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[Robert Watts]

I'd been working on something like this for a while, so I decided why not post it here. More details tommorow.

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Albert R. Broccoli's EON Productions

Presents

DANIEL CRAIG

As

Ian Fleming's

JAMES BOND OO7

In

Starring

Daniel Craig as James Bond

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Edited by Robert Watts, 02 October 2006 - 01:37 AM.

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[Vauxhall]

Some excellent ideas Robert, and some decent names in the cast you put together. I'd be very interested to hear further parts of the storyline once you've put it together

[Andrew]

Sounds good. Keep going!

[Robert Watts]

Will do. I have something that, IMO is rather cool that involves Mathis and the Giavanni character. Needless to say Dennis Ferinna is in a role he's typecast as. And he aint a cop. Also, a group battle, (for once, there should've been one in TND on the Stealth Boat) a little (and I use that loosley) domain for the villain that is inspired by something I saw on the travel channel the other day. I'll leave it at that, for that would be telling.

[Double-0-Seven]

Great ideas! Can't wait to see more.

[Scottlee]

That's brilliantly put together. I commend you on that, sir. Fine makings of a Bond film so far

(You've even made Keira Knightly look hot, which isn't easy)

[Simon Beavis]

Off to a cool start, and I love your cast. Schultz and Hammerstein are the same guy?

[Robert Watts]

(You've even made Keira Knightly look hot, which isn't easy)

She certainly isn't as skinny currently as she was back in her Beckham days, which helps.



I've never had any true objection to her myself

[Robert Watts]

Updated!

[Vauxhall]

Another excellent addition and development. I do particularly like how you've got continuity with CASINO ROYALE in terms of Mr White's limp. I'll be returning to this thread regularly to see how the story pans out.

[Robert Watts]

I might end up dropping Q, not because I don't like the idea of Caine as Q or anything, but I'm not sure what point he would have/what kind of gadget is really required, which certainly isn't a good thing. (Stay tuned I may come up with something overnight)



Working in Moneypenny (Camilla Power) was a bit of an easy one though. You guys may be pleased to know she's generally serious, and the flirtation between her and Bond (if you could call it that) is very minimal. [Also, no corny references to her being 'new', Bond doesn't address her by name as if he recognises her though]



And Gala Brand is true to her literary creation, except she is merged somewhat *minorly* with Lisl Baum from Risico. She is a deep cover Interpol agent. I'll leave it at that. Feel free to speculate who she's investigating.

[Andy A 007]

Excellent stuff Rob! I've always thought Claire Forlani would make a great Bond girl. She was one of the first actresses that came to my mind when I was thinking of Vesper Lynd candidates.

[K1Bond007]

I really don't like the idea of a certain someone surviving. That just shows Bond's ineptitude. He's a double-O. Walking away ruins that.

I would rather have Bond 22 be a, perhaps, From Russia with Love style film with the secret unknown organization going after Bond for crossing them. It isn't because he beat Le Chiffre, but because he took out that certain someone after that person essentially allowed him to live.

Here's a really half-assed attempt of setting the film - this is what I actually picture (hope) in the style (and thus won't even come close to happening):
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<gun barrel>
Opens on M sitting at her desk going about her business. Villiers/Tanner rushes in [...] shows M a communique, a "death warrant" (for immediate execution) on James Bond [...] They decide to take this very seriously considering who retrieved it for them on their behalf (perhaps another 00). They contact Moneypenny, ask where he's at (Somalia!) then to be put through to him at once. Moneypenny dials.

Cut to Bond, briefcase in hand walking out of a raggedy house, seemingly mission accomplished. Beautiful clear day, a plane can be heard in the distance. He's walking towards his car (something modest) when the cell phone rings (yeah, service works), answers it - Tanner fills him in fast, Bond kind of blows it off continues to walk to the car, is about to open the door when in the window's reflection he sees the plane in the distance. Oddly notes that the plane is a fighter jet (a MIG maybe). It gets closer and closer and Bond realizes it's coming in for an attack run. Bond turns to his left, drops everything and books it, a missile is fired fast as hell and the car he was just standing at blows up in a fireball - Bond falls on the ground after being hit with the shockwave and the MIG flies past fast as hell. He gets up and continues to run as the MIG comes around for another pass this time from Bond's rear. Bullets wail down the street that Bond is running (it's kind of like an "old west" village) - Bond turns right and cuts down an alley way, the MIG breaks left to come around from another angle. Bond enters a house and runs through, camera cuts to him running out and the MIG shooting another missile - the house explodes and Bond falls on his again. Plane comes around again, Bond pulls his gun and fires a number of rounds in the air. Pretty useless this is fast. Another missile, another explosion Bond is running again cutting through alleys and so forth. The MIG temporarily loses Bond. We see the MIG guy locate Bond again standing by a rusted out car, gun ready, MIG bears down - Bond unloads more rounds aiming well in advance. He misses, but one nicks right in front of the fighter's window making him jerk his head and react - MIG breaks slightly nicking a water tower then flying off and crashing well in the background. Close up on Bond panting looking pissed. Cut to main title. (This is like a modern day, holy fast paced North by Northwest scene - it shouldn't be that long at all.)

