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Glad to see you ran with the location, tdalton - now you can flesh out your ideas for the scene a bit more, perhaps, since Mitre Square was suggested as the location for the murder.

And good choice on director, coco1997. Given he's expressed interest in directing a Bond film - it's not so far fetched!

[Captain Tightpants]

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: St. Petersburg, Russia, during the Scarlet Sails, the high point of the city's White Nights Festival.
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:

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Interesting choice - and that's for the MFAS with all the Double-Oh Section, correct?

[Captain Tightpants]

Yes and no. It depends on how whoever writes it wants to run with it. I was largely looking for a way to work Minkova into the plot; the White Nights Festival often has ballet performances. I suppose that both the Double-Oh Section and Quantum could be looking for Hildebrand in St. Petersburg, tipped off by the sequnece where Leiter acquires Hildebrand's DOD security clearance card. Quantum attempt to assassinate Hildebrand because they have no further need of him, while the Double-Oh Section are trying to rescue him. The assassination attempt involves grayanotoxin - poisoned honey - but Yelena Minkova (who could be Hildebrand's mistress, half-sister or adoptive daughter depending on his age) consumes it. She survives because of Bond's intervention or because the dose was not low enough or because her thyroid surgery rendered the poison useless (we can take creative licence and say that grayanotoxin affects the thyroid glands). This prompts Quantum to attack head-on, with the Double-Oh Section fighting back.

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Ah - right. Had started to picture that Yelena would make her appearance in the extended Nambola sequence, but I suppose we could work her into St Petersburg if we needed to. I had started to imagine that the festival you mentioned might make a good, tense, nighttime stalking scene between a fleeing Mr White (I imagine they track him down due to the [possibly MOD] ID card found by Felix) and the three Double-Oh operatives, with Quantum thugs mixed in with the crowd.

That said I wasn't aware the festival had open air ballet - so that's something to consider. We'll see how things work out.

A bit like the footchase at the start of Quantum of Solace mixed in with elements of the opening of XXX - it could be a very suspensful sequence.

[Captain Tightpants]

I chose Scarlet Sails because I was really looking for something with an atmosphere like the performance of Tosca. I was originally going to go with The Greek Ship off the coast of Iran, but I liked Scarlet Sails better.

She could appear in Nambola. Bond and Hildebrand may use her ballet company to infiltrate Nambola (why is it a fictional country? Are we afraid of upsetting an actual country again? I've never been a fan of it myself because I instantly know it's fake, but that's just me ... I suppose we could always make it a merger between Namibia and Angola) because President Feliz like his ballet (or rather, likes his ballet dancers) and Minkova's company is putting on a private production to celebrate the anniversary of the nation's founding.

Also, with Feliz, I'd like to suggest something to make him a bit more interesting. Rather than just being a mad dictator, I think he should be a genuine visionary - someone who actually wants progress, and intends to use the gold to lead Africa through the 21st Century. Of course, he's an ends-justify-the-means kind of guy, so he's more than willing to do bad things. I just think it would be more interesting than to have someone like Medrano, who only wanted control.

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I like the idea of using the fact that Felix likes his ballet - it would lend a slightly creepy air to him, juxtaposing the cultured side of him with his total brutality.

I decided to use a fictional country in the end (though my initial choice was to use Botswana itself) when I made the connection with using Feliz as the countries leader. Yes - it is partly to do with avoiding upsetting a true country but I feel it also allows us a bit of latitude with the countries political landscape, leaders and geophysical make-up. For Nambola we're probably looking at a mid-sized country, roughly the same size as Zimbabwe, though.

I don't imagine Bond will have 'saved' Hildebrand by that point though, I imagine that will come much closer to the movies finale - somewhere in Nambola. And if we push Yelena's introduction into Nambola, then I imagine her introduction coming almost immediately at that sections opening (I picture the ballet section a bit like the Opera sequence in QOS - that sort of grandiose-ness).

