'Bond 22' Set In The Alps?, Marc Forster talks about possible location Options

[Tim007]

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'Bond 22' Set In The Alps?

Marc Forster talks about possible location

[Harmsway]

“They certainly did not want to hire an 'action director'”, he said. “They pretty much knew what they wanted: a young and unconsumed 'drama director' with his own visions.”

That's the key quote. Points to the direction of BOND 22 quite clearly.

[stromberg]

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~Mr. Stromberg is a very busy man. Blame Daniel Craig for it.~
------------------- Daniel Craig IS James Bond. -------------------

[Mharkin]

Cool! I always like Bond movies what are set in the Alps , So we could see Daniel Craig on Skis?? - Awesome.

[Fro]

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[HildebrandRarity]

Exciting news. James Bond has not visited the (Swiss) Alps since the 1960s.

Looking good.

[Mharkin]

Exciting news. James Bond has not visited the (Swiss) Alps since the 1960s.

Well if you dont count TND for the PS1.

[Judo chop]

I approve of both the location and the direction.

[HildebrandRarity]

Exciting news. James Bond has not visited the (Swiss) Alps since the 1960s.

Well if you dont count TND for the PS1.

My friend, the Alps were not a location where Bond travels to in Tomorrow Never Dies.

It was an area for the production/shoot which was doubling for the Khyber Pass/Frontier setting.

James Bond has not been to the Alps as a character since '81 so from the point of view of romance and action the actual place seems promising for Bond 22.

This post has been edited by HildebrandRarity: 24 June 2007 - 15:09

[Mharkin]

Exciting news. James Bond has not visited the (Swiss) Alps since the 1960s.

Well if you dont count TND for the PS1.

My friend, the Alps were not a location where Bond travels to in Tomorrow Never Dies.

It was an area for the production/shoot which was doubling for the Khyber Pass/Frontier setting.

James Bond has not been to the Alps as a character since '81 so from the point of view of romance and action the actual place seems promising for Bond 22.

Really? i always thought the Convoy level was set in the Swiss Alps

[Cyclone49]

I quite like this idea, it would be a nice change from the tropical locations of Casino Royale. Although the snowy locations were sort of done to death in TWINE and DAD.

Exciting news. James Bond has not visited the (Swiss) Alps since the 1960s.

Well if you dont count TND for the PS1.

My friend, the Alps were not a location where Bond travels to in Tomorrow Never Dies.

It was an area for the production/shoot which was doubling for the Khyber Pass/Frontier setting.

James Bond has not been to the Alps as a character since '81 so from the point of view of romance and action the actual place seems promising for Bond 22.

Yeah, but we don't know whether Bond we actually be travelling to the Swiss Alps in Bond 22 either. It could always be doubling for another location as well.

[Mharkin]

No he will

Sean Connery IS James Bond.

Quantum of Solace - Good Bond movie, Bad Sequel. Casino Royale is the BEST modern Bond movie.

[Loomis]

Yeah, but we don't know whether Bond we actually be travelling to the Swiss Alps in Bond 22 either. It could always be doubling for another location as well.

True, but something makes me suspect that Craig will soon be taking skiing lessons in preparation for one helluva snow-based action sequence!

[Mharkin]

Yeah, but we don't know whether Bond we actually be travelling to the Swiss Alps in Bond 22 either. It could always be doubling for another location as well.

True, but something makes me suspect that Craig will soon be taking skiing lessons in preparation for one helluva snow-based action sequence!

Lets hope so!

[Double-0-Seven]

Exciting news. James Bond has not visited the (Swiss) Alps since the 1960s.

Well if you dont count TND for the PS1.

My friend, the Alps were not a location where Bond travels to in Tomorrow Never Dies.

It was an area for the production/shoot which was doubling for the Khyber Pass/Frontier setting.

James Bond has not been to the Alps as a character since '81 so from the point of view of romance and action the actual place seems promising for Bond 22.