Alternatively it might be neat to see something more down to earth, perhaps Bond realizes that his car has been tampered with - maybe seeing a guy in the reflection of the window. Bond runs and the guy sets off the bomb - taken from Casino Royale, perhaps Bond doesn't get far and is saved from the very close explosion by a tree. Gun battle, Bond wins, main title. The MIG shows the reach and the power this secret org has. I like it better.

Main title

Opens on Bond sitting in M's office. She comes in and rounds her desk and says "Yeah, in this business there is much risk." Or something similar to the line "In this pizniss there is much risico." Bond and M squabble over the risk of the job, the death warrant and who's behind it all. They decide it's time to talk to a certain detainee (for spoiler reasons - see CR). The detainee tells them a load of garbage but gives them a new lead about an arms dealer/smuggler instead that works for this organization in perhaps the Middle East or perhaps another hotspot where militias are needing weapons. Whatever. Not at this point, but later we the audience draw a parallel between this "lead" and Colombo/Draco - a bad guy in that he does bad things, but he's not thee bad guy. Bond realizes he's been sent to essentially take out this target, that he's being used by this secret org to get rid of a competitor. It's a lot more cloak-and-dagger than I make it out - Bond nearly kills this target, but instead uses him to help aid him in a battle against a Kristatos-type. Bond somehow wins. Movie concludes. Yeah, bravo.

Film should set up "Craig 3.0" in which Bond after the PTS says this and stops playing their game. He goes head on after the org a la Nobody Lives Forever when about halfway through the book he gets a step ahead and starts ing up SPECTRE. Perhaps what he does in that film causes a Thunderball type coup where this super secret terrorist club is broken up leading to "Craig 4.0" where we learn it has splintered. Perhaps in the 3rd Bond kills the Blofeld-type. Think of him as keeping all these people together with different ideologies for the sake of making loads of money a la SPECTRE. After he's dead they splinter off becoming competitors and so forth. Kind of like a hydra, I guess. Kill one head and 2 appear. All the while the "detainee" plays the role of a Nina Meyers.

..... or something I'm clearly bored.

[Robert Watts]

Some nice ideas K1.



Anyway regarding:

I really don't like the idea of a certain someone surviving. That just shows Bond's ineptitude. He's a double-O. Walking away ruins that.

Bond let him go for a reason, as will be demonstrated at a later point

[terminus]

My 'Risico' would be heavily inspired by Bloodfever, YOLT and Live and Let Die, using elements of all three, except it would be entitled The Property Of A Lady.




The Mediterranean

Bond is, to say the least, pissed off. He's been given a simple mission to keep an eye on Simone Latrelle (an exquisite blonde twenty something arrogant but resourceful IT girl), the daughter of a top rank government minister on a luxury yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean - it's not like he can even enjoy the daughter since the crew of the yacht are keeping an eye on them both. But, that doesn't stop them enjoying each other in a scuba diving expedition whilst the ship has dropped anchor - their hands explore each other. But, when they surface, the ship has been boarded by piratesm, led by Zoltan the Magyr (Oded Fehr), and the crew lie dead. Bond makes an attempt to stop Zoltan - but Bond gets knocked out and tossed overboard, Simone gets kidnapped and the yacht gets blown sky high !

TITLES (another high octane rock ballard, something like the offspring of Robbie Williams' Karma Killer and Melanie C's Here It Comes Again, maybe now is the time for us to hear I Will Return ?)

Sardinia

Bond washes up on a beach on the island of Sardinia, where he is discovered by a beautiful but ferocious woman calling herself Vendetta (Navi Rawat, or a similar type) who takes Bond back to her brothers house - he's been bitten by mosquito's and is feverish (hallucinates about Vesper, maybe his hallucinations merge with the credit sequence ?) but when he comes round, all he can remember is that the group referred to themselves as The Sea People.

