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[tdalton]

tdalton doesn't seem to have posted his third submission - maybe he's thinking

I don't really have any ideas for the remaining fields. If someone else would like to take my third turn, they're more than welcome to it.

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I'd prefer not to give someone a fourth turn until we all get one.

I'm sure you can think of something!

[Captain Tightpants]

Okay, I've updated the entry slightly. I decided to specify a location in Sao Paulo; we're using the Sao Paulo cathedral.

Also, I'm not sure if this has been addressed: where is Nambola? I know it's in Africa and it's based on Botswana, but where in Africa? Is it Saharan like Morocco, or temperate like South Africa? Is it on the east coast or the west or somewhere in the middle? Is it covered by desert, savannah or dense jungle? And what is its capital?

I've compiled a list of viable names (from the No. 1 Ladie's Detective Agency series which is set in Botswana):
Makutsi
Matekoni
Potokwane
Polopetsi
Radiphuti
Sephotho
But we could also look at other Botswanan politicians to borrow surnames from - since Nambola is, at least, geophysically, based on Botswana.

Hmmm...the only ones that caught my eye are Makutsi and Sephotho. But Makutsi almost sounds Japanese, so I'll go with Sephotho. President Henrik Sephotho of Nambola Also, any plans to open the floor for the next turn, terminus?

I don't really have a problem with tha name Feliz. When I used the example of Bernando O'Higgins, I was thinking that we could make up a similar family history for Feliz: although born in Nambola, he is the direct descendant of a group of Spanish or Portuguese sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast at some point. Rather than try returning home, they settled down in Nambola and started families. One of them was named Feliz, and his name perpetuated for a few generations.

Nambola: Bond arrives in Nambola as part of a trade delegation to the space tourism launch centre that the European Space Agency are setting up in the country. He meets Vera at a ballet recital - where he sees Yelena dancing and observes Henrik - and uses Vera to get him into a private function afterwards where he meets Henrik in-person as well as Henrik's thuggish manservant, Mesquito.

If this is the case, then I think Yelena should be introduced into the story sooner. The way I envisioned it, Bond would infiltrate Nambola through Yelena's ballet company. After all, she is the main Bond girl, but she's not coming into it until later in the game. We could, perhaps, have Bond tailing Mr. White through St. petersburg while he waits for the other Double-Ohs and in a Tosca-like sequence, have Bond watch Mr. White at the open-air ballet. Even if Bond isn't going to Africa as a part of the ballet company, I just think Yelena should come into the story somewhere so that her presence late in the film oesn't come out of nowhere.

Bond places the presidential palace under observation, observes Yelena leaving the following morning, noticeably perturbed and perhaps bruised (I know CT disagreed on the possibility that Henrik would abuse Yelena) which causes Bond to follow her - charming her into having lunch with him at which point he digs for information on Henrik. Yelena confirms Bond's thoughts - that Henrik is almost schizophrenic, perfectly polite and socıalısed in public but an absolute animal and brutish in private.

I didn't quite shoot it down. I was just playing with Henrik's pathology a little. He likes the ballet because, to his mind, they are perfect people. They're lean, beautiful, athletic; the perfect balance of speed, precision and harmony. As the prima donna, Yelena may well capture Henrik's attention and he intends to have his way with her - except that when he gets her alone and removes her scarf, he spots her Chernobyl Necklace (the surgical scar - remember, she's Belorussian and survived the Chernobyl disaster) and sees it as affrontery. She is no longer perfect in his eyes, and he slaps her around rather than sleeping with her.

Yelena didn't witness anything that could connect Henrik to Hildebrand - but Bond asks her to go back into the spiders lair, placing a limited range bug onto a computer terminal. This she does - allowing Bond to hack into the computer system and dig up files connecting to where Hildebrand has been stowed away. Bond tracks down Hildebrand - and an orchestrated sequence of capture and escape proceeds. Bond learns that Hildebrand hasn't been exactly uncooperative with Quantum when he betrays the agent to Henrik. At the same time, Henrik learns that Yelena planted the computer bug and has her arrested on espionage charges. Bond learns what Henrik is up to - to use the chemical process that Hildebrand has developed on governmental stockpiles of gold to turn them into worthless lead. Whilst turning the Nambolan stockpiles of lead into gold - crashing the economies of first world countries and causing Nambola's wealth to octuple overnight. Noble aims - furthered by unfortunately ignoble methods. Bond and Yelena must escape.

