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[Mr. Blofeld]

Faust purrs, "Mummy always feeds her 'pussy the best Caribbean flounder",

How can I put this delicately? That's just awful.

It's provisional, dino; perhaps you can provide a better pun for her to speak that gets across the same qualities (Faust loves her octopus, she considers Smythe "flounder", she's going to feed his body to the octopus to get rid of the evidence)...

[The Shark]

Faust purrs, "Mummy always feeds her 'pussy the best Caribbean flounder...",

".... Vibrating Caribbean flounder from annsummers.com."

Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz, eat your hearts out.

[terminus]

For what it's worth, I thought it was quite a good line.

[The Shark]

It had lovely lines.

[coco1997]

That line can be kept or dropped.

Let's concern ourselves with filling in one of the open spots in the proforma. The Shark, any ideas?

[The Shark]

CAST

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Claire Foy as Yvonne Munroe
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Lena Headey as Thaila Shaw (first name pronounced as Tyler)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Ling Bai as Mai

5 Henchman: Joey Ansah as Carmen Murik

6 Villain: Rachel Weisz as Juliane Faust

7 M - Timothy Dalton

8 MI6 Ally (i.e., Tanner, Villiers, Moneypenny, Q): Emily Blunt as Miss Moneypenny

9 Ally 1: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
10 Ally 2:
LOCATIONS

11 Pre-Titles Location: Acapulco, Mexico
12 Location 1: Seattle, Washington
13 Location 2: The Canary Islands
14 Location 3: Roseau, Dominica
15 Location 4: Singapore ( Bond possibly stays at the Marina Bay Sands resort http://www.dailymail...-Singapore.html )
16 Location 5: Taipei 101 building, Taiwan

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot:

The villain is Juliane Faust, a defence contractor and owner of Faust Defence Engineering, who is submitting a tender for the development the next generation of fighter jet. Her proposal involves the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), a computer simulation that can produce prototypes so quickly and efficiently that it will reduce the nation's defence spending by as much as eighty percent. She plans to demonstrate CFD through her Grand Prix racing team, Faust Grand Prix Engineering and the JFX-01 racing car, arguing that the competitive world of motorsport will showcase the CFD process and allow her to iron out the flaws in the system faster than in any other medium. MI6 suspects a foreign power is attempting to hijack CFD for themselves. Bond, however, discovers that the plan to build the fighter jet is a sham - in order to prove the system's worth, Faust has been sabotaging the delicate electronics of her rivals' cars with powerful electromagnets. Faust plans to run the fighter jet project into the ground, blowing out the budget and ruining the economy of the United Kingdom.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: We open the gunbarrel on a view of a man rippling from under the water. In Jamaica, wealthy racing tycoon Dexter Smythe goes tramping into the surf with a spear, searching for rare marine life. His eye is distracted by what looks to be a cruise ship out in the distance, flashing in the late afternoon sun. We suddenly see him from the viewpoint of a rifle scope; cutting back to him, we hear a pffft, and Smythe looks down in confusion -- a small dart has struck him on the chest. He frantically tries to pull it out, but his movements become labored and sluggish; stumbling a ways into the ocean, he finally stumbles over a hermit crab shell and falls face-first into the water, his own spear snagging his chest as he falls. We see a small rivulet of blood leak out from his prone form and slowly twist up to the surface; the camera dollies up and out to the "cruise ship", and we see it is actually an enormous private yacht. On one of the higher rails along the deck, a heavily-built man, one Carmen Murik, carefully surveys his handiwork from the scope of his specialized rifle, then heads down a series of steps to where his employer, Juliane Faust, is sitting in a deck chair, sunbathing. He plants the butt of his rifle to the ground and reports that "Smythe has been neutralized, m'lady"; Faust smiles coldly and remarks that "that should keep his racing group out of the lineup, for a while". She presses a button on a console next to her; deep in the bowels of the ship, a hatchway opens, and an enormous octopus slowly shambles out. Faust purrs, "Mummy always feeds her 'pussy the best Caribbean flounder", and the octopus inches closer to the blood spiraling out of Smythe's prone form. As Smythe's blank eyes gaze blindly at the bottom of the seafloor, the octopus slowly moves over the corpse, eclipsing all light above the waves as we now cut to titles...
19 Major Stunt 1: Faust drugs Bond and then forces him into one of her Grand Prix races. Bond must deal with the effects of the drugs as well as the fact that Faust has also entered one of her henchmen into the race, who is also an expert race car driver, with instructions to try to force Bond to crash at a high speed in order to do away with him.
20 Major Stunt 2: Shootout and chase through Seattle Underground
21 Major Stunt 3:
22 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Peugeot 407 Coupe

24 Gadget 1: Precision laser rifle that, from afar, boils a villain's (or ally's) brain to mush; could be disguised in a violin case, if need be.
25 Gadget 2: High-tech elevator system which can lift Bond's car up to a six-storey apartment
26 Gadget 3: Marion Hypersub, equipped with sonar tracking.

