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Yes, actually my latter idea in this thread is the example of that and would make the new Bond quite different from his previous predecessors, and also distinctive, because he's more grounded, espionage driven type of Bond, he's not an action hero type, he's a Government spy that's job only to gather intelligence abroad, he's vulnerable.
He's not a perfect guy, he's just an ordinary spy that happens to be involved in some unusual situations.
It's original, unique,new and different.
Try to check that out.
All I saw from that was various government officials eating the local fish afterwards. Doesn't seem like a Bond movie to me, unless you want the Japanese government to be the villains. It could always be some private company, of course, but I still don't see how that's a Bond-level threat. Just being honest. I like the idea of a sea-focused Bond movie again, though.
The Fukushima radiated water? Repeating myself there's the concept used in The War of the Gargantuas (1966) wherein the exploded creature born of radiation and blown to bits reconstitutes itself from a sliver of flesh washed into the sea to become a behemoth creature that can battle a bad counter-creature. Hope for Craig Bond after all.
Or they could just go full Kaiju with it.
Change waste water to inflammable substance and Japanese government with Spectre (or any terrorist organisation) and you've got a proper threat for a Bond movie.
I think a rogue British diplomatic would be more fitting.
Maybe have him work with Royal Navy for a while instead of MI6, I'd liked to see Bond as a Commander.
He's a Reservist (RNVR), so maybe have the duty literally call him.
This is quite nice. Lots of solid conflict baked into the idea. It's interesting and the jump off point is in a unique setting. I would commission this, if I was EoN...
EDIT: re-read @CrabKey 's pitch this morning, and I really think this is a great starting off point...
I wonder how you see the second and third act Crabkey? I'm assuming the scope of the film would start to open a littler wider as the story progresses?
It really has a lot of potential. There are many different directions this story could take...
Following this, MI6 finds clues in Zima's briefcase or phone that lead to a larger plan, to do with infiltrating MI6 perhaps, or preferably something more original, grand and sinister. One issue from memory is that it's the Russians as the enemy which, while certainly on point would no doubt be altered to appeal to everyone. The Trafalgar square scene should be kept until the end though, as that's such a great moment between Bond and M. And yep, Christmas Bond film.
Well, in a new twist, the former COO of the company, who has fled to Russia, has been found. He has taken on the identity of an orthodox priest who bares a passing resemblance to him to get a full alternative identity (seriously, click on that link just to see that part...). Western services are now quite sure that he has been spying for Russia for years even before the collapse of his company and has most likely been involved in financing Russian activities in Libya and Syria in conjunction with the Wagner group.
It's almost too on the nose for Bond...
Bond is at first unsure of his new role, but falls under the wing of a seasoned and near the end of his career OO agent (Idris Elba) who acts as a mentor to the young OO7.
Omitting the 'two kills' to earn his OO, and making Elba's OO a mentor and not a turncoat or later to be revealed as a traitor. A mentor and rookie OO7 who train together, and engage in social activities. More of a buddy movie along the vein of The Shawshank Redemption. Obviously not based in a prison with a break out, but two well written characters who grow to have a Bond.
A seemingly small mission involves Bond and the Idris OO investigating a small time villain that ends with Elba's OO being killed.
Possibly resulting in Bond learning about the organisation known as SPECTRE ???
Elba can be an on-the-outs spy in the agency who is convinced of a secret villain organization but nobody believes him. M. assigns Bond, the new agent, to be his understudy but to also see if he's just crazy. By the end we find out he's right, Elba's character is dead, and now Bond has to convince the world of this dangerous new threat without seeming as crazy as his dead mentor.
It reminds me of Maibaum & Wilson's prequel pitch for Bond 15 that included a rookie Bond being fired from the Royal Navy and who is mentored by a seasoned 00 agent, who turns out to be 007. It's definitely a good basis for a origin story, if Eon decides to follow this path.
This. I also think it comes off too much as a buddy cop movie.
I doubt they will go for another origin movie, as they have done it and so well with CR. But I would not be surprised if they go for a sort of "year 2" movie.