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#751 Captain Tightpants

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 02:54 AM

Can I make a suggestion?

The segue from pre-titles to the titles proper could take the form of Bond hallucinating. He's jacked up on LSD and bleeding out and he starts seeing the animated images.

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 02:54 AM

I picture Rusty in somewhat of a throwaway role, like many of the PTS Bond girls from the old days--think Bianca in "Octopussy," the log cabin girl in "TSWLM", Linda in "TLD"--and using her early eases the burden of having to fit her in later in the movie, especially considering the primary henchman is a woman.

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 02:58 AM

Exactly how I was picturing it, CT :D

And yes, coco1997, am fine with that! It does ease us up later with not having to fit her in later on. And it's been a bit since we've had a throwaway PTS girl. When was the last? Kimberley Jones? Or Linda, you might be right!

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 03:09 AM

Can I make a suggestion?

The segue from pre-titles to the titles proper could take the form of Bond hallucinating. He's jacked up on LSD and bleeding out and he starts seeing the animated images.


How about this?

Bond lies on the floor in a pool of blood. The camera centred above looking directly down at Bond's body at 90 degrees, begins to spin as it descends. With each revolution becoming more violent, it now resembles a rotating board from a standard circus knife-throwing act.

Here this blurred impression begins to morph into skulls, cards, scorpions, flowers, frogs, and various morbid, yet colourful imagery. Of course, derived from the classic first edition covers.

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 03:11 AM


Can I make a suggestion?

The segue from pre-titles to the titles proper could take the form of Bond hallucinating. He's jacked up on LSD and bleeding out and he starts seeing the animated images.


How about this?

Bond lies on the floor in a pool of blood. The camera centred above looking directly down at Bond's body at 90 degrees, begins to spin as it descends. With each revolution becoming more violent, it now resembles a spinning board from a standard circus knife-throwing act.

Here the blurred image begins to morph into skulls, cards, scorpions, flowers, frogs, and various morbid, yet colourful imagery. Of course, derived from the classic first edition covers.


Very nice, vivid idea, Shark. Do you have an idea in mind for your second submission?

Also, I should mention that I'm intrigued by the direction the locales of this story is taking. A while back, terminus and I had discussed the possibility of relegating one of the editions of Ultimate Bond to one continent, similar to how "YOLT" occurs almost entirely in Japan. I was going to propose that the locations of UB27 be confined exclusively to South America, but seeing as how this round is shaping up to be very U.S.-centric, I may have gotten my wish this time around. Still, when the time comes to start work on UB27, if anyone fancies my proposal, it's something to keep in mind.

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 06:11 AM

By the way, if my New York subway PTS location jars too much with Harmsway's PTS sequence, then I am happy for it simply to be New York - the seedier side of New York.

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 06:56 AM

By the way, if my New York subway PTS location jars too much with Harmsway's PTS sequence, then I am happy for it simply to be New York - the seedier side of New York.

I can see how it would work perfectly. Bond is in one of New York's seedier gambling insitutions and accidentally blows his cover (through no fault of his own). The bad guys give no sign of this, and dose him with LSD to make him easier to kill. Bond realises he's been made when he tastes the drug and the fight starts. He takes two bad guys down, and the third flees; Bond chases him down into a nearby subway, and rather than the cliche of just missing the villain as he escapes on the train, Bond boards it and confronts the man. By now the LSD has kicked in and Bond hallucinates the image of Vesper killing him. The train leaves and a dying Bond hallucinates his way through the titles, which end with the train arriving at the next station and Bond getting help because someone witnessed the shooting and called for an ambulance to arrive at the next station.

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 07:13 PM

I wonder if this thread being moved to the Fan Fiction section is the cause for such slow development lately?

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 09:07 PM

It's possible - maybe I should PM all participants in this round and let them know about the move?

