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Bond is called into Ms office post title sequence and given a mission that does not involve M, Q or miss money getting kidnapped.
There will be no blatant references to previous bond movies. Quarrel and little nelly won't be in it.
Its not another origin movie and there is no reluctance to go out and just make a bond movie. bond is allowed to order a vodka Martini shaken not stirred, gun barrel is at the beginning, the James bond theme can be used more often etc.
bond is more upbeat.
I know right, though - as with Xmen Days of Future Past to be directed by Bryan Singer - I wouldnt want the Bond universe drowned in sepia tones. I still hold aloft Fight Club as one of my favorite films and a work of genius though!
other directors who could be great to direct;
Ridley Scott
Jonathan Glazer
Rian Johnson
only there if Mendes doesn't sign on again of course!
Christoph Waltz (main baddie), Olivia Wilde, Berenice Bejo, Rhys Ifans (henchman), Simon Russell Beale (maybe the new Mr. White if there will be one), Mikael Persbrandt. Oh, and Jeffrey White, Fiennes, Harris and Whishaw...
Just watched the movie on Wed. That's never said. :/
Mendes, Deakins, Gassner, Baird, Logan, Newman,Witt (ok...all the SF team)
Locations - London, The French Alps, Thailand and India
Daniel Day Lewis (Main Villain)
Working alongside main villain - Michael Shannon
Good Bond Girl -Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Villains Girl - Vera Farmiga
Q
Moneypenny
Aston Martin.
Ski Chase.
Casino Scene
Gunbarrel at the beginning
Serious plot
2) Rush doing the theme.
3) Mendes, Nolan, Edgar Wright or Gareth Evans directing.
4) Some new gadgets. SF was weak gadget wise. The gun was the same as the rifle in LTK and the radio was boring.
5) A big final battle 60s style.
6) A straight forward Bond film. Bond is given his mission, he goes and completes his mission. No more "this time it's personal", we've had that a lot over the last few years.
7) Fiennes and Wishaw to return. I wouldn't be that bothered if they recast Moneypenny to be honest.
8) A new car.
9) Australia, Ireland and Brazil (PTS) as locations.
10) Al Paccino as a villian, working for Christopher Ecclestons Blofeld.
11) Same balance of comedy and serious stuff SF had.
12) Felix.
13) Casino scene.
14) An action scene involving wingsuits.
15) A slightly OTT, memorable henchman.
16) The villians pet is a deadly animal which Bond comes up against at some point.
17) No DB5. It had a good last run in SF now leave it in the past where it belongs. Shouldn't have been in any film after TB, it was Seans car.
18) John Logan writing it.
19) More brutal fight scenes like in CR. The one thing CR did better than SF was fist fights.
20) A proper happy ending. Bond getting laid or on a date with the girl or something.
No Blofeld or Spectre. (They Died a long time ago.)
No May Maxwell.
Return of Quantum and Mr. White.
keep the tone of Skyfall. I like my Bond movies gritty, not campy and cheesy.
Big Villain Lair. (Ken Adam style.)
MORE BOND THEME with 007 Theme please.
David Arnold
Same amount of Gadgets as in Skyfall.
A good brutal fight with the main villain.
Arnold had his day, now it's time for new composers. I know this guy's like marmite to people on here - but I'd go for Hans Zimmer - his soundtracks to Nolan's films have had motifs and have been repetitious but for that fact they stick out in the audience's heads. I personally have bought the soundtracks to all Nolan's films - I also bought the Skyfall soundtrack and I was dissapointed as it was average - and I clearly didn't remember that from seeing the film at the cinema because...it wasn't memorable.
How a soundtrack should go in my book - I'd point to Inception's track Mombasa. This track infers menace, impending action and a motif - something Bond fans are no strangers to lol
Doesn't mean we won't get gadget filled vehicles or Q's lab in B24. That was just a funny reference to GE.
