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I always liked the title No Deals, Mr. Bond. It's vague enough to be evocative, and you just know the line would show up during the movie.
Surely a highlight of YOLT is when Blofeld says the title.
Gardner came up with some decent titles, although I think some of them were decided by committee...
I find the commentary more cringe-inducing than the titles.
A favorite. Few titles would get me more excited for a new Bond film.
Indeed. I joked awhile back on one of the other threads that if EON does sell and some typical Hollywood producer gets their mitts on Bond we would probably get a film simply titled "JAMES BOND".
Mr.Hinx
1997: Peacekeeper - Based on the ICBM, which Bond has to stop the villain from activating.
1997: Once and For All - The title would be uttered by the villain- "Kill 007, once and for all".
1998: Never Say Die - I believe there are now several films using this title.
Surrogate
Ghostwriter
Defiler
Slaughter
Rebound
Mr.Hinx
Poltergeist
Confused
Baffled
Blockhead
Over Kill
Bond to be played by a goat?
NolanEye
Bond: "Like you said, Mr. Damme. Such a good bloodsport."
Most of his non-franchise movies have one-word titles, and the previous two Bond movies have had one-word titles. So then what would Nolan go with?
Daniel Craig is James Bond 007 in:
Provocateur?
Spymaster?
Tradecraft?
But! Nolan's favorite Bond films are On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me, and he's commented on the merits of Casino Royale in the past, so perhaps he's interested in longer, romanticized titles. Then what would he go with?
As previously mentioned-if the Queen passes, there's On His Majesty's Secret Service, but that's not something he can count on for now, unless they kill her off in the canon of the movies, which they won't.
James Bond 007 in:
Once Upon A Spy (working title for Skyfall)?
L'Ennemi Ecoute / The Enemy Listens?
Special Branch?
Dead Reckoning?
The Eye That Never Sleeps?
First 3 are the best there.
They are never titling a Bond film On His Majesty's Secret Service, and thank God for that.
I still dig Once Upon a Spy. It's original, evocative, old-school, and absolutely something Fleming might have come up with himself. It flows right off the tongue. Hope they use it some day.
I'm less crazy about Everything or Nothing—just purely as a title, taken on its own—but for its history it simply must be used at some point.
Shatterhand and Shamelady of course are both great Fleming-penned titles that would be thrilling to see on the marquee someday.
I'd dig For Queen and Country too. Very British, feels Bondian, smooth alliteration, and looks nice when written.
Not sure they'd use some of the longer chapter titles that are frequently suggested, like "The Eye That Never Sleeps" for instance. Given its story, Spectre very easily could have been titled The Eye That Never Sleeps—what with the eye imagery in the title sequence and the Nine Eyes plot—and I'd have dug them calling it that, yet could you really see them marketing a Bond film in 2015 with that title?
Agreed.