PRODUCTION

27 Director: David Fincher

28 Music By: Michael Giacchino

29 Themetune Sung By: La Roux
30 Themetune Written By: Ally Jackson & Michael Giacchino

31 Title Sequence Designed By: Marc Craste and Jon Klassen
32 Title Sequence Description (whether it's like another sequence, or if you can describe it - or point to a video that it'd be like):

[terminus]

Ooooh. Interesting. It's going to be a challenge fitting that into the plot.

[coco1997]

Cool choice, Shark. Now only four spots remain:

* Ally 2
* Major Stunt 3
* Finale Stunt
* Title Sequence Description

[dinovelvet]

For what it's worth, I thought it was quite a good line.

I don't think it works in the sense that if its supposed to be a creepy/evil moment, then having the audience burst out laughing/cringing kind of kills it.

Anyway, "Joey Ansah"...? A villain from The Bourne Ultimatum? That's a little bit on the nose for a Bond film

[Captain Tightpants]

Okay, given the confusion, what I'm going to do is remove the PTS sequence and leave it blank for the time being so that Mr. Blofeld can come back and put a sequence in as it sees fit. Right now, it's just too long and too detailed - the kind of detail we'd be expecting from the actual write-up.

CAST

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Claire Foy as Yvonne Munroe
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Lena Headey as Thaila Shaw (first name pronounced as Tyler)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Ling Bai as Mai

5 Henchman: Joey Ansah as Carmen Murik

6 Villain: Rachel Weisz as Juliane Faust

7 M - Timothy Dalton

8 MI6 Ally (i.e., Tanner, Villiers, Moneypenny, Q): Emily Blunt as Miss Moneypenny

9 Ally 1: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
10 Ally 2:

LOCATIONS

11 Pre-Titles Location: Acapulco, Mexico
12 Location 1: Seattle, Washington
13 Location 2: The Canary Islands
14 Location 3: Roseau, Dominica
15 Location 4: Singapore
16 Location 5: Taipei 101 building, Taiwan

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot:

The villain is Juliane Faust, a defence contractor and owner of Faust Defence Engineering, who is submitting a tender for the development the next generation of fighter jet. Her proposal involves the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), a computer simulation that can produce prototypes so quickly and efficiently that it will reduce the nation's defence spending by as much as eighty percent. She plans to demonstrate CFD through her Grand Prix racing team, Faust Grand Prix Engineering and the JFX-01 racing car, arguing that the competitive world of motorsport will showcase the CFD process and allow her to iron out the flaws in the system faster than in any other medium. MI6 suspects a foreign power is attempting to hijack CFD for themselves. Bond, however, discovers that the plan to build the fighter jet is a sham - in order to prove the system's worth, Faust has been sabotaging the delicate electronics of her rivals' cars with powerful electromagnets. Faust plans to run the fighter jet project into the ground, blowing out the budget and ruining the economy of the United Kingdom.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
19 Major Stunt 1: Faust drugs Bond and then forces him into one of her Grand Prix races. Bond must deal with the effects of the drugs as well as the fact that Faust has also entered one of her henchmen into the race, who is also an expert race car driver, with instructions to try to force Bond to crash at a high speed in order to do away with him.
20 Major Stunt 2: Shootout and chase through Seattle Underground
21 Major Stunt 3: Bond and Faust fight in the Marina Bay Sands swimming pool. The glass edge of the pool overlooking the cityscape is obliterated, and thousands of litres of water are pulled over the edge. Bond and Faust are taken with it; both survive (how, I don't know).
22 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Peugeot 407 Coupe

24 Gadget 1: Precision laser rifle that, from afar, boils a villain's (or ally's) brain to mush; could be disguised in a violin case, if need be.
25 Gadget 2: High-tech elevator system which can lift Bond's car up to a six-storey apartment
26 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: David Fincher

28 Music By: Michael Giacchino

29 Themetune Sung By: La Roux
30 Themetune Written By: Ally Jackson & Michael Giacchino

31 Title Sequence Designed By: Marc Craste and Jon Klassen
32 Title Sequence Description (whether it's like another sequence, or if you can describe it - or point to a video that it'd be like):

[terminus]

I'm not sure that there was any confusion, just a misunderstanding by mrblofeld. And he says he forgot the Acapulco setting - so all we need to do is set the scene in Acapulco instead of Jamaica.

