Some interesting views here.
I'm mirroring some of the above listed notions as I've only skimmed the above, but...
- A PTS with Bond and Leiter - Maybe tracking someone down in Europe. Nothing to do with the whole of the film, but an unrelated wrap up to some previous assignment between CIA and MI6.
- Bond in America - Somewhere he hasn't been. Would be kinda fun to see him back in Vegas, but the Midwest or Northwest would get my vote. Of course, I'd love to see him in Seattle - Eon: Just email me for ideas and locales and contacts on that one.
- Give the whole "Quantum thing" a break for this one. Give us a villian without a "God complex", just out for himself and a good scheme.
- By all means a Femme Fatale' - She could be the lead or just a deadly compatriot. Along the lines of Xenia or Fiona.
- Keep the story strong and the action to three or four major sequences. Make one unique. Something that hasn't been seen before.
- Bond and the baddies in a game of style or skill. Tennis, pool or bring back a round of golf. No gambling, but a side bet. Maybe even something as simple as a game of one-on-one basketball. Hardly glamorous, but could be nicely done. I know many may view that as a little "blue collar" for 007, but it *could* work.
- Kick the Bond theme in just a little more in the score.
- Gunbarrel opening - Abso - *ryhmes with "ducking" - loutley.
Take it from there everyone.