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[JCRendle]

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Plot Detail Revealed?

Variety: 'Bond 22' loosely based on Ian Fleming's "Risico"

http://www.variety.c...3...yId=13&cs=1

The Marc Forster-helmed film, loosely based on the Ian Fleming short story "Risico," finds 007 (Daniel Craig) dispatched to infiltrate a drug ring flooding Britain with heroin. "Royale" scribe Paul Haggis penned the screenplay, furthering an earlier draft written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.

He I thought it was an original story? Make of it what you will...

Edited by Righty007, 07 January 2008 - 07:08 PM.

[Vauxhall]

Hm... I remember this was rumoured ages ago. Can't remember what became of the rumours though. Will try and find the story.

[DamnCoffee]

Just a rumour.. Next please!

[Vauxhall]

Found the story I was thinking of. Matt posted it here in December 2006. It was from an article in The Sun and claimed that BOND 22 would be based on 'Risico', shot in Rome and be directed by Martin Campbell. Just considered a rumour but there you are.

[jaguar007]

didn't Haggis say that is was NOT based on Risico or TPOAL at some point?

Besides, Risico was used extensively in FYEO.

[JCRendle]

Just found that's its mentioned on the BBC News website - http://news.bbc.co.u...ent/7174490.stm.

I would have thought Variety would check their sources before putting a rumour like Risico into their report, especially if the rumours from a 2006 Sun article - do Variety usually report rumours without saying they're rumours?

[DamnCoffee]

Just found that's its mentioned on the BBC News website - http://news.bbc.co.u...ent/7174490.stm.

"...and will be loosely based on the Ian Fleming short story Risico, where Bond is dispatched to infiltrate a drug ring flooding Britain with heroin"

Wasn't Live and Let Die the one with all of the drugs? . This rumour is old, I remember reading about it just after Casino Royale was released.


http://debrief.comma...showtopic=37493

[Vauxhall]

Wasn't Live and Let Die the one with all of the drugs? . This rumour is old, I remember reading about it just after Casino Royale was released.

In fairness, I'm not sure we ever disproved the rumour. But it would certainly be disappointing if 'Variety' were rehashing an old rumour from over a year ago without any sort of evidence.

[Righty007]

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Plot Detail Revealed?

Variety: 'Bond 22' loosely based on Ian Fleming's "Risico"

[Shrublands]

The thing is that Variety, the BBC and the Sun (from over a year ago) all summarize the plot in remarkably similar words.

[Box]Variety, 6th January 2008

Edited by Shrublands, 07 January 2008 - 03:59 PM.

[deth]

I rather hope not actually... drug ring movies just tend to be somewhat dull imo. Not that LTK was dull, but the drug plot part of it was.

[Colonel Moon]

We may have latin girl, south america, General Medrano (if its true) so it may be a true

[medrecess]

I am absolutely sure that this movie is definitely not based on Risico.It would be foolish to think that after the realistic CR

[HH007]

The whole Risico thing just sounds like another wild Internet rumor to me.

[Royal Dalton]

I don't know what story elements they can take from Risico, that haven't been used already. But, with the Panama location, I'd say it's quite likely that some of the plot is based around either drug smuggling, or money laundering.

[zencat]

The thing is that Variety, the BBC and the Sun (from over a year ago) all summarize the plot in remarkably similar words.

Variety, 6th January 2008
… loosely based on the Ian Fleming short story "Risico," finds 007 (Daniel Craig) dispatched to infiltrate a drug ring flooding Britain with heroin.

BBC News, 7 January 2008
... loosely based on the Ian Fleming short story Risico, where Bond is dispatched to infiltrate a drug ring flooding Britain with heroin.

And

The Sun, 12th December 2006
DANIEL Craig’s next Bond outing will be based on the Ian Fleming short story Risico…
…It will see 007 dispatched to Rome to infiltrate a drug ring flooding Britain with heroin.

Great find.

I've lost a lot of faith in Variety lately. I don't know what has happened, but they've really become sloppy in their reporting and prone to regurgitating rumor. Note they also give no source.

Might be nice to get a hard copy of this article though. Fun to have and look back on if it's wrong.

[marktmurphy]

I'm not too convinced by this; could have come from anywhere- Chinese whispers etc. Could be true, but I won't stake all my chips on it.

[Vauxhall]

I think this all comes down to where Variety got their story from, because the BBC story will almost certainly have copied it from them. If Variety's only source is The Sun, which is possible, then we will have to take this "news" with a significant quantity of salt.

[HildebrandRarity]

WAIT A MINUTE!

Bond indeed COULD be sent by M to look into the smugling matter (just as in Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever), in this case involving heroin (instead of gold and diamonds) to base it in Fleming's Risico...BUT (just as in GF and DAF) the trail could lead to a more interesting and wider plot involving the organization behind Le Chiffre and Mr White.

This is entirely plausable and possible. It's been done numerous times before: Send 007 on one mission and the trail leads him to something bigger.

I wouldn't necessarily dismiss the Variety article.

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]Not sure whether to believe this or not.

It

[tdalton]

I'm having a hard time believing this because of the fact that we've heard that this is supposed to be an original story that isn't based on anything from Fleming. It could be an interesting story, but we've been there and done all of this before with FYEO and LTK, so why go back into this particular genre of drug smuggling films when it's already been done and there's (probably) more interesting stories to be told.

[DamnCoffee]

The Only thing that is legible is the Drug Smuggling, Since EON have dropped the OTT/Take Over the World plot (hopefully), I think its either Drugs or Terrorism, drugs seem the safer choice, or it could be terrorism as well since it is the Speciality of Whites orginisation.

[Binyamin]

Plot rumors! Production photos! It is a good time to be a Bond Fan.

[Jim]

Maybe they have decided to make Licence to Kill properly this time.

[zencat]

The Hollywood Reporter makes no mention of the plot. THR is where I turn now for responsible fact-checked showbiz reporting.

http://www.hollywood...491a83220?imw=Y

[DamnCoffee]

Maybe they have decided to make Licence to Kill properly this time.

There is nothing wrong with Licence to Kill, Its rather enjoyable.

[HH007]

Maybe they have decided to make Licence to Kill properly this time.

There is nothing wrong with Licence to Kill, Its rather enjoyable.

Word.

[tdalton]

The Hollywood Reporter makes no mention of the plot. THR is where I turn now for responsible fact-checked showbiz reporting.

http://www.hollywood...491a83220?imw=Y

Great news. The drug smuggling plot has been done several times in past Bond films (LALD, FYEO, LTK), and I think that it would be best if the Bond franchise started exploring new ideas rather than going back to things that have already been done before.

[doubler83]

Great news. The drug smuggling plot has been done several times in past Bond films (LALD, FYEO, LTK), and I think that it would be best if the Bond franchise started exploring new ideas rather than going back to things that have already been done before.

Human trafficking?

[tdalton]

Great news. The drug smuggling plot has been done several times in past Bond films (LALD, FYEO, LTK), and I think that it would be best if the Bond franchise started exploring new ideas rather than going back to things that have already been done before.

Human trafficking?

That's one possibility for a villainous scheme in a Bond film. I actually thought that they should have used it for Casino Royale, as it would have fit closer to the way that Le Chiffre lost his money in the CR novel, which was through the brothels that he had been operating. I think that had they used this idea for CR, then Le Chiffre could have been trafficking people into his brothels against their will, and it would have been more faithful to Fleming's novel while bringing an issue to the forefront that is something that is not often talked about in the news but is a problem that need to be addressed.