[coco1997]

* Added The Shark's submission for Gadget #3 and corrected the spelling of Elly Jackson's name.

CAST

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Claire Foy as Yvonne Munroe
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Lena Headey as Thaila Shaw (first name pronounced as Tyler)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Ling Bai as Mai

5 Henchman: Joey Ansah as Carmen Murik

6 Villain: Rachel Weisz as Juliane Faust

7 M - Timothy Dalton

8 MI6 Ally (i.e., Tanner, Villiers, Moneypenny, Q): Emily Blunt as Miss Moneypenny

9 Ally 1: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
10 Ally 2:

LOCATIONS

11 Pre-Titles Location: Acapulco, Mexico
12 Location 1: Seattle, Washington
13 Location 2: The Canary Islands
14 Location 3: Roseau, Dominica
15 Location 4: Singapore
16 Location 5: Taipei 101 building, Taiwan

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot:

The villain is Juliane Faust, a defence contractor and owner of Faust Defence Engineering, who is submitting a tender for the development the next generation of fighter jet. Her proposal involves the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), a computer simulation that can produce prototypes so quickly and efficiently that it will reduce the nation's defence spending by as much as eighty percent. She plans to demonstrate CFD through her Grand Prix racing team, Faust Grand Prix Engineering and the JFX-01 racing car, arguing that the competitive world of motorsport will showcase the CFD process and allow her to iron out the flaws in the system faster than in any other medium. MI6 suspects a foreign power is attempting to hijack CFD for themselves. Bond, however, discovers that the plan to build the fighter jet is a sham - in order to prove the system's worth, Faust has been sabotaging the delicate electronics of her rivals' cars with powerful electromagnets. Faust plans to run the fighter jet project into the ground, blowing out the budget and ruining the economy of the United Kingdom.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
19 Major Stunt 1: Faust drugs Bond and then forces him into one of her Grand Prix races. Bond must deal with the effects of the drugs as well as the fact that Faust has also entered one of her henchmen into the race, who is also an expert race car driver, with instructions to try to force Bond to crash at a high speed in order to do away with him.
20 Major Stunt 2: Shootout and chase through Seattle Underground
21 Major Stunt 3: Bond and Faust fight in the Marina Bay Sands swimming pool. The glass edge of the pool overlooking the cityscape is obliterated, and thousands of litres of water are pulled over the edge. Bond and Faust are taken with it; both survive (how, I don't know).
22 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Peugeot 407 Coupe

24 Gadget 1: Precision laser rifle that, from afar, boils a villain's (or ally's) brain to mush; could be disguised in a violin case, if need be.
25 Gadget 2: High-tech elevator system which can lift Bond's car up to a six-storey apartment
26 Gadget 3: Marion Hypersub, equipped with sonar tracking.

PRODUCTION

27 Director: David Fincher

28 Music By: Michael Giacchino

29 Themetune Sung By: La Roux
30 Themetune Written By: Elly Jackson & Michael Giacchino

31 Title Sequence Designed By: Marc Craste and Jon Klassen
32 Title Sequence Description (whether it's like another sequence, or if you can describe it - or point to a video that it'd be like):

Ally #2 and Title Sequence Description are relatively minor details, so now all we're waiting on is Finale Stunt. Since he suggested the Taipei 101 building for the finale setting, perhaps dinovelvet could offer a submission for the Finale Stunt?

[Mr. Blofeld]

I'm not sure that there was any confusion, just a misunderstanding by mrblofeld. And he says he forgot the Acapulco setting - so all we need to do is set the scene in Acapulco instead of Jamaica.