When Bond eventually contacts M, she reveals he has been disgraced and Sir Desmond Latrelle is dealing with a ransom charge - they have no operatives in the area, but the Americans are sending Felix Leitier to pick him up. She does, however, have Villers contact database for 'The Sea People'.

Leiter pulls up to Vendetta's in a jeep, with shades on and a suit carrier in one hand - knocks on the door and the two flirt, before she takes him to Bond who is in bed, with a robe on, but otherwise naked - she leaves the two men alone and, whilst Leiter turns his back on Bond, Bond strips, washes and dresses using the simple shower in the corner of the room.

Whilst he does so, Bond gets briefed about the Sea People:they're named after an ancient pirate organisation (army ?) that waged war on the countries around the eastern end of the mediterranean.

Bond and Leiter clamber back into the jeep, say goodbye to Mauro and are about the drive off when a helicopter appears over a hill - and begins firing on them, which requires some evasive maneuvers on the beach in the jeep. Bond leans out the window and blasts the helicopter with his revolver - the helicopter goes up in flames but smashes into Vendetta's house.

Bond watches, with a tear in his eye because Vendetta is dead, but climbs back into the jeep and tells Leitier to get him back to London.

As the jeep drives off, Vendetta rises from the water - she's alive ... but when she sees the dead body of her brother, she is bent on revenge on these Sea People.

(we then segue into a story that sees Bond making the money drop for the ransom in a foreign locale, MI6 tracing the funds and finding out that they are being used to fund, not terrorist activities, but art theft - which is then traced to Countessa Janna Carnifax (a Julie Dreyfuss type) and onto her multi-billionaire philanthropist brother, Ugo, who lives in a remote mountain fortress in - well, Sardinia. Bond encounters Vendetta again, has the boxing match in the carnival, but against Love Haight. It turns out that Carnifax has Simone hostage in his garden of death - and Bond must rescue her.)

[Thunderfinger]

Yeah.Sure. Whatever.
As long as Brosnan isn

[Simon Beavis]

I really don't like the idea of a certain someone surviving. That just shows Bond's ineptitude. He's a double-O. Walking away ruins that.

I would rather have Bond 22 be a, perhaps, From Russia with Love style film with the secret unknown organization going after Bond for crossing them. It isn't because he beat Le Chiffre, but because he took out that certain someone after that person essentially allowed him to live.

Here's a really half-assed attempt of setting the film - this is what I actually picture (hope) in the style (and thus won't even come close to happening):
-----
<gun barrel>
Opens on M sitting at her desk going about her business. Villiers/Tanner rushes in [...] shows M a communique, a "death warrant" (for immediate execution) on James Bond [...] They decide to take this very seriously considering who retrieved it for them on their behalf (perhaps another 00). They contact Moneypenny, ask where he's at (Somalia!) then to be put through to him at once. Moneypenny dials.

Cut to Bond, briefcase in hand walking out of a raggedy house, seemingly mission accomplished. Beautiful clear day, a plane can be heard in the distance. He's walking towards his car (something modest) when the cell phone rings (yeah, service works), answers it - Tanner fills him in fast, Bond kind of blows it off continues to walk to the car, is about to open the door when in the window's reflection he sees the plane in the distance. Oddly notes that the plane is a fighter jet (a MIG maybe). It gets closer and closer and Bond realizes it's coming in for an attack run. Bond turns to his left, drops everything and books it, a missile is fired fast as hell and the car he was just standing at blows up in a fireball - Bond falls on the ground after being hit with the shockwave and the MIG flies past fast as hell. He gets up and continues to run as the MIG comes around for another pass this time from Bond's rear. Bullets wail down the street that Bond is running (it's kind of like an "old west" village) - Bond turns right and cuts down an alley way, the MIG breaks left to come around from another angle. Bond enters a house and runs through, camera cuts to him running out and the MIG shooting another missile - the house explodes and Bond falls on his again. Plane comes around again, Bond pulls his gun and fires a number of rounds in the air. Pretty useless this is fast. Another missile, another explosion Bond is running again cutting through alleys and so forth. The MIG temporarily loses Bond. We see the MIG guy locate Bond again standing by a rusted out car, gun ready, MIG bears down - Bond unloads more rounds aiming well in advance. He misses, but one nicks right in front of the fighter's window making him jerk his head and react - MIG breaks slightly nicking a water tower then flying off and crashing well in the background. Close up on Bond panting looking pissed. Cut to main title. (This is like a modern day, holy fast paced North by Northwest scene - it shouldn't be that long at all.)