I do like the idea of Q as an old school engineer as opposed to a techno-nerd. I've never been a huge fan of computers, so when the stories centre around hard drives and hacking I do tend to zone out a bit.
I enjoyed the low-fi aspect of the new Q's gadgetry though. Bit like FRWL's suitcase.
Villain: Daniel Day-Lewis
Primary Bond Girl: Rebecca Hall
Secondary Bond Girl: Hayley Atwell
Title Song Artist: Florence and the Machine
Director: I'd like Mendes, but I doubt he'll come back, so I'll say Joe Wright.
The Undertaker's Wind
Plot: An MI6 numbers station nicknamed "The Undertaker's Wind" (named after an eerie jingle which the station's architect had created to signal the beginning and end of a transimission) located near a maximum security prison in Iceland formerly used to transmit messages to spies in the field has become active and transmitting strange cryptic messages sporadically. It is regarded as a technical problem with aging equipment and is disregarded. The British government sends a crew out to examine the equipment, however they do not return. The transmissions continue to happen more frequently and begin to coincide with assassinations of British politicians and attacks on embassies across the world. The use of numbers stations had become more or less obsolete and MI6 does not have technicians with enough knowledge to decipher the transmissions as they often use one time pads. Bond is sent out to lure an ex-MI6 communications expert, Gala Brand (Rebecca Hall) back into the field from an early retirement in order to investigate. She is reluctant at first as she has already distanced herself from the world of espionage and had her only killed 2 years ago during an attempt on her life.Ever since she has been unable to enjoy her retirement and is still living in a world of fear. Bond offers her protection (which he is unsure where it will come from) in return for her help and reluctantly joins Bond on his journey.
The grounds on which the mysterious station is located is now part of this high security prison (think Guantanamo but sort of ominous and eerie, with inmates even more dangerous) which had been handed over to Spang Corporation, a gargantuan private security contractor headed by Jack Spang (Daniel Day-Lewis), in the mid 1980's. The transmissions send Bond on a trail to Tokyo, Greece, and Cyprus where they learn from a veteran ex-spy (Gary Oldman) that a Russian double agent credited for developing some of the Soviet Union's most advanced defense mechanisms who had been rumored to be dead long ago is actually still alive and is incarcerated at this prison. They discover that he is attempting to trigger a dead man's switch which MI6 and the CIA had deemed inoperative. The only issue is that now, Spang has now turned his private security empire into a small army which now defends this prison. Bond returns to England and the MI6 staff creates a clandestine scheme for a secret war, and all out assault on the prison. Spang has become some kind of a godlike presence in the prison and turned the inmates into an army of their own. The climax of all climaxes takes place as MI6's army battles an army made up of trained private soldiers and hundreds of the most unhinged criminals the world has ever seen. The battle ends with the station and majority of the prison being destroyed. I see it playing out like an old fashioned Bond finale battle like YOLT or OHMSS but with grit and intensity that has become a staple of the Craig era. I'd like to see it be a tense espionage thriller that works up to a massive climax. FRWL meets OHMSS is the best way I can describe it.
"The Undertaker's Wind" station is inspired by this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_Poacher_(numbers_station)
Locations
Iceland:
What I liked about Q in NSNA was how he was so bored with what the new M was doing he was glad Bond was back,he said something like "now that you're back I hope we get lots of sex and violence"
I liked the new Q but I wasn't big on the gadgets in SF, nothing new. The gun was done in LTK and a radio is just a radio. I hope we get some better gadgets next time.
Dredd's gun does the same
Change the title and i would love this that said if Undertaker's wind became an offical title it would grow on me but I would prefer a different title maybe The Hildebrand Rarity?
Yeah some interesting ideas here! And Joe Wright to direct is interesting - like Mendes, he hasn't really done action so that would be interesting but I bet he'd direct a decent film given a good script.