Thanks, term; putting the sequence back, then (Tightpants, it's really not your place to decide, mate):

CAST

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Claire Foy as Yvonne Munroe
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Lena Headey as Thaila Shaw (first name pronounced as Tyler)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Ling Bai as Mai

5 Henchman: Joey Ansah as Carmen Murik

6 Villain: Rachel Weisz as Juliane Faust

7 M - Timothy Dalton

8 MI6 Ally (i.e., Tanner, Villiers, Moneypenny, Q): Emily Blunt as Miss Moneypenny

9 Ally 1: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
10 Ally 2:

LOCATIONS

11 Pre-Titles Location: Acapulco, Mexico
12 Location 1: Seattle, Washington
13 Location 2: The Canary Islands
14 Location 3: Roseau, Dominica
15 Location 4: Singapore
16 Location 5: Taipei 101 building, Taiwan

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot:

The villain is Juliane Faust, a defence contractor and owner of Faust Defence Engineering, who is submitting a tender for the development the next generation of fighter jet. Her proposal involves the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), a computer simulation that can produce prototypes so quickly and efficiently that it will reduce the nation's defence spending by as much as eighty percent. She plans to demonstrate CFD through her Grand Prix racing team, Faust Grand Prix Engineering and the JFX-01 racing car, arguing that the competitive world of motorsport will showcase the CFD process and allow her to iron out the flaws in the system faster than in any other medium. MI6 suspects a foreign power is attempting to hijack CFD for themselves. Bond, however, discovers that the plan to build the fighter jet is a sham - in order to prove the system's worth, Faust has been sabotaging the delicate electronics of her rivals' cars with powerful electromagnets. Faust plans to run the fighter jet project into the ground, blowing out the budget and ruining the economy of the United Kingdom.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: We open the gunbarrel on a view of a man rippling from under the water. Near Acapulco, off the coast of southwestern Mexico, wealthy racing tycoon Dexter Smythe goes tramping into the surf with a spear, searching for rare marine life. His eye is distracted by what looks to be a cruise ship out in the distance, flashing in the late afternoon sun. We suddenly see him from the viewpoint of a rifle scope; cutting back to him, we hear a pffft, and Smythe looks down in confusion -- a small dart has struck him on the chest. He frantically tries to pull it out, but his movements become labored and sluggish; stumbling a ways into the ocean, he finally stumbles over a hermit crab shell and falls face-first into the water, his own spear snagging his chest as he falls. We see a small rivulet of blood leak out from his prone form and slowly twist up to the surface; the camera dollies up and out to the "cruise ship", and we see it is actually an enormous private yacht. On one of the higher rails along the deck, a heavily-built man, one Carmen Murik, carefully surveys his handiwork from the scope of his specialized rifle, then heads down a series of steps to where his employer, Juliane Faust, is sitting in a deck chair, sunbathing. He plants the butt of his rifle to the ground and reports that "Smythe has been neutralized, m'lady"; Faust smiles coldly and remarks that "that should keep his racing group out of the lineup, for a while". She presses a button on a console next to her; deep in the bowels of the ship, a hatchway opens, and an enormous octopus slowly shambles out. Faust purrs, "Mummy always feeds her little Octopussy the best Caribbean flounder", and the octopus inches closer to the blood spiraling out of Smythe's prone form. As Smythe's blank eyes gaze blindly at the bottom of the seafloor, the octopus slowly moves over the corpse, eclipsing all light above the waves as we now cut to titles...
19 Major Stunt 1: Faust drugs Bond, and then forces him into one of her Grand Prix races. Bond must deal with the effects of the drugs as well as the fact that Faust has also entered one of her henchmen into the race, who is also an expert race car driver, with instructions to try to force Bond to crash at a high speed in order to do away with him.
20 Major Stunt 2: Shootout and chase through Seattle Underground
21 Major Stunt 3: Bond and Faust fight in the Marina Bay Sands swimming pool. The glass edge of the pool overlooking the cityscape is obliterated, and thousands of litres of water are pulled over the edge. Bond and Faust are taken with it; both survive (Bond with a small rebreather, Faust through strenuous underwater training, as explained later).
22 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Peugeot 407 Coupe

24 Gadget 1: Precision laser rifle that, from afar, boils a villain's (or ally's) brain to mush; could be disguised in a violin case, if need be.
25 Gadget 2: High-tech elevator system which can lift Bond's car up to a six-storey apartment
26 Gadget 3: Marion Hypersub, equipped with sonar tracking.

