My creative inspiration is that one of the three leading ladies needs to dye their hair or do a different accent otherwise it's going to get a bit confusing when you have three raven haired Brits who look like each other's sister.
'Ultimate Bond (Ultimate Bond 26 Begins Pg 23)
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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'!
I've been trying to think of something for a finale stunt since I haven't submitted a third idea yet, but just have one question. Does the final stunt take place at the Taipei 101 building or does it just have to take place in Taiwan? The reason I'm asking is that we've already got one stunt that has to do with Bond and the villain being atop a ridiculously tall building and I don't think that we'd want to have two stunts that revolved around more or less the same thing.
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There could be plenty achieved with the Taipei 101 tower without repeating the Singapore sequence. Bond and Faust could have a fight in the elevator shaft that involves jumping from elevator car to elevator car as they go up and down in the shaft. Or he could chase her to the top of the tower and jump aboard her helicopter as she tries to escape, and the two fight each other for their lives and for control of the helicopter as they fly through a section of the tower that is still under construction. Or Bond could use a construction crane from an adjacent building site to swing onto the 101 tower.
Also, thinking about the Singapore sequence this is what I think would be best: Faust sets off some kind of explosive in the pool, which fractures the wall. She is able to escape in time, but Bond is caught in the current and he is pulled over the edge. He falls down the side of the building and is able to catch a ledge - a balcony from a floor below. As the water pounds him, he is forced to let go, but he catches onto another ledge further below. He continues doing this to performa a controlled descent down the side of the building, all the while being assaulted by the waterfall. Actually, I like that a lot. I'll edit it in since it was my sequence in the first place and I half-did it because I couldn't think of anything.
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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: The death of Dexter Smythe in Acapulco.
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. Faust is able to swim her way to safety, but Bond is pulled over by the current. He falls over the edge, but catches onto a balcony several storeys below. Unable to withstand the water, he lets go, but catches onto a second balcony. He uses this to perform a controlled descent down the side of the hotel.
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):
Also, thinking about the Singapore sequence this is what I think would be best: Faust sets off some kind of explosive in the pool, which fractures the wall. She is able to escape in time, but Bond is caught in the current and he is pulled over the edge. He falls down the side of the building and is able to catch a ledge - a balcony from a floor below. As the water pounds him, he is forced to let go, but he catches onto another ledge further below. He continues doing this to performa a controlled descent down the side of the building, all the while being assaulted by the waterfall. Actually, I like that a lot. I'll edit it in since it was my sequence in the first place and I half-did it because I couldn't think of anything.
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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: The death of Dexter Smythe in Acapulco.
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. Faust is able to swim her way to safety, but Bond is pulled over by the current. He falls over the edge, but catches onto a balcony several storeys below. Unable to withstand the water, he lets go, but catches onto a second balcony. He uses this to perform a controlled descent down the side of the hotel.
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):
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[edit - accidentally double-posted]
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New contribution in bold. Hopefully this is OK, I wasn't sure if I was crossing the line with it a bit by dictating too much story to go along with it.
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: The death of Dexter Smythe in Acapulco.
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. Faust is able to swim her way to safety, but Bond is pulled over by the current. He falls over the edge, but catches onto a balcony several storeys below. Unable to withstand the water, he lets go, but catches onto a second balcony. He uses this to perform a controlled descent down the side of the hotel.
22 Finale Stunt: Faust locks Bond in a service elevator on the observation deck of Taipei 101 after he ends up in there in the course of a hand-to-hand fight with Carmen. The elevators in Taipei 101 are said to be the fastest in the world. Faust stares through the glass of the elevator at a bloodied and beat-up Bond and informs him that she's disabled the brakes on the elevator, and will send him plummeting to his death from the 90th story of the building into the sub-basement.
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):
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: The death of Dexter Smythe in Acapulco.
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. Faust is able to swim her way to safety, but Bond is pulled over by the current. He falls over the edge, but catches onto a balcony several storeys below. Unable to withstand the water, he lets go, but catches onto a second balcony. He uses this to perform a controlled descent down the side of the hotel.