[SamuelKevlar]

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): Kerry Condon as Aoife Daly, MI6 logistics agent assigned to St Petersburg (think Nicky in the Bourne movies).
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: St. Petersburg, Russia, during the Scarlet Sails, the high point of the city's White Nights Festival.
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:

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I had to look up who she was - but that is excellent casting. A good actress who's not been in a lot of stuff - exactly the sort of talent that the Bond movies ought to be aiming to use.

I imagine if the MFAS is in St. Petersburg then she could be facilitating the mission - a cross between Moneypenny, Q and Nikki from the Bourne movies.

[Captain Tightpants]

Well, if you're the one who is going to write it, I'll let you decide how to put all the puzzle pieces in place. I'll share my thoughts on what I had in mind to give you some sense of what I was going for, but they're by no means canonical. How you want to do it is up to you. If anything, your idea is probably easier because it is less complex - we don't have to worry about subplots coming to the fore early on; they'll have time to develop.

And there's nothing wrong with liking the ballet. Although it might be seen as girly, you could easily write Feliz as being impressed by the power and the precision of all the dancers, both male and female. Yes, it makes him slightly creepy, but not in a lecherous way.

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Oh, I wasn't suggesting there was anything wrong with liking the ballet - just that it would create an excellent sense of juxtaposition between the cultured side in front of the camera and in public with absolute brutality when he's behind closed doors, torturing Bond or molesting Yelena.

[Captain Tightpants]

I don't think Yelena would be easily molested. Hell, she'd probably show him her neck scar and the sight of a ballerina who is anything less than physically perfect would turn him off her compeltely.

[Jeao007]

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): Kerry Condon as Aoife Daly, MI6 logistics agent assigned to St Petersburg (think Nicky in the Bourne movies).
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: St. Petersburg, Russia, during the Scarlet Sails, the high point of the city's White Nights Festival.
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: Depeche Mode
32 Themetune Written By: (if different from themetune singer and soundtrack writer)

33 Titles Designed By:
34 Description of Titles:

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Depeche Mode? Interesting choice. They certainly fit the more rocky orientated direction of the Craig Era.

[SamuelKevlar]

I had to look up who she was - but that is excellent casting. A good actress who's not been in a lot of stuff - exactly the sort of talent that the Bond movies ought to be aiming to use.

I imagine if the MFAS is in St. Petersburg then she could be facilitating the mission - a cross between Moneypenny, Q and Nikki from the Bourne movies.

Glad you like her. Check out the HBO series Rome if you haven't already - she's a regular in that and it's some of the best TV of the last ten years IMHO.

Yes, that's what I was going for. She's got a pronounced Irish accent (she hides it well in Rome, I had no idea until I watched an interview) and I thought it would be interesting to have a Northern Irish character in there. It's not an area Bond tends to explore.

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Oh - I have Rome on DVD. I recognised the name but couldn't place where I knew her from.

[tdalton]

Glad to see you ran with the location, tdalton - now you can flesh out your ideas for the scene a bit more, perhaps, since Mitre Square was suggested as the location for the murder.

I think that both of the location suggestions for the PTS were just excellent ideas, both the idea to move it to London (which gives the events of the sequence much more of an impact as well as kicks the story off with much more of a sense of urgency) as well as the more specific idea of setting the climax of it in Mitre Square (which can add a sense of the macabre to it given the site's history).

As for Quinn's henchman, I'm closing in on a name for him (I know that probably sounds a bit dramatic, but it has been a much harder process than it usually is for me to name a character ), and it won't be "Shaw". I'm also thinking of making the character more hands on and more brutal than I had first envisioned him to be. I first had him as more of a gunsmith who could make shots from distances, so he could hide in the shadows and not be seen, but given the suggestion of Mitre Square, I'm thinking of making him much more hands-on with his work and much more sadistic with it as well. I think that it would tie into the darker tone we should be looking for with this story anyway, given that it's the second in the trilogy and the wheels should really be turning towards the endgame as Quantum becomes more and more desperate to get rid of Bond, Leiter, Goodnight, etc, and they're willing to turn to someone like this character to get that done, even though he's perhaps a bit over-the-top in terms of the damage he's willing to do in order to get a job done.

