some like more futuristics :

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    There is also quads or/and theses thing below :

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    Bond should jump in one and go, his road cut by a farm vehicle coming so he his forced to go toward a silage silo (who look like a ramp) and jump it with the quad.

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    We can immagine three of four silage silo in a row, jumping them in a line while an pursuing quad jump the silo line next to him (and have the last silo of his line empty so the pursuing end up in a concrete wall at the end of it, with a bang).

    Bond cut the road of a tractor with a trailer, which end up in his side while trying to avoid him.

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    After that Bond have to leave the quad [insert a reason why] and grab a flying drone who sprinkles a field a high speed :

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    Pursuiving gunmen shoot the drone down and Bond land near a corn field where gunmen track him. Can't see shit in it so it little isolated combat in ( (like in Hitman Absolution).

    In the same field, there is automatic/no-pilot line of a futuristic harvesters who come toward them. Fight in the path of one, they decal to the left where another one come toward them, they decal once more. Bond finish to throw on of the bad guy in the blade of last one :

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    And Bond flee away after that (on a quad of one of a gunmen who previously came in the field to shoot him ?).

    OFC you have to have some kind of good reason to have a villain who own a farm, and hope you viewers know a little about what a farm looks like.

    I wonder, what other stunts can we immagine in this setting? You might want Bond on the wheel of a tractor of a moment but theses vehicles are kind of slow...

  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    I like the farm idea, it's something different. Specifically the pilot-less harvesters, tradition of one getting in the way of the chase and tipping over, and pesticide drone. The thing about crop farms though is the location doesn't give off a Bondian vibe. Maybe that can change. Bond could be visiting the Bond girl or ally at a farm, when enemies suddenly ambush. There is potential for a good stunt involving the machinery.

    How about John Deere's autonomous electric tractor which looks like a cross between Skynet, ED-209 and Alien:

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    Speaking of farms, I think a solar farm would be ideal for a scene.
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    That's definitly a nince looking tractor! I guess the building architecture of exterior bat can give a Bondian feel. The setting maybe a : ranch / country residence of the villain ; a place where the villain cultivate something for his plan ; a quiet place where Bond is send to be execute/iterrogated with body disposal ; farm where the villain grow up where he was a kidd and keeped it since for nostalia, etc...
  • CigaretteLeiterCigaretteLeiter United States
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    I'd like a back-to-basics Bond movie- 007 on a mission to save the world or some large part of it, exotic locales, colorful cast of characters, etc. The Knives Out and White Lotus franchises prove that there's still some appetite for media with one consistent character surrounded by a new cast of (always captivating) people in a new location.

    Obviously one of the biggest issues in the news is climate change, so I'd like to see a plot revolving around that.

    It'd star Bond going up against Jack Spang, a green tech billionaire, specializing in clean power and climate change-resistant seeds. His sister, Serafina Spang, is the leader of a group of ecoterrorists. While Jack has publicly disavowed his sister for years, her terrorist ring's theft of top-secret multi-target missile tech has placed renewed scrutiny on the magnate. This comes at an inconvenient time for Jack, as he's currently rolling out a cloud seeding project designed to make areas in the global south more agriculture-friendly.

    Bond discovers that Jack is in league with Serafina and a raving ecofascist himself. Their plan is to equip the multi-target missiles with a deadly version of the cloud seeding tech. Once the missiles are in the air, they will release modified iodide particles which will blanket the globe, bringing about a new ice age. This will lead to global crop failures and the starvation and death of millions- except, of course, for those able to afford Spang's cold-resistant food supplies. And yes, the victims will disproportionally be black and brown citizens of third-world countries; that's by design.

    Bond, the lead bond girl, and a commando squad raid the villains' prepper bunker (based off this https://slowtourspoland.com/content/uploads/2018/12/Fotolia-Wieliczka-1_1500.jpg) and stop the missile, save the world, the end.
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    edited February 2023 Posts: 1,651
    So, the people trying to save the world right now are the bad guys (so-called EcoFascists)? You're much more likely to find fascists opposing the eco groups. And we did this in Quantum of Solace.
  • CigaretteLeiterCigaretteLeiter United States
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    LucknFate wrote: »
    So, the people trying to save the world right now are the bad guys (so-called EcoFascists)? You're much more likely to find fascists opposing the eco groups. And we did this in Quantum of Solace.

    No, it's not shitting on the environmentalist movement. If anything, it's opposing billionaires who co-opt it for their own profit (Elon Musk).

