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[coco1997]

Very nice idea, Captain! I love those old 'big battles' from the Connery days.

[coco1997]

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: Pink
31 Theme Tune Written By: Pink and Don Davis
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers

I hope you don't mind me filling in both field 30 and 31, terminus, as they go hand in hand.

[Captain Tightpants]

Very nice idea, Captain! I love those old 'big battles' from the Connery days.

I'm not hapyp with it. It just seems low-key, like something you'd expect to find in a Generic Action Movie. Hell, the original idea behind the supercomputer that could break public key encryption was that Iran was building one and someone was smuggling the specifics out of the country by weaving them into carpets. That's why I suggested Haus of GaGa to design the nightclub - because Lady GaGa is weird and funky and original and I think her design team would come up with something we've never seen before. Kind of retro-futurism meets art deco as designed by Escher or something.

[Captain Tightpants]

Can I change my last entry? I'm unhappy with it, but I have an idea for a gadget. It's similar to the "Spark Suit" that Nike are developing. It's like a wetsuit that uses nanotechnology to produce power. Before you go thinking that this is just going to be like the Robocop suit in DIE ANOTHER DAY, it's actually smoething else entirely. The Spark Suit is being developed to transform energy that is expended during physical exercise into electricity. Nike developed a concept car that apeared in Gran Turismo 4 called the Nike ONE, which requires a Spark Suit to drive; users conncet themselves into the car, which provides power to it. If we're going to have a plot revolving around a supercomputer that can factorise numbers of incredible size with ease, maybe we could have something similar to the Spark Suit that a user must wear, effectively making a human-powered computer.

[terminus]

I don't see the problem!

[Captain Tightpants]

Okay, revised edition:

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: The "Spark Suit", a bioelectric garment needed to power the supercomputers developed at Oak Ridge. It looks like a wet suit and uses nanotechnology to convert excess energy expended by the human body into power. The human body is inefficient; when we move, some of the energy we expend is wasted. The more adrenaline the body releases, the more energy that is gathered. The Spark Suit captures this energy and transforms it into a workable form of electricity. The Oak Ridge supercompeters require so much power that the only way to operate them is with a human interface wearing a Spark Suit. Unlike the Robocop suit in DIE ANOTHER DAY, the Spark Suit cannot generate or discharge this electrcity as a weapon.
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: Pink
31 Theme Tune Written By: Pink and Don Davis
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers

I'd still like to see Haus of GaGa involved in some way. I reckon they could make an interesting set for a villain's lair or a nightclub.

[coco1997]

I'd still like to see Haus of GaGa involved in some way. I reckon they could make an interesting set for a villain's lair or a nightclub.

I petition that you can use your original action sequence idea in addition to the 'SparkSuit' concept, because 1) we're already severely lacking in action sequences, 2) I actually really liked your Haus of Gaga lair idea, and 3) gadgets seem to be more of an addendum anyway since the Craig era has been very gadget-lite.

[coco1997]

I'd also like to revise one of my previous submissions by swapping out the Lotis Elite for the Lotus Eterne:



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 Eterne concept
24 Gadget 1: The "Spark Suit", a bioelectric garment needed to power the supercomputers developed at Oak Ridge. It looks like a wet suit and uses nanotechnology to convert excess energy expended by the human body into power. The human body is inefficient; when we move, some of the energy we expend is wasted. The more adrenaline the body releases, the more energy that is gathered. The Spark Suit captures this energy and transforms it into a workable form of electricity. The Oak Ridge supercompeters require so much power that the only way to operate them is with a human interface wearing a Spark Suit. Unlike the Robocop suit in DIE ANOTHER DAY, the Spark Suit cannot generate or discharge this electrcity as a weapon.
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: Pink
31 Theme Tune Written By: Pink and Don Davis
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers

[Captain Tightpants]

Ugh. The Eterne just looks like an Aston Martin. All of Lotus' concepts unveiled at the Paris Motor Show just look like knock-offs of other cars. The Elise looks like a Koenigsegg, the Espirit is just a Lamborghini or Ferrari and the Elan a Honda NSX. Even their CityCar looks like a Mercedes-Benz A-Class.

[Captain Tightpants]

Okay, I hate doing this, but I need to write it down or else I'll forget. I have a killer idea for what we could do in the next one: rather than produce one straightforward story, we could take a PULP FICTION or INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS-esque approach and present it as a series of vignettes. Each location in the film would be one self-contained story, with crossover from secondary characters who weave in and out of the story. All of it would be linked by a common theme of some kind, so you could have one story in Siberia and another in Zanzibar, and a third set in Paris, etc. Then, when it comes time to do the write-up, we take one vignette each.