Yelena has to survive the assassination attempt with the poisoned honey at some point. Perhaps he could attempt to poison her rather than have her arrested. She survives either because of Bond's intervention, because Henrik erred and didn't give her enough, or because we take poetic licence and write grayanotoxin as affecting the thyroid, which Yelena has had surgery on. Perhaps a combination of all three: Henrik doesn't give her enough, and what he does give her is slowed down by he thyroid, giving Bond more time to find an antidote.

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Re: the Sao Paulo Cathedral. I'm sure that can be snuck into the footchase as it's been described in the action sequence proposal.

Also, I'm not sure if this has been addressed: where is Nambola? I know it's in Africa and it's based on Botswana, but where in Africa? Is it Saharan like Morocco, or temperate like South Africa? Is it on the east coast or the west or somewhere in the middle? Is it covered by desert, savannah or dense jungle? And what is its capital?

From the description on the proforma - 'it's bordered by Botswana, Angola and South Africa' so we're looking for some of Botswana, some of Angola and a segment of what would be the province of the Northern Cape of South Africa. Therefore it's generally arid to semi-arid, very little rain - but also has several mountains and rivers. The capital of this fictional country is 'Gustaffberg' - located somewhere similar to the real life town of Upington, South Africa.

If this is the case, then I think Yelena should be introduced into the story sooner. The way I envisioned it, Bond would infiltrate Nambola through Yelena's ballet company. After all, she is the main Bond girl, but she's not coming into it until later in the game. We could, perhaps, have Bond tailing Mr. White through St. petersburg while he waits for the other Double-Ohs and in a Tosca-like sequence, have Bond watch Mr. White at the open-air ballet. Even if Bond isn't going to Africa as a part of the ballet company, I just think Yelena should come into the story somewhere so that her presence late in the film oesn't come out of nowhere.

I think having Yelena appear any earlier than Nambola in the proposed outline at the moment would seem a tad - unlikely. Especially if she has zero relevance to the plot at that point. Yes - she's the main Bond girl, but given that Nambola onwards is guestimated to take two fifths of the film (so, just under an hour) I think she has a decent amount of screentime - and we've had main Bond girls put in appearances from the halfway point before, notably Pussy Galore, Kissy Suzuki and Vesper Lynd.

I didn't quite shoot it down. I was just playing with Henrik's pathology a little. He likes the ballet because, to his mind, they are perfect people. They're lean, beautiful, athletic; the perfect balance of speed, precision and harmony. As the prima donna, Yelena may well capture Henrik's attention and he intends to have his way with her - except that when he gets her alone and removes her scarf, he spots her Chernobyl Necklace (the surgical scar - remember, she's Belorussian and survived the Chernobyl disaster) and sees it as affrontery. She is no longer perfect in his eyes, and he slaps her around rather than sleeping with her.

This makes sense. That's definitely a change I can make to the outline as it stands.

Yelena has to survive the assassination attempt with the poisoned honey at some point. Perhaps he could attempt to poison her rather than have her arrested. She survives either because of Bond's intervention, because Henrik erred and didn't give her enough, or because we take poetic licence and write grayanotoxin as affecting the thyroid, which Yelena has had surgery on. Perhaps a combination of all three: Henrik doesn't give her enough, and what he does give her is slowed down by he thyroid, giving Bond more time to find an antidote.

Again - definitely something I can use. I had completely forgotten about the grayanotoxin assasination - and will need to remember that for when I do the next draft. From my limited research, I could see Henrik lacing some food with the toxin - and although she eats it, Bond saves her before she takes a high dose. Given that symptoms can often not occur for several hours, it could be during their escape that Yelena begins to show symptoms - and Bond has to use scavenged medical supplies from a clinic to treat her with atropines and vasopressors to save her.

The sequence could be a bit like the sequence in CR in which Bond is poisoned in his drink and MI6 staff have to treat him over the phone - albeit this time Bond wouldn't have the help of the Aston Martin tech.

I also need a location for this bit of the treatment -

TBC: This is a relatively standalone sequence designed to introduce us to Bond. After which, Bond is recalled to MI6.