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 09:12 PM

Good plan.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 07:38 AM

I'd like to share something that I was considering entering for the plot, but I realied it was totally unworkable. I couldn't work out how to apply it; I've had situations where I've had to tweak certain aspects, or drop one or two ideas from a whole to make it flow better, but this is the first time I've been totally stumped and with no way out. My idea was that Bond would take on a serial killer under the employ of the villain (or possibly the villain himself) who is obsessed with the kabbalah, the mystical aspect of Judaism. The idea centered around victims being placed around Manhattan's Central Park in the shape of the Sephirot (Tree of Life) and/or the Qliphoth (Tree of Death), with victims dressed and chosen according to the kabbalah (for example, a woman dressed in black who is found on one side of the park, a man dressed in white who is found on the other side and someone dressed in green who is found exactly between the two) and what the stages of each 'Tree' represent. The problem is that this would require quite an intimate knowledge of the kabbalah itself, and that's not something I think any forum member has (it certainly hasn't been mentioned). The general idea was going to be Bond vs. the Supernatural. The supernatural wouldn't actually show through the film; the underpinning theme would be that the villain wholly believes in what he is doing, and that in order for Bond to be able to defeat him, he has to be willing to open himself up to the possibility that it is real. Yes, it is a bit of a throwback to SHERLOCK HOLMES, but the difference here is that the kabbalah is something that is actually taught. It would likely end with the villain declaring to Bond that no man sent to kill him could defeat him, and Bond replying that he was never actually sent by anyone (an homage to MACBETH, when Macbeth says no man born of woman could kill him and Malcolm reveals that he was never actually born - his mother had a caesarian).

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 12:38 PM

1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):Ashley Greene as Mercedes Baines, an American computer programmer (name courtesy of Righty007, who related that this was an actual classmate of his--and I found it too perfect to pass up )
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Natalia Paris as Lucia Rojos (Colombian model, I am a great believer in the exotic Bond girl, she was the basis for Veritta Balen in my FanFiction, she probably can't act, but when was that ever a requirement for a Bond girl?) not necessary to have significance to the story, but possibly ought to be the sacrifical lamb
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: New York Subway
12 Location 1:
13 Location 2: Barcelona
14 Location 3: 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).
15 Location 4: Chicago, USA
16 Location 5: Dakar, Senegal

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, social 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: An intense, intimate fistfight/gun battle in a gambling den. Bond, who has unfortunately ingested a hallucinogen, has to fight off a group of lowlife thugs as the mind-altering drugs gradually takes effect and he struggles to keep himself aware, seeing nightmarish phantoms and strange visions everywhere he turns. At the end of fight, as Bond begins to lose his struggle, one of the shadows takes the appearance of Vesper. She points a gun at him and fires. In reality, it's one of the thugs with a handgun. They leave Bond for dead, lying in a pool of his own blood.


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

I just took upon myself to change the order of the locations since bond can't stay in America the entire time. I figured London was a gimme so I chose Barcelona for the Zurich-type location (GF) before Bond heads to the USA

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 12:55 PM

Hmmmm - not supposed to do that. You should have put forward the suggestion and then we'd have seen what we thought - the locations in the proforma don't always match with the order they end up anyway, in UB24 or UB25 we swapped around the order of places/action sequences as they made for better story purposes.

And with this one, I was imagining Oak Ridge as the first proper post-PTS location (a la Haiti in QOS) as the discussed sequences makes more sense in an early section of the film and not much sense later on, thus why I put it as location 2, with location 1 being a bit more like Siena in QOS.

Besides, we can hop out of and into the USA if we need to - LALD did it succesfully with New York - San Monique - New Orleans - San Monique.

Anyway - have pushed Barcelona up to first post-PTS location (a bit like Siena in QOS, Madagascar in CR and France in Goldfinger - a location where something connected to the main plot happens, but before the main plot actually picks up with the MI6 briefing between Locations 1 and 2).



1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):Ashley Greene as Mercedes Baines, an American computer programmer (name courtesy of Righty007, who related that this was an actual classmate of his--and I found it too perfect to pass up )
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Natalia Paris as Lucia Rojos (Colombian model, I am a great believer in the exotic Bond girl, she was the basis for Veritta Balen in my FanFiction, she probably can't act, but when was that ever a requirement for a Bond girl?) not necessary to have significance to the story, but possibly ought to be the sacrifical lamb
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: New York Subway
12 Location 1: Barcelona
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: Dakar, Senegal

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, social 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: An intense, intimate fistfight/gun battle in a gambling den. Bond, who has unfortunately ingested a hallucinogen, has to fight off a group of lowlife thugs as the mind-altering drugs gradually takes effect and he struggles to keep himself aware, seeing nightmarish phantoms and strange visions everywhere he turns. At the end of fight, as Bond begins to lose his struggle, one of the shadows takes the appearance of Vesper. She points a gun at him and fires. In reality, it's one of the thugs with a handgun. They leave Bond for dead, lying in a pool of his own blood.