22 Finale Stunt: Faust locks Bond in a service elevator on the observation deck of Taipei 101 after he ends up in there in the course of a hand-to-hand fight with Carmen. The elevators in Taipei 101 are said to be the fastest in the world. Faust stares through the glass of the elevator at a bloodied and beat-up Bond and informs him that she's disabled the brakes on the elevator, and will send him plummeting to his death from the 90th story of the building into the sub-basement.
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):
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 05:53 AM
Just one more to go! I already know what I'm going to do for the next one. I have no idea about the title sequence description, though. Maybe the inside of an engine, and as the spark plug ignites the fumes, the flames and the exhaust take the shape of dancing girls?
Also, the sequence where Bond is drugged and put into a racing car should end with this, which happened last night.
Also, the sequence where Bond is drugged and put into a racing car should end with this, which happened last night.
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 06:04 AM
Just one more to go! I already know what I'm going to do for the next one. I have no idea about the title sequence description, though. Maybe the inside of an engine, and as the spark plug ignites the fumes, the flames and the exhaust take the shape of dancing girls?
Also, the sequence where Bond is drugged and put into a racing car should end with this, which happened last night.
That sounds like as good of an idea as any in terms of how the title sequence should look.
As for the video, I think something like that would definitely be in the cards for Bond, given that he's not exactly in a stable frame of mind while behind the wheel of the car. My main goal between the villain that I put in the project as well as the two stunts would be that this is a villain that comes as close, if not closer, than the rest of them to actually doing away with Bond.
EDIT: Just re-reading the outline, and just saw that someone cast Garrett Dillahunt in the film. Nice casting choice. He was great as the villain in the remake of The Last House on the Left. It would be interesting to see him as an ally for Bond.
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22 Finale Stunt: Faust locks Bond in a service elevator on the observation deck of Taipei 101 after he ends up in there in the course of a hand-to-hand fight with Carmen. The elevators in Taipei 101 are said to be the fastest in the world. Faust stares through the glass of the elevator at a bloodied and beat-up Bond and informs him that she's disabled the brakes on the elevator, and will send him plummeting to his death from the 90th story of the building into the sub-basement.
I think - we should involve the Bond girl: Yvonne in this scene.
Edited by LicenceRenewed23, 28 June 2010 - 06:31 AM.
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 07:44 AM
You can't go for too much detail, otherwise you're tying terminus' hands behind his back.22 Finale Stunt: Faust locks Bond in a service elevator on the observation deck of Taipei 101 after he ends up in there in the course of a hand-to-hand fight with Carmen. The elevators in Taipei 101 are said to be the fastest in the world. Faust stares through the glass of the elevator at a bloodied and beat-up Bond and informs him that she's disabled the brakes on the elevator, and will send him plummeting to his death from the 90th story of the building into the sub-basement.
I think - we should involve the Bond girl: Yvonne in this scene.
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You can't go for too much detail, otherwise you're tying terminus' hands behind his back.22 Finale Stunt: Faust locks Bond in a service elevator on the observation deck of Taipei 101 after he ends up in there in the course of a hand-to-hand fight with Carmen. The elevators in Taipei 101 are said to be the fastest in the world. Faust stares through the glass of the elevator at a bloodied and beat-up Bond and informs him that she's disabled the brakes on the elevator, and will send him plummeting to his death from the 90th story of the building into the sub-basement.
I think - we should involve the Bond girl: Yvonne in this scene.
I was just saying, because nearly most of the Bond girls has been in one stunt with or without Bond.
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 03:59 PM
Dino, I agree that the roster of Bond girls (sans Mai) is lacking in variety. I love Rachel Weisz and Lena Headey, but I wish we had had more of an international selection for Yvonne Munroe. Still, that was IanFleming23's choice and it's not my place to question it.
Even though it wasn't actually an official "submission" by CT, I do like his idea for the title sequence description and feel we should use it. From the very start I imagined an auto/racing themed motif, so that would be most appropriate.
And CT, I know we don't want to tie terminus' hands, but I'm pretty sure he will find a way to include Claire Foy's character in the finale stunt.
Even though it wasn't actually an official "submission" by CT, I do like his idea for the title sequence description and feel we should use it. From the very start I imagined an auto/racing themed motif, so that would be most appropriate.
And CT, I know we don't want to tie terminus' hands, but I'm pretty sure he will find a way to include Claire Foy's character in the finale stunt.