Really? i always thought the Convoy level was set in the Swiss Alps

Perhaps he was mistaken and thought you meant the movie. I'm pretty sure that level was set in the alps as well. Plus, I can't see why they would double a location in a video game.

On topic, the Alps would be a great choice for Bond 22. Imagine an OHMSS style ski chase with Daniel Craig.

[JP007]

Yeah, but we don't know whether Bond we actually be travelling to the Swiss Alps in Bond 22 either. It could always be doubling for another location as well.

True, but something makes me suspect that Craig will soon be taking skiing lessons in preparation for one helluva snow-based action sequence!

Lets hope so!

I would rather not have a snow-based action sequence or anything with too much snow or ice actually, but I guess there are many ways they can use the Alps as a location. The alpine roads, hotels, villages... We

This post has been edited by JP007: 24 June 2007 - 16:50

[Cody]

Visually, it'd be a great location.

The idea of yet another ski chase already, I'm not as into.

This post has been edited by Cody: 24 June 2007 - 19:02

[zencat]

No he will

“There can’t be any better place than the alps”, Forster said. “No matter if you plan to do romantic scenes or hard action, the alps will be the perfect background for a Bond movie.”

Ho, baby! Big slip. Location news. This is the kind of I love.

We lost out on The Alps for Young Bond 4. We get it back in Bond 22. Bond harmony.

(Is it too fanboy to speculate about a possible connection or mention of Bond's parents death?)

(BTW, when I went to the main page this morning, I never saw this because it is sitting four stories down. I would think this could replace the Forster story as a "top" story. Just saying.)

[Bryce (003)]

(Is it too fanboy to speculate about a possible connection or mention of Bond's parents death?)

No it's not.

The same thought has occured to me. Will we finally get a mention of Bond's folks from Bond himself, or just some throw away line?

As to set pieces, I'm not sure if I'm ready for another snow/ski chase quite yet, but as a location, the Alps do offer a lot. It would be a wonderful bit to have Bond meet someone for lunch at Piz Gloria.

As to Forster's comments, yeah BIG slip. Someone at Eon is probably screaming "DOH!" at this point.

But, if they have a director signed, that means there IS a script done and probably undergoing Haggis' "magic touch" with the lines, but it also certifies that Forster's had to have read it.

[stromberg]

Not too sure if it's really a big slip. Mind you, he gave this interview to a Swiss tabloid, and I guess it wasn't him who started talking about bringing Bond back to Switzerland, but was asked if there's apossibility for this to happen. Maybe he was just being polite, saying: "Oh, the Swiss Alps are always an option for a Bond movie etc." Maybe he was really thinking about it and brought it up, it might as well be just whishful thinking. Who knows. But he definitely says "No decision have been made until now."

Hope it really happens, as it'll certainly give me yet another opportunity for a Bond set visit.

[jimbo bond 007]

It would be great to see Bond back in the Alps. Maybe they could use them more as a backdrop as they did in Goldfinger. No ski chases or bobsleigh runs but just as thrilling, beautiful landscapes.

[zencat]

Not too sure if it's really a big slip. Mind you, he gave this interview to a Swiss tabloid, and I guess it wasn't him who started talking about bringing Bond back to Switzerland, but was asked if there's apossibility for this to happen. Maybe he was just being polite, saying: "Oh, the Swiss Alps are always an option for a Bond movie etc." Maybe he was really thinking about it and brought it up, it might as well be just whishful thinking. Who knows. But he definitely says "No decision have been made until now."

Oh, you know, you could be right about this, stromberg. Shoot. Yeah. I don't think we can take this Alps thing as a given. Hmmm...dang.

[K1Bond007]

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[Gobi-1]

I want snowboarding or mountain climbing. Mountain climbing more then a ski scene, although it will have been 9 years since TWINE when the film debuts. Maybe we could have both like FYEO.

