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Yeah, maybe Swan would've worked better as an ordinary Bond Girl. Come to think of it, we haven't had a traditional Bond Girl from Craig yet. By 'traditional Bond Girl' I mean someone who:
1. Is female (sorry Tanner)
2. Does not die through the course of the film (sorry M, Vesper, strawberry, casino royale chick in the hammock)
3. Actually has sex with Bond (sorry Camille, Moneypenny)
4. Does not fall 'in love' with Bond (sorry Madie)
"I want to go back to work"
"Alright then"
Have we ever seen Bond an in amicable split? Its way out of his comfort zone.
(I know he quit for Vesper, but this time it was just... odd.)
I'd venture to say Eon's plan is/was to make Bond 25 Craig's OHMSS and kill off Madeleine. But given that everyone has already guessed that this might happen (thanks to the Sony leaks of the very last line), and given that the big Blofeld twist was not at all as surprising as they thought, they may revise their concept and have her disappear another way.
Truly, "the author of all of Bond's pain" is the North Korea hackers.
Logan still has that moniker for me :(.
But I agree with you.
I also think Bond 25 really needs to flesh out exactly who Blofeld is and the Spectre organisation. The film Spectre seemed half cooked and unfulfilling. It had potential to be something but didn't achieve its potential. The damage is done. Where it went wrong was in the writing of the script. Bond 25 could rectify that. Hire a good quality scriptwriter to write that thing and then bring onboard a quality director and lets not forget a good cinematographer. The franchise is at a tipping point and the next installment will be the deal breaker. Of the four of Daniel Craigs films two have been good and two have been bad....the next one will be the decider.
That would be more interesting than a Tracy redux.
And the forced love story of SPECTRE is done quickly.
Then Bond goes back to M, gets new mission and has to face a random villain.
...in the end it's shown that the villain is actually part of SPECTRE that has still been strong after Blofeld was took as a prisoner in SPECTRE. In the end of the movie the villain of the movie ends up with the upperhand over Bond where Bond has to choose...will he kill the villain and let Blofeld escape. Or will he stop Blofeld's escape but the villain of the movie will succeed in his goal (whatever that may be)
Bond tries for both, kills the villain but Blofeld escapes.
It's called.....
"BLOFELD" or "THE TRIAL OF BLOFELD"
The story is essentially a continuation of SP whilst melding together Fleming's OHMSS and YOLT novels.
The Pre-titles:
No James Bond sadly. I'm gonna take a page from the Nolan handbook and use the opening the film to really establish the villain and build him up as a threat. The film will open at the Royal Courts of Justice where Blofeld is on trial.
It's the last day and things have been building up to his inevitable sentencing. Blofeld is carried from his holding cell at Belmarsh in an armoured van. M makes sure that Blofeld is transported safely; they share a few barbs bethind his cell. Soon we are at his trial; all of the MI6 team are present and just before his sentence Blofeld is given a chance to speak. Here Waltz should give a fantastic speech in league with the material he got given when he played Landa in "Inglourious Basterds". Just then he gets sprung as Spectre turn up and shoot up the Court and lead him out of the Court.
They throw him in the back of an armoured van and race down the strand on to Waterloo Bridge. The MI6 team and the local police pursue Blofeld. The person is charge of the pursuit is Moneypenny (Naomie Harris was a little wasted in SP - I want the kick-ass Moneypenny to return). Anyway Blofeld is able to cause Moneypenny to crash her car over the edge of Waterloo Bridge. The PTS ends with Blofeld escaping as M realises that he's lost Moneypenny and Blofeld is gone.
Cue Main-Title Sequence
First Act:
It should be established the reason why Blofeld was able to escape was due to him having a mole at the very centre of MI6. M has no one he can trust, his organisation is in tatters, the 00 Division is practically dead, Moneypenny is gone and his crowning accomplishment of capturing Blofeld has fallen apart. M is a wreck and he can't trust anyone. He's royally f**ked.
