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[Dainshdude118]

Ok, I was thinking that we could have a thread where everyone posted their plan for Bond 23 ie. Title, leading actors, plot summary, director, locations and anything else you want to put into it.

Danishdude118's Bond 23 is 'The Property Of A Lady'

Staring Daniel Craig as James Bond
Alona Tal as Viktoria
Bruno Ganz as Vladimir Shevchenko
Željko Ivanek as Gordon McCone
Judi Dench as M
Jeffery Wright as Felix Leiter
Paul Ritter as Guy Haynes
Rory Kinnear – Bill Tanner
Albert Finney – Sir James Molony
Tim Pigott-Smith – Foreign Secretary
Hayley Atwell – Jane Moneypenny

plot synopsis: Bond uncovers a plot to smuggle blood diamonds into the carribian. M thinks that their being used to finance terror in the British Virgin Islands (which is British over seas terratory) so Bond has to smuggle the diamonds there. The villains plan, it turns out, is to set of a nuclear bomb that will destroy one of the wprld's largest petrolium refinerys (in the American Virgin Islands) it will not only bancrupt America, but also kill about a million people.

The film is directed by Martin Campbell
Music by David Arnold
Title Song performed by Ville Vlau of HIM

Locations: Mosambique, London, Scotland, New York, The Carribian

[Vauxhall]

Conflict diamonds! Jim will be pleased.

Not sure about some aspects of the plot (or the title song performer), but very keen on the majority of the cast.

One initial question: How would each of the characters you mention feed into your plot?

[Jim]

AFRICAN CONFLICT DIAMONDS!

[Captain Tightpants]

Captain Tighpants's BOND 23 is THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

Directed by Edward Zwick
Written by Captain Tightpants
Music by David Newman
Title Perfored by Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters

Starring ...

Daniel Craig as James Bond
Nathan Fillion as Andy Levine
(I have no idea) as Sophie Chevalier
Jeffery Wright as Felix Leiter
Judi Dench as M
Paul Ritter as Guy Haines
??? as the Man with the Golden Gun

The plot (it's going to be long, but it needs to be):

In Dunshanbe, Tajikistan, we see a grand aprade through the city streets to welcome in a new president. But high atop the Presidential Palace, where the inauguation will take place at midnight in an unwelcome visitor: a cloaked man wearing a tragedy drama mask and carrying a Moisin Nagant sniper rifle. He takes aim at the president-elect's float and fires. We never see the bullet hit.

Cut to one week previously, and MI6 find that their best lead on Quantum - Guy Haines - is dead. A ballisic analysis of the bullet reveals traces of gold within it, suggesting it is the work of the assassin known as the Man with the Golden Gun. M assigns Andy Levine, better known as agent 005 to the case with a warning: while investigating the Man with the Golden Gun, James Bond has gone missing, and is presumed dead. With the help of Felix Leiter, Levine sets out to track down the Man with the Golden Gun.

Ultimately, it is revealted that Bond is the Man with the Golden Gun. He has been trying to coax an assassin named Sophie Chevalier - otherwise known as Eulogy Jones because she comfort her vicimts as they die and often speaks fondly of them afterwards as if she knew them - out into the open for months, and with the help of both M and Leiter, sets her up as the Man with the Golden Gun. Sophie killed Haines to turn MI6 attention on Bond, freeing her up to assassinate the president of Tajikistan. While this might seem an odd choice of target, Tajikistan is ranked third in the world for the number of drugs it busts. Bond deliberately misses the incoming president to cause chaos in the parade so that his 'lover' - Sophie - cannot stick a knife in his ribs. Levine kills her within the presiential palace, and Bond leaves the mask and rifle in her possession, making it look like the Man with the Golden Gun was caught and shot by Tajik security whilst trying to escape.

Locations:

Dunshanbe, Tajikistan (the assassination)
London, England (the murder of Haines and Levine's introduction)
Tsumago, Japan (Bond and Leiter - undercover - try to deal with a pair of Chinese government officials who wanted a Falun Gong member dead; this introduces us to the legend of the Man with the Golden Gun)
Mexico City, Mexico (Leiter helps Levine establish credibility in the world of assassins, by drafting a hatchet-man in to kill a drug baron)
The Italy/Croatia Border (The Man with the Golden Gun fights a sniper battle across the border with an assassin sent by Sophie)
Rocamador, France (Leiter informs Levine that they believe the Man with the Golden Gun is actually Sophie Chevalier, based in the commune of Rocamador)
Portimao, Portugal (Bond learns of Sophie's hiring to assassinate the president-elect of Tajikistan)
Dunshanbe, Tajikistan (the 'assassination' again and the aftermath)

[tdalton]

SHATTERHAND

CAST
Daniel Craig..........James Bond
Olivia Wilde..........Gala Brand
Linus Roache..........Jack Spang
Robert Downey Jr......Seraffimo Spang
Jesper Christensen....Mr. White
Judi Dench............M
Mickey Rourke.........Dr. Guntram Shatterhand

CREW
Produced by...........Michael G. Wilson & Barbara Broccoli
Story by..............Brian Helgeland & Michael G. Wilson
Screenplay by.........Brian Helgeland & Eli Roth
Music by..............Charlie Clouser

PLOT
The film begins with Bond (Daniel Craig) having the Quantum organization on the run. He has Yusef in captivity, and is hot on the trail of Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). Bond catches up with Mr. White in the PTS, and just before White passes on, he informs Bond about the Spang brothers, two members of Quantum's inner circle that he often clashed with and wanted to see eliminated.

