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[Quantumofsolace007]

Driving the gEorge Washington bridge today I have on simple situation


NEW YORK

[jamie00007]

I'd like to see more old european cities, places like Prague or Bruges. I also think Bond needs to hit the ski slopes again soon. We've only had one skiing scene in the last 20 years and it was rather sub-par.

Edited by jamie00007, 17 May 2009 - 08:33 AM.

[tdalton]

I'd like to see Bond finally make a trip somewhere that he hasn't been before. I'd like to see a film take place in either Australia or Canada, two locations that would have a lot of great places for Bond to visit.

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

I would love a Bond film set entirely in Europe (like for example For Your Eyes Only or From Russia with Love). We could see a lot of beautiful cities and they can still create different atmospheres. Bond has never been to Scandinavia (ok, Iceland was in Die Another Day, but we didn't see much of it, it was all about Lamont's ice palace). 007 never visited one of the picturesque Baltic countries or Brussels, the capital of Europe.

Edited by O.H.M.S.S., 21 May 2009 - 11:50 AM.

[Aris007]

I don't know if this has been mentioned.

Two roads that are masterpieces! They're made to be in a Bond film.

ATLANTIC ROAD(NORWAY)





JEBEL HAFEET ROAD(UAE)

[MkB]

I must say the Atlantic Road from Norway looks really good!

[MkB]

Two ideas:

1) The "Door to Hell" (Uzbekistan)

It could do for a very baroque final fight with a Villain Not very new, I'll give you that, but never done at a real location if memory serves!

This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.

More photos at: http://englishrussia.com/?p=1830


2) In a quite different style, I've stumbled upon those pics of "10 incredible underground lakes and rivers", and thought one of them could be a very interesting Bond location. Some examples:







More here: http://www.environme...akes-river/2190

[Aris007]

The "Door to hell" looks amazing! And the caves could be the secret location of a villain, although that looks a little old! Nice pics generally!

[Santa]

Good finds, MkB. I'd like to see a good old-fashioned over-the-top villain's lair in Bond again .

[tdalton]

I love the "Door to Hell" location. I think that there could be a great way to incorporate that location in a major way into a Bond film. I even like the phrase "Door to Hell" as a potential film title.

[MkB]

Thanks guys!
Actually, the location of the "Door to Hell" (Uzbekistan) would tie in nicely with the Central Asian location I advocated earlier in this thread with pics of Kazakhstan!

[jrcjohnny99]

It would be nice to see some of Europe's other great cities visited;
amazing that Rome hasn't been used yet (a shootout in the colisuem? how very Roger!) or Barcelona (motorbike chase down Las Ramblas?); I'd also like to see more of the Middle East; Jordan, Syria or Lebanon?

[Tybre]

I'd sort of like to see a return to Greece/the Aegean. Somewhere in Catalunya might be nice, too. Also wouldn't mind seeing them use a prominent location from the unfilmed Dalton 3rd, though I'd almost rather it not be too prominent in the next one, just more like Lake Constance was used in QoS -- Hong Kong.

[Captain Tightpants]

Thanks guys!
Actually, the location of the "Door to Hell" (Uzbekistan) would tie in nicely with the Central Asian location I advocated earlier in this thread with pics of Kazakhstan!

I likes. As a similarly-hellish (but for entirely different reasons) location, I suggest Poveglia Island, an island near Venice where the Romans used to quarantine plague victims. Or, in other words, it was a mass grave for the still-living, a place where over a hundred and fifty thousand were sent to die.

[pgram]

Some very nice suggestions there, gentlemen. When I find the time, I 'll post some myself. For now, all I wanted to say is that I wish that whatever location they use, they 'll use it for what it actually is. I still find the idea of using Arecibo as Trevelyan's base apalling. It is such a well-known telescope that it could never be mistaken for anything else. Whatismore, how far away was the goldeneye satelite to need such a huge antenna to communicate with it? Just stupid...

[Tybre]

My re-watching of the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker trailer has made me think:

Costa Rica

Sure, these days it's a bit tourist heavy compared to the 1974 setting of the aforementioned game, but hey, doesn't have to be a primary location. Could just be around briefly, like Italy in the last film or Madagascar in the film before that. Maybe part of the PTS?

