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[terminus]

Of course we can change elements - that bullet point outline was just to put down how I saw events proceeding but we can switch things up depending on what other posters think. We can change the car chase to Canberra and just have the interlude between

I even came up with some changes of my own to what I posted last night - perhaps it is Sun Demeng who 'rescues' Bond at the construction site in Canberra. Bond would have already met him at the 'event' hosted by Krause to celebrate the solar (wind, or wave - it could be any or all of the three) energy as the Taiwanese governments business liason to an energy sourcing project that Krause is spearheading off the coast of Taiwan. Sun Demeng, in short, would be an extrapolated male version of Gala Brand - would help Bond escape the construction site and could then reveal that Taiwanese Intelligence had suspicions that Krause was up to something, using the energy sourcing project off their coast as a cover for SOMETHING.

It is then that Bond could bring Sun Demeng and Jiang Yimou together with himself and the three countries agree to work in partnership.

[coco1997]

Wow, I'm a little late to the show. This thing sure has grown leaps and bounds since I last posted! I'm in San Diego with Righty007 and there's a very poor Wi-Fi connection here so I haven't been able to keep myself updated too often. But here's my meager contribution for theme song writer.
CAST

1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Yvonne Strahovski as Mary Goodnight
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Emmanuelle Chriqui as Caesura Scarlett
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Ludivine Sagnier as Dana Krause (Wilhelm's wife/Villainess)
5 Henchman: Don Cheadle as Henri Grant (more of a Steven Obanno from Casino Royale-type henchman.)
6 Henchman 2: Omahyra Mota as Clarisse
7 Villain: Michael Nyqvist as Wilhelm Krause, German construction magnate with an interest in chessboxing
8 M - Timothy Dalton
9 Miss Moneypenny - Emily Blunt
10 Ally 1: Andy Lau as Jiang Yimou, Bond's opposite number in Chinese Intelligence with a skill set comparable to Double-Oh Seven. He's a loyal supporter of Beijing and he forms a firm friendship with his 'decadent capitalist' opposite, if you're looking for a comparison to an established character for Jiang Yimou, consider him a Chinese version of Felix Leiter.
11 Ally 2: Chin Han as Sun Demeng, Bond's opposite number in the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Though of a more bureaucratic mold than his PRC counterpart, he can swing into action when the situation calls for it. Enjoys similar sorts of indulgences as Bond, but chafes against Jiang Yimou, whom he is constantly suspicious of; still, the two men can pool their resources from time to time, eventually coming to something of an uneasy peace.

LOCATIONS
11 Pre-Titles Location: Taipei, Taiwan
12 Location 1: London, UK
13 Location 2: Canberra, Australia
14 Location 3: Australian Outback (first somewhere in the middle of nowhere then a small, abandoned town Krause uses to trap his prey)
15 Location 4: An irradiated amusement park in central China. It was once a part of a nuclear testing ground to study fa(information on location HERE). lout patterns in the event of a thermonuclear strike, but has since been abandoned and is now used as a dumping ground for people who are made to disappear. It is one of the most contaminated sites on earth; spending three hours within it unprotected is enough to kill a man.
16 Location 5: Oil Stones. I would imagine that Krause owns the location as part of his legitimate business enterprises and falls back to this location to await the detonation of the bombs when the reality of his plot to mine the fault lines off Taiwan are uncovered. Furthermore, I could imagine Krause blowing up the bridges leading to the main section - leaving the assaulting forces (in this case, UN troops) to launch their assault by sea and air. Bond could even have to parachute out of an overflying helicopter to infiltrate the compound.

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot: After discovering that a shift in tectonic plates could cause a land bridge to form between China and Taiwan, the villain, in league with rogue Chinese factions, plans to raise this land bridge and allow an invasion of Taiwan by communist forces.

See HERE for elaboration on the plot as stated above.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Action Sequence/Stunt: The gunbarrel opens on a long shot of the island of Taiwan, then cuts to a luxurious suite in the Grand Hotel in Taipei -- a marble bathtub overflows with bubbles that run across the floor and soak into an already sodden carpet. M is on the phone to Bond who stands in the nearby bedroom, wearing just a terrycloth bathrobe. As Bond slips the Walther into the pocket of the bathrobe, he listens to a rather well-chuffed M, who is very pleased at the uncovering of the plot to bankrupt the country. British Intelligence have brought Faust into imprisonment, and the PM sends his highest thanks to the secret agent and the corporate spy -- and wants to convey these thanks in person. Bond tells M that his datebook is full for the next couple of days, but can he possibly fit the Prime Minister in Wednesday next? M frowns as Bond hangs up -- and slips into the luxurious bubbles, now tastefully naked as he joins Yvonne.

YVONNE: "Who was that?"
BOND: "M; he wants me to bring you in."
YVONNE: "...and in the meantime?"
BOND: "Oh, just that I ought to take down your particulars..."

Bond leans in for a kiss as the pair descend beneath the horizon of bubbles --

BOND: (faintly) "...and what fine particulars they are."

A delicate feminine laugh trickles up from Yvonne, ending in a traditional "Oh, James"... but, suddenly, a hard pair of hands reaches down and forces Bond's head under the water! Yvonne's head pops up from under the bubbles, and she screams in horror, grabbing Bond's terrycloth bathrobe to wrap around herself as she backs out of the water. 007 struggles within the tub, but finally holds his breath and bites the wrist of one of the hands -- the owner of said hands screams faintly from above the water, and he lets go.

Bond erupts from the bath, ready to face his attacker -- Murik. He has survived Faust's attempts to kill him, and now wants revenge on 007 -- but is momentarily distracted by Bond's nakedness. Bond uses this to his advantage; as Murik stands in shock, muttering, "Really?", 007 lunges at Murik's side, hitting him near the vagus nerve... but not close enough to keep him down. Murik grabs Bond between his neck and shoulder, and forces him back into the luxury suite mirror; the pair knock over various toiletry supplies and beauty products from the sinktop as Murik pushes Bond against the wall. Finally, Murik has Bond's head against a cupboard, but 007 desperately boxes at Murik's ears, until he scores a direct hit on the third jab and disorients Murik, and he involuntarily lets go of Bond.

We hear the ringing in Murik's ears as he stumbles back towards the tub, groaning in pain and holding his head. Bond wings an elbow at Murik's jaw, but Murik is not finished yet; he aims a well-placed jab directly at Bond's hip socket. Another kick at the thigh, and Bond is on the floor, immobilized. Finally, it seems as though Murik has 007 at his mercy, but then a shot rings out. Murik clutches his chest in shock, looking to the shooter -- an equally shocked Yvonne, clad in Bond's terrycloth bathrobe and holding his gun. She fires another shot into Murik, who releases his last breath, wobbles, and collapses headfirst into the bubble bath with a loud splash.