Jack and Seraffimo Spang (Linus Roache and Robert Downey Jr., respectively) are currently operating a diamond smuggling operation in South Africa, splitting the profits on the diamond sales between Quantum's own treasury and another savings fund marked under "Research & Development". With the help of Gala Brand (Olivia Wilde), Bond tracks the "R&D" fund to a bank account is Las Vegas, Nevada, where he discovers that Jack Spang has taken up residence. He confronts Spang at one of the two casinos that he owns, and extracts information from his regarding what the funds are used for.

Spang informs Bond that the funds are turned over to a doctor that operates on a small island off the coast of South America. MI6 has the CIA freeze the account, and sends a team down to South America to check out the clinic. The visit turns up what appears to be a very reputable research clinic aimed at helping cure various diseases.

Soon after this, Jack Spang passes away due to injuries sustained during Bond's interrogation of him. When Seraffimo finds out, he locates Bond while Bond is vacationing in the Bahamas, and has him captured.

When Bond comes to, he finds himself in an island that he finds to be comparable to that of Dr. Moreau, but only worse. His captors take him to meet the doctor in charge of the "clinic", Dr. Guntram Shatterhand (Mickey Rourke), who informs Bond of the kind of pain and suffering he will experience while a "patient" of the clinic.

Bond endures nearly six months of torture before a team of U.S. and British special operatives rescue him from captivity. When he arrives back in London, he is informed by M that they were unable to apprehend Shatterhand, who they believe that fled to Japan.

While recovering from his injuries, Bond meets back up with Gala Brand and the two begin a relationship, which goes on for a few months before the two are instructed to head to Japan to eliminate Shatterhand after new intelligence surfaced that confirmed he was somewhere in the country.

In Japan, Gala and Bond find an abandoned fortress in the mountains, under which they find a "garden" of unspeakable terror. As they walk through it, they cling to each other out of a tremendous amount of fear. The film ends with the room in which the garden is contained going completely dark and the sound of Shatterhand whispering "Good evening, Mr. Bond." and the sound of Bond and Gala screaming.

Edited by tdalton, 12 January 2009 - 01:50 AM.

[HH007]

SHATTERHAND

Screenplay by.........Brian Helgeland & Eli Roth

Eli Roth? Really?

[Captain Tightpants]

SHATTERHAND

Screenplay by.........Brian Helgeland & Eli Roth

Eli Roth? Really?

Yes, I noticed that too. The man shouldn't be writing films, he should be locked up and the key thrown away.

[tdalton]

SHATTERHAND

Screenplay by.........Brian Helgeland & Eli Roth

Eli Roth? Really?

Yes, I noticed that too. The man shouldn't be writing films, he should be locked up and the key thrown away.

He would have been brought on more as a consultant to the process rather than a key part of the creative team. The idea that I presented above would be more in line stylistically with a horror film (at least the parts featuring Shatterhand, and he would have been brought on to help achieve that style).

[HH007]

SHATTERHAND

Screenplay by.........Brian Helgeland & Eli Roth

Eli Roth? Really?

Yes, I noticed that too. The man shouldn't be writing films, he should be locked up and the key thrown away.

He would have been brought on more as a consultant to the process rather than a key part of the creative team. The idea that I presented above would be more in line stylistically with a horror film (at least the parts featuring Shatterhand, and he would have been brought on to help achieve that style).

Ah, okay. And for the record, I'm not an Eli Roth hater. I liked the first HOSTEL and CABIN FEVER is my favorite movie to get drunk to. I was just a little blind sided by the idea of him writing a Bond movie.

Anyway, back on topic.

[tdalton]

SHATTERHAND

Screenplay by.........Brian Helgeland & Eli Roth

Eli Roth? Really?

Yes, I noticed that too. The man shouldn't be writing films, he should be locked up and the key thrown away.

He would have been brought on more as a consultant to the process rather than a key part of the creative team. The idea that I presented above would be more in line stylistically with a horror film (at least the parts featuring Shatterhand, and he would have been brought on to help achieve that style).

Ah, okay. And for the record, I'm not an Eli Roth hater. I liked the first HOSTEL and CABIN FEVER is my favorite movie to get drunk to. I was just a little blind sided by the idea of him writing a Bond movie.

Anyway, back on topic.

I didn't make it very clear in the original post, and looking back at it, it does look as though I just picked him at random to just write a Bond film. The idea that I had for the Garden of Death and Shatterhand would be for the look of the film to gradually deteriorate as the film went along. Have the film start out in a similar visual style to that of Casino Royale, and then have the visual style of it all just kind of decline the closer we get to the end of the film and the unveiling of the Garden of Death. By the end of the film, the audience should think that, if they were to walk into the film right at the very end, that they were watching a horror film starring Daniel Craig rather than a Bond film, hence the need to bring someone to the production to deliver that kind of style to the film.

[Dainshdude118]

Conflict diamonds! Jim will be pleased.

Not sure about some aspects of the plot (or the title song performer), but very keen on the majority of the cast.

One initial question: How would each of the characters you mention feed into your plot?

McCone - Head of the CIA
Shevchenko - Main villain, corrupt russian defence minister
Viktoria - The person buying the diamonds, bond turns her

As for the plot, it was something i came up with in like, five minutes

Edited by Dainshdude118, 12 January 2009 - 03:45 PM.

[Bond Pacific]

Conflict Diamonds has been done already. It was used in the movie "Die Another Day".

Need something different. Not quite sure what, though.

Would like to see a movie who the villain would be "The Union".

[Captain Tightpants]

Would like to see a movie who the villain would be "The Union".

It'll never happen. EON don't own the rights to Benson's books, and so nothing from the Expanded Bondverse - Higson, Benson, Gardener, Amis, Faulks et al - will ever be included. Besides, we already have an evil organisation. They're called Quantum.