Alternatively it might be neat to see something more down to earth, perhaps Bond realizes that his car has been tampered with - maybe seeing a guy in the reflection of the window. Bond runs and the guy sets off the bomb - taken from Casino Royale, perhaps Bond doesn't get far and is saved from the very close explosion by a tree. Gun battle, Bond wins, main title. The MIG shows the reach and the power this secret org has. I like it better.

Main title

Opens on Bond sitting in M's office. She comes in and rounds her desk and says "Yeah, in this business there is much risk." Or something similar to the line "In this pizniss there is much risico." Bond and M squabble over the risk of the job, the death warrant and who's behind it all. They decide it's time to talk to a certain detainee (for spoiler reasons - see CR). The detainee tells them a load of garbage but gives them a new lead about an arms dealer/smuggler instead that works for this organization in perhaps the Middle East or perhaps another hotspot where militias are needing weapons. Whatever. Not at this point, but later we the audience draw a parallel between this "lead" and Colombo/Draco - a bad guy in that he does bad things, but he's not thee bad guy. Bond realizes he's been sent to essentially take out this target, that he's being used by this secret org to get rid of a competitor. It's a lot more cloak-and-dagger than I make it out - Bond nearly kills this target, but instead uses him to help aid him in a battle against a Kristatos-type. Bond somehow wins. Movie concludes. Yeah, bravo.

Film should set up "Craig 3.0" in which Bond after the PTS says this and stops playing their game. He goes head on after the org a la Nobody Lives Forever when about halfway through the book he gets a step ahead and starts ing up SPECTRE. Perhaps what he does in that film causes a Thunderball type coup where this super secret terrorist club is broken up leading to "Craig 4.0" where we learn it has splintered. Perhaps in the 3rd Bond kills the Blofeld-type. Think of him as keeping all these people together with different ideologies for the sake of making loads of money a la SPECTRE. After he's dead they splinter off becoming competitors and so forth. Kind of like a hydra, I guess. Kill one head and 2 appear. All the while the "detainee" plays the role of a Nina Meyers.

..... or something I'm clearly bored.

I like that idea K1, especially the part about You Know Who being a Nina Myers type. But if the "Blofeld" dies in the 3rd, then I think he should be in 2nd film in some capacity. I think the model they should go for for any "new Blofeld" should be Blofeld's literary inspiration, Professor Moriarty.

It is noteworthy that Moriarty is only featured in two of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories:

The Valley Of Fear: Moriarty is operating behind the scenes, like Blofeld in Thunderball. He is trying to assassinate someone of importance. After Holmes defeats his henchmen, Moriarty sends Holmes a note of commisseration.

The Final Problem: Holmes is determined to take down Moriarty's organization (itself a literary precursor to SPECTRE) once and for all. Consequently, Moriarty issues a death warrant for Holmes. The two eventually have a final showdown at Reichenbach Falls, where Moriarty falls to his death. Holmes was initially believed to have perished as well, but he ultimately survives and reunites with Watson some time later. (This was the inspiration for the ending of YOLT).

So my suggestion would be that your Bond 22 go as is, but after the Kristatos-type is defeated, we see two hands seal an envelope and address it to Bond (c/o MI6). Bond receives it, and when it opens it, it is revealed to be a commisseration note from the Blofeld-type, similar to the one Moriarty sent Holmes in The Valley of Fear. Then your third could have a "Final Problem" situation with Bond and the Blofeld-type.


As for the "certain someone who survives", Bond was ordered to bring him in alive. So if Bond captures him, and he escapes prison (or the convoy transporting him to prison, like Sanchez in LTK), that's not Bond's fault.

Edited by Simon Beavis, 08 October 2006 - 10:31 PM.

[Gobi-1]

I was working on some posters for Robert but I had to put it on the back burner due to college asignments. I did manage to to make two teaser posters featuring Claire Florani and Keira Knightly before I had to abandon the project. They're not my best but here they are.

Risico - Claire Forlani
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Risico - Keira Knightly
http://img53.imagesh...knightlybx9.jpg

Hopefully I can come back to this and give it my full attention.

[Robert Watts]

Did you send me a PM regarding the Knightley one?



I might have accidently deleted it.



I'm working on this still, so expect a huge update sometime in the future (when...)

[Mr Teddy Bear]

I'd love to have Caine portray Q.

[darthbond]

I love the idea. Keep it going.

darthbond

[Andrew]

I'm working on this still, so expect a huge update sometime in the future (when...)

I await it!

[Gri007]

I'd love to have Caine portray Q.

Surly he'll be to much like Alfred in Batman Begins