Yvonne sighs in relief, sliding the gun across the floor to Bond, who picks it up. He somewhat painfully rises to his feet, and limps over to the lip of the tub. Yvonne explains:

YVONNE: "I found it in the pocket of your robe."
BOND: "Well... a very good thing it was loaded, wasn't it?"

Yvonne chuckles, and Bond ejects the spent casing from the gun; it slows to a crawl as it falls to the floor, the surroundings go black, and we start titles...

19 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 1: Bond is to protect M and other government delegates at a meeting at an energy plant, but henchmen plan to blow the plant up whilst escaping on a train. Bond climbs onboard the train to stop them, but fails - the delegates survive but the plan and the surrounding area are blown up and the villains, with ties to Krause and/or Quantum, escape. Bond survives the sequence by the skin of his teeth.

See HERE for the original fleshed out proposal for the Major Action Sequence/Stunt 1.

20 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 2:ond and Goodnight are taken captive and are incapacitated by Krause. Bond is badly beaten, and Goodnight is rendered unconscious through a cocktail of drugs administered to her by Krausse. When they regain consciousness, they find a note pinned to Bond's chest that says "Let the hunt begin" (or something to that effect) and a small bottle of water lying next to them to keep them from dehydrating too quickly. As they try to make it back to some form of civilization, they are stalked by several hunters employed by Krausse to eliminate them in what is a "Most Dangerous Game" scenario.

21 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 3: (this could be swapped in position with Action Sequence/Stunt #2 if it is needed) Bond gets a tip/clue to investigate one of Krause's construction sites. He sneaks onto it at night (possibly with one of the girls in tow if necessary), but soon discovers it's a trap. An electrified fence keeps him boxed in as two henchmen operating huge wrecking ball cranes attempt to crush him. Bond dodges and evades them by using half-finished structures as cover, and the henchmen step it up by just smashing into everything to try and bury Bond under tons of rubble.

NOTE: Bond should know Krause is the villain by this point and have pissed him off enough that Krause wants him dead.

22 Finale Action Sequence/Stunt: On Krause's private plane to somewhere, Bond and Goodnight sneak on only to be captured by Dana, Bond leaves to find Krause whilst Goodnight stays with Dana. A big fight ensues on the plane.

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Aston Martin One-77
24 Gadget 1: Cellphone that can emit a one-time use flashbang effect, which will temporarily stun/blind anyone in the immediate vicinity
25 Gadget 2:
26 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: David Fincher
28 Writer: Tim Minear
29 Music By: Akira Yamaoka
30 Theme Tune Sung By: Duffy, featuring The Killers
31 Theme Tune Written By: Brandon Flowers and Akira Yamaoka
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 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): I was thinking like You Only Live Twice but updated/modernized (including that spent casing at the start, of course...)

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I think a combination of Flowers and the soundtrack writer would be awesome to write a themetune as sung by Duffy. Glad you managed to chip in coco1997, hope you're having a great time in San Diego with Righty!

[tdalton]

Hmm, should Goodnight get in the sack with Bond quite so early on? I assume we'd only be about 20 minutes into the film after that London scene. I can see her attitude to Bond being similar to that of Miranda Frost; she is trying to be on her best behavior so she doesn't ruin her chances of becoming a 00, so I think she should at least resist for a while

I do agree that she should resist Bond for a while, but I don't think that she should be as cold towards Bond as Miranda Frost was either. I think a friendly personality towards him would be appropriate, not overly so or anything, but a character who is more than capable of having a good time when appropriate (a sense of which I never got from the Frost character), which I'd like to see the two characters have when there's time for it. I think both sides of that personality could be accomplished in several ways, such as perhaps having Bond ask Goodnight out for dinner in London not long after he meets her, her refusing but promising to take him to the best restaurant in Canberra (which she would know since she's spent a lot of time in Australia) later on. Something along those lines would provide her with that aspect of Frost's personality while also leaving the door open for them to be on much more friendly terms than Bond and Frost ever were (before she was revealed to him as a villain).

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That's given me an idea for how to flesh out the relationship between Bond and Mary, tdalton - good work, fella!

[tdalton]

That's given me an idea for how to flesh out the relationship between Bond and Mary, tdalton - good work, fella!

Thanks.

I think that going in such a direction gives the character something that we haven't seen before while also taking aspects of other characters from the series and improving upon them. Like improving upon the idea of a Bond girl that Bond actually seems to care about (really only seen in OHMSS and TLD with Tracy and Kara respectively), or improving upon the more light-hearted attitude that the original screen interpretation of Goodnight had going for her (the new Goodnight not being as overly-light hearted and, obviously, considerably more intelligent than the character was written to be in TMWTGG), but also combining all of that with the dead-seriousness of a character like Bond, who can be as cold-blooded as any other Double-oh when necessary (which could be an interesting view on the character should she become a recurring character, to see how that changes her once she becomes a Double-oh and has to be in the cold-blooded mode moreso than she's used to).

Since we are technically making a "movie" , and casting comes into consideration with certain plot points, I think that the suggestion also allows for the opportunity for Bond and Goodnight to have a few scenes alone in between all of the action, which I think really plays to Strahovski's strengths. Look at her work in CHUCK. Aside from the action sequences (in which she's excellent), she's generally at her best in the one-on-one scenes and is great in conversations. Some of the best scenes in the series are when she's either at a meal with another character or simply just talking to another character, so I think that this could play to her strengths.

[ConnerysToupee1983]

Yeah, Flowers and Yamaoka would make a chilling Bond song, with Duffy's vocals. Sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it.

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One suggestion I was pondering for the closing moments would be for Goodnight to either get her Double-Oh desgination (and we make her 008 or something like that) or to have her being injured during the finale in such a way that active field duty as a Double-Oh would be impossible for her and thus she's assigned as Head of Station for the Caribbean instead - something a bit like her turning up in Jamaica during The Man With The Golden Gun.

Heh - pulling up my Killers tracks and giving them a listen now to imagine what sort of song we might end up with were that the case, connery'stoupee.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I've got an idea for the London car chase; what if it's Sun Demeng chasing Bond, and so we don't know whether he's a villain or a hero at the outset? It'd turn out he was just suspicious, at first, as he'd covertly attended the Greenland conference and so saw Bond and Jiang chatting away, but also helps the Taiwanese keep tabs on two principal British Intelligence officers, so there's a proper explanation for why Sun rescues Bond and Goodnight at the amusement park.

