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[Mister Asterix]

On the chapter title front I’ve always loved ‘Slay It With Flowers”. Not sure how that would be as Bond movie title though. May be better for the next Johnny English.

[Genrewriter]

If we're going for chapter titles, I like A Better Way to Die. Could bhe used if they ever decie to end the series with Bond getting killed.

[Mourning Becomes Electra]

Quantum of Solace ... um no. It does sound like a Mechent-Ivory flim. Yes the story is by Fleming but it isn't even about Bond, he's just a bookend listener; it doesn't fit Bond. And The Undertaker's Wind.... sounds the sequal to Freddy Got Fingered

Of that list I guess Risico would be the best but Shatterhand would be better for a return to the one named titles and unlike Icebreaker hasn't already been used for other films. (and it wouldn't ahve to deal with any more ICE!) I've always been fond of A Whisper of Hate.(the entire phrase would be too long)

[Blofeld's Cat]

Originally posted by Loomis
"Quantum of Solace"

"Risico"

"The Hildebrand Rarity"

"The Property of a Lady"

"007 in New York"

Which, if any, do you think would be the most viable title for a Bond film made today?

I really like the sound of "Quantum of Solace," but not for a Bond movie.

"Risico" sounds more like an Italian flick.

"The Hildebrand Rarity" sounds too old fashioned to me.

"The Prpoerty of a Lady" sounds too benign for a Bond actioner.

And "007 in New York" is too bland and generic. 007 was in New York in Live and Let Die, so what. 007 was in Miami too.

They could mix it up a bit I guess. "The Qunatum Rarity" sounds like a sci-fi job, though. "A Lady of Solace" is definitely Merchant-Ivory.

Eon played around with "From A View To A Kill" most likely because it included the word "kill" and therefore sounded more in keeping with Bond's trade.

[TheSaint]

My Bond fan friends & I always refer to the next Bond film, before it is titled, as "Quantum of Solace" or "Risico". Maybe someday we will be right.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Originally posted by Genrewriter
If we're going for chapter titles, I like A Better Way to Die.  Could bhe used if they ever decie to end the series with Bond getting killed.

Yeah well, if they have to resort to chapter titles things are pretty desperate on the creative front. Where will it end? Start checking out phrases within chapters?

No, I think the producers decided awhile ago that suitable Fleming titles have been exhausted, so now we are left with all sorts of variations of "death," "die," and the likes in titles now.

[DLibrasnow]

Mike Wilson once said that they didn't know what "Risico" meant...It was in a "Bondage" issue that I KNOW Zencat has....where is a zencat when you need him?...He was responding to questions about future Bond titles (and was released at about the time of TLD in 1987).
Hey Zencat, what was the actual quote?

[Genrewriter]

Gotta agree with you there, BC. It would be pretty desperate if they started resorting to that.

[Simon]

Originally posted by ray t


not to take the 'wind' out of your sails, simon, but it, umm, has the connotations of , old boy!!!

it simply wouldnt do...

Excellent.

I'll never be able to see that title in the same light again. Forever ruined.

[Tarl_Cabot]

I liked Licence Revoked better than LTK but amazingly the producers thought us monkey tards in the USA wouldn't know what it means. I'm willing to bet that 007 fans are more intelligent and sophisticated than say,Chuck Norris movie fans or other whitetrash action heroes.

[Mr. Blofeld]

As we all know what the Quantum of Solace is - how would they fit that into a Bond plot?

Unless they ignored that bit of it and called (I dunno, say) a boat or something relevant to the plot like yet another space death laser "Quantum of Solace".

Come to think of it, I can see it more likely as some sort of passing nod in a future film - say a boat/ship called "Quantum of Solace" - rather than an actual film title. It might be Fleming but does that really mean it has to a) be used and revered and c) used because it is revered?

If they use it, I fear - albeit I'd be happy to be surprised to the contrary - that the reaction will be a collective "uh?" - wherever one may be.

Dear, oh, dear...

[Jim]

As we all know what the Quantum of Solace is - how would they fit that into a Bond plot?

Unless they ignored that bit of it and called (I dunno, say) a boat or something relevant to the plot like yet another space death laser "Quantum of Solace".

Come to think of it, I can see it more likely as some sort of passing nod in a future film - say a boat/ship called "Quantum of Solace" - rather than an actual film title. It might be Fleming but does that really mean it has to a) be used and b ) revered and c) used because it is revered?

If they use it, I fear - albeit I'd be happy to be surprised to the contrary - that the reaction will be a collective "uh?" - wherever one may be.

Dear, oh, dear...

Well, do understand that this thread is six years old - pretty advanced in dog years - and I was in the throes of having my brain numbed by the idiocy of DUD and fearing that the the future was... that sort of stuff.

Probably not an excuse.

[Quantumofsolace007]

It;s interesting to look at these old threads and see are fans still the same way.

Take Lomis for example, He seemed very excited with 007 in new york in 03. Is he still excited about it? Would he want Yusef to be the main villian of Bond 23. Perhaps Yusef is dating a fictional presidents daughter and Bond has to stop yusef.


It's interesting to see how some didn't think Casino Royale was a viable title and yet both CR and QOS worked (briliantly in my opnion)





As for my opnion Well I love all the fleming titles

[O.H.M.S.S.]

It;s interesting to look at these old threads and see are fans still the same way.

Take Lomis for example, He seemed very excited with 007 in new york in 03. Is he still excited about it? Would he want Yusef to be the main villian of Bond 23. Perhaps Yusef is dating a fictional presidents daughter and Bond has to stop yusef.


It's interesting to see how some didn't think Casino Royale was a viable title and yet both CR and QOS worked (briliantly in my opnion)





As for my opnion Well I love all the fleming titles

I agree, all Fleming titles are great, I hope they will use them first before the come up with original titles.