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Cool. I always wanted to play that RPG. I need to find it online (don't think it is available anymore). And then I'd need to find players.
I was impressed with various parts of Moonraker the film, and I really enjoyed Moonraker the novel :D I'd definitely say I'm more sow's ear than silk purse, though :))
The bald guys were kind of used in TWINE.
Now is the perfect time to adapt the YOLT novel. Craig is dark and brooding and, whether we like it or not, they added the over-the-top elements to his Bond in SP. The question room could be a great final confrontation.
I advocate going for a full MR adaptation, but not until there is a new Bond. It's a young Bond's story, and of course, adapting an entire Fleming novel did wonders for the new Bond in CR.
Seconded. It is the only way.
Then they should move on to the continuation Bond novels which remain largely untouched to mix things up a bit.
- Bond helps M with the card game against a character betraying the others
- Gala Brand character
- Bond trailing Scaramanga (or a character modeled after him)
- Moonraker elements as the MI5/MI6 Co-Operation, Murder on a remote site of national or international interest
So in other words you want Purvis & Wade to write the script... ;)
Because they've been pushing to integrate Moonraker elements into their scripts since they first began. By their own words, they've tried to include Gala Brand in every script they've written—Casino Royale excluded, perhaps?—and have in fact at times managed to get parts of her character onscreen. (See: the unconsummated relationship between Bond and Camille or their original treatment of Madeleine Swann, which saw Bond leaving her for his job.)
People sure like to diss the two, despite their having done some terrific work for the series, even up against meddling producers and directors with their at times crazy creative demands.
Good points there. I am glad in retrospect that they didn't waste Gala Brand on what became Miranda Frost, given how the film turned out. Brand is not Fleming's best-drawn character but her arc is interesting and different. There's something compelling about a woman leaving Bond (and not dying) rather than the other way around. Brand is all about duty.
I'd like a less piecemeal adaptation of MR. Of course the villain's plot would need to be massively updated. And it may be too soon after SF to have a largely UK-set story. Frankly, after SP I'd rather Bond 25 spend as little time in the UK as possible...
I think they could still repurpose the plot and characters; general audiences would not even notice such parallels. Personally I'd rather they just continue stripping the novels piecemeal. I enjoy seeing bits and pieces of Fleming's novels making their way into every movie.
Seconded. I was just re-reading the mud bath scene the other day. Realistic noir kind of feel to it.
In a whole new ,refreshing direction.
Yes, into organised crime and realism. Down that road is a new and this time faithful film version of The Man with the Golden Gun (1965).
Yes, I'd be all for that too. A very underrated Bond novel.
Certainly there could be. I'd be all for that too. So much untapped potential. YOLT and MR too.
It all starts with Fleming!
That was more than 30 years ago.