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Posted 29 June 2010 - 04:21 PM
I'll likely to begin posting segments, perhaps one very day, from either tommorow or tonight - with the PTS being posted first. Hopefully I've done everyone proud.
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Looking forward to it, terminus. 
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Looking forward to it, terminus.
Looking forward to it as well. Should be interesting to see how it all fits together.
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Indeed; I know my bits are going to be left out, but I'm glad positive discussion has formed up around them, anyway...
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And here's my version of the opening sequences of the treatment - enjoy, rip apart and reconstruct!
Acapulco, Mexico
OPEN on a bird-eye view of a figure swimming underwater through clear blue water. The figure, a beautiful full-breasted woman in a barely-there bikini, surfaces - water cascades down her sun-kissed figure as she pulls herself from the pool to reveal that we're at the HOTEL ENCANTO in ACAPULCO, MEXICO. DEXTER SMYTHE is by the side of the pool - a handsome figure cutting a pleasant sight in sleek black swimming trunks - adjusts his sunglasses as another fan asks for his autograph. Think Lewis Hamilton crossed with David Beckham. He's fed-up of being bothered by the public - THIS was supposed to be a relaxing getaway after turning down a contract as a driver with the Faust Grand Prix team.
Frustrated, he throws his towel around his shoulder and arranges to rent a jeep which he takes down to an isolated beach. He unloads SCUBA equipment from his jeep, pulls the oxygen tank onto his back and puts the rebreather into his mouth before wading into the surf and submerging.
The underwater landscape is beautiful - delicate fish flitting to and fro between rocks and underwater flora. Smythe surfaces, pulls his goggles from his eyes and blinks - setting his eyes on what could be a cruise ship out in the distance, its pearl white hull glinting in the afternoon sun. His dive continues, he takes a few pictures using an underwater camera and then returns to the shore where he begins unstrapping the oxygen tank and loading it all into the jeep.
A SERIES OF CUTS show someone hefting a weapon of some sort - a futuristic machine gun with technological extras. It's like something from Star Wars. The sighting mechanism of the weapon locks onto Smythe - and a finger nudges the trigger. The weapon FIRES ---
Smythe staggers on the beach. Screams. Grabbing his head. He's in pain. Doubles over. Falls to his knees - blood trickling down his nose, he grabs his stomach and vomits profusely before he collapses, face down into the sand. The surf laps at his bare feet -
CLOSE ON A HAND holding a cell-phone and the sotto voce words. "Smythe has been neutralised, Sir ..."
As the surf laps at Smythe's dead body, we hear the opening chords of the themetune and transition into the title sequence. We're inside an engine, the spark plug ignites the fumes, the flames and the exhaust taking the shape of sexy dancing girls as we move through the mechanism of the engine.
Through it all, Bond being stalked by a shadowy figure.
Seattle, USA
Seattle, Washington, United States of America. And it's raining. Sheets of rain drench the pedestrians but not those within the SEATTLE TECHNOLOGY FAIR. Held in a massive stadium sized space, there are companies from across the world present including Microsoft, Google, Apple and a stall that demonstrates a laser that boils the inside of a melon without piercing the surface but our focus is on the stall that hosts FAUST TECHNOLOGY and several Faust employees including DOCTOR ARMAND SCHULLER. Schuller is a bespectacled, balding and middle aged individual who explains a new technology known as computational fluid dynamics, a computer simulation that can produce prototypes so quickly that it will reduce cost by as much as eighty percent - and it has both civilian and military implications. The Faust employees unveil a Faust Grand Prix JFX 01 racing car and explain that the car, developed using computational fluid dynamics, is due to make its debut at the Singapore leg of the Grand Prix circuit - which will also be the debut of the heavily promoted Faust Grand Prix team.
The technology fair winds to a close and the companies start to pack up. As the lesser employees are hard at work, Schuller unplugs a laptop and slides it into its case before leaving the stadium - unable to shake the fact that he's being watched by a tall, handsome man of mixed ethnicity that he glimpsed earlier during his presentation. This man is CARMEN MURIK. Schuller ducks out into the rain and makes his way through the streets of Seattle towards his hotel, becoming aware over the course of his journey that he IS being stalked by Murik. He ducks into the closest busy doorway - the main entrance to the SEATTLE UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE and crumpling his hat into a nearby trashcan, he pays his cash and vanishes into the crowds. Or so he thinks. As the tour continues, he realises that the man has followed him into the experience - and seperates from the group, ducking under a cordon and into an unsafe area of the experience.