PRODUCTION

27 Director: David Fincher

28 Music By: Michael Giacchino

29 Themetune Sung By: La Roux
30 Themetune Written By: Elly Jackson & Michael Giacchino

31 Title Sequence Designed By: Marc Craste and Jon Klassen
32 Title Sequence Description (whether it's like another sequence, or if you can describe it - or point to a video that it'd be like):

[coco1997]

I also think the consensus is that the "pussy" line is pretty bad, so that'll have to go.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I also think the consensus is that the "pussy" line is pretty bad, so that'll have to go.

Well, terminus liked it; isn't he the game-runner?

[terminus]

Yes, I'm the game-runner but whilst I like the line, the consensus did seem to be that the line was a bit off.

Maybe it would make sense if Faust herself was removed from the pre-title sequence, it would mean that the reveal of her as a villain later in the movie would work and it would solve the problem of the pussy line.

At the core of it is - your stunt all about Murik assasinating Dexter Smythe.

It might be interesting to strip the sequence down to its basics of Murik assasinating Dexter Smythe. I've got an assasination sequence in Seattle in my scribbled notes on how to pull elements together, but that would tie in with Murik assasinating Dexter Smythe in the PTS. Faust's eliminating problem people who stand in her way.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Well, I like the detail of Faust sunbathing from the deck of her yacht as it happens; almost like regular entertainment, or shooting fish in a barrel, for her...

Anyway, what sort of "reveal" do you want for her? I thought the stunt of drugged Bond in the racecar was going to be rather early on...?

[terminus]

I like the image, but I think unveiling her as the villain before the PTS almost ruins any suspense as to who the villain is.

I've scribbled the seattle and canary islands segments in some detail and it uses the race car sequence postulated before, but it still leaves open as to who has drugged Bond.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I like the image, but I think unveiling her as the villain before the PTS almost ruins any suspense as to who the villain is.

Well, considering FRWL, TMWTGG, and LTK all revealed the villain in their respective PTSs, you can't say there isn't an established tradition for it, term...

I've scribbled the seattle and canary islands segments in some detail and it uses the race car sequence postulated before, but it still leaves open as to who has drugged Bond.

Ahhh... I like to be a little more definitive, so there is more tension, because it seems like Bond can't possibly get out, now that Faust is controlling the stakes; besides, with her established as the villain from the beginning, sans twists, we won't have any unfortunate comparisons to the general plot of TWINE, now, will we?

[coco1997]

No offense, Mr. Blofeld, but this project is terminus' baby, and as such, he is the master chef, and we're simply supplying the ingredients. The world is not going to stop turning if he chooses to take a route that slightly diverges from your personal preferences.

[Captain Tightpants]

I agree with coco. The "Octopussy" line is pretty bad. It just feels like you're mentioning OCTOPUSSY for the sake of mentioning it, and that's DIE ANOTHER DAY territory. It's also very smutty.

And as far as I know, octopi don't devour corpses. In order to consume a man, it would probably have to be the size of a giant squid, and we're not entirely sure giant squid exist as an actual species, or if it's some kind of mutation. If they do exist, theories about their biology suggest their size is a result of their living at the bottom of the ocean, where they constantly experience several atmospheres of pressure. They wouldn't be able to survive in the shallows where Smythe is. So I'd just get rid of the entire octopus sequence. Have Faust kill Smythe, but dispose of the body a different way. Because I'm afraid all I can think of when I read it is not "suspense", but "cheesy animal horror film". Like ANACONDA or DEEP RISING.

21 Major Stunt 3: Bond and Faust fight in the Marina Bay Sands swimming pool. The glass edge of the pool overlooking the cityscape is obliterated, and thousands of litres of water are pulled over the edge. Bond and Faust are taken with it; both survive (Bond with a small rebreather, Faust through strenuous underwater training, as explained later).

Um, that's not possible. The swimming pool is about fifty storeys up and is on the very edge of the hotel. What I'm picturing is a fight between Bond and Faust in the pool that ends with the wall separating the pool from the fifty-story chasm being destroyed. The weight of the water causes the wall to collapse, and all of it spills out over the edge into nothing whilst Bond and Faust are still fighting in the water. A rebreather isn't going to do anything - nor will extensive underwater training - because Bond has to survive the fifty-storey fall. Somehow.

It may be possible that Faust is able to fight the current and escape from the pool in time, but Bond is definately pulled over the edge.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Just.., giving it a try.