[Jim]

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: It having come to pass that the reclusive Damien Blanc is an entirely compter-generated fiction, an online avatar insidiously and Zelig-like injected into visual media by the Ghost virus, a very modern celebrity, the source of the virus is tracked the Casamance separatists in Senegal. Bond and Mercedes try to pull the plug but are tracked through the river delta and have to deal with all sorts of natural nasties and various goons out to get them, culminating in a triple helicopter gunship attack on a tourist resort in which they take refuge.

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Lotus Eterne concept
24 Gadget 1: The "Spark Suit", a bioelectric garment needed to power the supercomputers developed at Oak Ridge. It looks like a wet suit and uses nanotechnology to convert excess energy expended by the human body into power. The human body is inefficient; when we move, some of the energy we expend is wasted. The more adrenaline the body releases, the more energy that is gathered. The Spark Suit captures this energy and transforms it into a workable form of electricity. The Oak Ridge supercompeters require so much power that the only way to operate them is with a human interface wearing a Spark Suit. Unlike the Robocop suit in DIE ANOTHER DAY, the Spark Suit cannot generate or discharge this electrcity as a weapon.
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: Pink
31 Theme Tune Written By: Pink and Don Davis
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers

[Captain Tightpants]

Interesting idea, Jim - but the separatists would have to be woven into the story somehow. If I can draw on an analogy, the ending of FINAL FANTASY IX was very confusing: you spent four discs trying to stop the resident Big Bad, but once you finally did him in, there was another fight to be had against a completely random boss monster. It came out of nowhere, disappeared to nothingness and was never explained. While there is a theory linking it to key concepts explored in the game, it took a lot of people by suprise, and not in a good way. I think I speak for everyone involved when i say we don't want Bond to suddenly start fighitng a random group of separatists who pop up out of nowhere. They have to run through the plot, and it has to be implied that Blanc is not real in order for it to work.

[Jim]

Interesting idea, Jim - but the separatists would have to be woven into the story somehow. If I can draw on an analogy, the ending of FINAL FANTASY IX was very confusing: you spent four discs trying to stop the resident Big Bad, but once you finally did him in, there was another fight to be had against a completely random boss monster. It came out of nowhere, disappeared to nothingness and was never explained. While there is a theory linking it to key concepts explored in the game, it took a lot of people by suprise, and not in a good way. I think I speak for everyone involved when i say we don't want Bond to suddenly start fighitng a random group of separatists who pop up out of nowhere. They have to run through the plot, and it has to be implied that Blanc is not real in order for it to work.

True, although it may inspire another minor villain (still space for one on the proforma) and subplot or backstory for the Quinn character that she has been connected in some way with such a person - say some high-up in the separatists who wants revenge on the West for slavery and has therefore created social networks etc and this character to enslave the West willingly through dependency upon the social networks of the internet, without their noticing it. The name Blanc is a bitter deception. It could be part of the Blanc fiction that an ostensibly philanthropic side has connections in developing nations. Or Bond's opening incident in New York comes of following a UN delegate with such contacts. Something like that?

[Captain Tightpants]

Something like that. I'm thinking if we run with the supercomputer that can crack public key encryption, the separatists may be trying to acquire it to tap into the funds being channelled to the government and fund a civil war.

[coco1997]

Very cool idea, Jim!

And Captain, would you be willing to re-submit that action sequence in Chicago you decided to remove? I think it would work even better now with Jim's idea if Bond and the SEALs raided the 'Haus of GaGa' in search of Blanc but came up empty, finding only a patsy of Quantum and humiliating themselves in the process.

Also, regarding your vignette idea for the next one, I definitely think it's an intriguing, albeit complex idea. I talked to terminus a bit about the next round and he agreed that due to a lack of enthusiasm/participation for UB26 relative to the previous rounds, he might change the formatting of the next round. I'll let him explain himself when he posts next but long story short, as long as the core of the UB crew (you, terminus, tdalton, myself, and hopefully Jim, now that he's gotten involved) stay onboard, we should be able to produce a quality story.

[terminus]

Hmmm, maybe the Haus of Gaga could be the ones who designed the Hotel in Senegal that Bond and Mercedes try to seek sanctuary in.