Schuller stashes the laptop in a darkened doorway and fingers a revolver that he's previously been hiding in a pocket, ducks into the decaying carcass of a century-old bar. Murik follows and a shoot out ensues - with both men taking shots at each other until the man stalking him takes a lucky shot and dislodges a beam from the roof, impaling Schuller and letting blood gurgle through his mouth.
Murik quickly leaves the carcass of the bar, picks the laptop out of the darkened doorway and rejoins the tour before exiting the experience and vanishing into the pouring rain, just another soaking pedestrian rushing to his destination.
Acapulco, Mexico
OPEN on a bird-eye view of a figure swimming underwater through clear blue water. The figure, a beautiful full-breasted woman in a barely-there bikini, surfaces - water cascades down her sun-kissed figure as she pulls herself from the pool to reveal that we're at the HOTEL ENCANTO in ACAPULCO, MEXICO. DEXTER SMYTHE is by the side of the pool - a handsome figure cutting a pleasant sight in sleek black swimming trunks - adjusts his sunglasses as another fan asks for his autograph. Think Lewis Hamilton crossed with David Beckham. He's fed-up of being bothered by the public - THIS was supposed to be a relaxing getaway after turning down a contract as a driver with the Faust Grand Prix team.
Frustrated, he throws his towel around his shoulder and arranges to rent a jeep which he takes down to an isolated beach. He unloads SCUBA equipment from his jeep, pulls the oxygen tank onto his back and puts the rebreather into his mouth before wading into the surf and submerging.
The underwater landscape is beautiful - delicate fish flitting to and fro between rocks and underwater flora. Smythe surfaces, pulls his goggles from his eyes and blinks - setting his eyes on what could be a cruise ship out in the distance, its pearl white hull glinting in the afternoon sun. His dive continues, he takes a few pictures using an underwater camera and then returns to the shore where he begins unstrapping the oxygen tank and loading it all into the jeep.
A SERIES OF CUTS show someone hefting a weapon of some sort - a futuristic machine gun with technological extras. It's like something from Star Wars. The sighting mechanism of the weapon locks onto Smythe - and a finger nudges the trigger. The weapon FIRES ---
Smythe staggers on the beach. Screams. Grabbing his head. He's in pain. Doubles over. Falls to his knees - blood trickling down his nose, he grabs his stomach and vomits profusely before he collapses, face down into the sand. The surf laps at his bare feet -
CLOSE ON A HAND holding a cell-phone and the sotto voce words. "Smythe has been neutralised, Sir ..."
As the surf laps at Smythe's dead body, we hear the opening chords of the themetune and transition into the title sequence. We're inside an engine, the spark plug ignites the fumes, the flames and the exhaust taking the shape of sexy dancing girls as we move through the mechanism of the engine.
Through it all, Bond being stalked by a shadowy figure.
CBN PRESENTS
DANIEL CRAIG
as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
in
CBN MEMBERS'
ULTIMATE BOND 24
Claire Foy
Lena Headey
Rachel Weisz
Joey Ansah
Ling Bai
Jeffrey Wright
Emily Blunt
Garrett Dillahunt
with Timothy Dalton as M
"Ultimate Bond 24" sung by La Roux
"Ultimate Bond 24" composed by Elly Jackson and Michael Giacchino
Soundtrack by Michael Giacchino
Title Sequence designed by Marc Kraste and John Klassen
Directed by David Fincher
Seattle, USA
Seattle, Washington, United States of America. And it's raining. Sheets of rain drench the pedestrians but not those within the SEATTLE TECHNOLOGY FAIR. Held in a massive stadium sized space, there are companies from across the world present including Microsoft, Google, Apple and a stall that demonstrates a laser that boils the inside of a melon without piercing the surface but our focus is on the stall that hosts FAUST TECHNOLOGY and several Faust employees including DOCTOR ARMAND SCHULLER. Schuller is a bespectacled, balding and middle aged individual who explains a new technology known as computational fluid dynamics, a computer simulation that can produce prototypes so quickly that it will reduce cost by as much as eighty percent - and it has both civilian and military implications. The Faust employees unveil a Faust Grand Prix JFX 01 racing car and explain that the car, developed using computational fluid dynamics, is due to make its debut at the Singapore leg of the Grand Prix circuit - which will also be the debut of the heavily promoted Faust Grand Prix team.