Also, as a pointer: Sun Demeng is played by Chin Han, an actor in Taiwanese cinema who most famously (and recently) appeared as Lau in The Dark Knight; that's one of the reasons I picked his name for the role. I can imagine him and Bond chatting over liquor, in something of a slightly happier version of the discussion Bond and Mathis have at the jet bar in Quantum of Solace...

[coco1997]

I've been out of this thing for a while...Is Captain Tightpants still planning on writing the treatment?

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It could work, I suppose. What did you think of my idea about Sun Demeng being the Taiwanese Liason with Krause's company and thus turning up in Canberra at the 'function' to launch the solar/wind/wave energy programme in Australia and making his true association with Taiwanese Intelligence clear when he rescues Bond from the construction site (instead of that being Jiang).

I also think there's some consensus as to shifting the possible carchase to Canberra and having Bond and Mary just do some combat/firearms training in London in between the first and second meetings with M - the suggestion being that the London scenes possibly take place over a handful of hours.

That said, I definitely imagine something similar to the QOS plane sequence taking place between the pair - it fits in with how I'd imagine the scenes immediately after the construction site rescue proceeding.

Re: Captain Tightpants, coco1997. I'm not sure. It's up to him if he wants to participate in the writing of the treatment, but it will be a group process and I'm merely shepherding the process along at the moment.

[tdalton]

One suggestion I was pondering for the closing moments would be for Goodnight to either get her Double-Oh desgination (and we make her 008 or something like that) or to have her being injured during the finale in such a way that active field duty as a Double-Oh would be impossible for her and thus she's assigned as Head of Station for the Caribbean instead - something a bit like her turning up in Jamaica during The Man With The Golden Gun.

I think that there's interesting potential in both ideas, to be honest. First, taking the more Fleming-inspired idea of her being injured before becoming a Double-oh (or at least Fleming-inspired in the fact that she never reaches that status), would allow for her to rather quickly become the Goodnight that we know from the novels and, to a lesser extent, the films. Perhaps it's done in such a way that she directly saves Bond's life, giving him a great respect for her (although I would think that her actions throughout the rest of the film leading up that point would lead Bond to have a great deal of respect for her, as I envision her as being a very capable agent), and would allow for her to turn up the next time that Bond goes to Jamaica.

On the other hand, though, there's a great deal of potential in the idea of her becoming a Double-oh. First,

Spoiler

aside from Devil May Care, which doesn't count in terms of film continuity

there's never been a female Double-oh agent, which would be something new in and of itself. Also, I think that, should the character become a recurring character in a Felix Leiter kind of way, that it would allow for some interesting character development, as she would be forced to go from the person we see in this project to one that is more and more often forced to be in her cold-blooded "mode", which is essential for a Double-oh agent. I think that it would be interesting to, at the very least, leave that door open for future storytelling opportunities, to see how someone deals with that kind of transformation, which we've never really seen with Bond, as, even in the reboot, was pretty much closed off from the beginning anyway. This would still allow for the injury to occur later, perhaps even in the presence of Bond, and could be seen as a way of a life-saving moment that allows her to get out of the Double-oh business and be stationed in Jamaica later on down the line. Or maybe she ends up really enjoying being a Double-oh, much like Bond often appears to, and none of that happens. Still, I think there's some great potential in this particular idea regardless of whatever destination it ultimately ends on.

With all of that said, I think that I do prefer an ending for this project where she receives her Double-oh status, or is at least still in consideration for it. I think that both endings lead to the same end-point, with her stationed somewhere (most likely Jamaica), due to an injury which prevents her further active service as an agent, just one takes a longer time to get there. I see the storytelling validity of just having her end up injured in this project and sent to Jamaica, and do like the ending as it's something that would leave the project very much in-line with Fleming, but I do prefer the ending which leaves the door open for more storytelling opportunities down the line and creates another potential Felix Leiter type of recurring ally.

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I have to admit, tdalton, you make a very good case for making her a Double-Oh, leaving room open for her to return and get injured in a future incarnation of Ultimate Bond. I think you've convinced me, at least. What do other people think?

[Mr. Blofeld]

It's all right, but I do think the denoument of the film needs weight; Mary Goodnight getting injured would, I think, conceivably provide that weight...

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With backers for both positions, we might need to throw this open to a vote.

[tdalton]

I think that the ending of the film could get some weight while still keeping the proposed Goodnight arc intact. There are an abundance of allies for Bond in the film, perhaps one of them could be put into a similar position to provide the ending with some weight without altering the arc for Goodnight. Just throwing it out there as a suggestion.

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I'm happy with whatever the group decides.

That's always a possibility, tdalton - though the final action sequence is Bond/Mary on the plane/helicopter subsequent to the Oil Stones location, fighting Krause and his wife. It could be hard to slide the injured ally into that segment without putting too many people into that sequence - unless the injury comes earlier in the actual assault on the Oil Stones compound. I suppose having Jiang sacrifice himself so that Bond could live would be a good message - the two agents having put aside political leanings fully in order to take the billionaire down, the communist laying down his life to save the 'decadent capitalist' (I imagine the phrase being like a joke between Bond and Jiang - almost like the line in TND '- sometimes work with a decadent agent of a corrupt Western power')

We could then have an intermediary scene following Bond and Mary defeating Krause and his wife and wrestling control of the plane/helicopter, landing somewhere in Russia (or going with the unused idea from TLD and landing on an aircraft carrier that was a staging post for the assault on Oil Stones) with M meeting with his counterpart from Chinese Intelligence (whom we'd have met earlier during the conference sequence in Iceland) and - like Moore Bond being honored by the KGB for his services - we'd have Bond being honored for his services to the People's Republic of China in maintaining stability in the Far East.

The closing scene is then with Bond and Mary in a bedroom somewhere, enjoying each others company. Bond opens a bottle of champagne which erupts (it's almost sexual) in a fountain of foam - "Congratulations - 008" - and on the sparkling bubbles popping in the champagne glasses, we leave Bond and Mary engaged in the opening volleys of a sexual encounter.

Of course - this could work with Mary being injured (she could be injured during the fight on the plane/helicopter) and we could still kill Jiang off, leading into the scene with M's counterpart in Chinese Intelligence and the scene in the bedroom of the yacht/hotel/villa with Bond and Mary. Except here he's not toasting her upgrade to Double-0 status, he's toasting her appointment as Head of Station for the Caribbean.

[tdalton]

I'm happy with whatever the group decides.