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

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 01:48 PM

Nice location choice, QOS. A few more participants and we should be able to take a second turn.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 01:55 PM

I'd like to share something that I was considering entering for the plot, but I realied it was totally unworkable. I couldn't work out how to apply it; I've had situations where I've had to tweak certain aspects, or drop one or two ideas from a whole to make it flow better, but this is the first time I've been totally stumped and with no way out. My idea was that Bond would take on a serial killer under the employ of the villain (or possibly the villain himself) who is obsessed with the kabbalah, the mystical aspect of Judaism. The idea centered around victims being placed around Manhattan's Central Park in the shape of the Sephirot (Tree of Life) and/or the Qliphoth (Tree of Death), with victims dressed and chosen according to the kabbalah (for example, a woman dressed in black who is found on one side of the park, a man dressed in white who is found on the other side and someone dressed in green who is found exactly between the two) and what the stages of each 'Tree' represent. The problem is that this would require quite an intimate knowledge of the kabbalah itself, and that's not something I think any forum member has (it certainly hasn't been mentioned). The general idea was going to be Bond vs. the Supernatural. The supernatural wouldn't actually show through the film; the underpinning theme would be that the villain wholly believes in what he is doing, and that in order for Bond to be able to defeat him, he has to be willing to open himself up to the possibility that it is real. Yes, it is a bit of a throwback to SHERLOCK HOLMES, but the difference here is that the kabbalah is something that is actually taught. It would likely end with the villain declaring to Bond that no man sent to kill him could defeat him, and Bond replying that he was never actually sent by anyone (an homage to MACBETH, when Macbeth says no man born of woman could kill him and Malcolm reveals that he was never actually born - his mother had a caesarian).


Very interesting idea, CT. It would also fit perfectly with the villain I plan to propose for UB27. Keep it in mind. :tup:

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 02:34 PM

Was discussing with coco1997 how to use Barcelona after the PTS but before the first MI6 and Oak Ridge sequences. After his poisoning in New York, Bond enters a sort of coma after which he is sent on recuperative leave by MI6 whilst they decide what to do with him, he ends up going to Barcelona where he deliberates living a normal life - and, indeed, tries to do this. This is where we'd meet Lucia Rojos, a beautiful Spanish waitress, with whom he'd fall in love - he'd spend some time with her but get involved in some sort of terrorist attack by Basque rebels (who would be working with The Ghost, tieing events into the rest of movie) in which he'd need to save Lucia from certain death and stop further carnage, he'll come to realise that he'll be unlikely to be able to live a normal life and flies back to MI6 where he demands to be placed back into the field.

M has him evaluated and he is given the clear, but M decides to give Bond an easy job of stopping the abduction of Mercedes Baines, a 'person of interest' for her computer programming skills, in Oak Ridge.

This kinda bridges the two sequences we already know about and is, imho, a pretty cool sequence of events.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 02:36 PM

Here's the hotel resort I had in mind for Bond in Barcelona:

Eurostar Grand Marina Hotel
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Posted 30 September 2010 - 04:01 PM

1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):Ashley Greene as Mercedes Baines, an American computer programmer (name courtesy of Righty007, who related that this was an actual classmate of his--and I found it too perfect to pass up )
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Natalia Paris as Lucia Rojos (Colombian model, I am a great believer in the exotic Bond girl, she was the basis for Veritta Balen in my FanFiction, she probably can't act, but when was that ever a requirement for a Bond girl?) not necessary to have significance to the story, but possibly ought to be the sacrifical lamb
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: New York Subway
12 Location 1: Barcelona
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: San Diego, CA
15 Location 4: Chicago, USA
16 Location 5: Dakar, Senegal

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, social 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: An intense, intimate fistfight/gun battle in a gambling den. Bond, who has unfortunately ingested a hallucinogen, has to fight off a group of lowlife thugs as the mind-altering drugs gradually takes effect and he struggles to keep himself aware, seeing nightmarish phantoms and strange visions everywhere he turns. At the end of fight, as Bond begins to lose his struggle, one of the shadows takes the appearance of Vesper. She points a gun at him and fires. In reality, it's one of the thugs with a handgun. They leave Bond for dead, lying in a pool of his own blood.


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

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 04:06 PM

Very fine location. ;) Looks like we'll see Bond visiting both coasts of the U.S. as well as the Midwest.