The technology fair winds to a close and the companies start to pack up. As the lesser employees are hard at work, Schuller unplugs a laptop and slides it into its case before leaving the stadium - unable to shake the fact that he's being watched by a tall, handsome man of mixed ethnicity that he glimpsed earlier during his presentation. This man is CARMEN MURIK. Schuller ducks out into the rain and makes his way through the streets of Seattle towards his hotel, becoming aware over the course of his journey that he IS being stalked by Murik. He ducks into the closest busy doorway - the main entrance to the SEATTLE UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE and crumpling his hat into a nearby trashcan, he pays his cash and vanishes into the crowds. Or so he thinks. As the tour continues, he realises that the man has followed him into the experience - and seperates from the group, ducking under a cordon and into an unsafe area of the experience.
Schuller stashes the laptop in a darkened doorway and fingers a revolver that he's previously been hiding in a pocket, ducks into the decaying carcass of a century-old bar. Murik follows and a shoot out ensues - with both men taking shots at each other until the man stalking him takes a lucky shot and dislodges a beam from the roof, impaling Schuller and letting blood gurgle through his mouth.
Murik quickly leaves the carcass of the bar, picks the laptop out of the darkened doorway and rejoins the tour before exiting the experience and vanishing into the pouring rain, just another soaking pedestrian rushing to his destination.
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Posted 29 June 2010 - 09:41 PM
Loving it, terminus 
- BTW, what kind of character is Ling Bai in this ?
- BTW, what kind of character is Ling Bai in this ?
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Posted 29 June 2010 - 09:51 PM
Ling Bai's character turns up in the Singapore sequence and provides some assistance to Bond. At least, in the way I'm envisaging the plot.
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Posted 29 June 2010 - 10:08 PM
Interesting setup (assuming it pays off later ). Somewhat untraditional/ballsy in that Bond himself has not yet appeared in either the PTS or the first scenes after the credits? Would the audience be getting restless early on? Even FRWL had a fake Bond at the beginning
). Somewhat untraditional/ballsy in that Bond himself has not yet appeared in either the PTS or the first scenes after the credits? Would the audience be getting restless early on? Even FRWL had a fake Bond at the beginning
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Posted 29 June 2010 - 10:08 PM
Thanks for keeping the "cruise ship" business, terminus, and I like how you subtly changed Smythe's character, but that octopus was the cherry on top of the PTS sundae, for me; bit sad you didn't include it... 
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Posted 29 June 2010 - 10:47 PM
Great job as always, terminus. I love that you managed to work the Hotel Encanto into the PTS 
, and I like the visual of the immediate switch from sunny, tropical location to washed-out, rainy location after the title sequence.
One note: It's "Elly" Jackson, not "Ally." I made that mistake in my first post.
, and I like the visual of the immediate switch from sunny, tropical location to washed-out, rainy location after the title sequence. One note: It's "Elly" Jackson, not "Ally." I made that mistake in my first post.
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Posted 30 June 2010 - 05:28 PM
Here's the next segment - with the Roseau segments to follow tomorrow.
MI6 HEADQUARTERS
Bond is called into MI6, fresh (or, not so fresh, judging by the crumpled suit he's wearing) from a plain flight from Acapulco to Heathrow and brought before M who waits for him alongside JULIANE FAUST and FELIX LEITER. M explains the events we have just seen in Seattle and explains that the body of Doctor Schuller has been found. three weeks after going missing in the aftermath of the Seattle Technology Fair. Schuller works for Faust - who is understandably worried as an employer that one of her employees appears to have been murdered - and, as M prompts, his laptop having vanished at the same time and the CFD process having been potentially compromised.
M had brought Bond in at the behest of the Prime Minister because the CFD process was funded by the British taxpayer through the defence budget as the MOD want to use it to develop a new fighter jet. Schuller's death could be nothing to worry about but, Leiter suggests, because of the death of famous race car driver Dexter Smythe in Acapulco (also, as a single event unworrying ), there could be more going on then they presently realise. M wants Bond to accompany Faust as Acting Head of Security and give things a once over. Bond agrees and picks up tickets to the Canary Islands as he leaves M's office.
