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Does that mean if Craig comes back you are against an adaption of Fleming's YOLT? Personally I cant see any other way they can go but if people dont want a dour, depressing character arc then its the wrong direction as we'd have Madeline killed, Bond having a virtual breakdown and then the blood lust revenge killing of Blofeld and then the downbeat amnesia ending.
Personally I would love it but would it be a bit of a risk for EON as it would be such a long way removed from what audiences are used to in a Bond film (even a Craig film), especially since large parts of SP rekindled the old style Bond film.
But if they are ever to adapt YOLT and the Garden of Death they have the actor to do it, they have (kind of ) set up the Tracy/Blofeld arc - just need to kill Madeline after 5 mins.
Maybe something along the lines of:
PTS - Bond and Madeline on holiday somewhere exotic (whichever country wants to attract EON to film there with some tax breaks) and a tight dramatic action sequence culminating in Maddie being killed (possibly introduce Bunt here). Basically the opening of Bourne Supremacy.
Act 1 - Bond in a right state drinking too much and visiting Sir James Molony. In the background its mentioned Blofeld has escaped (do we really need to show another prison break sequence? Although a chance for a bit of action as a counterpoint to the largely office based drama going on at MI6). MI6 is pulling out all the stops to hunt him down and M is too busy to worry about carrying Bond. We get the scene from YOLT between M and Molony pretty much as written.
Act 2 - With all the other 00 agents engaged around the globe on the hunt for Blofeld, M gets some thin intelligence about some dodgy character called Shatterhand come through from Japan. Acting on Maloney's advice to give Bond one last shot and because everyone else is more concerned about Blofeld he sends him out and he starts to investigate Shatterhand's scheme (which is a much more global threat than some suicides - although we need to keep the suicide stuff and Garden of Death) with Tiger and Dikko (who needs to be genuinely engaging and funny to bring some much needed light relief). Maybe meet Bunt and have her as the main villain in this act before the Blofeld reveal in act 3? Chance for an epic action sequence on the Shinkansen as they spot the SPECTRE agent on the way to Fukuoka who maybe kills Henderson.
Act 3 - Pretty much plays out as per the book. Possibly have M/Tiger realise too late that Shatterhand is Blofeld and send in the ninjas if you want a big action finale that we can cut back and forth between Bond and Blofeld going at it.
Not sure how keen the public would be as theres not much scope for gadgets and Aston Martins but I'd take it as the finale to the Craig era.
There so needs to be a throwaway line in Bond 25 about slashing one's wrists.
This would give Daniel Craig just as good a send off.
Why does Madeline have to be in it at all...she could be mentioned in a few lines of dialogue and that's that.
Bond is not a soap-opera.
Yeah ,good idea. That'll be so funny.
Because they've gone so far down this road now they cant just pretend none of it ever happened.
Theyve dug this hole for themseleves and for them to just magic it away and carry on as normal is treating the audience like mugs.
Well they did that with DAD didn't they ? ;)
I do it myself for a few url's I own for exactly the same reason.
I was going to ask about this. I'm not particularly web savvy, but it seems like a bit of nothing to me. Happy to be corrected.
http://whoisrequest.com/history/
Edit; interesting to see that the first record of redirection to origin.007.com dates from June 7th 2013, a day after the nameserver change to foxfilm.com.
Edit 2; another domain with the same nameservers is takenmovie.com. If you use origin.takenmovie.com it also redirects to the main domain. The same goes for planetoftheapes.com. So I gues it is default for those sites to use that origin redirect.
So, I don't think there's any news here.
True..i do see your point there.
I think you are right,old pal.
I really don't want to see a prison break so soon after Silva. I'd much rather see Blofeld acquitted by some court...but I think that a prison break is the easiest shorthand to get us out of this mess. Maybe a prison break with someone significant to the series killed, like Moneypenny or (in some convoluted way, I'm sure) Madeleine.
I agree about Tiffany but it's not as dramatic for the filmic Bond as if she were killed, unless he chooses tracking down Blofeld over her (but SP already flagged the opposite choice), and she's like, "Enough."
Let's face it: if we want to get out of the SP mess as quickly as possible with Craig, Blofeld needs to escape and Madeleine needs to die.
Maybe we will hear something by the end of this month?
None can purchase the URL. It is a third level URL, so only the ones that have the 007.com can open it
And Tanner hopefully gets a toupee.
Two words: Tiffany Case.
Three words: Forget about her
I was referring to the whole Daniel Craig era being one intertwined story arc not Maddie specifically.
She can disappear as entirely as the other Maddie for me but what is more different to row back from is all the Blofeld and SPECTRE stuff.
Of course they could completely ignore it and give us a stand alone film like they (seemed to) with SF. But that would be a rather frank admission that what they did with SP was a total and utter failure.
The irony of SP's botched execution is that the rights they fought Mcclory so hard to get their hands on are now an albatross going forwards they would be happy to be rid of.
It has never distributed a movie.
You've hit the nail on the head. I'm not averse to the idea of Bond being personally affected by the nature of work in the field, but the idea has been played out at this point. I'm just not convinced this team can, or has any desire to, deliver anything else. The moments of classic Bond that were in SPECTRE seemed rather "of the peg" to me, and uninspired. I mean, seriously? A ejector seat car. Could you get anymore stock gadget than that? I feel the same way about the train fight and the white Tux Bond wears during it. When people say they want classic Bond back, they mean the feeling of classic Bond. They want iconic imagery and eclectic characters, but that doesn't mean they want to see literally the same imagery lifted from the older films and dropped into the latest film with no imagination or creativity. I appreciate it's a subtle distinction, and finding that balance is hard, but to me EON haven't even made a solid attempt at it. It's like they've lost confidence in their ability to ride the line between genuine danger and over the top adventure, so they decided to go on this weird character drama tangent. The longer they keep making repeats of the same character arcs, the more it seems like a crutch. It was a neat departure in 2006, and the novelty was counter balanced nicely by the Fleming material, but over 10 years later to still be pretending like this is an avenue that requires further exploration is a little bit insulting. It's no longer clever, or interesting, or brave, it's just boring and dull.
I wouldn't go banco on that but it'd definitely be a pleasant surprise.
Madeleine or Tiffany? I was of course referring to the way the dealt with Case in the novels: one passing mention in FRWL explaining that it didn't work out.
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