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[Jim]

Ooooh - nice one, Jim. Could be a very surreal psychadelic title sequence.

Something I have always wanted to see, admittedly.

Have an idea for the pre-titles sequence but I suspect that may get claimed before it's my next go.

[terminus]

Unfortunately it may - but if not you could keep it until the next round unless it's plot specific, in which case you could submit it as a post-title sequence action piece, kinda like how CR had the Madagascar segment and QOS had the footchase in Italy if it's possible to do that.

[coco1997]

Looks like we have 7/10 of the needed participants before we move on to the next round. Hopefully dinovelvet will drop by, as he's been a regular over the last few rounds, and perhaps a few mystery guests?

[terminus]

Fingers crossed, eh! I have a few bits and bobs in mind for possibilities.

[Mr. Blofeld]

CAST

1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Dita Von Teese as Rusty Shafts (I'm imagining taking advantage of Dita Von Teese's background as a burlesque dancer in some fashion, the name specified would be her stage name - this might lead to a joke, it might not)
5 Henchman:
6 Henchman 2:
7 Villain: Jackie Earle Haley as Damien Blanc (aka "The Ghost", a cyber-criminal who leads expansive cyber-operations for Quantum and is virtually uncatchable because of his ability to change his appearance)
8 M - Timothy Dalton
9 Miss Moneypenny - Emily Blunt
10 Ally 1: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter


LOCATIONS
11 Pre-Titles Location:
12 Location 1:
13 Location 2:
14 Location 3:
15 Location 4:
16 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot: Not fully defined. However - it's Bond vs. the internet (as much as TWINE was Bond vs Oil Companies and TND was Bond vs The Media). There's plenty of material here: groups like Anonymous that exist without shape or form until they carry out their activities, socia network sites that steal personal information, MMORPGs that engage in gold farming, betting syndicates that start manipulating the outcomes of everything from cricket matches to election results, etc.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Action Sequence/Stunt:

19 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 1:

20 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 2:

21 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 3:

22 Finale Action Sequence/Stunt:

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Lotus Elite concept ( Pictured here)
24 Gadget 1:
25 Gadget 2:
26 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Kar-Wai Wong
28 Writer:
29 Music By: Don Davis
30 Theme Tune Sung By:
31 Theme Tune Written By:
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers

[coco1997]

Well now that we have an American villain and Bond's brother from Langley, it seems only natural that someone should submit a U.S. locale.

[terminus]

I have just the location.

[dinovelvet]

1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Dita Von Teese as Rusty Shafts (I'm imagining taking advantage of Dita Von Teese's background as a burlesque dancer in some fashion, the name specified would be her stage name - this might lead to a joke, it might not)
5 Henchman:
6 Henchman 2:
7 Villain: Jackie Earle Haley as Damien Blanc (aka "The Ghost", a cyber-criminal who leads expansive cyber-operations for Quantum and is virtually uncatchable because of his ability to change his appearance)
8 M - Timothy Dalton
9 Miss Moneypenny - Emily Blunt
10 Ally 1: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter


LOCATIONS
11 Pre-Titles Location:
12 Location 1:
13 Location 2:
14 Location 3:
15 Location 4: Chicago, USA
16 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot: Not fully defined. However - it's Bond vs. the internet (as much as TWINE was Bond vs Oil Companies and TND was Bond vs The Media). There's plenty of material here: groups like Anonymous that exist without shape or form until they carry out their activities, socia network sites that steal personal information, MMORPGs that engage in gold farming, betting syndicates that start manipulating the outcomes of everything from cricket matches to election results, etc.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Action Sequence/Stunt:

19 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 1:

20 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 2:

21 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 3:

22 Finale Action Sequence/Stunt:

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Lotus Elite concept ( Pictured here)
24 Gadget 1:
25 Gadget 2:
26 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Kar-Wai Wong
28 Writer:
29 Music By: Don Davis
30 Theme Tune Sung By:
31 Theme Tune Written By:
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers

[coco1997]

My hometown!

[dinovelvet]

My hometown!

Oh yeah? I went there recently, seems like a lot of potential for Bond-like actitivies, e.g. abseiling down the Sears tower, fighting on top of an L-train, randomly standing in front of The Bean for no reason etc etc, and of course Felix buying Bond a hot dog

[coco1997]

Indeed, dino. Hopefully future submitters are taking notes.

[terminus]

Cool location - not the US location I was going to propose, but an excellent one nonetheless. I can totally picture Bond being bought a hot dog from a street vendor by Felix and taking one bite then dumping it in a nearby trashcan.

Is the Sears Tower tall enough to base-jump from?

That makes nine unique participants by my count (am I right?) - one more and we should open the gates to the next submission.

[coco1997]

If not the Sears Tower, the Trump Tower is an interesting location:



Not as tall as the Sears Tower, but impressive nonetheless.