Moneypenny greets Bond upon his departure from the office and he says she looks different and compliments her on her new haircut. Moneypenny sighs, watching his besuited shape leave her office.
THE CANARY ISLANDS
Bond arrives on El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands and the base for the Faust Grand Prix team and an ancillary office for Faust Technologies. Bond is curious as to why an English company, completing an English project and funded by English money has selected a Spanish territory for its base of operations - and Faust brushes the question off, explaining that the tax incentives offered from the Spanish Cortes Generales was simply too good to resist. Bond seems happy with this explanation and finishes the meal that he has been eating with Faust that includes several Spanish dishes whereupon he is offered the chance to tour the testing facility - which includes an intricate custom designed and built racing track where the Faust Grand Prix team have been test driving their CFD cars.
It is at the testing centre that Bond encounters Yvonne Munroe. The beautiful woman was promoted in the aftermath of Schuller's murder to Director of the JFX-01 team and gives Bond a tour of the testing centre - showing him the JFX-01 prototype before escorting him to an observation deck where they watch the racing car being driven around the track. Reunited with Faust, the owner of the racing team offers Bond the chance to drive one of the JFX-01 around the track and, not wanting to be ungrateful, he accepts the offer despite the fact that he has begun to experience a headache. He is introduced to Vargas, the man who was driving the car they were watching from the deck, and accepts the chance to race against an experienced racing driver. But once the race begins, Bond's headache turns to near-fever as he begins to hallucinate spectral forms of Vesper, Mr White, Dominic Greene and Costigan taunting him. Vargas' maneuvering becomes tactical and he drives to drive Bond off the track and force him to crash - but Bond fights the hallucinations and feverish sensations and turns the same tactics back on Vargas and the experienced racing driver spins his car off the track where it explodes in flames.
Faust is fuming at the loss of the JFX-01 that Vargas is driving but Munroe suggests that there must have been a fault in the cars design. Faust states that a fault simply wasn't possible and that the fault was a result of Vargas' reckless driving. Bond watches Vargas' burned body being loaded into an ambulance to be taken to the morgue - but notices that the handsome Spanish man had a Q shaped ear stud. Bond files this away under intriguing details -
Yvonne wants to speak to Bond and reveal something but she is swept away by enquiries from the other technicians and Faust demanding that she will need to prepare a statement for the press to deliver later as well as contact Vargas' family. Bond, likewise, is preoccupied by making a phone call through to M (via Moneypenny) who investigates Vargas and discovers that Vargas received an unusually large amount of money from a handsome Italian man connected to crime and the drugs trade known as ENZO POMADORI who is based in Roseau, Dominica.
It's also confirmed that the fever, hallucinations and headache were due to a cocktail of drugs that Bond was administered, presumably during the meal with Faust before his participation in the race. Bond has started to become suspicious of the powerful businesswoman.
MI6 HEADQUARTERS
Bond is called into MI6, fresh (or, not so fresh, judging by the crumpled suit he's wearing) from a plain flight from Acapulco to Heathrow and brought before M who waits for him alongside JULIANE FAUST and FELIX LEITER. M explains the events we have just seen in Seattle and explains that the body of Doctor Schuller has been found. three weeks after going missing in the aftermath of the Seattle Technology Fair. Schuller works for Faust - who is understandably worried as an employer that one of her employees appears to have been murdered - and, as M prompts, his laptop having vanished at the same time and the CFD process having been potentially compromised.
M had brought Bond in at the behest of the Prime Minister because the CFD process was funded by the British taxpayer through the defence budget as the MOD want to use it to develop a new fighter jet. Schuller's death could be nothing to worry about but, Leiter suggests, because of the death of famous race car driver Dexter Smythe in Acapulco (also, as a single event unworrying ), there could be more going on then they presently realise. M wants Bond to accompany Faust as Acting Head of Security and give things a once over. Bond agrees and picks up tickets to the Canary Islands as he leaves M's office.
Moneypenny greets Bond upon his departure from the office and he says she looks different and compliments her on her new haircut. Moneypenny sighs, watching his besuited shape leave her office.
