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My little Bond 24 project (WILL CONTAIN SKYFALL SPOILERS)


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#31 seawolfnyy

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 07:26 PM

I understand, just my opinion ;). As for the green energy idea, I think it could definitely work as a potential for turning London into Pripyat. It could be tricky adapting it to Moonraker, but then again Moonraker takes place in 1955 so it could be an interesting way to update it. Especially seeing as alternative energy is as important today as Cold War defense was in the 50s and 60s.


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#32 GalaBond

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Posted 08 December 2012 - 02:10 PM

I understand, just my opinion ;). As for the green energy idea, I think it could definitely work as a potential for turning London into Pripyat. It could be tricky adapting it to Moonraker, but then again Moonraker takes place in 1955 so it could be an interesting way to update it. Especially seeing as alternative energy is as important today as Cold War defense was in the 50s and 60s.

 

I agree strongly, I also think it has a lot of connection with modern times and how we're constantly looking for stuff to make the world a better place and if someone brought a clean energy reactor into play, many people would welcome it and probably ignore the fact that with the right people it could be turned into a nuclear weapon. Also, seawolfnyy, what do you think of my casting? 


Edited by GalaBond, 08 December 2012 - 02:10 PM.


#33 seawolfnyy

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Posted 10 December 2012 - 08:04 AM

Definitely like the idea of Thomas Kretschmann for Drax. He was fantastic in Valkyrie. Gal Gadot would be wonderful as Liz Krest and Bryan Cranston would be great as Milton, much better than Anthony Zerbe. The only one I thought was a little odd was Romola Garai for Gala Brand. Romola is lovely, but she doesn't fit the picture I have in my head of Miss Brand. I don't see her as a blond and I think Romola Garai looks a little too innocent to play Gala. There was someone I had in mind who I thought would be perfect for Gala Brand, but at this moment cannot for the life of me remember who it is. I will let you know if I remember though. I do wonder how the Krests would fit into the story as well.



#34 GalaBond

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Posted 10 December 2012 - 08:49 PM

 I do wonder how the Krests would fit into the story as well.

 

Milton Krest is a Quantum member tasked with keeping an eye on Drax and assisting him in any way he can. Need to come up with his involvement in the story and he has a wife named Elizabeth Krest, who is a young trophy wife who loves her husband dearly but cannot resist Bond's charms and because of that comes to a very familiar end...



#35 seawolfnyy

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 03:36 AM

So what are Quantum's motives? Do they want to steal Drax's technology?



#36 GalaBond

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 10:00 AM

They are financially supporting him and Drax works for them as well. The whole plot is that Drax is planning to detonate the nuclear bomb and play the stock market so that he can come into a lot of money which will fund more of Quantums terrorism and also Quantum have become more underground since QoS and now seem to reflect more of Spectre (but are not gonna be spectre)

#37 seawolfnyy

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 07:10 PM

Okay, so Drax is an agent of Quantum, gotcha. I wasn't too clear on that. Well it sounds like you've got a good start here. Any locations decided or is it going to more closely follow the novel and stay in England? I think you've got potential for some really great locations like Canada, Prague, the Caribbean etc.



#38 seawolfnyy

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 10:41 PM

How about Jessica Pare for Gala Brand? She's not who I was thinking of, but she looks very much like how I pictured her in the novel.

 

http://www.gq.com/im...ica-pare-01.jpg



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Posted 11 December 2012 - 11:38 PM

How about Jessica Pare for Gala Brand? She's not who I was thinking of, but she looks very much like how I pictured her in the novel.

 

http://www.gq.com/im...ica-pare-01.jpg

 

She's Canadian... She would be perfect, but only if she was British :(


Edited by GalaBond, 11 December 2012 - 11:54 PM.


#40 seawolfnyy

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Posted 12 December 2012 - 01:22 AM

Hmm...yeah....what? I'm sorry i got distracted looking at that picture of Jessica Pare :rolleyes:. Such big....eyes.



#41 GalaBond

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Posted 13 December 2012 - 06:32 PM

Hmm...yeah....what? I'm sorry i got distracted looking at that picture of Jessica Pare :rolleyes:. Such big....eyes.


Can you think of anyone else? That's British?