[terminus]

Wow. Maybe we could use both - the usual Gala Event (a la the Tierra Project Benefit in QOS) at the Trump Tower but Bond meeting a contact or chasing someone up there (a bit like the Eiffel Tower sequence in AVTAK, perhaps) at the Sears Tower, perhaps?

I hope we get out tenth participant before I go to bed, I've got a cracker of an idea and I don't want to miss out on submitting it!

[The Shark]

So it's Bond vs. a bunch of spotty, basement-dwelling, virgin, hacker teens?

[terminus]

I'm guessing computer hacking can be sexy? Can't it? I'd imagine one of our main Bond girls could be a computer hacker or programmer of some description.

[The Shark]

I'm guessing computer hacking can be sexy? Can't it? I'd imagine one of our main Bond girls could be a computer hacker or programmer of some description.

It's never worked, and I don't believe it ever will.

Either way, it's practically been done to the death. The Mission Impossible films, Tron, Wargames, Hackers, Pirates of Silicon Valley, The Net, The Matrix Trilogy, Antitrust, Die Hard 4, The Thirteenth Floor, The Italian Job (God awful 2003 remake), Swordfish, eXistenZ, The Score, Revolution OS etc...

The culture and its idiom, is bland, emotionally anaemic and sexless - No matter how much you try to dress it up with Hollywood gloss.

[Captain Tightpants]

If you don't like it, don't participate. But in the meantime, go look up Anonymous. That's what we're after.

[tdalton]

If you don't like it, don't participate. But in the meantime, go look up Anonymous. That's what we're after.

I think that the concept of Bond going up against an anonymous threat such as this would be a good extension of the whole Bond vs. Quantum storyline that has been going on. Quantum "has people everywhere", and this is very much an extension of that.

[coco1997]

The culture and its idiom, is bland, emotionally anaemic and sexless - No matter how much you try to dress it up with Hollywood gloss.

We'll try to make it better than 'Role of Honor'.

[terminus]

And I've got a nifty little idea to extrapolate something CT has mentioned and something coco1997 mentioned to me in a PVT into a rather nice little plot thread that I will post the suggestion for later. I also hope we have our tenth participant by then so I can put forward for my next idea!

[Jim]

I'm guessing computer hacking can be sexy? Can't it? I'd imagine one of our main Bond girls could be a computer hacker or programmer of some description.

It's never worked, and I don't believe it ever will.

Either way, it's practically been done to the death. The Mission Impossible films, Tron, Wargames, Hackers, Pirates of Silicon Valley, The Net, The Matrix Trilogy, Antitrust, Die Hard 4, The Thirteenth Floor, The Italian Job (God awful 2003 remake), Swordfish, eXistenZ, The Score, Revolution OS etc...

The culture and its idiom, is bland, emotionally anaemic and sexless - No matter how much you try to dress it up with Hollywood gloss.

True enough, but there was an interesting angle being developed in that comic A Silent Armageddon about a self-aware virus being the villain. Sorry if even mentioning that has disrupted anyone's idea for the game, as to what Quantum actually is.

[Harmsway]

True enough, but there was an interesting angle being developed in that comic A Silent Armageddon about a self-aware virus being the villain. Sorry if even mentioning that has disrupted anyone's idea for the game, as to what Quantum actually is.

Oh yeah, A SILENT ARMAGEDDON had some quite interesting stuff going on. And this story makes tech stuff all very topical.

The trick is avoiding a DIE HARD 4.0-esque scenario, or having lots of scenes of people tapping away on their computers. The way it's been written up so far suggests that's how things are leaning.

[coco1997]

Jeez, where's our tenth participant? I'm getting anxious to submit another idea...

[terminus]

The trick is avoiding a DIE HARD 4.0-esque scenario, or having lots of scenes of people tapping away on their computers. The way it's been written up so far suggests that's how things are leaning.

It's not the way things are going in my head - the computer stuff is something much grander that CT has suggested.

Jeez, where's our tenth participant? I'm getting anxious to submit another idea...

I know - might need to open the floodgates after nine.

[coco1997]

Loomis, if you are reading this (and it looks like you very well might be), please submit an idea! I know you have a very creative mind.

[tdalton]

The trick is avoiding a DIE HARD 4.0-esque scenario, or having lots of scenes of people tapping away on their computers. The way it's been written up so far suggests that's how things are leaning.

It's not the way things are going in my head - the computer stuff is something much grander that CT has suggested.

I don't really see it going in that direction either. I kind of see the villain as being someone who is much more hands-on than Olyphant's villain in LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, who basically just sat in his control center barking orders at others through a headset. To me, this villain could be someone who, while he has significant skill in the whole cyber crime arena, is also right out in the forefront of the physical aspects of the crimes he's committing. Rather than someone who just sits in front of a computer and watches things fall apart digitally from a distance, he could be on the front lines causing even more chaos on the scene while other things are going on behind the scenes in the cyber arena. I'm thinking something along the lines of a villain in a similar vein to Nolan's Joker, but with extensive knowledge of computers and on a global scale rather than just confined to one city.