That's always a possibility, tdalton - though the final action sequence is Bond/Mary on the plane/helicopter subsequent to the Oil Stones location, fighting Krause and his wife. It could be hard to slide the injured ally into that segment without putting too many people into that sequence - unless the injury comes earlier in the actual assault on the Oil Stones compound. I suppose having Jiang sacrifice himself so that Bond could live would be a good message - the two agents having put aside political leanings fully in order to take the billionaire down, the communist laying down his life to save the 'decadent capitalist' (I imagine the phrase being like a joke between Bond and Jiang - almost like the line in TND '- sometimes work with a decadent agent of a corrupt Western power')

We could then have an intermediary scene following Bond and Mary defeating Krause and his wife and wrestling control of the plane/helicopter, landing somewhere in Russia (or going with the unused idea from TLD and landing on an aircraft carrier that was a staging post for the assault on Oil Stones) with M meeting with his counterpart from Chinese Intelligence (whom we'd have met earlier during the conference sequence in Iceland) and - like Moore Bond being honored by the KGB for his services - we'd have Bond being honored for his services to the People's Republic of China in maintaining stability in the Far East.

The closing scene is then with Bond and Mary in a bedroom somewhere, enjoying each others company. Bond opens a bottle of champagne which erupts (it's almost sexual) in a fountain of foam - "Congratulations - 008" - and on the sparkling bubbles popping in the champagne glasses, we leave Bond and Mary engaged in the opening volleys of a sexual encounter.

I like those ideas. Also to give the ending more weight, during the honoring of Bond and Goodnight, Bond could say something to M's Chinese Intelligence counterpart about Jiang being a true patriot and maybe having M's counterpart giving Jiang a posthumous honor for his work on the mission.

[Captain Tightpants]

Re: Captain Tightpants, coco1997. I'm not sure. It's up to him if he wants to participate in the writing of the treatment, but it will be a group process and I'm merely shepherding the process along at the moment.

No, I won't be writing it. I always understood that it was going to be a group process, and in writing whatever parts of the treatment that I took to, I would of course be willing to use all of the ideas provided. However, I feel that there is absolutely no room for me to add my own personal riff on things because the level of detail is extreme that it's just gotten to the point of stupidity. While I appreciate what the likes of Mr. Blofeld did and applaud him for coming up with the sequence to tie the stories together (though I actually didn't like much of the scene itself), I feel that when we get to the point where we start specifiying that a character has "a delicate feminine laugh" a a certain point in time, then things have gone too far. The level of detail is so great that all I would be doing is simply copying and pasting passages of text in order. A huge part of the appeal of this game - at least to me - was the way we would all submit ideas before terminus or whoever was charged with writing the treatment would then fashion into a full treatment. The enjoyment I got from this thread was in seeing how someone worked those ideas together, how they made the story stand up on its own. But the level of detail is now so great that there are no suprises to be had; now it's like going into a film and knowing the ending in advance. To me, the thread no longer serves a point because there is no longer any room for creativity. So I won't be writing anything for this thread, and I probably won't be contributing to ULTIMATE BOND 26 or beyond, either. Not unless we go back to the system we used in ULTIMATE BOND 23 and ULTIMATE BOND 24 where the entires in each category were limited (though this was more of an unspoken rule than anything else) to allow room for different interpretations of a scene. When I was contacted to contribute to the treatment, I was under the impression we would either 1) take it in turns to write sections up, or 2) we all write our own sections one at a time, with the best being chosen as the "official" chapter, and then starting the process over for the next section. But now that we're dealing with such exact and explicit actions as when a character makes a certain type of laugh, things have gone too far. I can't inject my own ideas into that sequence, and neither can anyone else because there is no room to do so. So there's no point to me (or anyone else, for that matter) writing it up.

[ConnerysToupee1983]

A thought on the ending, towards both having Goodnight become a Double O and adding a bit of gravitas to the proceedings. How about having Bond get injured and letting Goodnight come into her own for a bit. Have Bond seem down for the count, let Goodnight really have her "Sigourney Weaver" moment out in the spotlight, then get over taken. The Bond comes in and they work side by side, with Bond one upping in the hero department just a tad and taking out the main villain of course.

It would be a bit different than the norm and work to appease both sides of the argument.

The end of the film could show Goodnight showing off "her field dressing skills" on Bond, in typical romantic fashion or what not.

Just my two cents.

[tdalton]

A thought on the ending, towards both having Goodnight become a Double O and adding a bit of gravitas to the proceedings. How about having Bond get injured and letting Goodnight come into her own for a bit. Have Bond seem down for the count, let Goodnight really have her "Sigourney Weaver" moment out in the spotlight, then get over taken. The Bond comes in and they work side by side, with Bond one upping in the hero department just a tad and taking out the main villain of course.

It would be a bit different than the norm and work to appease both sides of the argument.

The end of the film could show Goodnight showing off "her field dressing skills" on Bond, in typical romantic fashion or what not.

Just my two cents.

I've got to tell you, I really like that idea. The idea of having Bond injured in the finale and someone else taking the spotlight, even if it's not for the duration of the finale, is excellent. I think that it shows both agents (well, not that there was any doubt with Bond) as being highly capable in their job, and works so that both ideas get incorporated into the story in a very good way.

Nice job.

[ConnerysToupee1983]

A thought on the ending, towards both having Goodnight become a Double O and adding a bit of gravitas to the proceedings. How about having Bond get injured and letting Goodnight come into her own for a bit. Have Bond seem down for the count, let Goodnight really have her "Sigourney Weaver" moment out in the spotlight, then get over taken. The Bond comes in and they work side by side, with Bond one upping in the hero department just a tad and taking out the main villain of course.

It would be a bit different than the norm and work to appease both sides of the argument.

The end of the film could show Goodnight showing off "her field dressing skills" on Bond, in typical romantic fashion or what not.

Just my two cents.

I've got to tell you, I really like that idea. The idea of having Bond injured in the finale and someone else taking the spotlight, even if it's not for the duration of the finale, is excellent. I think that it shows both agents (well, not that there was any doubt with Bond) as being highly capable in their job, and works so that both ideas get incorporated into the story in a very good way.

Nice job.

I'm glad you approve sir. I was just trying to accommodate a judicious method to please the most people and all the ideas floating about. Haha. Hopefully everyone else will enjoy the thought as well.

I spose on that note as well, I'd like to raise my hand and offer my assistance in aiding in the re-drafting phase, when the time comes.

Although, the old phrase "too many chefs spoil the pot" comes to mind to me. So, I'll say I think one or two people at the most should whittle the final thing down, and yes put their own spin on it all. Once everything is a bit more decided that is. And I don't necessarily think it should be me, but I'm putting my name in the running for such duties. Since there seems to be a bit of dissension in regards to the "new" directions the game has taken.