    And yeah, it's reminiscent of Quantum of Solace, but that movie came out fifteen years ago. We've had three different Spider-Men, Batmen, and Supermen each in that time. Audiences will forgive a subtle retread of the themes of QoS.
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    It'll be interesting seeing how much 'social commentary' (for a lack of a better phrase) will bleed through into Bond 26. There's always an element of it in any film to differing extents, even in the most escapist of stories. I can certainly see a green tech billionaire with selfish motives (much like Green from QOS as was stated) being a thing in the series at some point in the future.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Chinese spy balloon spotted over US:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64508086

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    Maybe we could have a Russian balloon with 'Smiert Spionom' written on it?
  • QBranch wrote: »
    Chinese spy balloon spotted over US:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64508086

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    Maybe we could have a Russian balloon with 'Smiert Spionom' written on it?

    Very Bond villian-esque. The Chinese and the Russians are there for Bond to take on in Bond 26. Forget political sensitivity.
  • Informe_James_BondInforme_James_Bond Dominican Republic
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    BOND 26 ideas??

    A trilogy set in the 60s and about the young James Bond's induction and training in the Mi6 just before he gets his 00 status. Directed by Christopher Nolan.

    ;)
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    As much as I'd enjoy a period piece, set in the 60s perhaps and give us some twists on the Cold War in a Bondian way ... I don't think EON would ever do a period film for Bond. I also don't think they would do time travel (though I enjoyed Tenet). Time travel back to the 60's for part of the film? No, I don't think they would go that route. And I personally don't need it. Just give me a great story, with wonderful actors who has chemistry with each other, and be really well written.

    I hope this one is stylish, not too fast paced, with a lighter touch but not going into Moore or Deadpool territory. Not a complete origin story.

    Plot/Story: So up in the air. In space? I hope not. A pandemic storyline ... probably not. Mass poisoning maybe (but to what end goal?) ... world domination by cloning of heads of state (every TV show has done this perhaps, but maybe Bond could still do it best) ... scientifically induced famine worldwide may be the villain's goal instead of blowing up the world (so villain's company would profit from "lifesaving" miracle plants/supplements or something.
    Villain is so key and I don't have firm plot/storylines at the moment.

    Travel to incredible places, yes. And I do want to see some lifestyle of the ultra rich, but not in a glorifying way.

    Bond girl - along the lines of Natalya would be great. That attitude, smarts, skills, and beauty, etc. If a slower build is necessary, let it be somebody who can smoulder like Monica Bellucci. I think Ana de Armas (though still on the young side for my preference) would have been excellent to return, but she has her own film (series) in development (Ballerina, I think it is currently called) and she is linked to Daniel's Bond. But just to give an idea. I do want some lovely woman who can really act and has charisma with whoever ends up as Bond.

    I wouldn't mind the same Bond girl in 2 consecutive films either. As for story arc, I like standalone films but I also like 2 film story arcs. Preferably not more than two, though.

    Anyway, I hope it's a grand time, a lot of fun, makes you want to be there, exciting and with great dialog and chemistry among all the actors.

    I think we are a year off from hearing of any pick for Bond actor. Nice if it were sooner, though.

    M & Q & Miss Moneypenny ... all new actors, I think. I want it real, some tension, some camaraderie but not with Bond in the field often or at all. Maybe just to hand off something would be okay. For me, if I cannot have Idris Elba as Bond (I think age is the problem now) I'd love him as M. But also I'd love Helen Mirren as M. Think about that a moment; I think she'd be absolutely great. Q & Moneypenny I need to put more thought into.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    ColonelSun wrote: »
    ColonelSun wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    It's an interesting little plot from the Fleming novels. In a way it sounds ridiculous on paper - Bond gets amnesia, brainwashed by the Russians, and tries to kill M. Wild. Whenever I tell this to people who haven't read the novels they always look at me a bit strangely.

    Like I said, I think we'll continue to see elements of the Fleming novels adapted, but more loosely than I think any of us realise. This is just me, but the thing I find most interesting about that plot when thinking about a future film isn't necessarily Bond trying to kill M, but the idea of someone brainwashing agents. Again, that's very much The Ipcress File or The Manchurian Candidate territory. I'm sure there's a great plot that could be taken from that.

    I don't think you can do the brain programming and then re-programming plot anymore. That worked back then, because it was based on a way people thought the brain worked. Most people don't think like that anymore and I think it would fall flat.