I'd be looking, possibly, to use the location for a car chase - but am open to the country of the setting. Just give me something interesting (but sensible for a car chase to occur) to play with!

[Captain Tightpants]

Again - definitely something I can use. I had completely forgotten about the grayanotoxin assasination - and will need to remember that for when I do the next draft. From my limited research, I could see Henrik lacing some food with the toxin - and although she eats it, Bond saves her before she takes a high dose. Given that symptoms can often not occur for several hours, it could be during their escape that Yelena begins to show symptoms - and Bond has to use scavenged medical supplies from a clinic to treat her with atropines and vasopressors to save her.

The sequence could be a bit like the sequence in CR in which Bond is poisoned in his drink and MI6 staff have to treat him over the phone - albeit this time Bond wouldn't have the help of the Aston Martin tech.

If we implied that the arrest warrant/assassination order was issued because Yelena rejected Henrik rather than for actual espionage, it would just go to show how unstable he it. I know we said Henrik slaps her around because she was less than perfect, but if he made it an "open secret" that she had rejected him and let his people know it (people tend to remember incidents and disputes in such a way that they are the victim), I think it would go even further to show how unbalanced he can be.

I also need a location for this bit of the treatment -

TBC: This is a relatively standalone sequence designed to introduce us to Bond. After which, Bond is recalled to MI6.

I'd be looking, possibly, to use the location for a car chase - but am open to the country of the setting. Just give me something interesting (but sensible for a car chase to occur) to play with!

How about Turkey, or maybe Georgia? I like the latter better.

Grayanotoxin comes from honey that has been made from the rhododendron flower. It most often occurs in honey harvested on the shores of the Black Sea and the Caspian. Bond could be in Georgia looking into what MI6 believes to be a drug operation - kind of like the concealed poppy fields in LIVE AND LET DIE - but just finds acres of rhododendrons, unaware that this is an outdoor chemical weapons facility. It's also the source of the grayanotoxin in Nambola; a decent joke would revolve around MI6 investigating people who export too much honey. And a weaponised form of grayanotoxin could be the chemical weapon Henrik intends to release in Germany. The sequence could show Bond infiltrating a winery that MI6 believe to be a drug-running operation and a major source of heroin or cannabis in western Europe. Rather than go in for a big, explosive car chase, we go with something subtle and downplay it. It would also pave the way for an awesome reveal of Bond (kind of like our first glimpse of Harrison Ford in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK); we see him sneaking through rows of trellises that now hold rhododendrons, never quite seeing all fo him. Or play it from a redshirt's perspective, kind of like the dockyards sequence in BATMAN BEGINS, with Bond only being revealed at the last moment. Satisfied that there are no drugs in the winery, he leaves Georgia, unaware that it's developing chemical weapons.

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That's certainly an interesting proposal - although I'd prefer to not make the connection to Nambola immediately at that point. It would be an excellent explanation as to why Bond recognises the symptoms of grayanotoxin in Nambola when he rescues Yelena from Henrik. I once saw a documentary about Turkey and the spice trade/silk road - which showed some old outpost forts in the desert that had fallen into disrepair and ruin. This could be the base of operation of the 'drug dealers' that Bond is investigating.

Beyapazari might be an interesting focal location for it.

I think I'm growing more and more to like the idea of using the grayanotoxin route for the sequence - it's standalone, yet arms Bond with a piece of knowledge he'll need for later in the movie.

Re: the Henrik/Yelena situation, definitely gives me some food for thought when it comes to the dynamic between them.

[Captain Tightpants]

That's certainly an interesting proposal - although I'd prefer to not make the connection to Nambola immediately at that point.

Oh, but that's the beauty of it - although there is a connection, it's not immediately obvious. Bond doesn't make the connection until Yelena is poisoned. After all, MI6 think that the operation is just someone harvesting opium or cannabis. He could acquire a sample of the rhododendron and/or the contaminated honey for MI6 to analyse, but they won't pick up on the Nambola connection until much later.

It would be an excellent explanation as to why Bond recognises the symptoms of grayanotoxin in Nambola when he rescues Yelena from Henrik.

I hadn't even thought of that, but it works really well.

I once saw a documentary about Turkey and the spice trade/silk road - which showed some old outpost forts in the desert that had fallen into disrepair and ruin. This could be the base of operation of the 'drug dealers' that Bond is investigating.