In any case I think it all should be voted on and what not. And Im just glad to be having fun, haha.

[tdalton]

A thought on the ending, towards both having Goodnight become a Double O and adding a bit of gravitas to the proceedings. How about having Bond get injured and letting Goodnight come into her own for a bit. Have Bond seem down for the count, let Goodnight really have her "Sigourney Weaver" moment out in the spotlight, then get over taken. The Bond comes in and they work side by side, with Bond one upping in the hero department just a tad and taking out the main villain of course.

It would be a bit different than the norm and work to appease both sides of the argument.

The end of the film could show Goodnight showing off "her field dressing skills" on Bond, in typical romantic fashion or what not.

Just my two cents.

I've got to tell you, I really like that idea. The idea of having Bond injured in the finale and someone else taking the spotlight, even if it's not for the duration of the finale, is excellent. I think that it shows both agents (well, not that there was any doubt with Bond) as being highly capable in their job, and works so that both ideas get incorporated into the story in a very good way.

Nice job.

I'm glad you approve sir. I was just trying to accommodate a judicious method to please the most people and all the ideas floating about. Haha. Hopefully everyone else will enjoy the thought as well.

I spose on that note as well, I'd like to raise my hand and offer my assistance in aiding in the re-drafting phase, when the time comes.

Although, the old phrase "too many chefs spoil the pot" comes to mind to me. So, I'll say I think one or two people at the most should whittle the final thing down, and yes put their own spin on it all. Once everything is a bit more decided that is. And I don't necessarily think it should be me, but I'm putting my name in the running for such duties. Since there seems to be a bit of dissension in regards to the "new" directions the game has taken.

In any case I think it all should be voted on and what not. And Im just glad to be having fun, haha.

Agreed.

I too would be willing to assist in the writing phase if necessary, once we get to that point. I think that this has been the best round of the game so far, with some great discussion regarding the elements of the project as well as some great elements to work with. It's going to be interesting to see how it all comes together in the finished product.

[terminus]

A thought on the ending, towards both having Goodnight become a Double O and adding a bit of gravitas to the proceedings. How about having Bond get injured and letting Goodnight come into her own for a bit. Have Bond seem down for the count, let Goodnight really have her "Sigourney Weaver" moment out in the spotlight, then get over taken. The Bond comes in and they work side by side, with Bond one upping in the hero department just a tad and taking out the main villain of course.

It would be a bit different than the norm and work to appease both sides of the argument.

The end of the film could show Goodnight showing off "her field dressing skills" on Bond, in typical romantic fashion or what not.

Just my two cents.

Now this is definitely an idea to tie things in. I could certainly go for it - and it would probably lend towards the fairly traditional double entendre at the close of the movie.

It's a shame you feel like that, CT. I, for one, like previous posters who have replied to your post, believe that this is the first truly collaborative round and I'm certainly enjoying the discussion that has gone on about the various plot points such as the current discussion about Goodnight and her overall arc and even our earlier discussion about the illogicality of the way the plot was initially presented as well as discussion about our Taiwanese and Chinese characters. Instead of the debate occuring after someone has posted a section of an outline - it's occuring before and thus before anything is too set in stone so things can be changed. If UB26, should it occur, end up working like this, with similar discussion, then I for one will be extremely happy.

[Captain Tightpants]

You seem to be missing my point. I don't have an issue with the discussions hammering out the exact direction we want to take. After all, that's what I did - and indeed, what I was aiming for - when I was discussing the plot (as I was trying to understand exactly what you had in mind). My issue is that people are submitting entires with such a vast amount of detail that there is no way to hammer things out. There is no space to work with, no grey area where we can inject our own ideas. I know I keep falling back on this one, but instead of having a description of a pre-title sequence with exact lines of dialogue specified down to the type of laugh a certain character gives, I'm suggesting that we should limit the amount of detail that goes into the entries to open up the potential for other people to contribute. As it stands, Mr. Blofeld has given such a detailed account of his pre-title sequence that there is no way it can be explored by others. That, more than anything else, contradicts the purpose of making it a collaborative effort. How can it be collaborative when there is nothing to work with because one person has take it all? The description of that scene should have been "Bond and Yvonne are unwinding in a spa after their last mission, but they are interrupted by an enraged Murik who wants Bond dead", not an entire page (yes, I copy-pasted into Microsoft Word) that details precise character actions to the minute. That's why I'm giving up on this thread - because it's not collaborative. Now, I know that in the past I have given a lot of detail where it is called for, like with my description of computational fluid dynamics. But that was neccessary to understand the plot, and I didn't blockade anyone else from influecing things. I very much doubt that this was Mr. Blofeld's intention, but he's effectively gone and written a sequence in such detail that nobody else could contribute to it. And that's what I have a problem with: you're allowing it, which effectively shuts everyone else out of that sequence and is the exact opposite of being collaborative. Trust me on this when I say that if you limit the amount of allowable detail for an entry (to, say, one paragraph and possibly one brief dialogue exchange if they want a snappy one-liner in the mix), you'll get more of the much-valued collaboration going on because people will be able to dissect each and every part of the outline, not just selected parts.

[terminus]

So there are five action sequence fields - if each action sequence takes place for at most ten minutes then that's still only fifty minutes of screentime pre-dictated by specification of stunts, that's at least another fifty minutes to fill out with material. It's still a lot of work to do to link up the action sequences, apply the plot to the action sequences and characters and guide everything through.

I'm happy with the way this round has turned out - even though scenes have been suggested in detail by participants, there is room within these detailed descriptions to alter them to fit the plot. We've moved a car chase from one location to another, changed the nature of the meeting in Iceland and installed a character into two prespecified action sequences - there is still a lot of room for the collaborative nature of the project. I've suggested changing the finale location from a private plane to a 'hijacked' helicopter - because it didn't fit with how I was picturing the Oil Stones location being used (with Krause blowing up the bridges to the compound to slow the approach of the combined-nation assault forces) - and this seems to have been greenlight. If you have something that you wish to change about the pretitles sequence in Taiwan, then you are more than welcome to suggest it.

I believe we're not going to reach an amicable agreement here, so the conversation should probably end. So the project can move on in your absence, although you are welcome to participate in future as your input has been more than welcome and valued in the past.