#42 seawolfnyy

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Posted 13 December 2012 - 07:08 PM

I would say either Jenna Louis Coleman:

 

http://geekasms.com/...oleman-2-42.jpg

 

of Felicity Jones:

 

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#43 GalaBond

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Posted 13 December 2012 - 07:26 PM

How about Andrea Riseborough?

#44 seawolfnyy

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Posted 13 December 2012 - 07:42 PM

Hmm definitely an interesting choice. I could see it.

 

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#45 GalaBond

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Posted 14 December 2012 - 03:18 PM

The new Gala Brand is Andrea Riseborough: 

 

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#46 seawolfnyy

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Posted 14 December 2012 - 05:56 PM

Good choice. Have you created an outline for your story yet?



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Posted 18 December 2012 - 08:08 PM

I've decided to include an the villain plot from Live and Let Die as a sub-plot for Krest.

 

Story outline

 

In the film, Bond battles Milton Krest, who is using his yacht The Wavekrest to smuggle 17th Century Gold Coins from 'Bloody Morgans' cove in Jamaica, to help finance Quantum's operation to build a clean energy reactor that can be turned into a nuclear weapon ran by Hugo Drax, a high ranking member of Quantum posing as a millionaire. 



#48 seawolfnyy

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Posted 18 December 2012 - 10:00 PM

I think that sub-plot could definitely work for your story. However, I think a more plausible scenario would be that Krest is smuggling a rare element that happened to be in the cove that is essential to the operation of the reactor. I think that Quantum would already have the funds to finance the project.



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Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:53 PM

I think that sub-plot could definitely work for your story. However, I think a more plausible scenario would be that Krest is smuggling a rare element that happened to be in the cove that is essential to the operation of the reactor. I think that Quantum would already have the funds to finance the project.

 

Do you have any ideas? Not really sure what essential part of a reactor would need smuggling? 



#50 seawolfnyy

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Posted 19 December 2012 - 09:52 PM

Let me think about it and get back to you.


Edited by seawolfnyy, 19 December 2012 - 09:52 PM.


#51 GalaBond

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Posted 20 December 2012 - 07:52 PM

While you come up with that, I wanted to talk to you about the finale of the film. I was watching Inception and I thought it'd be cool if the final showdown and Drax's death could happen at a snow fortress where Drax plans to set off the bomb in London?

 

http://qph.cf.quorac...64a3831b87c524f

 

http://1.bp.blogspot...0/inception.jpg



#52 seawolfnyy

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Posted 20 December 2012 - 09:01 PM

That could be cool. Would it be in a snowy London or some other location?



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Posted 20 December 2012 - 09:45 PM

That could be cool. Would it be in a snowy London or some other location?

 

 

Another location, I don't think Drax would want to be around when the bomb goes off in London. 



#54 seawolfnyy

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Posted 20 December 2012 - 11:21 PM

I would say you could set it in the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland.

 

http://www.bakerlooj...lieveDonard.jpg


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#55 GalaBond

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Posted 21 December 2012 - 03:57 PM

I was thinking Calgary, Canada?

#56 seawolfnyy

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Posted 21 December 2012 - 11:47 PM

I thought Canada too, but wouldn't you want Drax's base set slightly closer to England since the project is meant to be in London?



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Posted 23 December 2012 - 02:13 AM

So when do you think you will start this little project? I can't wait to read it!



#58 GalaBond

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Posted 23 December 2012 - 12:55 PM

Soon, just want to get all the basics together and then start forming the final product, it'd be nice to hear from people who remember the book to see what aspects/ scenes/ sets or characters they would like to adapted or done properly in this version of the book?

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Posted 24 December 2012 - 01:34 PM

Little poster for you all

 

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#60 GalaBond

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Posted 24 December 2012 - 02:12 PM

Here is also a list of the locations in order in which they will appear: 

 

  • Mombassa, Kenya (for the pre-title sequence)
  • Tangier, Morocco (for the introduction of hugo drax)
  • London, UK (for the briefing with m, flirting with moneypenny, q branch 
  • Kingston, Jamaica (bond's first location for the mission, where he meets the krests)
  • London, UK (for bond going to the blades club with M and meeting Drax)
  • Dover, Kent (for when bond meets gala and most of the main body of the film)
  • Calgary, Canada (for the big finale, drax's death and a snow fortress)