I suggested a winery because I wanted to run with something that just seemed to ordinary. You'd look at it and you think "here's a guy who produces his own wine and is a beekeeping enthusiast", but then you'd find out he's running a chemical weapons depot with it.

Ancient ruins are dotted all over Turkey ... how about one of lesser reknown that he been converted into a winery because most archeologists are more intereste in other, more important ruins in the local area? I think that would really give the thing a sense of atmosphere.

I think I'm growing more and more to like the idea of using the grayanotoxin route for the sequence - it's standalone, yet arms Bond with a piece of knowledge he'll need for later in the movie.

That was the objective.

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I suggested a winery because I wanted to run with something that just seemed to ordinary. You'd look at it and you think "here's a guy who produces his own wine and is a beekeeping enthusiast", but then you'd find out he's running a chemical weapons depot with it.

Ancient ruins are dotted all over Turkey ... how about one of lesser reknown that he been converted into a winery because most archeologists are more intereste in other, more important ruins in the local area? I think that would really give the thing a sense of atmosphere.

Excellent. I think this sequence will work really well.

[Captain Tightpants]

I'm also trying to keep the fact that we have Nolan as the director. I think a ruins-converted-into-winery-and-secret-chemical-weapons-depot is right up his alley. I also had him in mind with Sao Paulo, the Scarlet Sails sequence and the creation of Minkova (though he hadn't been put into the category, then).

[Mr. Blofeld]

Could we combine "Mr. Roberts" and "Mesquito"? Perhaps they're two sides of the same person; an assassin with a split personality? Could work, as it's never been done in a Bond film...

Also, there's a reason my write-up has "Department of Defense", rather than "Ministry of Defence"; Hildebrand works for the U.S. government, hence, why discovering that he is possibly connected to Quantum is so dangerous to Leiter's superiors. I'm also hoping there's subsequently a scene where M and Bond are called into a metting with Leiter, the head of the CIA, the British Minister of Defence and the American Secretary of Defense; it could be short, long, in a room, out walking a hallway -- doesn't matter, but it needs to be there to connect the two plot threads.

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I think the agreement is now that the 'Mr Roberts' character will be eliminated from the write-up and the PTS changed to reflect that.

I think Ministry of Defence works better, to be honest - otherwise there's very little reason (if any) for MI6 to become involved at all. That's the reason why I changed it.

[tdalton]

Re-tooling the PTS. Ends in, I hope, a similarly surprising way, and it keeps in line with Quantum's M.O. I don't think it's as good in terms of quality, but it does clear up the clutter of characters in this story so that the focus can be placed on the characters created by coco1997 and 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): Kerry Condon as Aoife Daly, MI6 logistics agent assigned to St Petersburg (think Nicky in the Bourne movies).
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): Jeany Spark as Vera (attache to the Space Tourism launchsite in Nambola if we decide to go that route, if not then just a receptionist at a hotel)

5 Henchman: Jason David Frank as Mesquito, a bodyguard/hired gun in the employ of President Sephotho

6 Villain: Giancarlo Esposito as Henrik Sephotho, the President of Nambola
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

10 Other Figures: 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: Cathederal da Sé, São Paulo, Brazil
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 she catches up to him, shooting him in the leg. He's left immobilized, allowing the woman corner 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." "I lied," she says, shooting him. She turns to walk away, and finds Mr. White standing behind her. "You've outlived your usefulness," he says to her, raising his gun and pulling the trigger. He stands over her body, "Thanks for the information, though." Mr. White then walks away into the darkness.


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:
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Edited by tdalton, 31 October 2010 - 02:58 AM.

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Hmmmm - I liked it until Mr White turned up.

I don't mind Quinn being killed in the movie, but thought it would make a better part of the St. Petersburg sequence if it was to take place (I was going to check with you if you minded her being killed off or wanted to take her through to UB28). I had her showing up on CCTV and leading MI6 into a trap - whilst this could function just as well with Mr White showing up on CCTV, I think the added dimension in having Quinn being the one leading the Quantum squad through the Scarlet Sails would add depth to that segment.

I still think the original PTS outline could work just as well - even if 'Mr Roberts' only turns up in the Scarlet Sails sequence too. He'd be a background thug - no name, no characterisation, all we know if he works for Quantum and follows Quinn's orders.