[terminus]

Here's a slight revision of the plot as I'm envisaging it at the moment, taking into account comments about Goodnight and on how to use Sun Demeng and Jiang Yimou. I've not put Sun Demeng into the actual assault on Oil Stones - but he could probably be injected into it with little issue. I think there's probably a lot more material we could pull out of our hats and insert into the Australian Outback location, but I'm stumped for ideas at the moment outside of the visit to the solar energy facility. There's also room for fleshing out the exact circumstances of how Bond recovers the documents from the pro-democracy faction and destroys them. And we also need a nice location to set the closing scene.

• TAIWAN - Bond and Yvonne relax, are attacked by a scarred Murik but he is, in turn, killed.
  
• TITLES
  
• ICELAND - At a top-secret conference hosted at a geo-thermal power station operated by Krause, several Heads of the worlds intelligence agencies meet to discuss Quantum. Bond is present to protect M, his Chinese counterpart, Jiang, is present to protect the Head of Chinese Intelligence. Terrorists try and eliminate the attendees. Bond and Jiang save the attendees but fail to stop the destruction of the power station - and after an action sequence on a train, they are both almost killed.
  
• LONDON - Bond suspects that Krause is involved with Quantum and the terrorist attack on the conference and shares these beliefs with Moneypenny and M. M promises to look into it and introduces Bond to Mary Goodnight - an agent being considered for Double-Oh Status. Bond and Mary establish their relationship over combat and firearms training. Later, M reports on Krause - they can find no conclusive connection to Quantum, with the exception of the fact that he was due to (or possibly did) attend the opera in Bregenz the night Bond flushed out several Quantum members during his investigation into the Tierra Project. That's good enough for M, he sends Bond to Australia to look into Krause.
  
• CANBERRA - Bond and Mary arrive in Canberra. The pair pick up the Aston Martin One-77 at the airport and there is a car chase through the streets of the city. There are three parties involved in the car chase, one party just tailing the two agents and one party actively seeking to run the two agents off the road. It is suggested that both drivers are Asian - either Taiwanese or Chinese.
  
  I suspect that they encounter Krause and his wife at an event celebrating a planned solar energy program that Krause Energy is about to roll out in Australia. This would result in Bond being invited, under the guise of being a journalist with a focus on energy programs, to visit Krause at his ranch in the outback with Mary to join as his photographer/girlfriend. Caesura is present at the event but her true nature is, at this point, unknown to Bond. Also present at the celebration is a Taiwanese man - he is smart and besuited and there's the air of the bored bureaucrat about him. He reveals himself to be the liaison between the Taiwanese government and Krause's current operations off the coast of Taiwan - mining for fuel. Bond doesn't trust him - and neither does Mary.
  
  At some point, in the middle of the night, Bond breaks into a building owned by Krause which is under a programme of renovation and extension - areas of the building are under construction. Bond has earlier witnessed Krause meeting with a Chinese national and, in the building, discovers evidence to indicate that Krause has also been dealing with Henri Grant - a black market arms dealer who has surfaced on the MI6 radar on occasion. Discovered, Bond plays a cat and mouse game through the corridors of the under-construction building before discovering that he was being shepherded into a sort of pen (surrounded by an electrical fence) where hired thugs, overseen by Clarisse, try to smash him with wrecking balls or force him into the electric fence. Bond is powerless - until he finds himself rescued by Sun Demeng - Krause's liason to the Taiwanese government. Once Bond has been rescued by Sun Demeng the pair enjoy a drink in a hotel bar - there's a camaraderie forged in the heat of action between them, an easy friendship that results in a casual interaction between them not unlike that between Bond/Mathis or Bond/Felix.
  
  Sun Demeng explains that Taiwanese Intelligence have suspicions of untoward dealings between Krause and militant factions within the People's Republic. Taiwanese Intelligence agree to let MI6 and Bond take point on the investigation. Sun Demeng admits that it was he who was tailing Bond - and helped run the third party off the road. These people were representatives from the militant communist faction that Sun Demeng and Taiwanese Intelligence have been investigating.
  
  I'd suspect that it is in the Canberra sequences wherein Krause learns that he is being used by Quantum for their own games and goes rogue. My proposal is that we use Caesura as a fellow Quantum operative of Krause's who recovers several documents pertaining to the deal between Krause and the militant Chinese faction and plans to leak them to the pro-democracy group. Krause is furious and has Caesura killed but not until she has handed the documents over - which throws Bond into a situation where he has to recover the documents from the pro-democracy faction.
  
• THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK - Bond finds himself at Krause's ranch in the Australian Outback where more evidence of the true plot is uncovered. I'm unsure what elements to install here - though Bond and Mary could try to continue their masquerade as reporters on a visit to a solar energy facility based in the blast furnace of the Outback. The pair are trapped in a room that is heated using the solar panels - the pair try to escape, but only succeed in smashing a handful of solar panels and eventually just pass out. Which could lead into the sequence at the abandoned Chinese Funfair.
  
• THE CHINESE FUNFAIR - After being knocked out using knockout darts (in either the Australian Outback or after a second sequence in Canberra), Bond and Mary wake to find themselves in the middle of an abandoned funfair somewhere in China. Bond recognises the name of the location as a location that the Chinese were believed to have used as a testing range for nuclear weapons in the seventies - if they remain in the area for much longer, they will die. Bond seeks out a method of transport out of the area, but many of the trucks are out of petrol or in disrepair - though Bond is able to jury rig a ham radio and get a signal out that way. It is revealed, when a bullet clips Mary's shoulder, that the pair are being hunted by hunters in biological and chemical protection suits and pumped full of anti-radiation medication with more on the hunters. Bond must take down one of the hunters in order to get the anti-radiation medication for Mary - and the pair must then work on a cat and mouse chase, hunted by extemely talented predators used to stalking prey on reserves in Africa, throughout the abandoned funfair and the nearby town until they find the truck the hunters arrived in and a secondary stash of anti-radiation medication. Bond and Mary now escape in the truck and drive until they find themselves in the hands of the Chinese authorities, spearheaded by Jiang Yimou.
  
  Together with Jiang, the two MI6 agents must track down the leader of the militant Chinese faction, take him into custody and find out where Krause has vanished to. It is eventually revealed he has retreated to a business venture off the Russian coast known as Oil Stones -
  
  However, before Bond and his friends can act, Krause manages to set off one of the nuclear bombs causing devastation to some coastal areas of Taiwan.
  
• OIL STONES - Bond, Mary, Jiang and Sun Demeng must work together to stop Krause setting off the remaining nuclear bombs and causing further catastrophe. Krause has had the bridges connecting the mainland to the Oil Stones location blown up to slow the approach of the joint military convoy intended to stop him. One of the bombs goes off as a truck conveying Bond and his comrades to the location is passing over a section of the bridge - the truck almost plunges into the freezing Caspian Sea but stops with its rear tires hanging over the edge of the collapsed section. Bond radio's in for assistance - which leads to an assault by the joint military forces by air and sea.
  