[Qwerty]

Very cool news. Glad to see some possible details on Bond 22 are finally being released.

I definitely wouldn't mind seeing the Alps back in a Bond film. It was nice that Casino Royale gave us a little break from the snow in the series.

[Loomis]

Is it too fanboy to speculate about a possible connection or mention of Bond's parents death?

Well, that would certainly be a rich source for some of that heavy drama that they're apparently determined to cram into the Dark And Serious™ BOND 22. Note that we've never found out in the films when Bond learns about what happened to his folks. GOLDENEYE makes it clear that he knows what befell them, of course, but at what point in his life did he actually find out, and under what circumstances? I seem to remember that this is all explained in Higson, in which "canon" Bond naturally learns this info as a boy, but Eon is free to contradict the literary Bond(s) and has done so on many an occasion.

If Campbell were directing BOND 22, I'd think that this was an absolute shoe-in as a plot element, since it was memorably mentioned in GOLDENEYE. But is it also possible that Visionary Arty Rising Star Director™ Marc Forster was drawn to the project in part because of the freedom to shake up the formula some more, for instance by opening with a flashback to 30 years ago, and Mr and Mrs Bond are attackin' that big mountain, and the young James looks on in horror as suddenly....? (Picture the opening of VERTICAL LIMIT, but in arty black and white a la the start of CASINO ROYALE. The audience has no idea what's going on, until someone tries to revive the corpse by shouting "Mr Bond! Mr Bond!", and someone says to the terrified child "Don't look, James!", and then we cut to colour and the present day, and there's Craig's grown-up 007 having a moment of gloomy reminiscence on a mountain somewhere, and then a beautiful woman hoves into view and says flirtatiously "You climb very well, James", to which our hero replies "Yes, among my other accomplishments - I've been doing it most of my life", and then we realise we're at the fag end of a mission a la the start of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, and we get a small bit of "crowd-pleasing" action, and cut to the opening credits, and....

Nah, not fanboyish at all. )

[Jack Spang]

"(Is it too fanboy to speculate about a possible connection or mention of Bond's parents death?)"

Certainly not!

There should be dialogue or even better, a flashback regarding Bond's parent's death in the climbing accident. This may seem like a stupid question, but were Bond's parents climbing an actual snowy part of the mountain when they died? If there is a flashback I'd like to see it in either Sepia (brown and white) or a cold blue and white this time. They should take a break from the monochrome as we had it in CR, plus somehow black and white doesn't really seem to suit an outdoors/climbing flashback.

I'd love to see mountain climbing and possibly a simple ski chase without any kind of fancy flying machines like TWINE's parahawks. Don't want snowboarding either. That isn't Bond. It's in the same vein as Bond surfing in DAD.

If you are reading this thread Forster and Haggis, please read John Pearson's biography of Bond aswell as all or most of the Fleming books!

This post has been edited by Jack Spang: 24 June 2007 - 23:33

[DaveBond21]

I like the idea of Bond back in the Alps. Wonderful location. And I would not mind a ski chase at all.


But please - no flashbacks of dying parents.

Or revenge theme either. I don't want another Bond movie where Bond is depressed about something that has happened in the past, or during the movie. It has got to the "enough already" stage. Yes, we know he's a tortured soul, yes, his colleague lost his legs, his friend betrayed him, his ex-lover got killed, and his first love died.

Can't we just have a Bond adventure without some revenge theme for the first time since TLD????

[Harmsway]

Is it too fanboy to speculate about a possible connection or mention of Bond's parents death?

Well, that would certainly be a rich source for some of that heavy drama that they're apparently determined to cram into the Dark And Serious

[DaveBond21]

but I'd hate it if it turned out his parents were involved in some conspiracy that ties to the villains at hand...

I think you will find that Mr White killed Bond's parents, by cutting their climbing ropes.

All to be revealed in the Bond 22 PTS. Connery plays Bond's dad in an Obi-Wan Kenobi-style ghost appearance.