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(David Dragonpol's codename in John Gardner's Never Send Flowers).
Underwater War
Do you think of tone, and a basic story, then a title?
Or jump straight to a title that sounds Bond-like?
Both of those ways and more. Sometimes we riff of eachother, make spy titles relating to current events and even make funny ones. I guess we also pull titles from the aether from you know who.
Scuba-tastic!
I always imagine this part in a game: Aquatic Combat Training
It's mostly thinking up a title that sounds Bond-like. That's the main compulsion for me anyway. The other points made by @DewiWynBond apply too of course. Sometimes I read something or hear something on the TV or radio and it inspires a title too. I think my favourite one of those I've suggested outside of the continuation Bond titles I've suggested (and the few remaining Fleming titles) is Love Lies Bleeding.
For me @peter I'm shopping in a book store - what catches my eye? That's the type of titling. I do often, for the good ones, go a little deeper on a personal level, but rarely share. But I've pitched like, Bond in a wedding as "The Best Man" etc. before.
Allthough the Heidelberg title came straight from Blackadder (a fate worste than a fate worse than death, that's pretty bad!).
So, sometimes my brain just wires everything together.
"Spy on wire"
could be a title (from the film 'man on wire')
"Spying on the edge" (thank you Aerosmith).
@peter I thought I ask something similar. Have you ever incorporatetd Bond ideas into your script? I don't mean ripping off exact Bond scenes, but creating original Bond tropes into your script and giving your script a Bondian title.
@SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ thanks for answering, and thanks for the question. The answer from me is: all the time!! I'll pepper scripts with a few lines I've loved from the series... For example, there's a script I had that made a splash on the festival competition circuit, and it won a bunch of prizes (and we are closing in on a director), and a crooked cop sells my protagonist a bunch of weaponry. As he packs all of these killing machines (now in silver cases), into the trunk of her car, he says to her, "there you go. Everything for a woman going on holiday"...
I've been inspired by villains, or action sequences that I turn into my own... But yes, 007's DNA can be found in my work, 😂!!!
Open Door
Echo Of The Jet
The Heist Gambit
Espionage Included (for Pete's movie)
One of my favorite plays... @Dragonpol is this the villain speaking (and does he have a deformity of his spine?)?
EDIT: 😂 😂 😂 @DewiWynBond !! Although I lifted a line from Bond, my script isn't a spy-thriller... It's called THE WITCH-HUNTER and it's been described as BLADE meets KILL BILL (but I do like your title, and the humour in it as well!!)...
Winner Takes All
The Lady Was A Spy
Trial by Fire
Seven Times a Charm
Mission in Monte Carlo
Silver Blaise
Never Look Back
Nothing Ventured
The Sun Queen
Operation Seafarer
Swordblood