And for those who are considering submitting a gadget, here's some inspiration: Travel like James Bond: 007 Approved Gadgets

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 04:13 PM

Cool location indeed.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 08:14 PM

im feeling like Bond is spending too much time in the US. There's got to be somewhere else he can go. And will Bond not go to London this movie? That can't happen. Honestly I wouldn't care if another location spot was added, but Bond has to be seen in London. I'm just not sold on all the American locals

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 09:01 PM

"AVTAK" took place mostly in California, and "YOLT" was almost entirely in Japan.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 09:33 PM

Doctor No was nearly exclusively in Jamaica, the majority of FRWL took place in Turkey - with Thunderball spending a hefty amoung of time in the Caribbean. LALD spent a lot of time in America and St. Monique, TMWTGG was set almost exclusively in the Far East. Even TWINE spent the majority of time around Turkey and the Bosporus. A single country dominating the settings of a movie isn't unusual - it's something CT suggested beforehand and which was suggested and several people agreed with.

Maybe the next round could see a more globe trotting adventure, but I, for one, am happy to see a movie more exclusive to a single setting again.

I'm also opening to a third round of input from everyone :


1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):Ashley Greene as Mercedes Baines, an American computer programmer (name courtesy of Righty007, who related that this was an actual classmate of his--and I found it too perfect to pass up )
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Natalia Paris as Lucia Rojos (Colombian model, I am a great believer in the exotic Bond girl, she was the basis for Veritta Balen in my FanFiction, she probably can't act, but when was that ever a requirement for a Bond girl?) not necessary to have significance to the story, but possibly ought to be the sacrifical lamb
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: New York Subway
12 Location 1: Barcelona
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: San Diego, CA
15 Location 4: Chicago, USA
16 Location 5: Dakar, Senegal

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, social 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: An intense, intimate fistfight/gun battle in a gambling den. Bond, who has unfortunately ingested a hallucinogen, has to fight off a group of lowlife thugs as the mind-altering drugs gradually takes effect and he struggles to keep himself aware, seeing nightmarish phantoms and strange visions everywhere he turns. At the end of fight, as Bond begins to lose his struggle, one of the shadows takes the appearance of Vesper. She points a gun at him and fires. In reality, it's one of the thugs with a handgun. They leave Bond for dead, lying in a pool of his own blood.


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: Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom & Skip Woods - with David Wolstencraft to do a redraft in order to anchor the Anglocism.
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

#774 tdalton

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 10:31 PM

I went ahead and put down an action sequence which I had already detailed somewhat earlier in the thread. There's still a bit of work for me to do on it (it might be a bit too vague at this point), but I wanted to get it in there while there was still time. Also, I'm nearly finished working up a background for the Quinn character, and I'll post that when I finally do get it finished.




1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):Ashley Greene as Mercedes Baines, an American computer programmer (name courtesy of Righty007, who related that this was an actual classmate of his--and I found it too perfect to pass up )
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Natalia Paris as Lucia Rojos (Colombian model, I am a great believer in the exotic Bond girl, she was the basis for Veritta Balen in my FanFiction, she probably can't act, but when was that ever a requirement for a Bond girl?) not necessary to have significance to the story, but possibly ought to be the sacrifical lamb
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: New York Subway
12 Location 1: Barcelona
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: San Diego, CA
15 Location 4: Chicago, USA
16 Location 5: Dakar, Senegal

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, social 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: An intense, intimate fistfight/gun battle in a gambling den. Bond, who has unfortunately ingested a hallucinogen, has to fight off a group of lowlife thugs as the mind-altering drugs gradually takes effect and he struggles to keep himself aware, seeing nightmarish phantoms and strange visions everywhere he turns. At the end of fight, as Bond begins to lose his struggle, one of the shadows takes the appearance of Vesper. She points a gun at him and fires. In reality, it's one of the thugs with a handgun. They leave Bond for dead, lying in a pool of his own blood.


19 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 1: A shoot-out and cat-and-mouse chase through one of those very sterile computer/server buildings where Bond is trying to protect Mercedes Baines from a kidnap attempt by Quinn. Quinn makes her way through the the multi-story building eliminating anything in her path (in a very Terminator-esque kind of way) trying to get rid of Bond and capture Mercedes.

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: Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom & Skip Woods - with David Wolstencraft to do a redraft in order to anchor the Anglocism.
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

#775 terminus

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 10:33 PM

Heh - was taking that action sequence as a given, following discussion about what inspired me to pick the location, it didn't need to take up a field! Glad you went with it though, it was pretty much exactly as I had it in mind - a cross between a footchase in Terminator and the London train station sequence in Bourne Ultimatum.