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Awesome, tdalton. Remember - although a background might be great for the character, there's only so much of it that would be able to be portrayed on-screen and even less still that would be able to be put into a treatment that isn't shown by his actions

[coco1997]

I very much like Tightpants' suggestions for the President Feliz character--that's very much how I was imagining him. And if you've seen "Breaking Bad", you know that Esposito can have a very creepy air about him.

I'd also like to reintroduce something into the conversation that I brought up a few pages back. I would like to see the concept of commercial space tourism, which has been big in the headlines lately, incorporated into the story somehow. Perhaps it could be used in Nambola or whatever winds up being the last location to be submitted.

[tdalton]

Awesome, tdalton. Remember - although a background might be great for the character, there's only so much of it that would be able to be portrayed on-screen and even less still that would be able to be put into a treatment that isn't shown by his actions

Believe me, after the way things got as complicated as they did on the last one in terms of the villains, I'm going to keep this one very simple.

I'm thinking that a lot of his "background" (he's not going to have much background anyway) will be displayed in his actions anyway, in whatever scenes that he does have. The way that I see the character, he's angry at either Bond and/or MI6 for some reason, and that would come through pretty clear in his interactions with Bond and the people that he and Quinn have to go through in order to find him.

[terminus]

Although Nambola's imagined location is a bit further south from the equator than the other non-American/Russian/Japanese/Chinese spaceport (the European launchsite is in French Guiana), I suppose that Nambola could be the location of the commercial spaceport - it could even be part of the cover for Bonds arrival in Nambola, as a reporter looking at the spaceport or as a security consultant for the ESA into its operation (shades of Moonraker, the novel, there).

Not saying that needs to be the way the spaceport is included, just throwing the possibility out there.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Glad I provided suitable inspiration, tdalton.

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): Kerry Condon as Aoife Daly, MI6 logistics agent assigned to St Petersburg (think Nicky in the Bourne movies).
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 Villain 5: Wolf Kahler as Dr. Emeric Hildebrand

11 M: Timothy Dalton
12 Moneypenny: Emily Blunt

13 Ally 1: Yvonne Strahovski as Mary Goodnight, 008
14 Ally 2: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
15 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

16 Pre-Titles Location: London
17 Location 1: St. Petersburg, Russia, during the Scarlet Sails, the high point of the city's White Nights Festival.
18 Location 2:
19 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).
20 Location 4: Germany (because they have the second largest stockpile of gold outside of the US)

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 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.

22 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.

23 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.

24 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.
25 Major Stunt 3:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director: Christopher Nolan

31 Music By:

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

34 Titles Designed By:
35 Description of Titles:

[coco1997]

I don't think you should add a new field to the pro forma, Matt. If I were you I would go back and fill out one of the previously conceived fields.

[Captain Tightpants]

Yeah, and where is it written that Hildebrand is a villain, anyway?

[terminus]

Indeed - whilst I certainly don't mind the casting, I am a bit unsure about just adding a field to the proforma without at least checking about it.

Given that Hildebrand's (he's the macguffin, in short) a given character in the proforma, it's not needed to take up a field - and we'd not decided he was a villain.

Feel free to go back and change your input here - but I'd be happy to use the casting when it comes time to write up the treatment.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I wasn't certain, myself; he certainly isn't an ally, at this point...

[terminus]

Yeah - it's true he could certainly turn out to be more, shall we say, sympathetic to the villains plots than we may first believe. His 'abduction' may not have been entirely against his will, so to speak. But we can discuss all of that when it comes to the point of fleshing everything out a bit more.

[coco1997]

I wasn't certain, myself; he certainly isn't an ally, at this point...

Having said that, try to find another field to fill out if you can.

[terminus]

Or - if it makes things easier. Keep the casting of Hildebrand and we'll just nix the villain thing - and put Other Figure in front of the field.

[coco1997]

So does that mean that Mr. B's latest suggestion counts as his second turn?