[Forward Look]

I'd like to see Bond finally make a trip somewhere that he hasn't been before. I'd like to see a film take place in either Australia or Canada, two locations that would have a lot of great places for Bond to visit.

This would fit in with the Canadian intelligence agent at the end of QOS.

[Captain Tightpants]

This would fit in with the Canadian intelligence agent at the end of QOS.

How many times do I have to say it? That plot-line was resolved at the end of QUANTUM OF SOLACE. The Canadians know that they have a problem, and they're moving to clear it up. They don't need Bond's help; the three men and the woman Bond photographed in Bregenz are much more viable as plot threads because the scene in Kazan was not about setting the next film up. It was about Bond getting his quantum of solace: by saving Corinne from the machinations of both Quantum and Yusuf, he saves someone from the same fate as befell Vesper. While that doesn't make up for her death, it gives him enough closure to move on with his life. It wouldn't matter if Corinne were Canadian, Russian, Australian, Brazilian, French, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Mongolian; whatever. The point is not who she is or where she is from, but the fact that she is in the same situation as Vesper was before she was forced into betraying Bond. Paul Haggis prbably made her Canadian because he himself is from Canada.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Puerto Madero, in Buenos Aires. (Bond to Argentina please!, well he actually goes there in my fanfic "Reflections of Darkness")



I'd also like New York, or Moscow.

[MkB]

An update about the Door to Hell location mentioned above: following the article I cited, I said it was in Uzbekistan, but actually it's in Turkmenistan, in the Karakum desert! Sorry for all those who have already planned their holiday, I hope you can still change your plane ticket!

Some more links:
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza
Tourist information:
http://www.stantours...rg_ahal_do.html
Beautiful pics:
http://johnhbradley....r=070707darvaza

[danslittlefinger]

I'm telling you, a chase down the Great Wall. Not Parkour style as that's been done. Maybe on motorbikes? Nah. Anyway what a visual.

[DaveBond21]

I'd like to see Australia, of course, because that is where I live.


Otherwise - Afghanistan and Japan may be the next locations. I wouldn't mind seeing Daniel Craig's 007 in a YOLT-TMWTGG Asian atmosphere.

[Tybre]

007 returns to Prague to tie up some loose ends? Nah, cities like Prague are a bit overdone I think. Worked for the CR PTS but really shouldn't feature prominently, if at all, for a long while. And yes I just rejected my own suggestion. I'm that awesome.

[havok_007]

How about New Zealand... that wouldn't fit into story line though... haha

I think some snow is overdue, somewhere like Switzerland ... didn't like the ice in DAD much.
Id like to see maybe some sort of tropical forest as well, maybe Brazil?

[DaveBond21]

Id like to see maybe some sort of tropical forest as well, maybe Brazil?

Like in Moonraker?

[Forward Look]

Id like to see maybe some sort of tropical forest as well, maybe Brazil?

Like in Moonraker?

Mabye, but without the falls. The problems encountered in MR with shooting Bond's boat at those falls, and later with Bond flying over the falls in his hang glider, were a nightmare for the producers.

[Tybre]

I recently re-watched one of my favorite films, Aoki Ôkami: chi hate umi tsukiru made, a Japanese biopic/drama about Genghis Khan's early life (it ends as he begins his campaign against China, a damn great spot to end, imo) shot on location in Mongolia. There are some really, really great locations in the film I'd kind of like to see in a 007 film. How to work it into the film is anyone's guess, but Mongolia really is a pretty awesome looking place.

[havok_007]

Something like the forest in goldeneye was cool when Xena dies....
Or the opening scene in casino royale with Le chiffe and Mr white and the African dudes.
I just pray for cool car chase scene as well in a cool location... not some scrubby shaky camera, horribly cut scene from QOS.

Edited by havok_007, 15 June 2009 - 01:32 AM.

[Tybre]

Jungle + car chase might be cool, if slightly overdone by things like Indy

[danslittlefinger]

I recently re-watched one of my favorite films, Aoki Ôkami: chi hate umi tsukiru made, a Japanese biopic/drama about Genghis Khan's early life (it ends as he begins his campaign against China, a damn great spot to end, imo) shot on location in Mongolia. There are some really, really great locations in the film I'd kind of like to see in a 007 film. How to work it into the film is anyone's guess, but Mongolia really is a pretty awesome looking place.

Agree. Tibet/Mongolia/China.