Enter Bond: He's living in Jamaica and finding it hard to adjust to his new life away from MI6. He is still with Madeline and they are running a bar and living in a lovely house (I reckon they should have him stay in Fleming's Goldeneye estate for these bits).
He knows nothing aside from being a spy and the accidie and boredom that Fleming often talked about his taking hold and he's finding solace in drink. Rumours surround the island that he was once an infamous secret agent, but the locals laugh it off. How could the Englishman who runs that shitty bar be anything more than a pathetic alcoholic. It's putting pressure on him and Madeline but they are still strong.
Soon Mallory comes and see Bond and tells him about his situation. Bond couldn't care less. However, what sparks Bond's fire is the news that Moneypenny was killed in the chase by Blofeld. 007 is shocked and wounded. M dosen't ask Bond to return, but instead says he needs someone to operate outside the system: To spy on the spies. Essentially, this film will the Bondian interpretation of "Tinker Tailor". If Bond can find the mole he can find Blofeld. Mallory plays on Bond's weaknesses; If Bond doesn't want to return he can at least come back for Moneypenny; after all she gave her life fighting for this.
Bond tells Madeline that he has to do this and she accepts, however, she's coming with him. It's indicated at this point that Madeline has a personal secret she's keeping from Bond.
Back in London, Bond realises that M lied to him. Moneypenny isn't dead, she's hard up in hospital but alive and conscious. M owns up to manipulating Bond to get him back as he needed his assistance desperately. I want to see a slightly more harder and machiavellian side to Mallory, after all, he's the head of a spy agency, he needs to be able to play on people's emotions and manipulate their trust in him.
Bond and Q work outside the system and begin hunting for the mole. Somehow they find the mole had dealings in India with someone from Spectre. Bond heads there to investigate. Madeline wishes to come but Bond insists she stays in London with Q and M. She obliges. When the story crosses back from Bond's mission back to London, Madeline will continue to play a key role. She knows Spectre, therefore can help the team.
Bond heads to India and there encounters a CIA operative, sorta akin to Black Widow from the "Avengers" films; a real kick-ass bitch. I'm thinking Jessica Chastain:
Anyway it turns out she's actually Spectre and she's there to tidy-up any mess left behind from the mole. The first big action sequence involving Bond should be a chase with her that should end with 007 getting his arse handed to. We need a really great female henchman for Bond to tussle with. She'll turn up in every act to give Bond hell and will eventually die at the end of the film.
After the fight, Bond is badly injured and sends a distress call to Q. When Madeline find out she panics; remember, she has a BIG SECRET.....
Act Two:
Bond has discovered whilst in India that Spectre are still in operation and currently the new acting head is called Irma Bunt. A former German spy known for her brutual interrogation methods. Obviously she will be played by Tilda Swinton:
Bond receives word that Bunt is in Japan and will be attending a swanky party being hosting by a Japanese official.
Meanwhile, back in London, Mallory's life is going from bad to worse. He's being used as a scapegoat for Blofeld's escape and everyone is questioning his worth. He's tired, beleaguered and running out of steam. He knows he has to keep fighting and discover the mole but there is pressure above for him to fall on his sword. He inevitably gives in. He's publicly sacked and disgraced. His Chief of Staff, Bill Tanner, will act as the new head of MI6 until a new appointment is made.
Anyway in Japan; Bond can't get into the party, that's until Madeline turns up and walks straight past security looking the part. She'll stay with Bond now for the rest of the movie. Bond's identity is revealed at the party by Chastain (Cue large action sequence in Tokyo) and Irma captures him and uses her classic interrogation skills on him (No idea what these could be). But a mysterious Japanese man at the party who eyes Bond saves him.
Act Three:
This is Tiger Tanaka, obviously. Tiger knows who Bond is and informs him that he'll be reporting him to the authorizes, that is unless he works for Japanese intelligence and helps them with a 'problem'. The important Japanese bigwig who set up the party earlier has got involved with a scientist who's up to no good called Shatterhand. However, Shatterhand isn't all he seems to be.....Bond agrees to kill the man when he finds out that it is Blofeld. Also Tiger reveals that he knows who MI6's mole is, if Bond does the assignment he will hand over the information. The rest of the film will pretty much play out as the YOLT novel does.