Sorry, all.

[coco1997]

Tightpants-Well said.

To me, this bickering is pointless and is hindering the progress of the whole project (still waiting on someone to submit something for the Finale Stunt).

What happened with Ultimate Bond 23 is that terminus drafted a rough outline of the story which the participants in the game then dissected piecemeal and discussed what worked and what didn't work. It seems to me we should follow that route this time and stop bitching about these relatively minor details before the entire story is brought together.

Bottom line: Let's complete the entire proforma and wait for the very talented terminus to post his early outline before we start arguing about these types of things.

[Captain Tightpants]

Just.., giving it a try.

Sorry, all.

No, no, it's alright. The trick is to know how much detail to provide. We'll do a write-up once everything is filled in, and it's best to leave some wriggle room to give the writer a bit of flexibility in envisioning it. While the scene with Smythe is a pretty solid foundation, I think you've given a bit too much detail in places and not enough in others. Specific lines of dialogue and stuff like that. Try and keep everything else in the other categories in mind when you write it up - Faust doesn't have an octopus, and while there's nothing to say she can't, one of the gagdets is a targeted laser that can zap a man's brain at thirty paces. So instead of using an ultra-fine dart to paralyse him and send a trained octopus after him to eat the body, perhaps you could work the laser in, increasing his core body temperature to the point where his brain basically poaches itself and making his death look like a severe fever that he picked up in Mexico. And rather than being a "racing tycoon", he could be Faust's rival for the defence contract.

[terminus]

CT, coco, Mrblofeld - it's nice to see this has all been rationally sorted out in my absence.

I do definitely like the idea of Dexter Smythe being killed and CT raises some good points about how to incorporate the laser into the plot (my scribbles had it in a later scene, almost the way random gadgets were seen in the background in Q Dept scenes and then unseen later as I couldn't figure out a good way to incorporate it) as well as who Dexter Smythe is.

It has also given me an idea as to how Yvonne fits into things in the ongoing plot. I'm still dreading trying to figure out how to resolve the exploding swimming pool!

[dinovelvet]

Ally #2 added

CAST

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Claire Foy as Yvonne Munroe
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Lena Headey as Thaila Shaw (first name pronounced as Tyler)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Ling Bai as Mai

5 Henchman: Joey Ansah as Carmen Murik

6 Villain: Rachel Weisz as Juliane Faust

7 M - Timothy Dalton

8 MI6 Ally (i.e., Tanner, Villiers, Moneypenny, Q): Emily Blunt as Miss Moneypenny

9 Ally 1: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
10 Ally 2: Garrett Dillahunt as Johann Krieghoff, a shady, well-connected operative with no particular affiliation who masquerades as a tour guide in either the Canary Islands or Roseau. I had in mind that he would be the kind of "uneasy" Bond ally like Valentin Zukovsky, but use him however you want.

LOCATIONS

11 Pre-Titles Location: Acapulco, Mexico
12 Location 1: Seattle, Washington
13 Location 2: The Canary Islands
14 Location 3: Roseau, Dominica
15 Location 4: Singapore
16 Location 5: Taipei 101 building, Taiwan

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot:

