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[tdalton]

New name for the henchman character. Hopefully it's not as "bland" as the last.

SHATTERHAND

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): (there was some discussion about bringing Lucia back for the finale, but this doesn't need to be done)

5 Henchman: Dolph Lundgren as Jonas Black
6 Henchman 2:

7 Villain: Paul Higgins as Quentin Moray (a Largo-esque figure)
8 Villain 2:
9 Villain 3: Rutger Hauer as The Head of Quantum (named to be confirmed)
10 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn

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: - (a new trainee Double-Oh operative)

LOCATIONS - There are no restrictions on locations, but please try to avoid using locations we've previously used, if at all possible.

16 Pre-Titles Location:
17 Location 1:
18 Location 2:
19 Location 3: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20 Location 4: The Antarctic. Specifically - a hidden lair composed of sunken ships, oil rigs and submarines welded together. Almost a hodge-podge steampunk meets futuristic version of Atlantis (from TSWLM).

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 Villains Plot: A 'nuclear bomb' sort of movie (think Thunderball) - mixed in with Quantum declaring all out war on MI6.

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond has to infiltrate the fleet headquarters of an open-cockpit flying boat squadron to blow them up--one of the boats makes a getaway and Bond has to climb on board and stop it. The idea was taken from the recent unveiling of Iran's new war machines. (This would be a standalone PTS in the vein of MR, FYEO, or OP, i.e., not necessarily connected to the film's plot)
23 Major Stunt 1:
24 Major Stunt 2:
25 Major Stunt 3:
26 Finale Stunt: Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum "Erewhon" undersea base is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.

Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erewhon.

As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after Our Villain, who beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.

Our Villain overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.

Now robbed of his one escape from Erewhon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

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

34 Title Sequence Description:

[Captain Tightpants]

Re-post to coeect spelling:


1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): (there was some discussion about bringing Lucia back for the finale, but this doesn't need to be done)

5 Henchman: Dolph Lundgren as Jonas Black
6 Henchman 2:

7 Villain: Paul Higgins as Quentin Moray (a Largo-esque figure)
8 Villain 2:
9 Villain 3: Rutger Hauer as The Head of Quantum (named to be confirmed)
10 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn

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: - (a new trainee Double-Oh operative)

LOCATIONS - There are no restrictions on locations, but please try to avoid using locations we've previously used, if at all possible.

16 Pre-Titles Location:
17 Location 1:
18 Location 2:
19 Location 3: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20 Location 4: The Antarctic. Specifically - a hidden lair composed of sunken ships, oil rigs and submarines welded together. Almost a hodge-podge steampunk meets futuristic version of Atlantis (from TSWLM).

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 Villains Plot: A 'nuclear bomb' sort of movie (think Thunderball) - mixed in with Quantum declaring all out war on MI6.

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond has to infiltrate the fleet headquarters of an open-cockpit flying boat squadron to blow them up--one of the boats makes a getaway and Bond has to climb on board and stop it. The idea was taken from the recent unveiling of Iran's new war machines. (This would be a standalone PTS in the vein of MR, FYEO, or OP, i.e., not necessarily connected to the film's plot)
23 Major Stunt 1:
24 Major Stunt 2:
25 Major Stunt 3:
26 Finale Stunt: Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum's undersea base - known as "Erehwon" ("nowhere" spelt backwards) - is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.

Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erehwon.

As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after Our Villain, who beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.

Our Villain overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.

Now robbed of his one escape from Erehwon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

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

34 Title Sequence Description:

[coco1997]

I just wanted to point out that I think M and Moneypenny should have expanded roles in this one. I'm not sure how, but considering they've kind of been pushed to the background and the roles may be recast if we decide to do an ongoing post-Craig series following the planned anthology event, it might be the best time to give them a little something more to do.

[SamuelKevlar]

I just wanted to point out that I think M and Moneypenny should have expanded roles in this one. I'm not sure how, but considering they've kind of been pushed to the background and the roles may be recast if we decide to do an ongoing post-Craig series following the planned anthology event, it might be the best time to give them a little something more to do.

Agreed, as long as they don't get killed "for a thrill".

[Mr. Blofeld]

Agreed, as long as they don't get killed "for a thrill".

Are you referring to my abortion of a post, sir? If so, it was meant to signify the "all-out war" Quantum has taken out against MI6 and Bond -- through treachery and bloodshed.

There have to be casualties; perhaps Dalton's M could get a Crowning Moment of Awesome?

[terminus]

Not sure what I think - we've put Moneypenny and M back to their Connery-esque MI6 briefing appearances, as opposed to their Brosnan-esque overuse. I'm fine with giving them a bigger scene in the finale, but it would need to fit with the tone of the series/movie.