Not sure what I feel about a computer generated villain - unless it turns out to be a facade used by a group of people, tieing into the fact that the initial suggestion was he was a master of disguise. Well, what about if he's NOT a master of disguise per se - but an identity that Person A, B, C, D ... through to Person X, Y or Z could pick up. He is legion.

I do like the idea that a group is planning to siphon funds - but agreed we'd need to set-up the rebel faction earlier in the film. Perhaps, as someone has already postulated, it's the rebels that Bond is trying to get a handle on in New York in the PTS but Bond's actions blows that avenue of arms procurement leading them to accept the alternative - computer orientated - offer from Quantum.

CT would need to wait until his next turn to resubmit the action sequence. I'd also like to see you submit your action sequence for Barcelona that we have discussed your idea for.

Re: the next 'film', we already know that it needs to feature an action sequence involving multiple Double-Ohs (inc. Goodnight, who gets injured, and another who is killed) so not sure the 'anthology' concept would work unless it had some uber-arc to tie everything together.

[coco1997]

I'm just not sure it fits in with how I'm picturing it, terminus. Besides, I wouldn't be able to submit idea until the next round--unless we miraculously get enough people to participate this round that everything fills up.

[terminus]

We've 23 fields filled in, so far, by my count - using the lowered limit of nine entrants per round that means we'd need at least another 4 until the fourth turn. I am tempted to call open season and let everyone have one final attempt - this round does seem to be lurching on at an incredibly slow pace.

[coco1997]

I agree. You should also consider that some fields such as the latter two gadgets and title sequence designer are more difficult to come up with because 1) DC's era has been deficient in clever gadgets and both films have been great thus proving that Bond doesn't need gadgets to succeed, and 2) not many people know any specific graphic design studios/firms right off the top of their heads with which to fill in that field. I think once we get the final two action sequences and the second henchmen filled in, it will be enough to develop the story.

[Captain Tightpants]

Not sure what I feel about a computer generated villain - unless it turns out to be a facade used by a group of people, tieing into the fact that the initial suggestion was he was a master of disguise. Well, what about if he's NOT a master of disguise per se - but an identity that Person A, B, C, D ... through to Person X, Y or Z could pick up. He is legion.

He is not just legion, he's the Dread Pirate Roberts. Blanc may have existed at some point, but his identity was adopted as an umbrella that covers all online criminals. Within the film, he could be described as the man who controls cybercrime - from the greatest online bank heists to the meanest identity theft cases, Damien Blanc is said to have had his hand in it. He's the Dread Pirate Roberts; it's the name, not the person carrying it, that matters.

[terminus]

True - if the proforma is retained, we can alter it before the next round commences.

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: It having come to pass that the reclusive Damien Blanc is an entirely compter-generated fiction, an online avatar insidiously and Zelig-like injected into visual media by the Ghost virus, a very modern celebrity, the source of the virus is tracked the Casamance separatists in Senegal. Bond and Mercedes try to pull the plug but are tracked through the river delta and have to deal with all sorts of natural nasties and various goons out to get them, culminating in a triple helicopter gunship attack on a tourist resort in which they take refuge.

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Lotus Eterne concept
24 Gadget 1: The "Spark Suit", a bioelectric garment needed to power the supercomputers developed at Oak Ridge. It looks like a wet suit and uses nanotechnology to convert excess energy expended by the human body into power. The human body is inefficient; when we move, some of the energy we expend is wasted. The more adrenaline the body releases, the more energy that is gathered. The Spark Suit captures this energy and transforms it into a workable form of electricity. The Oak Ridge supercompeters require so much power that the only way to operate them is with a human interface wearing a Spark Suit. Unlike the Robocop suit in DIE ANOTHER DAY, the Spark Suit cannot generate or discharge this electrcity as a weapon.
25 Gadget 2: A shaving kit, the parts of which hide gadgets such as lockpicks, infrared eyepieces etc.
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: Pink
31 Theme Tune Written By: Pink and Don Davis
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers


Here's the bullet point thingummy I used for CoW to help us keep track of the outline as it develops, we can alter and change bits, as we did with CoW and add action sequences in. I'm using coco1997's idea for the terrorist attack - as I will now open the doors to another turn on the proforma.