[tdalton]

Hmmmm - I liked it until Mr White turned up.

I don't mind Quinn being killed in the movie, but thought it would make a better part of the St. Petersburg sequence if it was to take place (I was going to check with you if you minded her being killed off or wanted to take her through to UB28). I had her showing up on CCTV and leading MI6 into a trap - whilst this could function just as well with Mr White showing up on CCTV, I think the added dimension in having Quinn being the one leading the Quantum squad through the Scarlet Sails would add depth to that segment.

I still think the original PTS outline could work just as well - even if 'Mr Roberts' only turns up in the Scarlet Sails sequence too. He'd be a background thug - no name, no characterisation, all we know if he works for Quantum and follows Quinn's orders.

Well, as much as I would have liked to have developed the Quinn character further, but I really don't feel like she fits into this storyline. Her arc coming off of the last story is, in my mind anyway, much darker than this story would allow. I decided to give her a partner with the idea that the two of them would wreak havoc on anyone who might know the whereabouts of 007, and that they would stop at nothing to get their revenge on him, the tone of this mission being reflected in the two scenes that I proposed for the treatment. With that said, this story isn't nearly dark enough to accommodate either character, I'm afraid, and I think that, as much as I'd like to see the character continue on into the last project, it's not something that fits the direction this project is going.

If it's decided by the group that the Quinn character should continue on in this project past the PTS, then I'll let the group decide how to proceed with the character. The arc that I see for the character doesn't fit, which is why I changed the PTS to reflect that.

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Fair comment. But I really would like to see Quinn in the St. Petersburg sequence - and, if you so want, killing her off there. She's been used to lure MI6 to St. Petersburg (as I have M and Bond acknowledge in the briefing when she's caught on CCTV and seen boarding a plane - it's a trap) but when it comes down to 'taking down the section' during the Scarlet Sails, I pictured Quinn as having an almost single minded pursuit of Bond in particular which brings about her ultimate downfall - she either focuses on him, oblivious to the other two operatives and one of them shoots her, or she pursues Bond and he kills her before moving on to deal with Mr White.

[chrisno1]

Dear God! You go out for a few hours to unwind on a Saturday night and the whole world seems to have changed when you get back....
This is moving way too fast for me....
I only just got my head around the ballet dancer...

[tdalton]

Fair comment. But I really would like to see Quinn in the St. Petersburg sequence - and, if you so want, killing her off there. She's been used to lure MI6 to St. Petersburg (as I have M and Bond acknowledge in the briefing when she's caught on CCTV and seen boarding a plane - it's a trap) but when it comes down to 'taking down the section' during the Scarlet Sails, I pictured Quinn as having an almost single minded pursuit of Bond in particular which brings about her ultimate downfall - she either focuses on him, oblivious to the other two operatives and one of them shoots her, or she pursues Bond and he kills her before moving on to deal with Mr White.

The only idea that I really have left regarding a way to keep the Quinn character going would be to have her survive the film, but make it out of the showdown between the Double-ohs and Mr. White heavily injured and scarred, with perhaps that bringing out the worst parts of her persona that would have been created through the experimental drugs that she were forced upon her in Afghanistan. Maybe that finally completely breaks her grip with sanity, and she just goes full-on after Bond in the next project, which would then include the hiring of the Koteas "Shaw" character as her partner/henchman in the effort.

I think that, with her appearance in the pre-titles, she could then be kept largely off-screen in this project, with her presence kind of looming over Bond as he knows that she's out there gunning for him, but he doesn't know when/where/if she's going to strike. Her only other appearance in the story could be her appearance at the showdown itself, where she would be heavily injured and disfigured, causing her to retreat into hiding and waiting for the next project to team with the Koteas "Shaw" character for a final run at Bond in what would be a much darker character/story arc than anything we've done before in previous treatments.

To me, this is about the only direction I can see the Quinn character going in that makes any sense for her continued involvement past the pre-titles of this project. In all honesty, I probably shouldn't have pushed the idea of carrying her over from the previous story (the villain situation in that got to be such a mess that none of the characters really necessitated or deserved a carry-over, as none of them ended up being anything that was particularly memorable or worthy of further exploration), but since she's been carried over, this is the way that it makes sense to me to continue her arc.