    Maybe this would be too slapsticky, but the twist for that sequence could be that MI6 has all these electronic/AI ways to test whether someone is who they say they are. These all throw red flags, when Nu-Bond is concerned, while all of the real people are sure it's him, because they know him. Whether that is down to error or outside malice, I don't know.

    After that, I think it should go into a standalone mission.

    The brain can be rewired, manipulated or planted with false information. I've been researching this in depth for a TV project about false memories of child abuse which happened in the early to mid 2000's and caused some adults and parents to be accused of abusing children, when, in fact, it never happened.

    So I think the basic idea in TMWTGG novel could be effectively and imaginatively updated with what we know now.

    It's more the de-programming part I am dubious about. Although, come to think of it, they aren't entirely sure it worked in the novel either, right? Which is why he is sent on the suicide mission.
    And my point is more that audiences would consider this a hokey device in a modern film. He got brainwashed! But we de-brainwashed him! He is now again our hero.

    As I say, I'm presently researching the subject matter for a TV project, so I am certain that, if treated in an intelligent, informed and realistic way, the premise of re-wiring a person's brain and/or planting triggers to carry out some secret and sinister agenda at a later date, would not be hokey at all. My idea is that Mi6, M, and even Bond himself do not know if the brainwashing - perhaps to kill M as per the novel - is really over. The mission, like in the novel, is to try to determine if Bond is okay now, and, after the mission's success, it seems he might be.. but the end hints that might not be the case.
    ColonelSun wrote: »
    Expand upon the opening of TMWTGG novel. A man turns up in London claiming to be Bond, who has been missing, presumed dead, for over 2 years. He looks and sounds like Bond, but he has no memory of what happened to him at the end of his last mission or where he has been for 2 years. Mi6 suspect he could be an impostor, but DNA samples prove he is, as he claims, James Bond 007.

    As per the novel, Bond attempts to assassinate M, but he is stopped. Rather like the Manchurian Candidate, it seems whoever captured Bond, brainwashed him and therefore he could be triggered to carry out another assassination or another deadly sabotage at any time. Mi6 want Bond retired and carefully watched, but M believes Bond, as per the novel, can be tested if he is sent on a mission - potentially a suicide mission. M doesn't expect Bond to survive, but at least the agent, who has been so loyal and effective in the past, will die in action and will not be discarded by Mi6 and everyone else he once trusted.

    Bond is determined to prove he is loyal to King and Country, but he also wants/needs to discover who brainwashed him and what the ultimate agenda is, killing M seems like only the tip of the iceberg.

    So we have a "new" Bond who no one trusts, but he knows who he is, except for the missing 2 years, and the mystery of what happened to him, and why, will carry across this Bond's series of films. This Bond lives for today, indulging in his appetites for the finest foods, wines, cocktails, cars, women, and his need for danger, almost like he has a death wish.

    Okay, I do like this. I can see that this could work with a great script.
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    The spy balloons that have been observed and shut down could be the starting point for the plot of Bond 26. Granted, they don't present a physical threat, but their mere presence can be creepy AF and what's to keep say an organisation like Spectre or any megalomaniac to add a bomb or a WMD of some sort to the devices?
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
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    QBranch wrote: »
    I like the farm idea, it's something different. Specifically the pilot-less harvesters, tradition of one getting in the way of the chase and tipping over, and pesticide drone. The thing about crop farms though is the location doesn't give off a Bondian vibe. Maybe that can change. Bond could be visiting the Bond girl or ally at a farm, when enemies suddenly ambush. There is potential for a good stunt involving the machinery.

    How about John Deere's autonomous electric tractor which looks like a cross between Skynet, ED-209 and Alien:

    d96b8b43-2e3c-495e-ae91-7cee1caa2984-600x450.jpg

    Speaking of farms, I think a solar farm would be ideal for a scene.

    It could be a soft adaptation of For Special Services in which Bond goes to the ranch of Marcus Bismarque.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    With the heavy equipment, the threatening snowplows of Icebreaker come to mind.

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    Something I'd like them to use is some of the background of Blofeld and Mr White they left out of Spectre: their work in the French Foreign Legion, the "Spectres de pierre", etc. It was better than what they left in. Might be a nice way to bring elements from the novel TB as well.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
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    Yes, they could definitely salvage the White/Blofeld Foreign Legion stuff for a villain's backstory.
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    From what I understand they tend to reuse old/abandoned ideas, so it would be nice they'd use that.
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