• NEW YORK CITY
  
  Bond is undercover, playing cards against some weapons underworld thugs who are dealing weapons to senegalese rebels. The game is in a gambling den come burlesque club, one of the dancers is Rusy who is also an undercover FBI operative and Bond's contact in the nightclub. Bond's cover is broken when the thugs and rebels all recieve simultaneous texts on their phones (the suggestion is that this would be Blanc) - but they play it cool, instead lacing Bond's drink with a cocktail of drugs including LSD which cause him to begin hallucinating wildly. He makes a break for it - but the thugs give pursuit, through underground tunnels and backstreets - and onto an empty subway car. Bond hallucinates the figure of Vesper, standing over him holding a gun - she fires, he collapses and he submits fully to the nightmareish hallucinations ...
  
• TITLES
  
  The abstract of the covers to the first Fleming editions come to life - Bond wandering through a nightmarish landscape of beautiful and simultaneously hideous women, giant frogs, skulls with roses in their mouths, conch shells and skeletons playing cards. As the credits draw to an end, the nigmareish landscape lessens - becomes more traditional as we ...
  
• BARCELONA
  
  Bond wakes from a nights sleep in Barcelona, he wakes, goes through his usual routine and takes breakfast on the balcony of his room. He wanders the city, taking in the sights (including a bullfight?) and, at some point, meets a beautiful woman called Lucia Rojos. Lucia is a Spanish woman who longs to travel, earthly and pure and Bond quickly finds himself falling in love with her amidst a passionate series of bedroom based interludes.
  
  Bond is trying to live a normal life - using a cover story of a travel writer - and finds himself surprising Lucia with a pair of train tickets on a new train route from Barcelona to Paris. Lucia, who has never been to Paris, is overjoyed - and we realise that Bond has been pondering proposing to her under the Eiffel Tower. He carries a wedding ring with him as they board the train. Unfortunately, Basque seperatists, who have been seemingly equipped and organised beyond comprehension, stage a terrorist attack on the train - and though Bond manages to save both Lucia and the vast majority of the passengers before the train is destroyed, he comes to realise he cannot live a normal life and vanishes into the crowd in the aftermath of the attack.
  
• MI6
  
  Bond enters MI6, demands to be returned to active service - this unending enforced sabbatical MUST end. M uhms and ahhs about it - eventually agreeing after Bond is given clearance for field duty by James Molony, the service's medical officer. But he is given a simple mission - to prevent the abduction of Mercedes Baines, a computer programmer and person of extreme interest, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
  
• OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE
  
  Bond arrives in Oak Ridge at the ORNL where he seeks out Mercedes Baines - a beautiful computer programmer who is working on 'The Hurricane' - a next level computer system, more advanced than the ORNL's own Jaguar. He is impressed with her knowledge and convinces her to accompany him to a safehouse - but as they are leaving, the sprinklers go off and the power turns off, chaos erupts as people flee labs and attempt escape. Bond realises this is a trap and tries to seek out the threat - which turns out to be a beautiful woman (whom we will come to know as Quinn) - in a cat and mouse chase through the white walled corridors and tree lined avenues of the campus. Just as Bond thinks he has saved Mercedes, he finds her bundled into the back of a Humvee.
  
  (perhaps you can explain how you imagine the spark suit be utilised in this action sequence, CT?)
  
  Even a pursuit in the Lotus Eterne through the streets of the campus and the nearby town cannot help Bond save Baines - and she vanishes.
  
• SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
• CHICAGO,
• DAKAR, SENEGAL

[coco1997]

The outline is shaping up nicely, terminus. The way you incorporated my action sequence idea deviates so much from my original idea that I can still use it for either UB27 or UB28 and it will be different enough to stand on its own legs.

Right now, for my last submission, I'm debating between submitting CT's idea for the SEAL raid on the nightclub in Chicago (provided he gives me permission to do so) or submitting my planned baddie for UB27 as the second henchman/minor villain as Jim suggested. However, the actor I have in mind is too good to relegate to a 'henchman' part as I would want him to carry over into UB27 and play a much larger role.

[chrisno1]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they just banned bullfighting in Barelona. (to take effect 2012)
Of course you could set a scene in Plaza del Toros, which is close to the Sagrada Familia; perhaps Bons should meet Lucia Rojas at the Parc Guell, designed by Guadi. It has a very playful quality which would look particularly good on film. There is a portico, a tunnel almost, which (if my memory serves me well) looks as if it is decorated with thousnads of stalagtites. It's hauntingly beautiful and looks very moody in the sunrise/sunset.
Alternatively, just take Bond to the marina. It's funky down there and the W Hotel is a big noise these days....

[chrisno1]

The train journey / battle is interesting but where does it take us and what happens to the girl?

Surely the 'Basque separatists' need to be linked with the main plot somehow (rather like 007 inadvertantly got involved with SPECTRE at Shrublands in TB)??

The train should travel through the Pyrennes so I'm thinking maybe a stunning derailment, or an avalanche (they did this in the '70s with Lee Marvin, but with modern CGI it'd look better) or an explosive tunnel confrontation (this may have occured already somewhere in ur movies, I lose track). Trains are always good for claustrophoboc action....

Now, c

[coco1997]

Did the rest of your post get cut off, Chris?

[Captain Tightpants]

My issue with Bond returning to a spy's life after a group of Basque separatists attack a train he is riding on is that it's very similar to the Chuck episode "Chuck vs. the Honeymooners" where Chuck and Sarah decide to run away from their lives while in Europe. They spot a Basque seapratist on their train and decide to take action against him, only to find that he is actually working with Interpol. Chuck and Sarah realise they will always be spies and return to California ad their duties.

Also, the Basque movement is losing momentum, and fast. ETA - the armed insurrection - recently announced that they are disarming, largely because they are running out of power and a voluntary surrender is better than the inglorious end they were destined for.

The train journey / battle is interesting but where does it take us and what happens to the girl?

Those are questions to be answered later. You'll notice terminus only did a brief recap of events; it's only a loose scaffold that everything will be built around. The details come later; for now, it is simply a guide.

[coco1997]

I'm curious to see what if anything someone submits for the San Diego-based action sequence. There are a lot of interesting ideas that could spring out of that location.

[tdalton]

I'm curious to see what if anything someone submits for the San Diego-based action sequence. There are a lot of interesting ideas that could spring out of that location.

I love the idea of San Diego as a location and it'll be interesting to see what someone comes up with for an action sequence there. I would do it myself, but I don't really know enough about San Diego to really have an idea of what kind of action sequence could be set there, outside of putting something generic down like car chase or boat chase.

[Captain Tightpants]

Right now, for my last submission, I'm debating between submitting CT's idea for the SEAL raid on the nightclub in Chicago (provided he gives me permission to do so) or submitting my planned baddie for UB27 as the second henchman/minor villain as Jim suggested.

It's up to you. I renounced any claim to it when I changed to the Spark Suit. But then, you might want to submit the henchman now because terminus clearly has an idea for UB27, once which tied in with my earlier suggestion of the serial killer obsessed with the kabbalah. Then again, I'm also super-keen for the vignettes idea, so we could get away with having three or four separate Big Bads.

[coco1997]

Thanks to Captain Tightpants for allowing me to use his idea:

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 in the assault of a nightclub in Chicago 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 assault 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: It having come to pass that the reclusive Damien Blanc is an entirely compter-generated fiction, an online avatar insidiously and Zelig-like injected into visual media by the Ghost virus, a very modern celebrity, the source of the virus is tracked the Casamance separatists in Senegal. Bond and Mercedes try to pull the plug but are tracked through the river delta and have to deal with all sorts of natural nasties and various goons out to get them, culminating in a triple helicopter gunship attack on a tourist resort in which they take refuge.

STUFF

23 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): Lotus Eterne concept
24 Gadget 1: The "Spark Suit", a bioelectric garment needed to power the supercomputers developed at Oak Ridge. It looks like a wet suit and uses nanotechnology to convert excess energy expended by the human body into power. The human body is inefficient; when we move, some of the energy we expend is wasted. The more adrenaline the body releases, the more energy that is gathered. The Spark Suit captures this energy and transforms it into a workable form of electricity. The Oak Ridge supercompeters require so much power that the only way to operate them is with a human interface wearing a Spark Suit. Unlike the Robocop suit in DIE ANOTHER DAY, the Spark Suit cannot generate or discharge this electrcity as a weapon.
25 Gadget 2: A shaving kit, the parts of which hide gadgets such as lockpicks, infrared eyepieces etc.
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: Pink
31 Theme Tune Written By: Pink and Don Davis
32 Title Sequence Designed By:
33 Title Sequence Description: Animated versions of the abstract Fleming first edition hardback covers [/quote]

So that leaves us Henchman 2, the San Diego Action Sequence, Gadget 3 and Title Sequence Designer left. Once the first three are filled out, we'll have the foundation for the entire story (unless terminus decides we don't need a third gadget).