[Captain Tightpants]

Perhaps we could have Quinn and Bond get separated from the main fight during tbe Scarlet Sails. I'm picturing them fighting atop a hovercraft that is negotiating it way around ships and galleons out in the water (around here) during the eight of the celebrations - middle of the night, fireworks; everything - meanwhile, the other two agents are pinned down under fire at the Peter and Paul Fortress (where Bond and Quinn boarded the hovercraft - the star-shaped building on the map). Bond and Quinn's fight ends with the two of them falling from the hovercraft; Bond is able to swim away, but Quinn is pulled under. He returns to the fortress in the middle of the fight to find 0011 dead an 008 injured.

[tdalton]

Perhaps we could have Quinn and Bond get separated from the main fight during tbe Scarlet Sails. I'm picturing them fighting atop a hovercraft that is negotiating it way around ships and galleons out in the water (around here) during the eight of the celebrations - middle of the night, fireworks; everything - meanwhile, the other two agents are pinned down under fire at the Peter and Paul Fortress (where Bond and Quinn boarded the hovercraft - the star-shaped building on the map). Bond and Quinn's fight ends with the two of them falling from the hovercraft; Bond is able to swim away, but Quinn is pulled under. He returns to the fortress in the middle of the fight to find 0011 dead an 008 injured.

I'm going to go on record as saying that, to be completely honest, I'm not a huge fan of the idea. But, at the same time, I'm not going to do any arguing against it because I feel like it would be rather absurd (and not particularly fair to the rest of you who actually have contributed ideas of importance to this project) that I'd argue against a plot point in a project that I really haven't contributed anything to either.

The last thing that I'm going to say in regards to the Quinn character, and her particular arc in this very loose trilogy, before I turn it over to you guys to finish up, is that if she's going to be eliminated at any point, I feel like it needs to be done in a more direct manner, such as Bond doing something with the deliberate aim of taking her out. I don't get the feeling that the two of them falling into the water accomplishes that.

With all of that said, I'm not going to stand in the way of the further progression of the project, so I'll leave the group to do with the Quinn character whatever the consensus is, but my last two posts I think reflect my ideas for where I feel like the character should be headed.

Edited by tdalton, 31 October 2010 - 12:10 PM.

[terminus]

Dear God! You go out for a few hours to unwind on a Saturday night and the whole world seems to have changed when you get back....
This is moving way too fast for me....
I only just got my head around the ballet dancer...

I know - it's part of the excitement of the process that things can move at such speed at times.

The only idea that I really have left regarding a way to keep the Quinn character going would be to have her survive the film, but make it out of the showdown between the Double-ohs and Mr. White heavily injured and scarred, with perhaps that bringing out the worst parts of her persona that would have been created through the experimental drugs that she were forced upon her in Afghanistan. Maybe that finally completely breaks her grip with sanity, and she just goes full-on after Bond in the next project, which would then include the hiring of the Koteas "Shaw" character as her partner/henchman in the effort.

That's definitely something that could be included as part of the project.

Perhaps we could have Quinn and Bond get separated from the main fight during tbe Scarlet Sails. I'm picturing them fighting atop a hovercraft that is negotiating it way around ships and galleons out in the water (around here) during the eight of the celebrations - middle of the night, fireworks; everything - meanwhile, the other two agents are pinned down under fire at the Peter and Paul Fortress (where Bond and Quinn boarded the hovercraft - the star-shaped building on the map). Bond and Quinn's fight ends with the two of them falling from the hovercraft; Bond is able to swim away, but Quinn is pulled under. He returns to the fortress in the middle of the fight to find 0011 dead an 008 injured.

And I'm sure we could include elements of this sequence in the St. Petersburg sequence too.

But - we've still not filled the proforma in, people still need to take their turns! We've an action sequence going spare - and the gadgets, cars and production details left to fill in.

[coco1997]

By my count, SamKevlar and Mr. Blofeld need to take their third turns, and chrisno1 still hasn't submitted anything to the pro forma.

[terminus]

chrisno1 has said he's very busy though - as I'm sure other people are. I think we've got a lot of material to work with anyway! This is certainly shaping up to be my favourite round of the game so far.