  Sun Demeng - more of a bureaucrat than the others - remains behind to coordinate operations whilst Bond, Mary and Jiang are all inserted onto Oil Stones by helicopter. They fight their way through to Krause and Dana and the control centre and stop the detonation of further nuclear bombs, preventing unwanted further devestation of the Eastern coast of Taiwan. At some point, the three agents inserted into the location are placed in mortal danger - and Jiang sacrifices himself to save the other two. He dies in the arms of the 'decadent capitalist'.
  
  Clarisse is seen to die during the assault on Oil Stones.
  
  This leads to Bond and Mary encountering Krause and his wife on a military helicopter that several commando's have used to get to Oil Stones. Krause and his wife have disguised themselves and smuggled themselves onto the helicopter. Dana throttles the helicopters pilot to death using her necklace and Krause begins to run take-off procedures. Bond and Mary jump onboard as the helicopter (am picturing a Boeing CH-47 Chinook, or something in that mold) takes off - a fight ensues. Bond is wounded, but he defeats Krause and Mary defeats Dana - this is Mary's second kill in cold-blood (she should probably kill someone in one of the earlier sequences) - and Bond takes the control yoke of the helicopter despite his wounds, landing the helicopter on the deck of a waiting aircraft carrier that is part of the taskforce in either the Mediterranean Sea or Persian Gulf.
  
• MI6 HEADQUARTERS - In the penultimate scene, we are shown a meeting between M and his opposite number in Chinese Intelligence (whom we met during the conference scenes in Iceland). Bond and Mary are honored by the People's Republic of China for their services to Beijing and in maintaining stability in the region. Likewise, M commends the sacrifice of Jiang Yimou and calls him a true patriot - and an example to the peoples of the United Kingdom, China and Taiwan. M's opposite number asks if he could thank Bond and Mary in person but M explains that they are recuperating from their injuries.
  
• LOCATION UNDECIDED - The closing scene is then with Bond and Mary in a bedroom somewhere, enjoying each others company. Bond opens a bottle of champagne which erupts (it's almost sexual) in a fountain of foam - "Congratulations - 008" - and on the sparkling bubbles popping in the champagne glasses, we leave Bond and Mary engaged in the opening volleys of a sexual encounter. Althought it is shown that Bond winces from his injuries - he's still wrapped in bandages around his thigh. Mary jokes about her nursing skills -
  
  Bond: My Doctor told me to take it easy.
  
  Mary: I promise to be gentle.
  
  Bond: Now, where's the fun in that?
  
  - and we fade to black.

[ConnerysToupee1983]

Here's a slight revision of the plot as I'm envisaging it at the moment, taking into account comments about Goodnight and on how to use Sun Demeng and Jiang Yimou. I've not put Sun Demeng into the actual assault on Oil Stones - but he could probably be injected into it with little issue. I think there's probably a lot more material we could pull out of our hats and insert into the Australian Outback location, but I'm stumped for ideas at the moment outside of the visit to the solar energy facility. There's also room for fleshing out the exact circumstances of how Bond recovers the documents from the pro-democracy faction and destroys them. And we also need a nice location to set the closing scene.

• TAIWAN - Bond and Yvonne relax, are attacked by a scarred Murik but he is, in turn, killed.
  
• TITLES
  
• ICELAND - At a top-secret conference hosted at a geo-thermal power station operated by Krause, several Heads of the worlds intelligence agencies meet to discuss Quantum. Bond is present to protect M, his Chinese counterpart, Jiang, is present to protect the Head of Chinese Intelligence. Terrorists try and eliminate the attendees. Bond and Jiang save the attendees but fail to stop the destruction of the power station - and after an action sequence on a train, they are both almost killed.
  
• LONDON - Bond suspects that Krause is involved with Quantum and the terrorist attack on the conference and shares these beliefs with Moneypenny and M. M promises to look into it and introduces Bond to Mary Goodnight - an agent being considered for Double-Oh Status. Bond and Mary establish their relationship over combat and firearms training. Later, M reports on Krause - they can find no conclusive connection to Quantum, with the exception of the fact that he was due to (or possibly did) attend the opera in Bregenz the night Bond flushed out several Quantum members during his investigation into the Tierra Project. That's good enough for M, he sends Bond to Australia to look into Krause.
  
• CANBERRA - Bond and Mary arrive in Canberra. The pair pick up the Aston Martin One-77 at the airport and there is a car chase through the streets of the city. There are three parties involved in the car chase, one party just tailing the two agents and one party actively seeking to run the two agents off the road. It is suggested that both drivers are Asian - either Taiwanese or Chinese.
  
  I suspect that they encounter Krause and his wife at an event celebrating a planned solar energy program that Krause Energy is about to roll out in Australia. This would result in Bond being invited, under the guise of being a journalist with a focus on energy programs, to visit Krause at his ranch in the outback with Mary to join as his photographer/girlfriend. Caesura is present at the event but her true nature is, at this point, unknown to Bond. Also present at the celebration is a Taiwanese man - he is smart and besuited and there's the air of the bored bureaucrat about him. He reveals himself to be the liaison between the Taiwanese government and Krause's current operations off the coast of Taiwan - mining for fuel. Bond doesn't trust him - and neither does Mary.
  
  At some point, in the middle of the night, Bond breaks into a building owned by Krause which is under a programme of renovation and extension - areas of the building are under construction. Bond has earlier witnessed Krause meeting with a Chinese national and, in the building, discovers evidence to indicate that Krause has also been dealing with Henri Grant - a black market arms dealer who has surfaced on the MI6 radar on occasion. Discovered, Bond plays a cat and mouse game through the corridors of the under-construction building before discovering that he was being shepherded into a sort of pen (surrounded by an electrical fence) where hired thugs, overseen by Clarisse, try to smash him with wrecking balls or force him into the electric fence. Bond is powerless - until he finds himself rescued by Sun Demeng - Krause's liason to the Taiwanese government. Once Bond has been rescued by Sun Demeng the pair enjoy a drink in a hotel bar - there's a camaraderie forged in the heat of action between them, an easy friendship that results in a casual interaction between them not unlike that between Bond/Mathis or Bond/Felix.
  
  Sun Demeng explains that Taiwanese Intelligence have suspicions of untoward dealings between Krause and militant factions within the People's Republic. Taiwanese Intelligence agree to let MI6 and Bond take point on the investigation. Sun Demeng admits that it was he who was tailing Bond - and helped run the third party off the road. These people were representatives from the militant communist faction that Sun Demeng and Taiwanese Intelligence have been investigating.
  
