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First stuff happening on various locations setting up a conflict, like LALD, TSWLM or MR
followed by M's usual "Where's Bond?" to Moneypenny. Maybe a variation of "tell him to pull out."
This is followed by a covert mission including several agents where they all wear masks so we don't see Bond's face at first. An action setpiece follows which ends with the lead - who turns out to be Bond - removing his mask. Face reveal. Then main titles.
Your note prompted my recollection that DN had no PTS, FRWL did and seemed to show Bond but did not, so GF was the FIRST PTS with Bond in it ! Not until the 3rd movie ! Might that have been on the minds of the producers when they go to R Moore ? He did not appear in the PTS for LALD, he seemed to apear in the PTS for TMWTGG but did not (a la FRWL), and Moore's first Bond PTS was in his 3rd Bond film !
I like this idea @Zekidk , has echoes of the TLD pts, where we're not sure who the new Bond is for a while.
I also like the concept of Bond working with a team of agents, but in time of need, he stands out and risks it all to stop the danger. A truly Bondian thing too do, obviously with the Bond theme blaring triumphantly as he does so. ;)
Say, pull a literary TMWTGG, altough with a few tweaks:
Nice !
Very fun. Curious if you already have the solution sorted as to how they identify the real Bond over the fake?
Maybe that's where "skyfall" comes back in. Someone takes fake Bond to real Bond's otherwise secret childhood home and that's where it all unravels.
The actor is going to have all the press in the world get him full newspaper coverage, magazine stories, books, films, TV, radio, he'll be on the air 24 hours a day. The new guy doesnt need a reveal, but an introduction, and I think the longer the movie can take to do that the better, not try and make a statement from minute-one just because Bond films need to have a PTS.
Also, I have a fear that the PTS is going to somehow try and justify how there is a new Bond, when the last time we saw Bond he got turned into a fine mist. Maybe explicit, maybe a wink-wink-nudge-nudge moment, but I just dont want them to do it, even if I do despise the end of NTTD.
I vote the opposite. PTS is short but opens with the MI6 crew scrambling about, we get the basic threat laid out to us, the stakes are raised, prime minister picks up a red handle phone and calls M. "I know just the man." Then we do a classic briefing with Q. establishing the first beautiful locale, to meet with a CIA liaison, with Moneypenny caught snooping in. Bond leaves by blowing her a kiss and a wink. The round exhaust pipe of a new Aston Martin blows smoke into the camera, transitioning into the titles.
I have never read that, but it sounds like a good idea :)>-
It'd be nice to have a quick paced action sequence that puts the new Bond through his paces and shows his capabilities to the audience
Fast and deadly like a bullet, with a dose of class (I love what they packed into TLD’s PTS,).
Yeah exactly mate. To me TLD, GE and Casino are fantastic at not only setting up the new Bond, but the world his films are going to live in
It’s incredible that the last three Bond actor’s introductions have been nailed each time. In quite different ways too that tells the viewer so much about their Bonds.
For me as a reader of the novels and a fan of the films, I never wanted to know how Bond died. Yet P&W took it upon themselves to do what Fleming didn't--kill his hero.
Dr. No was published 11 months after FRWL, which suggests Fleming wasn't terribly committed to ending Bond.
Going forward, I would love to see a new team of writers/
We see a shadowy man sitting in an office, he is handed a confidential file. The camera turns to the person who handed it to him, it's M, who says:
"From this moment onwards Mr. Roberts, wheter you like it or not, your name is Bond and only Bond... James Bond. Oh, and by the way... please, last longer than your predecessor..."
"Bond" nods at him and gets up, leaving the office and closing the door behind him. Cue the credits.
THE NAME OF THE CODE
I do think this place would erupt if they did anything like that. I would too to be honest
Are you serious? I can not do this type of discussion again. Bond is not a code name. It's an interpretation of a character each film. Like Sherlock Holmes or Harry Potter or Macbeth or whatever other stage production you want to argue. But it's not, never has been, never will be a code name. 007 is the coded reference. We've seen official records etc. in various films, and Ian Fleming never wrote nor intended what you wish. It's not even a fun idea. It's to explain why Bond looks different to people who can't use their imagination.
You would retroactively nullify Skyfall and No Time To Die and probably Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. It's an annoying proposal and makes more mess than sense.