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Posted 01 October 2010 - 12:48 AM

Very interesting idea, CT. It would also fit perfectly with the villain I plan to propose for UB27. Keep it in mind. :tup:

I'm actually toying with using it in a completely different context, a character of my own creation. If I could find a way to make it work, I might even try to get it published (as a sequel, because I have a killer idea lined up for a debut).

And will Bond not go to London this movie? That can't happen. Honestly I wouldn't care if another location spot was added, but Bond has to be seen in London.

In these games, it's assumed Bond will visit London at some point early in the film. Therefore, it does not need to be included in the list, because it would just take up a space needlessly.

19 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 1: A shoot-out and cat-and-mouse chase through one of those very sterile computer/server buildings where Bond is trying to protect Mercedes Baines from a kidnap attempt by Quinn. Quinn makes her way through the the multi-story building eliminating anything in her path (in a very Terminator-esque kind of way) trying to get rid of Bond and capture Mercedes.

20 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 2:

21 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 3:

22 Finale Action Sequence/Stunt:

Perhaps we should make this sequence number two or three, because the Oak Ridge scenes don't come until about halfway through, so it's going to be completey unbalanced. A lot of people didn't like the way QUANTUM OF SOLACE was action-heavy in the first half; I can't see why they'd take to a story that was action-heavy in the second half.

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Posted 01 October 2010 - 01:07 AM

Yeah - I know coco1997 has an action sequence in mind for the terrorist attack I mentioned in my postulations of the Barcelona sequence a few posts above. So, the Oak Ridge sequence would be about forty minutes into the film, maybe - and would be our second (post PTS) action set-piece.

We can rearrange the order of the action sequences later.

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Posted 01 October 2010 - 01:45 AM

What number are we up to? We needed ten to move onto the next round; how far into that are we?

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Posted 01 October 2010 - 02:02 AM

What number are we up to? We needed ten to move onto the next round; how far into that are we?


We were only up to nine users in round two but due to lack of participation, terminus went ahead and opened the floor for round three, so if you have another idea in mind to submit, go right ahead, Captain.

Also, terminus, having thought about it, I'm not sure I like the positioning of the action sequence I had in mind. I'll have another think on it or submit something else entirely soon.

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Posted 01 October 2010 - 02:48 AM

Okay:

1 Bond - Daniel Craig
2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):Ashley Greene as Mercedes Baines, an American computer programmer (name courtesy of Righty007, who related that this was an actual classmate of his--and I found it too perfect to pass up )
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Natalia Paris as Lucia Rojos (Colombian model, I am a great believer in the exotic Bond girl, she was the basis for Veritta Balen in my FanFiction, she probably can't act, but when was that ever a requirement for a Bond girl?) not necessary to have significance to the story, but possibly ought to be the sacrifical lamb
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: New York Subway
12 Location 1: Barcelona
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: San Diego, CA
15 Location 4: Chicago, USA
16 Location 5: Dakar, Senegal

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, social 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: An intense, intimate fistfight/gun battle in a gambling den. Bond, who has unfortunately ingested a hallucinogen, has to fight off a group of lowlife thugs as the mind-altering drugs gradually takes effect and he struggles to keep himself aware, seeing nightmarish phantoms and strange visions everywhere he turns. At the end of fight, as Bond begins to lose his struggle, one of the shadows takes the appearance of Vesper. She points a gun at him and fires. In reality, it's one of the thugs with a handgun. They leave Bond for dead, lying in a pool of his own blood.

19 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 1: A shoot-out and cat-and-mouse chase through one of those very sterile computer/server buildings where Bond is trying to protect Mercedes Baines from a kidnap attempt by Quinn. Quinn makes her way through the the multi-story building eliminating anything in her path (in a very Terminator-esque kind of way) trying to get rid of Bond and capture Mercedes.

20 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 2:

21 Major Action Sequence/Stunt 3: In a throwback to the films of old, Bond leads a group of Navy SEALs (or other Special Forces) in the assault of a nightclub in Chicago (designed by Haus of GaGa especially for the film) in an attempt to capture Blanc. Although they are able to clean up most of Blanc's harem, they do not get Blanc himself and the assualt spills over into an adjacent construction site. Bond and Quinn fight, and end up in a situation where the room (or possibly a pit of some kind) is rapidly filling with quick-drying cement. Bond is able to escape, but Quinn is pulled under. In the morning, she is found face-down in the solid concrete.

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: Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom & Skip Woods - with David Wolstencraft to do a redraft in order to anchor the Anglocism.
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