[Mr. Blofeld]

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): Jeany Spark as Vera (attache to the Space Tourism launchsite in Nambola if we decide to go that route, if not then just a receptionist at a hotel)

5 Henchman: Jason David Frank as Mesquito, a bodyguard/hired gun in the employ of President Sephotho

6 Villain: Giancarlo Esposito as Henrik Sephotho, the President of Nambola
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

10 Other Figures: 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: Mitre Square, London
17 Location 1: St. Petersburg, Russia, during the Scarlet Sails, the high point of the city's White Nights Festival.
18 Location 2: Cathederal da Sé, São Paulo, Brazil
19 Location 3: MI6 Headquarters
20 Location 4: 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).
21 Location 5: Germany (because they have the second largest stockpile of gold outside of the US)

KEY PLOT POINTS

22 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.

23 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 she catches up to him, shooting him in the leg. He's left immobilized, allowing the woman corner 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."
"I lied."

She turns to walk away, and finds Mr. White standing behind her.

"You've outlived your usefulness, dearie," he says to her, raising his gun and pulling the trigger.

He stands over her body.

"Thanks for the information, though." Mr. White walks away into the darkness.

24 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.

25 Entr'acte Scene: Bond, staring mournfully at his Lucia desktop photo, is called from his desk by Moneypenny; apparently, there's something urgent M needs him for. Rousing himself up, we cut to the inside of M's office; an ornate, oak-panelled room, lined with books. The men assembled inside all look up at once as Bond walks in, somewhat sheepishly. He walks forward and stands at attention; M motions for him to grab a chair, and he does so. Sitting down, he recognizes Leiter as one of the men; he smiles subtly, but Leiter shakes his head -- it's not the time for that.

M stands up and gestures at the men. "007, you know Felix Leiter, head of the CIA's South American Bureau, very well, I believe. This is the head of the CIA, Max Calders."

CALDERS: "How do you do?"
BOND: "Well, thank you."

M starts walking around his desk, pushing buttons on the side of it that roll back the top of the desk and reveal a hologram projector, as well as rolling up a portrait on the wall to reveal a viewscreen, displaying a split-screen video image of the Minister of Defence and the U.S. Secretary of Defense. He continues:

M: "Minister Piggot, Secretary Smith? Five days ago in São Paulo, Mr. Leiter here discovered something at the apartment of deceased Quantum agent Marcus; an indentification card, registered with the U.S. Department of Defence in the name of a Dr. Emeric Hildebrand."

The hologram projector displays an image of the card, focuses on Hildebrand's face, then goes through a quick identification of the card, nearly imperceptible to the eye.

M: "Mr. Calders, tell Mr. Bond why Dr. Hildebrand is so important."
CALDERS: "For years, our scientists at the Department of Defense have, as a side project, attempted to find a method of converting lead into gold, and vice versa."

Bond snorts.

BOND: "Well, that's impossible, isn't it?"
CALDERS: "Has been impossible -- until now. The head of our New Fuels Division, Dr. Hildebrand, has discovered a chemical process that does it. It uses a rare chemical isotope/compound he calls 'The Rarity'."

Secretary Smith breaks in:

SMITH: "Up until now, we've kept it a secret; the gold market would collapse from the announcement, but now that Dr. Hildebrand may be possibly involved with this Quantum group, we've decided to go to your men -- you seem to know the most about it."

Minister Piggot continues the conversation:

PIGGOT: "If Hildebrand is involved, the Americans want no part of the operation to intercept him; they'd lose a lot of face with the intelligence community."
BOND: "So, you're saying Her Majesty's Intelligence has to pick up the pieces of broken crockery from an American bungle-up?"
M: "Not quite, Bond; Mr. Leiter will be advising you on this... pick-up plan. We'll be sending out our top agents, including you, to investigate Dr. Hildebrand."
BOND: "But, what if Hildebrand isn't involved?"
LEITER: "He has to be; why else would Marcus have his ID card? They must have met up at some point in the past."

Bond is quiet for a moment.

BOND: "Through Quinn."
PIGGOT: "Who?"
LEITER: "The bitch who cost me my legs."
CALDERS: "Oh, don't remind me..."
BOND: "Have we any leads on her, yet?"
M: "I'm afraid so, 007; she was found dead, next to one of our own agents, in Mitre Square. She'd gotten off a redeye from St. Petersburg to London a few hours before."

Smith gasps.