THE CANARY ISLANDS
Bond arrives on El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands and the base for the Faust Grand Prix team and an ancillary office for Faust Technologies. Bond is curious as to why an English company, completing an English project and funded by English money has selected a Spanish territory for its base of operations - and Faust brushes the question off, explaining that the tax incentives offered from the Spanish Cortes Generales was simply too good to resist. Bond seems happy with this explanation and finishes the meal that he has been eating with Faust that includes several Spanish dishes whereupon he is offered the chance to tour the testing facility - which includes an intricate custom designed and built racing track where the Faust Grand Prix team have been test driving their CFD cars.
It is at the testing centre that Bond encounters Yvonne Munroe. The beautiful woman was promoted in the aftermath of Schuller's murder to Director of the JFX-01 team and gives Bond a tour of the testing centre - showing him the JFX-01 prototype before escorting him to an observation deck where they watch the racing car being driven around the track. Reunited with Faust, the owner of the racing team offers Bond the chance to drive one of the JFX-01 around the track and, not wanting to be ungrateful, he accepts the offer despite the fact that he has begun to experience a headache. He is introduced to Vargas, the man who was driving the car they were watching from the deck, and accepts the chance to race against an experienced racing driver. But once the race begins, Bond's headache turns to near-fever as he begins to hallucinate spectral forms of Vesper, Mr White, Dominic Greene and Costigan taunting him. Vargas' maneuvering becomes tactical and he drives to drive Bond off the track and force him to crash - but Bond fights the hallucinations and feverish sensations and turns the same tactics back on Vargas and the experienced racing driver spins his car off the track where it explodes in flames.
Faust is fuming at the loss of the JFX-01 that Vargas is driving but Munroe suggests that there must have been a fault in the cars design. Faust states that a fault simply wasn't possible and that the fault was a result of Vargas' reckless driving. Bond watches Vargas' burned body being loaded into an ambulance to be taken to the morgue - but notices that the handsome Spanish man had a Q shaped ear stud. Bond files this away under intriguing details -
Yvonne wants to speak to Bond and reveal something but she is swept away by enquiries from the other technicians and Faust demanding that she will need to prepare a statement for the press to deliver later as well as contact Vargas' family. Bond, likewise, is preoccupied by making a phone call through to M (via Moneypenny) who investigates Vargas and discovers that Vargas received an unusually large amount of money from a handsome Italian man connected to crime and the drugs trade known as ENZO POMADORI who is based in Roseau, Dominica.
It's also confirmed that the fever, hallucinations and headache were due to a cocktail of drugs that Bond was administered, presumably during the meal with Faust before his participation in the race. Bond has started to become suspicious of the powerful businesswoman.
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Posted 30 June 2010 - 06:54 PM
Great job, terminus. The intrigue is really starting to build and you worked tdalton's action sequence suggestion into it seamlessly! 
I also like the nod to Moneypenny's "new look", heheheh.
I also like the nod to Moneypenny's "new look", heheheh.
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Posted 01 July 2010 - 12:09 AM
Quick question: are we going to do an Ultimate BOND 25? Because I've got what I think is a pretty good idea to keep it fresh.
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Posted 01 July 2010 - 12:23 AM
Quick question: are we going to do an Ultimate BOND 25? Because I've got what I think is a pretty good idea to keep it fresh.
Isn't it your storyline that's being done for 'Bond 24' ? Perhaps someone else should do the story for the next one.
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Posted 01 July 2010 - 12:24 AM
Who said anything about it being a specific storyline?
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Posted 01 July 2010 - 12:51 AM
If the interest is there, then we will be going ahead with UB25 and possibly on to UB26 - and so on. As for your idea, as it doesn't seem to fit into any of the specific fields (if I have interpreted what you have said above correctly), then I'd suggest running it past myself in a PM and I'll consider whether and how it can be implemented.
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Posted 01 July 2010 - 01:36 AM
I already have some good ideas for Bond girl and location, so I do hope there is a UB25.
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I already have some good ideas for Bond girl and location, so I do hope there is a UB25.
I'm formulating a few ideas as well, so I too hope there will be another go round for this.
Although, I would certainly understand if there wasn't, as it's a huge undertaking for terminus that is certainly very time consuming (and one that has been greatly appreciated).