[terminus]

The plot concept I mentioned that I'd been discussing with coco1997 was extrapolated from the comment CT made about MMORPG being involved in gold mining. coco1997 mentioned something about the element thorium and mining it as a possible idea for a future Bond project which struck me that it could serve as a replacement for gold mining - so that the villain is doing something online to achieve a monopoly on thorium.

This struck me as interesting because of the fact that thorium ties into a device known as a molten salt reactor - which in turn (something I have only just discovered) actually ties into the field I was going to fill in during my next input into.

[terminus]

Since we've been moved and since I know several of you are chomping at the bits with ideas - let's throw the gauntlet open for everyone's second turn.



1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Dita Von Teese as Rusty Shafts (I'm imagining taking advantage of Dita Von Teese's background as a burlesque dancer in some fashion, the name specified would be her stage name - this might lead to a joke, it might not)
5 Henchman:
6 Henchman 2:
7 Villain: Jackie Earle Haley as Damien Blanc (aka "The Ghost", a cyber-criminal who leads expansive cyber-operations for Quantum and is virtually uncatchable because of his ability to change his appearance)
8 M - Timothy Dalton
9 Miss Moneypenny - Emily Blunt
10 Ally 1: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter


LOCATIONS
11 Pre-Titles Location:
12 Location 1:
13 Location 2: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA (Specifically the Oak Ridge National Laboratory which supposedly has the worlds most powerful computer, the Jaguar, which I could imagine being tied into the plot quite easily. I can imagine a very suspense driven sequence in which Bond (and possibly one of the Bond girls) has to pursue one of the villains/henchmen round the streets around the ORNL - think of the London Victoria (?) scene in Bourne Ultimatum for an example of what I'm imagining - PLUS the ORNL was a pioneer in the field of molten salt reactors, if we decide to go down that route).
14 Location 3:
15 Location 4: Chicago, USA
16 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot: Not fully defined. However - it's Bond vs. the internet (as much as TWINE was Bond vs Oil Companies and TND was Bond vs The Media). There's plenty of material here: groups like Anonymous that exist without shape or form until they carry out their activities, socia network sites that steal personal information, MMORPGs that engage in gold farming, betting syndicates that start manipulating the outcomes of everything from cricket matches to election results, etc.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Action Sequence/Stunt:

19 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 1:

20 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 2:

21 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 3:

22 Finale Action Sequence/Stunt:

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Lotus Elite concept ( Pictured here)
24 Gadget 1:
25 Gadget 2:
26 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Kar-Wai Wong
28 Writer:
29 Music By: Don Davis
30 Theme Tune Sung By:
31 Theme Tune Written By:
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers

[tdalton]

1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Dita Von Teese as Rusty Shafts (I'm imagining taking advantage of Dita Von Teese's background as a burlesque dancer in some fashion, the name specified would be her stage name - this might lead to a joke, it might not)
5 Henchman: Melanie Laurent as Quinn (Damien Blanc's top associate, who acts as his closest advisor and is a key part of his combat operations. Also may or may not be in a relationship with Blanc)
6 Henchman 2:
7 Villain: Jackie Earle Haley as Damien Blanc (aka "The Ghost", a cyber-criminal who leads expansive cyber-operations for Quantum and is virtually uncatchable because of his ability to change his appearance)
8 M - Timothy Dalton
9 Miss Moneypenny - Emily Blunt
10 Ally 1: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter


LOCATIONS
11 Pre-Titles Location:
12 Location 1:
13 Location 2: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA (Specifically the Oak Ridge National Laboratory which supposedly has the worlds most powerful computer, the Jaguar, which I could imagine being tied into the plot quite easily. I can imagine a very suspense driven sequence in which Bond (and possibly one of the Bond girls) has to pursue one of the villains/henchmen round the streets around the ORNL - think of the London Victoria (?) scene in Bourne Ultimatum for an example of what I'm imagining - PLUS the ORNL was a pioneer in the field of molten salt reactors, if we decide to go down that route).
14 Location 3:
15 Location 4: Chicago, USA
16 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

17 Villain's Plot: Not fully defined. However - it's Bond vs. the internet (as much as TWINE was Bond vs Oil Companies and TND was Bond vs The Media). There's plenty of material here: groups like Anonymous that exist without shape or form until they carry out their activities, socia network sites that steal personal information, MMORPGs that engage in gold farming, betting syndicates that start manipulating the outcomes of everything from cricket matches to election results, etc.

18 Pre-Title Sequence Action Sequence/Stunt:

19 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 1:

20 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 2:

21 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 3:

22 Finale Action Sequence/Stunt:

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Lotus Elite concept ( Pictured here)
24 Gadget 1:
25 Gadget 2:
26 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Kar-Wai Wong
28 Writer:
29 Music By: Don Davis
30 Theme Tune Sung By:
31 Theme Tune Written By:
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers