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[terminus]

Just so we know - myself, coco1997, tdalton, samuelkevlar, mrblofeld, QOS007 and Captain Tightpants have participated so far. Hopefully we will see the three other participants soon so I can open the next round of input.

[Captain Tightpants]

I felt like there was plenty of room to work within the sequence that I "detailed" for the PTS (it's not very specific at all, save for a line of dialogue towards the end), but I think maybe I'll just save the specifics that I've developed for my own fan fiction story.

Since it appears as though we're deciding not to be specific at all, I'll change my initial post to reflect that:

Don't get me wrong - I think it's great that people are willing to commit to such a high level of detail. But at the same time, that detail removes any surprises. I really looked forward to reading terminus' write-ups because of what he could do with it and the way he could flesh scenes out in interesting ways. But when the detail is at such a high level, I already know what happens, and on a certain level if feels like there is little point in reading it at all because there's nothing new there.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Well, now you're making your own colleagues wary of posting detailed synopses; is it any wonder you're dominating this game?

[terminus]

Mrblofeld - if we could drop this now, it would be appreciated. Then we can move on, finish the proforma and concoct the treatment.

[Mr. Blofeld]

All right; my apologies.

[terminus]

Much appreciated.

I just hope some more people submit fields soon - am chomping at the bits to see how this pans out and then reach our big finale in UB28. Plus, I've been inspired by a book I'm reading for a kick location that ties into the plot I suggested.

[SamuelKevlar]

Terminus wisely advised not to harp on on this, so feel free to disregard what is likely to be my only two cents on this subject - I'm of two minds about it. On the one hand I share Tightpants' dislike of "delicate feminine laugh" and its ilk, mostly because such would never be dictated in a spec or draft script (or indeed most shooting scripts). Nor, incidentally, would camera directions. On the other hand, this is surely an exercise based on mutual enjoyment, and if someone sees a scene particularly vividly I see no harm in them writing it out in detail. Not that every idea that's posted has to be to everyone's satisfaction - certainly not everything has been to mine - but that's what collaborative writing's all about. You're never going to like any of these Ultimate Bonds as much as you'll like your own stuff, it being your own after all, but the hope is that you'll like it more than you dislike it. Finally, I think anything that makes Terminus' job of tying all this stuff together semi-coherently easier is worth doing.

On that note, can I suggest a specification concerning the PTS? Could the "deserted city streets" indeed be "deserted City streets"? The Square Mile of London is pretty much abandoned outside business hours, and the area has a nice mix of architecture, old British Empire next to glittering new financial empire, which has proven recently to be just as corrupt and liable to fall. Would be a bit of a shock for MI6 too, that Quantum can strike so quickly, silently and close to home.

[coco1997]

If anyone is friends with others on CBn and would invite them to participate in filling out the pro forma, you might be advised to do so.

Also wondering where chrisno has been...

[tdalton]

On that note, can I suggest a specification concerning the PTS? Could the "deserted city streets" indeed be "deserted City streets"? The Square Mile of London is pretty much abandoned outside business hours, and the area has a nice mix of architecture, old British Empire next to glittering new financial empire, which has proven recently to be just as corrupt and liable to fall. Would be a bit of a shock for MI6 too, that Quantum can strike so quickly, silently and close to home.

I think that this is a brilliant idea.

I had initially had the idea of setting my version of the PTS in a place like Prague (first as a callback to Casino Royale and second because it is a beautiful city), but your idea of moving it to London, and the reasons that you give for making the jump in location are very, very good, and are ones that I would support 100%.

Amazingly, though, this collaborative work came out of a sequence that's supposedly so "detailed" that there's no room for collaboration. In all honesty, if I were to post the scene as it was originally written (I'm not going to do so, but this is just a hypothetical situation), one would be amazed at just how non-detailed the original suggestion was. In my original version, the man being chased spends a good five minutes of screen time trying to find a place to hide, ducking into a club and a couple of other places trying to lose his pursuer. Eventually he finds himself in an abandoned square of sorts and realizes that he was being guided along that route the entire time, with the pursuer meaning for this abandoned square to be the place where he ended up being trapped. Then he's extorted for the information and eliminated by the unseen assailant hiding in the shadows. The original scene was written out to be several pages long, and it was initially stripped down to roughly a short paragraph that really just covered who the characters involved were, the basics of what they were doing, and then it ended with a line of dialogue that was included simply because it set up the introduction of another character.

Edited by tdalton, 27 October 2010 - 10:30 PM.

[terminus]

Glad that everyone has managed to keep this civil

Re: using London in the PTS - that would depend on who fills in that particular field, I'm afraid. Though if Samuel or tdalton got to that field first on his second turn, I certainly wouldn't be opposed to it.

I'm sure Chrisno will be along shortly

[tdalton]

Re: using London in the PTS - that would depend on who fills in that particular field, I'm afraid. Though if Samuel or tdalton got to that field first on his second turn, I certainly wouldn't be opposed to it.

It'll be interesting to see what location we end up going with for the PTS. I 100% support the idea of using London for the sequence, but at the same time I'm not going to use my second turn on it either. Assuming that we're going with the PTS as it was originally put forward (I withdrew it to allow for "collaboration" on how it would unfold, but so far the only discussion regarding it seems to have been based off of its original form), I've got to use my second turn to get the man Quinn meets in the shadows at the end of the sequence into the proforma, as he is very integral to the Quinn/Bond subplot that I've been working up and that the PTS is the launching pad for.

[terminus]

You can add characters into the treatment that don't exist on the proforma - we've done it several times in the past, for instance adding a Taiwanese agent into Choice of Weapons.

[tdalton]

You can add characters into the treatment that don't exist on the proforma - we've done it several times in the past, for instance adding a Taiwanese agent into Choice of Weapons.

I knew that we had done so before, but at the same time I wasn't sure if it was something that would be allowed this time since we're already featuring 4 villains (Feliz, Mr. White, the head of Quantum, and Quinn) as well as a henchman on the proforma.

If it's allowed, I can just go ahead and add him in there (the way I imagine him fitting in anyway, he's not involved in any sequences that don't feature Quinn anyway), as well as post the PTS back into the proforma as well before going ahead on a second turn.

[terminus]

Sounds good to me.

The way I'm picturing it - Mr White is out of the picture by the mid-point (if we're using CR as a template, he's dead by the end of Miami) and the Head of Quantum is only in the tag scene, they're not a central protagonist. Feliz is the Emilio Largo of the piece, to use a Bond film comparison.

[tdalton]

OK, here's the PTS back in its more detailed form, with the casting and name for the MI6 informant that had been requested after it was initially posted. It's been tweaked slightly, but for the most part it's what it was before.


THE HILDEBRAND RARITY

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Inna Korobkina as Yelena Minkova, a Belorussian prima donna ballerina performing in an adaptation of The Daughter of the Snows. She falls in with Bond after surviving an assassination attempt in a case of mistaken identity, having been poisoned with grayanotoxin (a poison derived from honey pollinated by the rhodendron flower). She always wears a scarf to conceal a surgical scar running around her neck after she had an operation on her thyroid, also known as a "Chernobyl necklace"; she survived the accident at Pripyat as a young girl. When the scarf has been removed, it looks as if someone has tried to decapitate her.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl):

5 Henchman:

6 Villain: Giancarlo Esposito as Henrik Feliz, the leader of a country
7 Villain 2: Jesper Christensen as Mr. White
8 Villain 3: THE HEAD OF QUANTUM (to be decided by group consensus)
9 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn; Elias Koteas as "Shaw" (TBC)

10 M: Timothy Dalton
11 Moneypenny: Emily Blunt

12 Ally 1: Yvonne Strahovski as Mary Goodnight, 008
13 Ally 2: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
14 Ally 3: Max Minghella as Geoffrey Hastings, the new 0011, orphan, ex-RAF, idolises Bond, who sees an uncomfortable amount of himself in the younger man, though with an optimistic belief in the cause that he has since lost.

LOCATIONS - CHINA IS NOT TO BE USED, NOR ARE LOCATIONS IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
18 Location 3:
19 Location 4: Germany (because they have the second largest stockpile of gold outside of the US)

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: For centuries, many scientists have attempted to find a method of converting lead into gold and vice versa. This has been impossible - until now. A scientist, named Hildebrand, has discovered a chemical process that does the impossible - using a rare chemical isotope/compound known as 'The Hildebrand Rarity'. Our villain seeks to use this process to turn governmental stockpiles of gold into lead - significantly increasing the prices of his own gold stockpiles whilst also creating new-gold using the process.

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Eric Wright (Stephen Moyer), a high-level MI6 agent, is being stalked through the streets of a city. He can't see his pursuer, as she is hidden in the darkness, with only a silhouette that is visible. She stalks him for several minutes, as Wright ducks into several establishments trying to lose her. Eventually he is cornered in an abandoned square when he's shot in the leg by another unknown assailant. He's left immobilized, allowing the woman to catch up with him. When she's revealed to the audience, we see that it is Quinn. She holds a gun on him, demanding the whereabouts of James Bond, Agent 007. He initially refuses, but gives the information up after Quinn promises not to shoot him. When he gives up the information, she continues to point her gun at him, prompting him to beg for his life. "You promised you wouldn't shoot me." "You're right, I promised that I wouldn't shoot you. Luckily for me, he," she says, motioning off into the darkness, "didn't make that promise." A gunshot rings out, Wright falls to the ground, and Quinn walks back into the darkness, where she is joined by a man we see only as a silhouette.

22 Major Stunt 1: Felix Leiter and the CIA are monitoring the apartment of the deceased Quantum agent Marcus (a brief remark lets us know that they know that he was killed in the Grenadines), hoping that, though slim odds, Marcus will have left something in his apartment of great value to Quantum; lo and behold, an "agent" slipping something out of a safe and into his pocket is revealed, at the last second, to be a fake; upon being stopped outside of the apartment door, he shoots his pursuers and barrels out through the hallway window.

Felix, fed up with his cramped quarters, the bureaucratic slowdowns, and the seeming incompetence of his fellow agents, rips off his headphones and runs out of the ramshackle surveillance house (located conveniently near the apartment complex) after the henchman -- and we now see that Felix is running on a pair of Cheetah running legs, giving him a leg up on the pursuee. (Felix footage would be made up of a trained Cheetah legs runner, seen only from behind, close shots of Jeffrey Wright from the legs up, and wide shots painstakingly synchronized of both Wright and the runner, digitally spliced together.)

After a pursuit across busy streets, footpaths, and up the breakdown lane of a highway, the henchman is finally cornered near a ledge halfway up an overpass -- and traffic below is fast. The goon takes his last few shots at Leiter, who ducks and slides across to the henchman, bumping into his ankles with the Cheetah legs. The henchman, now off balance, drops his gun and careens over the side, but Felix, supporting himself with one elbow, reaches up with his legs and scissors them between the goon, keeping him pinned, upside down, to the ledge.

Slowly, painstakingly, with his other arm, Felix reaches into the operative's inside coat pocket to fish out what he stole from Marcus's apartment, but the goon thinks fast -- as Leiter pulls it out, the henchman pulls Felix's gun from its holster, but it's too late; Leiter has the goods. With his other arm, Felix unstraps the Cheetah legs from his thighs, sending them -- and the trapped goon -- down into the busy traffic below.

Felix hauls himself up as best he can and looks over the ledge, wincing at the sight of his gorgeous Cheetah legs smashed to bits within the pulpy remains of the Quantum henchman, then looks at what he's retrieved from the dead man's pocket. We don't see what he has clearly, but shock sweeps across Leiter's face; he quickly pulls out his walkie-talkie and radios his superiors, saying that the Quantum man is dead, but they've got a new, and more dangerous, lead.

"Dangerous to who, Leiter?"
"To us!"

Reverse shot of Leiter's trembling hand, as sirens wail in the background, and we finally see his morbid prize: A Department of Defense identity card, registered to one Dr. Emeric Hildebrand.

23 Major Stunt 2: An assault of some kind involving the whole Double-Oh Branch, ideally involving Mr White who is killed. However, in the process, 0011 is also killed and 008 (Goodnight) is heavily injured, leading to her retirement from active service.
24 Major Stunt 3:
25 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

26 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets):

27 Gadget 1:
28 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

29 Director:

30 Music By:

31 Themetune Sung By:
32 Themetune Written By: (if different from themetune singer and soundtrack writer)

33 Titles Designed By:
34 Description of Titles:
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[quote name='terminus' timestamp='1288221871' post='1131461']
Sounds good to me.

The way I'm picturing it - Mr White is out of the picture by the mid-point (if we're using CR as a template, he's dead by the end of Miami) and the Head of Quantum is only in the tag scene, they're not a central protagonist. Feliz is the Emilio Largo of the piece, to use a Bond film comparison.
[/quote]

I went ahead and added the henchman ("Shaw" as portrayed by Elias Koteas) into the proforma next to Quinn under "Villain 4", as they're essentially a team in this set-up anyway).

Edited by tdalton, 28 October 2010 - 06:15 AM.

[terminus]

Awesomeness.

Just realised you may want to change Quinn's henchperson's name, though - as the minor Bond-Girl in 'The Property of a Lady' was called Thaila Shaw.

[tdalton]

Awesomeness.

Just realised you may want to change Quinn's henchperson's name, though - as the minor Bond-Girl in 'The Property of a Lady' was called Thaila Shaw.

Oops, forgot about that one. I'll come up with something and post the change in a bit.

[Captain Tightpants]

Come on, can we start the second round already? I've got a great location in mind for where the battle between Bond and Quantum (the one where White is killed) can take place.

[coco1997]

I agree it's become frustrating waiting for new members to contribute when the only consistent participants here have been myself, terminus, Tightpants, tdalton, SamuelKevlar, Mr. Blofeld and chrisno1.

[Captain Tightpants]

Anyway, while we're waiting for someone else to join the battle or for terminus to give us the all clear to advance to the second round, let's talk about the head of Quantum. I think someone mentioned it earlier, but it was never really elaborated on.

Anyway, I don't think Blofeld would be appropriate as the villain. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the plan for UB28 is to go back to the Age of Connery and makes on for his Bond, then for the Day of Lazenby and the Ages of Moore, Dalton and Brosnan. If this is the case, then I suspect SPECTRE will play a large part in UB-Connery, and I've always felt that Blofeld is a product of his age. To bring him forward to today would simply change his the fundamentals of his character so much that he would be Blofeld in name only. I have two ideas as to who the head of Quantum can be:

1) Carl Ichan.

2a) I'd really like to play with the concept that Quantum are something of a benevolent organisation, with a "means justify the ends" approach and attitude. They're raising money - lots of money - and with connections to envionrmental groups, mining magnates, telecom empires and world governments, I like to think that they're working towards something, and that the money isn't just being raised to go into their numbered Swiss bank accounts. Maybe they're funding serious research into alternative sources of fuel, or maybe they're looking to privatise development in Africa (I saw a really interesting news story the other day about how Beijing is starting to pump money into Africa - but they're doing it in such a way that they directly control where every dollar goes, rather than simply contributing to bank loans; as a result, they can develop the region faster, circumvent corrupt officials and maintain a presence that can update hospitals and schools and telecom networks straight away). Of course, the catch in all of this is that if Quantum are planning the future of humanity, then they obviously intend to lead humanity. If they do find a viable alternative fuel source, then they will hold a global monopoly of it. The leader of Quantum could be someone who intends to be the most powerful man in the world.

2b) Spinning off from the above, perhaps Quantum's origins can be a noble, benevolent organisation that was corrupted over time by making money and the leadership steadily changing. Where Quantum's ideals were once pure, they now exist for their own greed. This could open up an interesting story, the Quantum Civil War, with two factions playing out for control: one - led by the ultimate villain - who wants to return Quantum to their benevolent ways, and a second that wants things to keep going the way they have been because they're becoming disgustingly rich.

[tdalton]

Just realised you may want to change Quinn's henchperson's name, though - as the minor Bond-Girl in 'The Property of a Lady' was called Thaila Shaw.

I've been trying to come up with a different name for the character, but am having some trouble finding a name that fits the character better than Shaw. If it's absolutely necessary to change the character's name because we've had a character with the last name "Shaw", then I'll keep looking for an alternative. I think that we could get away with it, since it's not really known if it's a last name for this character, as he would only be referred to as "Shaw" (i.e. it could be his first name, it could be his last, or it could just be a name that he's adopted, much in the same way that Quinn is just a name that she has adopted rather than it being her real name).

Also, if it's OK, I think I'll go a similar route that I did with the Quinn character last time and develop something of a backstory for the Shaw (or whatever his name ends up being) character. I'm thinking that there could be an interesting relationship between him and Quinn (but not a romantic one, they're brought together out of a common thirst for revenge) that, even though it's certainly not the backbone of the film (most likely it's far from it), it could still be an interesting little component of the story nonetheless.

[Mr. Blofeld]

If you're trying to evoke Robert Shaw in FRWL, why not go with "Roberts"? Koteas is already an American actor; this seals the deal on his nationality, while also being slightly more subtle than "Shaw".

Also, could it be revealed that Wright, the murdered man, has been killed in Mitre Square? It'd be very appropriate, I think...

[terminus]

If someone submits London as the PTS location then I wouldn't be opposed to that

I do recall someone suggesting that Helen Mirren might make a good actor to play the 'Blofeld' equivalent in Quantum and I've grown to quite like that idea.

[tdalton]

If you're trying to evoke Robert Shaw in FRWL, why not go with "Roberts"? Koteas is already an American actor; this seals the deal on his nationality, while also being slightly more subtle than "Shaw".

Also, could it be revealed that Wright, the murdered man, has been killed in Mitre Square? It'd be very appropriate, I think...

The idea behind the name wasn't really meant as a way of recalling Robert Shaw in FRWL. What I was going for, though, was a name that's fairly generic in terms of spy names because, even though we're not dealing necessarily with the whole theme of anonymity like in the last project, Quinn would still be recruiting from a similar pool of people for her assignments, so this person probably abandoned his name a while ago and went with something simple like that. I do like the name "Roberts", though, and that one probably goes up near the top of other names that I'm still looking at for the character.

What I'm also considering for the character is that, while he does operate within the world that Quinn tends to operate in, he's much better than the people she's worked with previously. I'm thinking that he perhaps even reached out to Quinn regarding her mission of revenge against Bond rather than the other way around, with him having some reason to want to get back at Bond and/or the Double-oh section. He's someone that long ago took his talents into the private sector, working rather infrequently, but only when something big needed to be done. He's suspected in countless crimes around the globe, but nobody knows who he is or what he looks like (this wouldn't be a case of concealing one's identity like in the last one. As indicated in the PTS, he manages to go unnoticed because he operates from a distance while also managing to stay hidden in the shadows).

[terminus]

I may open the game to second input later tonight - given it's been near 48 hours since our last one - if no new unique participant participates

[tdalton]

Also, could it be revealed that Wright, the murdered man, has been killed in Mitre Square? It'd be very appropriate, I think...

Going back to your post, I very much like this idea of the end of the PTS taking place in Mitre Square. Reading over the history of it, it would be a very appropriate place for such a scene, and it also gives me some new ideas regarding how Quinn's henchman operates and what his role in Quinn's revenge mission is.

[terminus]

Okay - here we go, second submissions now allowed.

I'd imagine a bulk of the action of the movie would take place in my submission - using the CR comparison we've been using, it's the Montenegro of the movie. And thus we don't arrive there until after Mr White has been killed - and after the MFAS has taken place with the full Double-Oh Section.


THE HILDEBRAND RARITY

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Inna Korobkina as Yelena Minkova, a Belorussian prima donna ballerina performing in an adaptation of The Daughter of the Snows. She falls in with Bond after surviving an assassination attempt in a case of mistaken identity, having been poisoned with grayanotoxin (a poison derived from honey pollinated by the rhodendron flower). She always wears a scarf to conceal a surgical scar running around her neck after she had an operation on her thyroid, also known as a "Chernobyl necklace"; she survived the accident at Pripyat as a young girl. When the scarf has been removed, it looks as if someone has tried to decapitate her.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl):

5 Henchman:

6 Villain: Giancarlo Esposito as Henrik Feliz, the leader of a country
7 Villain 2: Jesper Christensen as Mr. White
8 Villain 3: THE HEAD OF QUANTUM (to be decided by group consensus)
9 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn; Elias Koteas as "Shaw" (TBC)

10 M: Timothy Dalton
11 Moneypenny: Emily Blunt

12 Ally 1: Yvonne Strahovski as Mary Goodnight, 008
13 Ally 2: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
14 Ally 3: Max Minghella as Geoffrey Hastings, the new 0011, orphan, ex-RAF, idolises Bond, who sees an uncomfortable amount of himself in the younger man, though with an optimistic belief in the cause that he has since lost.

LOCATIONS - CHINA IS NOT TO BE USED, NOR ARE LOCATIONS IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
18 Location 3: Nambola (An African country [fictional, of course] and former Dutch colony bordered by South Africa, Angola and Botswana. About sixty percent of its income comes from diamond mining but there is also a thriving gold mining industry too - that said, it is still considered, in comparative terms, to be a third world country. This could be the country that Henrik Feliz is the leader of).
19 Location 4: Germany (because they have the second largest stockpile of gold outside of the US)

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: For centuries, many scientists have attempted to find a method of converting lead into gold and vice versa. This has been impossible - until now. A scientist, named Hildebrand, has discovered a chemical process that does the impossible - using a rare chemical isotope/compound known as 'The Hildebrand Rarity'. Our villain seeks to use this process to turn governmental stockpiles of gold into lead - significantly increasing the prices of his own gold stockpiles whilst also creating new-gold using the process.

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Eric Wright (Stephen Moyer), a high-level MI6 agent, is being stalked through the streets of a city. He can't see his pursuer, as she is hidden in the darkness, with only a silhouette that is visible. She stalks him for several minutes, as Wright ducks into several establishments trying to lose her. Eventually he is cornered in an abandoned square when he's shot in the leg by another unknown assailant. He's left immobilized, allowing the woman to catch up with him. When she's revealed to the audience, we see that it is Quinn. She holds a gun on him, demanding the whereabouts of James Bond, Agent 007. He initially refuses, but gives the information up after Quinn promises not to shoot him. When he gives up the information, she continues to point her gun at him, prompting him to beg for his life. "You promised you wouldn't shoot me." "You're right, I promised that I wouldn't shoot you. Luckily for me, he," she says, motioning off into the darkness, "didn't make that promise." A gunshot rings out, Wright falls to the ground, and Quinn walks back into the darkness, where she is joined by a man we see only as a silhouette.

22 Major Stunt 1: Felix Leiter and the CIA are monitoring the apartment of the deceased Quantum agent Marcus (a brief remark lets us know that they know that he was killed in the Grenadines), hoping that, though slim odds, Marcus will have left something in his apartment of great value to Quantum; lo and behold, an "agent" slipping something out of a safe and into his pocket is revealed, at the last second, to be a fake; upon being stopped outside of the apartment door, he shoots his pursuers and barrels out through the hallway window.

Felix, fed up with his cramped quarters, the bureaucratic slowdowns, and the seeming incompetence of his fellow agents, rips off his headphones and runs out of the ramshackle surveillance house (located conveniently near the apartment complex) after the henchman -- and we now see that Felix is running on a pair of Cheetah running legs, giving him a leg up on the pursuee. (Felix footage would be made up of a trained Cheetah legs runner, seen only from behind, close shots of Jeffrey Wright from the legs up, and wide shots painstakingly synchronized of both Wright and the runner, digitally spliced together.)

After a pursuit across busy streets, footpaths, and up the breakdown lane of a highway, the henchman is finally cornered near a ledge halfway up an overpass -- and traffic below is fast. The goon takes his last few shots at Leiter, who ducks and slides across to the henchman, bumping into his ankles with the Cheetah legs. The henchman, now off balance, drops his gun and careens over the side, but Felix, supporting himself with one elbow, reaches up with his legs and scissors them between the goon, keeping him pinned, upside down, to the ledge.

Slowly, painstakingly, with his other arm, Felix reaches into the operative's inside coat pocket to fish out what he stole from Marcus's apartment, but the goon thinks fast -- as Leiter pulls it out, the henchman pulls Felix's gun from its holster, but it's too late; Leiter has the goods. With his other arm, Felix unstraps the Cheetah legs from his thighs, sending them -- and the trapped goon -- down into the busy traffic below.

Felix hauls himself up as best he can and looks over the ledge, wincing at the sight of his gorgeous Cheetah legs smashed to bits within the pulpy remains of the Quantum henchman, then looks at what he's retrieved from the dead man's pocket. We don't see what he has clearly, but shock sweeps across Leiter's face; he quickly pulls out his walkie-talkie and radios his superiors, saying that the Quantum man is dead, but they've got a new, and more dangerous, lead.

"Dangerous to who, Leiter?"
"To us!"

Reverse shot of Leiter's trembling hand, as sirens wail in the background, and we finally see his morbid prize: A Department of Defense identity card, registered to one Dr. Emeric Hildebrand.

23 Major Stunt 2: An assault of some kind involving the whole Double-Oh Branch, ideally involving Mr White who is killed. However, in the process, 0011 is also killed and 008 (Goodnight) is heavily injured, leading to her retirement from active service.
24 Major Stunt 3:
25 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

26 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets):

27 Gadget 1:
28 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

29 Director:

30 Music By:

31 Themetune Sung By:
32 Themetune Written By: (if different from themetune singer and soundtrack writer)

33 Titles Designed By:
34 Description of Titles:

[coco1997]

In honor of the recent 'Batman 3' title announcement, here's my submission for director:

THE HILDEBRAND RARITY

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Inna Korobkina as Yelena Minkova, a Belorussian prima donna ballerina performing in an adaptation of The Daughter of the Snows. She falls in with Bond after surviving an assassination attempt in a case of mistaken identity, having been poisoned with grayanotoxin (a poison derived from honey pollinated by the rhodendron flower). She always wears a scarf to conceal a surgical scar running around her neck after she had an operation on her thyroid, also known as a "Chernobyl necklace"; she survived the accident at Pripyat as a young girl. When the scarf has been removed, it looks as if someone has tried to decapitate her.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl):

5 Henchman:

6 Villain: Giancarlo Esposito as Henrik Feliz, the leader of a country
7 Villain 2: Jesper Christensen as Mr. White
8 Villain 3: THE HEAD OF QUANTUM (to be decided by group consensus)
9 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn; Elias Koteas as "Shaw" (TBC)

10 M: Timothy Dalton
11 Moneypenny: Emily Blunt

12 Ally 1: Yvonne Strahovski as Mary Goodnight, 008
13 Ally 2: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
14 Ally 3: Max Minghella as Geoffrey Hastings, the new 0011, orphan, ex-RAF, idolises Bond, who sees an uncomfortable amount of himself in the younger man, though with an optimistic belief in the cause that he has since lost.

LOCATIONS - CHINA IS NOT TO BE USED, NOR ARE LOCATIONS IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
18 Location 3: Nambola (An African country [fictional, of course] and former Dutch colony bordered by South Africa, Angola and Botswana. About sixty percent of its income comes from diamond mining but there is also a thriving gold mining industry too - that said, it is still considered, in comparative terms, to be a third world country. This could be the country that Henrik Feliz is the leader of).
19 Location 4: Germany (because they have the second largest stockpile of gold outside of the US)

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: For centuries, many scientists have attempted to find a method of converting lead into gold and vice versa. This has been impossible - until now. A scientist, named Hildebrand, has discovered a chemical process that does the impossible - using a rare chemical isotope/compound known as 'The Hildebrand Rarity'. Our villain seeks to use this process to turn governmental stockpiles of gold into lead - significantly increasing the prices of his own gold stockpiles whilst also creating new-gold using the process.

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Eric Wright (Stephen Moyer), a high-level MI6 agent, is being stalked through the streets of a city. He can't see his pursuer, as she is hidden in the darkness, with only a silhouette that is visible. She stalks him for several minutes, as Wright ducks into several establishments trying to lose her. Eventually he is cornered in an abandoned square when he's shot in the leg by another unknown assailant. He's left immobilized, allowing the woman to catch up with him. When she's revealed to the audience, we see that it is Quinn. She holds a gun on him, demanding the whereabouts of James Bond, Agent 007. He initially refuses, but gives the information up after Quinn promises not to shoot him. When he gives up the information, she continues to point her gun at him, prompting him to beg for his life. "You promised you wouldn't shoot me." "You're right, I promised that I wouldn't shoot you. Luckily for me, he," she says, motioning off into the darkness, "didn't make that promise." A gunshot rings out, Wright falls to the ground, and Quinn walks back into the darkness, where she is joined by a man we see only as a silhouette.

22 Major Stunt 1: Felix Leiter and the CIA are monitoring the apartment of the deceased Quantum agent Marcus (a brief remark lets us know that they know that he was killed in the Grenadines), hoping that, though slim odds, Marcus will have left something in his apartment of great value to Quantum; lo and behold, an "agent" slipping something out of a safe and into his pocket is revealed, at the last second, to be a fake; upon being stopped outside of the apartment door, he shoots his pursuers and barrels out through the hallway window.

Felix, fed up with his cramped quarters, the bureaucratic slowdowns, and the seeming incompetence of his fellow agents, rips off his headphones and runs out of the ramshackle surveillance house (located conveniently near the apartment complex) after the henchman -- and we now see that Felix is running on a pair of Cheetah running legs, giving him a leg up on the pursuee. (Felix footage would be made up of a trained Cheetah legs runner, seen only from behind, close shots of Jeffrey Wright from the legs up, and wide shots painstakingly synchronized of both Wright and the runner, digitally spliced together.)

After a pursuit across busy streets, footpaths, and up the breakdown lane of a highway, the henchman is finally cornered near a ledge halfway up an overpass -- and traffic below is fast. The goon takes his last few shots at Leiter, who ducks and slides across to the henchman, bumping into his ankles with the Cheetah legs. The henchman, now off balance, drops his gun and careens over the side, but Felix, supporting himself with one elbow, reaches up with his legs and scissors them between the goon, keeping him pinned, upside down, to the ledge.

Slowly, painstakingly, with his other arm, Felix reaches into the operative's inside coat pocket to fish out what he stole from Marcus's apartment, but the goon thinks fast -- as Leiter pulls it out, the henchman pulls Felix's gun from its holster, but it's too late; Leiter has the goods. With his other arm, Felix unstraps the Cheetah legs from his thighs, sending them -- and the trapped goon -- down into the busy traffic below.

Felix hauls himself up as best he can and looks over the ledge, wincing at the sight of his gorgeous Cheetah legs smashed to bits within the pulpy remains of the Quantum henchman, then looks at what he's retrieved from the dead man's pocket. We don't see what he has clearly, but shock sweeps across Leiter's face; he quickly pulls out his walkie-talkie and radios his superiors, saying that the Quantum man is dead, but they've got a new, and more dangerous, lead.

"Dangerous to who, Leiter?"
"To us!"

Reverse shot of Leiter's trembling hand, as sirens wail in the background, and we finally see his morbid prize: A Department of Defense identity card, registered to one Dr. Emeric Hildebrand.

23 Major Stunt 2: An assault of some kind involving the whole Double-Oh Branch, ideally involving Mr White who is killed. However, in the process, 0011 is also killed and 008 (Goodnight) is heavily injured, leading to her retirement from active service.
24 Major Stunt 3:
25 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

26 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets):

27 Gadget 1:
28 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

29 Director: Christopher Nolan

30 Music By:

31 Themetune Sung By:
32 Themetune Written By: (if different from themetune singer and soundtrack writer)

33 Titles Designed By:
34 Description of Titles:

[tdalton]

Making all of the discussion regarding the PTS "official" by setting the location as London. I'm going to tweak the PTS write-up slightly to reflect the new location (and to include Mr. Blofeld's suggestion of using Mitre Square for the finale of the sequence), as well as to reflect some changes to the henchman character that have come out of the suggestions to use Mitre Square as a location.

THE HILDEBRAND RARITY

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Inna Korobkina as Yelena Minkova, a Belorussian prima donna ballerina performing in an adaptation of The Daughter of the Snows. She falls in with Bond after surviving an assassination attempt in a case of mistaken identity, having been poisoned with grayanotoxin (a poison derived from honey pollinated by the rhodendron flower). She always wears a scarf to conceal a surgical scar running around her neck after she had an operation on her thyroid, also known as a "Chernobyl necklace"; she survived the accident at Pripyat as a young girl. When the scarf has been removed, it looks as if someone has tried to decapitate her.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl):

5 Henchman:

6 Villain: Giancarlo Esposito as Henrik Feliz, the leader of a country
7 Villain 2: Jesper Christensen as Mr. White
8 Villain 3: THE HEAD OF QUANTUM (to be decided by group consensus)
9 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn; Elias Koteas as "Shaw" (TBC)

10 M: Timothy Dalton
11 Moneypenny: Emily Blunt

12 Ally 1: Yvonne Strahovski as Mary Goodnight, 008
13 Ally 2: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
14 Ally 3: Max Minghella as Geoffrey Hastings, the new 0011, orphan, ex-RAF, idolises Bond, who sees an uncomfortable amount of himself in the younger man, though with an optimistic belief in the cause that he has since lost.