Bond will travel to the Garden of Death in his quest to kill Blofeld. You will have to continue the whole Cain and Abel-esque story set up in SP. This is a story of brothers hunting one another and trying to cause each other the most pain. Blofeld should be a significant character from this point on in the story and should figure heavily. I want Waltz to get some really meaty material, I also think that M should come to Japan after his firing (I'm sick of these films sticking that character in London for the dry expositional scenes).
It will also be revealed that the MI6 mole is.....drumroll please.........TANNER! Mainly as he is the most dispensable member of the MI6 team, and also because Rory Kinnear is an amazing actor. His theater work is fantastic (his Iago and Hamlet are beyond impressive) and these films have somehow figured a way to waste his talents on three different occasions. Kinnear needs to be used, he's too good for the role they've lumped him in. Tanner was contacted by Spectre after Judi's M died, since then he has been a subversive character in MI6. Initially, he was forced to work for Spectre, however, he has since got a taste of power and become a true believer in Spectre's new world order.
The finale will involve Blofeld killing Madeline by ruthlessly shooting her in the head right after she reveals to Bond that she is pregnant with his kid. (Maybe Blofeld should even kill M.)
In the finale, Blofeld's plan will be revealed; with the help from the shady Japanese bigwig, Blofeld and Irma have created a new biological weapon, he plans to unleash it unless he is acquitted and granted international amnesty for his involvement in Spectre. Anyway, Bond will inevitably foil Blofeld's plan and strangle him to death at the close of the film.
Essentially, I'm borrowing from Fleming a lot here; one of the big themes of Flemings books was Bond craving a normal life only to have it constantly denied to him due to the profession he has chosen. By taking on the role of 'the secret agent' Bond has to acknowledge he will never have a normal life and any attempt to leave it all behind will never work out. It was always foolish for 007 to believe he could drive off into the sunset with Madeline.
He needs to have his world rocked. Also Blofeld needs to earn his status as the franchise's 'supervillain'. In SP we just saw him claiming to have been the author of all Bond's pain, we actually need to SEE him destroy Bond's world.
At the end of the film, Bond reluctantly comes back to Mi6 knowing that he will forever be 007. I love a good morose ending. It would also be a nice end to the Craig era and would allow a new actor to start afresh with the Blofeld arc closed off.
There you have.
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I like it. Only a cursory read through but I like it. Makes up for the let down of SP but gives Waltz more to work with. Opening reeks of LTK though but maybe that overlooked with enough panache or revised without hurting the story.
Should open on a sunny day. Symbolic of a fresh start and because your sample pic is sunny and that image stuck in my mind.
Thanks
It was called Bullets Speak Louder Than Words". Anybody rercalls about that? A great script.
Maybe they still have it on this page, you should read it.
It has everything a great pllot, action, places, women, and a great villain.
Let me know what you think.
Its the synopsis of it. Check bullets speak louder than words and you find it there.
Its a great title also the villain could be easely Blofeld with a facelift and a new name.
something to talk about. A real pitty that they got suid for doing an none profit b ond movie.
Biut as we're not aloud to do things by ourselves, like we live in our own invisible cage, the thing is people don't realize that.
Its one hell of a great story, and there was even a soundtrack for it, well part 1 actually.
It was composed by Rich Douglas and was a lot more interesting than that Newman crappy music.
I just like the stories. He does not looks like the one that Fleming describes him in his books nor Gardner nor any other one of the books.
I like the idea of Blofeld going on trial, maybe at the Hague? And of course he has to escape--by van is way too similar to LTK, so maybe a plane?
Let C take the wrap.
Lol ...ok that's funny.
In my version the characters are a little different in terms of personality, so you may not instantly recognize them. Anyway, here's the first tease.