SMITH: "But... but that's where Hildebrand is! He's helping a Russian scientific team!"
BOND: "If that's so, we'd better move fast."

M sits back down at his desk and picks up his phone.

M: "Moneypenny? Call in the 00s."

CUT to next scene...

26 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.
27 Major Stunt 3:
28 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

30 Gadget 1:
31 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

32 Director: Christopher Nolan

33 Music By:

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

36 Titles Designed By:
37 Description of Titles:

[coco1997]

Well done, Matt, but that's not an action sequence.

[terminus]

As mrblofeld seems incapable of following the rules even after his recent reminder - am negating his recent entry and striking it from the proforma.

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): Jeany Spark as Vera (attache to the Space Tourism launchsite in Nambola if we decide to go that route, if not then just a receptionist at a hotel)

5 Henchman: Jason David Frank as Mesquito, a bodyguard/hired gun in the employ of President Sephotho

6 Villain: Giancarlo Esposito as Henrik Sephotho, the President of Nambola
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

10 Other Figures: 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: Mitre Square, London
17 Location 1: St. Petersburg, Russia, during the Scarlet Sails, the high point of the city's White Nights Festival.
18 Location 2: Cathederal da Sé, São Paulo, Brazil
19 Location 3: MI6 Headquarters
20 Location 4: 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).
21 Location 5: Germany (because they have the second largest stockpile of gold outside of the US)

KEY PLOT POINTS

22 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.

23 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 she catches up to him, shooting him in the leg. He's left immobilized, allowing the woman corner 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." "I lied," she says, shooting him. She turns to walk away, and finds Mr. White standing behind her. "You've outlived your usefulness," he says to her, raising his gun and pulling the trigger. He stands over her body, "Thanks for the information, though." Mr. White then walks away into the darkness.


24 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.

25 Major Stunt 1:
26 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.
27 Major Stunt 3:
28 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

30 Gadget 1:
31 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

32 Director: Christopher Nolan

33 Music By:

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

36 Titles Designed By:
37 Description of Titles:

[Mr. Blofeld]

Well done, Matt, but that's not an action sequence.

It's not; it's an Entr'acte sequence; between the action sequences.

Terminus, I was justifying my "Department of Defense" line; I even gave you a good exposition sequence -- I thought this was collaborative...

[coco1997]

Well done, Matt, but that's not an action sequence.

It's not; it's an Entr'acte sequence; between the action sequences.

That doesn't matter. The point of the pro forma is to use it as a basis from which to develop the whole story. It doesn't help at all to add your own fields whilst ignoring the previously conceived ones (in this case using up the Action Sequence with this one). This is not the first time you've been guilty of this.

[tdalton]

Since the issue has kind of come up in Mr. Blofeld's exposition scene, what have we decided to do with the Quinn character? Is the PTS, as I've currently got it configured with Mr. White eliminating her, going to stand? Is she going to be eliminated later in the story, or is she being carried over into UB28 to be paired with the Koteas "Shaw" character after being disfigured in this story?

I'm just wondering so I can adjust the PTS again (if it's even necesssary) to avoid confusion so that you all can develop the main body of the story without people getting confused by the various versions of the PTS floating out there.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Very well; ignore me. I lose a turn. I don't care.

*sigh*

[terminus]

Since the issue has kind of come up in Mr. Blofeld's exposition scene, what have we decided to do with the Quinn character? Is the PTS, as I've currently got it configured with Mr. White eliminating her, going to stand? Is she going to be eliminated later in the story, or is she being carried over into UB28 to be paired with the Koteas "Shaw" character after being disfigured in this story?

I'm just wondering so I can adjust the PTS again (if it's even necesssary) to avoid confusion so that you all can develop the main body of the story without people getting confused by the various versions of the PTS floating out there.

I prefer the first version, to be honest - even if all the 'Mr Roberts' character does is appear in St. Petersburg alongside Quinn and die, whilst she battles Bond (something similar to CT's suggested scene involving the hovercraft) and is presumed dead by Bond but escapes, scarred and vengeful to make it into UB28.

Very well; ignore me. I lose a turn. I don't care.

*sigh*

You don't need to loose a turn, you just need to stop adding or changing fields - as you have done repeatedly in the past - and play within the rules of the game. This IS a collaborative project.