LOCATIONS - CHINA IS NOT TO BE USED, NOR ARE LOCATIONS IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

15 Pre-Titles Location: London
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
18 Location 3: Nambola (An African country [fictional, of course] and former Dutch colony bordered by South Africa, Angola and Botswana. About sixty percent of its income comes from diamond mining but there is also a thriving gold mining industry too - that said, it is still considered, in comparative terms, to be a third world country. This could be the country that Henrik Feliz is the leader of).
19 Location 4: Germany (because they have the second largest stockpile of gold outside of the US)

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: For centuries, many scientists have attempted to find a method of converting lead into gold and vice versa. This has been impossible - until now. A scientist, named Hildebrand, has discovered a chemical process that does the impossible - using a rare chemical isotope/compound known as 'The Hildebrand Rarity'. Our villain seeks to use this process to turn governmental stockpiles of gold into lead - significantly increasing the prices of his own gold stockpiles whilst also creating new-gold using the process.

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Eric Wright (Stephen Moyer), a high-level MI6 agent, is being stalked through the streets of a city. He can't see his pursuer, as she is hidden in the darkness, with only a silhouette that is visible. She stalks him for several minutes, as Wright ducks into several establishments trying to lose her. Eventually he is cornered in an abandoned square when he's shot in the leg by another unknown assailant. He's left immobilized, allowing the woman to catch up with him. When she's revealed to the audience, we see that it is Quinn. She holds a gun on him, demanding the whereabouts of James Bond, Agent 007. He initially refuses, but gives the information up after Quinn promises not to shoot him. When he gives up the information, she continues to point her gun at him, prompting him to beg for his life. "You promised you wouldn't shoot me." "You're right, I promised that I wouldn't shoot you. Luckily for me, he," she says, motioning off into the darkness, "didn't make that promise." A gunshot rings out, Wright falls to the ground, and Quinn walks back into the darkness, where she is joined by a man we see only as a silhouette.

22 Major Stunt 1: Felix Leiter and the CIA are monitoring the apartment of the deceased Quantum agent Marcus (a brief remark lets us know that they know that he was killed in the Grenadines), hoping that, though slim odds, Marcus will have left something in his apartment of great value to Quantum; lo and behold, an "agent" slipping something out of a safe and into his pocket is revealed, at the last second, to be a fake; upon being stopped outside of the apartment door, he shoots his pursuers and barrels out through the hallway window.

Felix, fed up with his cramped quarters, the bureaucratic slowdowns, and the seeming incompetence of his fellow agents, rips off his headphones and runs out of the ramshackle surveillance house (located conveniently near the apartment complex) after the henchman -- and we now see that Felix is running on a pair of Cheetah running legs, giving him a leg up on the pursuee. (Felix footage would be made up of a trained Cheetah legs runner, seen only from behind, close shots of Jeffrey Wright from the legs up, and wide shots painstakingly synchronized of both Wright and the runner, digitally spliced together.)

After a pursuit across busy streets, footpaths, and up the breakdown lane of a highway, the henchman is finally cornered near a ledge halfway up an overpass -- and traffic below is fast. The goon takes his last few shots at Leiter, who ducks and slides across to the henchman, bumping into his ankles with the Cheetah legs. The henchman, now off balance, drops his gun and careens over the side, but Felix, supporting himself with one elbow, reaches up with his legs and scissors them between the goon, keeping him pinned, upside down, to the ledge.

Slowly, painstakingly, with his other arm, Felix reaches into the operative's inside coat pocket to fish out what he stole from Marcus's apartment, but the goon thinks fast -- as Leiter pulls it out, the henchman pulls Felix's gun from its holster, but it's too late; Leiter has the goods. With his other arm, Felix unstraps the Cheetah legs from his thighs, sending them -- and the trapped goon -- down into the busy traffic below.

Felix hauls himself up as best he can and looks over the ledge, wincing at the sight of his gorgeous Cheetah legs smashed to bits within the pulpy remains of the Quantum henchman, then looks at what he's retrieved from the dead man's pocket. We don't see what he has clearly, but shock sweeps across Leiter's face; he quickly pulls out his walkie-talkie and radios his superiors, saying that the Quantum man is dead, but they've got a new, and more dangerous, lead.

"Dangerous to who, Leiter?"
"To us!"

Reverse shot of Leiter's trembling hand, as sirens wail in the background, and we finally see his morbid prize: A Department of Defense identity card, registered to one Dr. Emeric Hildebrand.

23 Major Stunt 2: An assault of some kind involving the whole Double-Oh Branch, ideally involving Mr White who is killed. However, in the process, 0011 is also killed and 008 (Goodnight) is heavily injured, leading to her retirement from active service.
24 Major Stunt 3:
25 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

26 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets):

27 Gadget 1:
28 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

29 Director: Christopher Nolan

30 Music By:

31 Themetune Sung By:
32 Themetune Written By: (if different from themetune singer and soundtrack writer)

33 Titles Designed By:
34 Description of Titles:

Edited by tdalton, 28 October 2010 - 07:26 PM.

[coco1997]

Very good, t. Now if Tightpants goes through with what he's said, we'll have our fourth location scene and the settings of the story will be almost entirely established.