I'd rewrite it to make it more filmic - and definitely change the title -
in this age of Skyfall and post-Skyfall, the people creating and overseeing the films seem to be very conscientious about what makes a good Bond film after a flop - Bond has become more friendly to a spectrum of ages, with the last decades' trend of superhero movies providing precedent, so I can't see EON using titles like Property of a Lady, The Hildebrand Rarity or the one you've provided...ok, ok, when i say this some people wave annoyingly and say 'well how about them using Quantum of Solace?', Quantum of Solace is still a good film title!!! it just works! It sounds kick-ass still, even if you don't know what the words mean it sounds edgy and enigmatic, and NOT like the title of an episode of Poirot lol lol -
I love the locations you've chosen too.
The rest I have to think about, my brain is still very much on analyzing and enjoying SF.
After a stand-alone pre-title sequence the movie begins with M announcing to Bond that MI6 is attempting to shed greater light on Quantum and its dealings as there have been several unexplained events over the past few years for which they seem increasingly responsible for. While shadowing a suspected Quantum asset Bond discovers that they are planning to carry out an act of international terrorism. After thwarting the deadly plan, Bond discovers a faint connection between the asset and a suicide clinic just outside Zurich, the head of which is none other than a one: Dr. Gunter Shatterhand.
M dispatches Bond to the Swiss Alps to pay a visit to Dr. Shatterhand's clinic under the guise of an EU health examiner to see if the connection has any grounds. During their meeting the two will tour the clinic, designed to look like an indoor garden, where they will have an interesting discussion about mortality and the will to live. In this conversation Bond will let-slip to Shatterhand several hints that he suspects a connection between the clinic and the attempted terrorist plot. Shortly after the meeting, Shatterhand, who already recognized Bond from a photo of his previous run-ins with Quantum, will order his guards to kill Bond. The resultant conflict will culminate in a car chase through the Alps, from which Bond will make a narrow escape.
From there Bond will be forced to track Shatterhand to Quantum’s base of operations and thwart an even bigger plan which they have already put into place. Bond will be captured and brought to Shatterhand where he will formally re-introduce himself to Bond as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He will inform Bond how it was in fact he who was behind the deaths of Vesper and Mathis, and how he wished he could have taken credit for M’s death as well. Bond will end up spoiling whatever diabolical plan Blofeld has in store, and will set about taking personal revenge on Blofeld by cornering him in the aftermath. The two will engage in a vicious hand-to-hand fight to the death involving two katana’s from a samurai display in Blofeld’s personal office. During the battle, Bond will nearly kill Blofeld when he slashes his sword diagonally across Blofeld's right eye, hence the iconic scar. Shortly after this however, Blofeld will manage to escape, setting up a continued hunt for him in Bond 25.
Other things I would want in this movie are
Gunbarrel in beginning
a M and Q briefing
Christopher Nolan to direct
John Williams or James Horner to do the music for the film
Daniel Klienman to do the pre title sequence
and a Ski Chase were way over do for one in a Bond film
Throw in a return of Blofeld and SPECTRE and I like where you're going.
I hope to God that was a joke...
And also, just out of curiosity, is there anyone else who wants to keep the gunbarrel at the end? I like the idea of it but I know I'm in a VERY VERY small minority.
I do to but then again i want yes to do the theme
Come on guys these tracks sound bondian Right .... Right....
At least I'm not Suggesting Joe Cornish for director he made fun of bond for crying out loud
2. Use "Property of a Lady" or "The Hildebrand Rarity" as a title
3. Arnold or Newman for the music score
4. Gunbarrel at the start
5. Bring back the classic pre-title sequence
6. Shiley Bassey can still pull the main title theme
7. Quantum returns
8. New locations
9. For once and for all, introduce 008...!
10. A new Aston Martin
11. Reveal Blofeld in the last scene, as the villain for the next movie
- 'Property of a Lady' title
- Gunbarrel at the beginning
- Stand-alone PTS
- Muse for the theme song
- Ski chase sequence
- Jeffrey Wright as Leiter
- Same MI6 location/sets and staff as the end of Skyfall