The villain is Juliane Faust, a defence contractor and owner of Faust Defence Engineering, who is submitting a tender for the development the next generation of fighter jet. Her proposal involves the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), a computer simulation that can produce prototypes so quickly and efficiently that it will reduce the nation's defence spending by as much as eighty percent. She plans to demonstrate CFD through her Grand Prix racing team, Faust Grand Prix Engineering and the JFX-01 racing car, arguing that the competitive world of motorsport will showcase the CFD process and allow her to iron out the flaws in the system faster than in any other medium. MI6 suspects a foreign power is attempting to hijack CFD for themselves. Bond, however, discovers that the plan to build the fighter jet is a sham - in order to prove the system's worth, Faust has been sabotaging the delicate electronics of her rivals' cars with powerful electromagnets. Faust plans to run the fighter jet project into the ground, blowing out the budget and ruining the economy of the United Kingdom.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: We open the gunbarrel on a view of a man rippling from under the water. Near Acapulco, off the coast of southwestern Mexico, wealthy racing tycoon Dexter Smythe goes tramping into the surf with a spear, searching for rare marine life. His eye is distracted by what looks to be a cruise ship out in the distance, flashing in the late afternoon sun. We suddenly see him from the viewpoint of a rifle scope; cutting back to him, we hear a pffft, and Smythe looks down in confusion -- a small dart has struck him on the chest. He frantically tries to pull it out, but his movements become labored and sluggish; stumbling a ways into the ocean, he finally stumbles over a hermit crab shell and falls face-first into the water, his own spear snagging his chest as he falls. We see a small rivulet of blood leak out from his prone form and slowly twist up to the surface; the camera dollies up and out to the "cruise ship", and we see it is actually an enormous private yacht. On one of the higher rails along the deck, a heavily-built man, one Carmen Murik, carefully surveys his handiwork from the scope of his specialized rifle, then heads down a series of steps to where his employer, Juliane Faust, is sitting in a deck chair, sunbathing. He plants the butt of his rifle to the ground and reports that "Smythe has been neutralized, m'lady"; Faust smiles coldly and remarks that "that should keep his racing group out of the lineup, for a while". She presses a button on a console next to her; deep in the bowels of the ship, a hatchway opens, and an enormous octopus slowly shambles out. Faust purrs, "Mummy always feeds her little Octopussy the best Caribbean flounder", and the octopus inches closer to the blood spiraling out of Smythe's prone form. As Smythe's blank eyes gaze blindly at the bottom of the seafloor, the octopus slowly moves over the corpse, eclipsing all light above the waves as we now cut to titles...
19 Major Stunt 1: Faust drugs Bond, and then forces him into one of her Grand Prix races. Bond must deal with the effects of the drugs as well as the fact that Faust has also entered one of her henchmen into the race, who is also an expert race car driver, with instructions to try to force Bond to crash at a high speed in order to do away with him.
20 Major Stunt 2: Shootout and chase through Seattle Underground
21 Major Stunt 3: Bond and Faust fight in the Marina Bay Sands swimming pool. The glass edge of the pool overlooking the cityscape is obliterated, and thousands of litres of water are pulled over the edge. Bond and Faust are taken with it; both survive (Bond with a small rebreather, Faust through strenuous underwater training, as explained later).
22 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Peugeot 407 Coupe

24 Gadget 1: Precision laser rifle that, from afar, boils a villain's (or ally's) brain to mush; could be disguised in a violin case, if need be.
25 Gadget 2: High-tech elevator system which can lift Bond's car up to a six-storey apartment
26 Gadget 3: Marion Hypersub, equipped with sonar tracking.

PRODUCTION

27 Director: David Fincher

28 Music By: Michael Giacchino

29 Themetune Sung By: La Roux
30 Themetune Written By: Elly Jackson & Michael Giacchino

31 Title Sequence Designed By: Marc Craste and Jon Klassen
32 Title Sequence Description (whether it's like another sequence, or if you can describe it - or point to a video that it'd be like):

[terminus]

That character would fit nicely into the Roseau sequencesas I'm envisaging them, dino!

[coco1997]

Very nice. All that's left (besides the Title Sequence Description) which is necessary to the actual story is the Finale Stunt. Someone get crackin'!

[Captain Tightpants]

I'm still dreading trying to figure out how to resolve the exploding swimming pool!

I thought you'd like a challenge.

Theoretically, the explosion isn't just limited to the wall separating the pool from nothingness - especially if Bond or Faust uses something taken from the Marion Hypersub, like a depth charge. The outer wall would collapse and all the water would go spilling over it, but an explosion would also damage the floor of the pool, and the weight of the water could cause the floor to collapse inwards. Bond could be sucked downwards and land in the floor directly beneath the swimming pool, and would somehow have to fight to stop the sheer force of the water from pushing him out into the abyss.

Alternatively, the sheer force of the water could 'throw' Bond out into the space between buildings. If he falls, he doesn't have to fall against the side of the building. With a bit of creative geography, the hotel could be alongside the Singapore Flyer ferris wheel (also directly alongside the Marina Bay Street Circuit), so Bond could possibly catch onto that as he fell and would have to hold on despite the wave of water pounding him. But it would be far-fetched.

[coco1997]

And here, perhaps for some creative inspiration, are the ladies of Ultimate Bond 24:


Claire Foy as Yvonne Munroe


Rachel Weisz as Juliane Faust


Lena Headey as Thaila Shaw


Emily Blunt as Miss Moneypenny


Ling Bai as Mai