  I'd suspect that it is in the Canberra sequences wherein Krause learns that he is being used by Quantum for their own games and goes rogue. My proposal is that we use Caesura as a fellow Quantum operative of Krause's who recovers several documents pertaining to the deal between Krause and the militant Chinese faction and plans to leak them to the pro-democracy group. Krause is furious and has Caesura killed but not until she has handed the documents over - which throws Bond into a situation where he has to recover the documents from the pro-democracy faction.
  
• THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK - Bond finds himself at Krause's ranch in the Australian Outback where more evidence of the true plot is uncovered. I'm unsure what elements to install here - though Bond and Mary could try to continue their masquerade as reporters on a visit to a solar energy facility based in the blast furnace of the Outback. The pair are trapped in a room that is heated using the solar panels - the pair try to escape, but only succeed in smashing a handful of solar panels and eventually just pass out. Which could lead into the sequence at the abandoned Chinese Funfair.
  
• THE CHINESE FUNFAIR - After being knocked out using knockout darts (in either the Australian Outback or after a second sequence in Canberra), Bond and Mary wake to find themselves in the middle of an abandoned funfair somewhere in China. Bond recognises the name of the location as a location that the Chinese were believed to have used as a testing range for nuclear weapons in the seventies - if they remain in the area for much longer, they will die. Bond seeks out a method of transport out of the area, but many of the trucks are out of petrol or in disrepair - though Bond is able to jury rig a ham radio and get a signal out that way. It is revealed, when a bullet clips Mary's shoulder, that the pair are being hunted by hunters in biological and chemical protection suits and pumped full of anti-radiation medication with more on the hunters. Bond must take down one of the hunters in order to get the anti-radiation medication for Mary - and the pair must then work on a cat and mouse chase, hunted by extemely talented predators used to stalking prey on reserves in Africa, throughout the abandoned funfair and the nearby town until they find the truck the hunters arrived in and a secondary stash of anti-radiation medication. Bond and Mary now escape in the truck and drive until they find themselves in the hands of the Chinese authorities, spearheaded by Jiang Yimou.
  
  Together with Jiang, the two MI6 agents must track down the leader of the militant Chinese faction, take him into custody and find out where Krause has vanished to. It is eventually revealed he has retreated to a business venture off the Russian coast known as Oil Stones -
  
  However, before Bond and his friends can act, Krause manages to set off one of the nuclear bombs causing devastation to some coastal areas of Taiwan.
  
• OIL STONES - Bond, Mary, Jiang and Sun Demeng must work together to stop Krause setting off the remaining nuclear bombs and causing further catastrophe. Krause has had the bridges connecting the mainland to the Oil Stones location blown up to slow the approach of the joint military convoy intended to stop him. One of the bombs goes off as a truck conveying Bond and his comrades to the location is passing over a section of the bridge - the truck almost plunges into the freezing Caspian Sea but stops with its rear tires hanging over the edge of the collapsed section. Bond radio's in for assistance - which leads to an assault by the joint military forces by air and sea.
  
  Sun Demeng - more of a bureaucrat than the others - remains behind to coordinate operations whilst Bond, Mary and Jiang are all inserted onto Oil Stones by helicopter. They fight their way through to Krause and Dana and the control centre and stop the detonation of further nuclear bombs, preventing unwanted further devestation of the Eastern coast of Taiwan. At some point, the three agents inserted into the location are placed in mortal danger - and Jiang sacrifices himself to save the other two. He dies in the arms of the 'decadent capitalist'.
  
  Clarisse is seen to die during the assault on Oil Stones.
  
  This leads to Bond and Mary encountering Krause and his wife on a military helicopter that several commando's have used to get to Oil Stones. Krause and his wife have disguised themselves and smuggled themselves onto the helicopter. Dana throttles the helicopters pilot to death using her necklace and Krause begins to run take-off procedures. Bond and Mary jump onboard as the helicopter (am picturing a Boeing CH-47 Chinook, or something in that mold) takes off - a fight ensues. Bond is wounded, but he defeats Krause and Mary defeats Dana - this is Mary's second kill in cold-blood (she should probably kill someone in one of the earlier sequences) - and Bond takes the control yoke of the helicopter despite his wounds, landing the helicopter on the deck of a waiting aircraft carrier that is part of the taskforce in either the Mediterranean Sea or Persian Gulf.
  
• MI6 HEADQUARTERS - In the penultimate scene, we are shown a meeting between M and his opposite number in Chinese Intelligence (whom we met during the conference scenes in Iceland). Bond and Mary are honored by the People's Republic of China for their services to Beijing and in maintaining stability in the region. Likewise, M commends the sacrifice of Jiang Yimou and calls him a true patriot - and an example to the peoples of the United Kingdom, China and Taiwan. M's opposite number asks if he could thank Bond and Mary in person but M explains that they are recuperating from their injuries.
  
• LOCATION UNDECIDED - The closing scene is then with Bond and Mary in a bedroom somewhere, enjoying each others company. Bond opens a bottle of champagne which erupts (it's almost sexual) in a fountain of foam - "Congratulations - 008" - and on the sparkling bubbles popping in the champagne glasses, we leave Bond and Mary engaged in the opening volleys of a sexual encounter. Althought it is shown that Bond winces from his injuries - he's still wrapped in bandages around his thigh. Mary jokes about her nursing skills -
  
  Bond: My Doctor told me to take it easy.
  
  Mary: I promise to be gentle.
  
  Bond: Now, where's the fun in that?
  
  - and we fade to black.

That all sounds like a reasonable and decent amalgamation of the bits and pieces thrown out so far. Im certainly not opposed to it in any case.

Good show.

[terminus]

Thanks. I'm quite pleased with how the elements are coming together, but I feel there's still a lot of room to make this much much better. Is there anything that you think needs changing or improving - or any ideas you've got of stuff we could work in or develop?

[Mr. Blofeld]

We need a bit more downtime during the Canberra sequence, so the characters involved can get to know each other better, as well as something of an explanation as to how Bond and Goodnight are brought to the amusement park by Krause.

I'd also like Goodnight to have some foibbles, so she's not just the Mary Sue of our rewrite; perhaps Bond slightly resents her for overshadowing him in M's eyes, and she, in return, views him as a barrier between herself and the full appreciation of her male coworkers as a 00-agent? Their relationship would slowly ease over the film, creating something of an arc; that way, when we fade out on Bond and Goodnight with their bottle of champagne, we know they've realistically grown to like each other, and that, hopefully, 008 will return for another adventure.