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[dinovelvet]

So Dominic Greene supposedly heads an organization called Green Planet. A quick trip to www.greenplanet.com reveals that such an organization does exist, but doesn't appear to be anything to do with QoS (unless the viral marketing is very, very subtle!). Do you think this means we will see at the start of QoS, right after the Sony/Columbia logos, something like AVTAK's :

"Neither the name Green Planet nor any other name or character in this film is meant to portray a real company or actual person"

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[coco1997]

Perhaps...but I pray that this film is nothing like "AVTAK."

[sharpshooter]

I hope not, I don't like any disclaimers appearing in Bond films like in AVTAK. I'd rather a clean transition of the official logos into the gunbarrel, and then the film.

[tdalton]

Considering that there apparently is a corporation called Green Planet, I'm sure that we'll see a disclaimer before Quantum of Solace.

[DamnCoffee]

Considering that there apparently is a corporation called Green Planet, I'm sure that we'll see a disclaimer before Quantum of Solace.

If the producers pick up on it that is.

[tdalton]

Considering that there apparently is a corporation called Green Planet, I'm sure that we'll see a disclaimer before Quantum of Solace.

If the producers pick up on it that is.

I'm sure that they will. If EON is depicting a corporation as having something to do with one of the film's villains, I'm sure that they're lawyers would be checking to see if there is a corporation with the same or a similar name to the one that they're giving the corporation in the movie.

[DamnCoffee]

"Once the last tree is cut, and the last river poisoned, you will find you cannot eat money" ~ www.greenplanet.com.


That quote is so Bond Villain! lol

[Skudor]

Interesting... I'm sure they'd have the sense to check if the name they are using is truly fictional... seems like a bizarre oversight.

[Vauxhall]

Interesting... I'm sure they'd have the sense to check if the name they are using is truly fictional... seems like a bizarre oversight.

Well, it seems that they had a villain called Maurice Green for a good while before realising that this was the name of a former 100m world record holder, so perhaps they'll now have checked Green Planet and realised that they should create an alternative name for the organisation.

[DamnCoffee]

I would have no objection to them changing the name of the orginisation. tbh it always reminds me of the eden project.

[Leon]

I've missed something...what's this Green Planet, and where was it said that it's in QoS? Link?

Edited by Leon, 10 February 2008 - 08:18 PM.

[Vauxhall]

I've missed something...what's this Green Planet, and where was it said that it's in QoS? Link?

Here is an extract from one article which refers to Green Planet:

Mathieu Amalric will play the villain Dominic Greene, a ruthless businessman who, along with his mysterious organization Green Planet, is seeking to control huge natural resources.

There has been no official confirmation of the name of the organisation yet though.

[Qwerty]

If anything, I'm guessing the disclaimer will actually be in the end credits, rather than at the beginning of the film.

[Leon]

I've missed something...what's this Green Planet, and where was it said that it's in QoS? Link?

Here is an extract from one article which refers to Green Planet:

Mathieu Amalric will play the villain Dominic Greene, a ruthless businessman who, along with his mysterious organization Green Planet, is seeking to control huge natural resources.

There has been no official confirmation of the name of the organisation yet though.

This best not be THE mysterious organisation, because that would just be the lamest thing ever. It's very like something naff from the Brosnan films style...Green Planet? Sounds like Captain Planet too.

[Binyamin]

Nah, they could do it right and make it really sinister. "Green Planet" has a happy-friendly sound to it.... only to reveal ruthless murderers at its core.

They did the same idea for the biotech company in that dreadful Michael Clayton movie. Could be kind of creepy....

[Leon]

Nah, they could do it right and make it really sinister. "Green Planet" has a happy-friendly sound to it.... only to reveal ruthless murderers at its core.

They did the same idea for the biotech company in that dreadful Michael Clayton movie. Could be kind of creepy....

I could think of far better names for a new SPECTRE than Green Planet...being realistic.

[Mister Asterix]

Wouldn’t it be ‘Greene Planet’?

[HildebrandRarity]

1. It would be GREENE PLANET. (Mr* beat me to it).

2. The company run by Maurice Greene has NEVER been mentioned by name in an official press release.

3. A moot point but, for those who care, the "mysterious Organization" is a completely different animal to the cover/shell company run by Maurice Greene. "Greene Planet" (if that's what its called) is supposedly a legitimate, semi-philanthropic corporation providing a diversion or 'cover' (much like the BODP in Thunderball) for the villian and would be distinctly seperate from what us fans (and the plot synopsis) refer(s) to as the "Organisation".

4. Using a dislaimer would cheapen up the film...much like using a ficticous name for a location instead of a real South American country/province/city...or NOT naming the natural resource which I still think will be uranium.

[delfloria]

Green Planet = Osato chemicals?

[Mr. Blofeld]

Greene Planet = Osato chemicals?

No, Greene Planet = International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons...

[Qwerty]

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[VisualStatic]

I believe there is a disclaimer in the end titles of every movie that all names and characters are fictitious and any similarity to anyone alive or dead is just a coincidence.

[Qwerty]

I believe there is a disclaimer in the end titles of every movie that all names and characters are fictitious and any similarity to anyone alive or dead is just a coincidence.

Pretty much. Although, as A View to a Kill shows us, there are those rare special cases too.

[dinovelvet]

I believe there is a disclaimer in the end titles of every movie that all names and characters are fictitious and any similarity to anyone alive or dead is just a coincidence.

I get the feeling that Dominic Greene is based, a little, on Richard Branson (again!)

[Scaramanga'74]

Just to avoid the ever present menace and tangle of legal action, it would be wise to insert a disclaimer. Like they say, better to be safe than sorry.

[Marty McFly]

No, I don't think they'd do a disclaimer at the beginning like A View to a Kill, maybe at the end like Licence to Kill's disclaimer.

[Skudor]

No matter how they treat it I'm sure it will have been through quite a few lawyers first. Perhaps a donation to the real Green Planet and a permission to use the name, or whatever.