So that's seven participants - am sorely tempted to open up the second turn.

[terminus]

Okay - am opening the second round. Also thought that Hjalmar could be an interesting first name for the Head of Quantum (it's Alexander Skarsgard's middle name).



Ultimate Bond 28: SHATTERHAND



1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): (there was some discussion about bringing Lucia back for the finale, but this doesn't need to be done)

5 Henchman: Dolph Lundgren as Jonas Black
6 Henchman 2:

7 Villain: Paul Higgins as Quentin Moray (a Largo-esque figure)
8 Villain 2: Tom Hiddleston as 'Mr White' (if the original holder of the 'Mr White' identity was cold and ruthless, imagine how cold and ruthless a man less than half his age would need to be to attain his position - in short, the inheritor of the 'Mr White' mantle is an extremely dangerous person).
9 Villain 3: Rutger Hauer as The Head of Quantum (named to be confirmed)
10 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn

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: - (a new trainee Double-Oh operative)

LOCATIONS - There are no restrictions on locations, but please try to avoid using locations we've previously used, if at all possible.

16 Pre-Titles Location:
17 Location 1:
18 Location 2:
19 Location 3: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20 Location 4: The Antarctic. Specifically - a hidden lair composed of sunken ships, oil rigs and submarines welded together. Almost a hodge-podge steampunk meets futuristic version of Atlantis (from TSWLM).

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 Villains Plot: A 'nuclear bomb' sort of movie (think Thunderball) - mixed in with Quantum declaring all out war on MI6.

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond has to infiltrate the fleet headquarters of an open-cockpit flying boat squadron to blow them up--one of the boats makes a getaway and Bond has to climb on board and stop it. The idea was taken from the recent unveiling of Iran's new war machines. (This would be a standalone PTS in the vein of MR, FYEO, or OP, i.e., not necessarily connected to the film's plot)
23 Major Stunt 1:
24 Major Stunt 2:
25 Major Stunt 3:
26 Finale Stunt: Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum's undersea base - known as "Erehwon" ("nowhere" spelt backwards) - is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.

Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erehwon.

As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after Our Villain, who beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.

Our Villain overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.

Now robbed of his one escape from Erehwon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

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

34 Title Sequence Description:

[Mr. Blofeld]

SHATTERHAND



1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): (there was some discussion about bringing Lucia back for the finale, but this doesn't need to be done)

5 Henchman: Dolph Lundgren as Jonas Black
6 Henchman 2:

7 Villain: Paul Higgins as Quentin Moray (a Largo-esque figure)
8 Villain 2: Tom Hiddleston as 'Mr White' (if the original holder of the 'Mr White' identity was cold and ruthless, imagine how cold and ruthless a man less than half his age would need to be to attain his position - in short, the inheritor of the 'Mr White' mantle is an extremely dangerous person).
9 Villain 3: Rutger Hauer as The Head of Quantum (named to be confirmed)
10 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn

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: - (a new trainee Double-Oh operative)

LOCATIONS - There are no restrictions on locations, but please try to avoid using locations we've previously used, if at all possible.

16 Pre-Titles Location:
17 Location 1:
18 Location 2:
19 Location 3: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20 Location 4: The Antarctic. Specifically - a hidden lair composed of sunken ships, oil rigs and submarines welded together. Almost a hodge-podge steampunk meets futuristic version of Atlantis (from TSWLM).

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 Villains Plot: A 'nuclear bomb' sort of movie (think Thunderball) - mixed in with Quantum declaring all out war on MI6.

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond has to infiltrate the fleet headquarters of an open-cockpit flying boat squadron to blow them up--one of the boats makes a getaway and Bond has to climb on board and stop it. The idea was taken from the recent unveiling of Iran's new war machines. (This would be a standalone PTS in the vein of MR, FYEO, or OP, i.e., not necessarily connected to the film's plot)
23 Major Stunt 1: On a train in southern France, M and his family are heading out for a quiet week in the countryside. When a sommelier proves not to be one (he attempts to poison M with tainted wine, but M sniffs it out and tricks him with dialogue concerning Mouton Rothschild and clarets), M springs into action, getting his family into the back of the car and ushering all the other passengers out with them while the sommelier sprays the car with machine gun fire. Finally, M gets him into the next car, full of various automobiles; M dashes out of sight, and the sommelier sprays the front row of cars with lead -- but then a roar starts up: He was in a car in the back row. Revving over the rows of cars, M drives down and pins the sommelier to the wall of the train car, but the weight of the car proves too great; the wall breaks down, and the sommelier falls between the gaps and under the train to his death. M gets out of the car and checks his own blood pressure, and we cut to him being reunited with his family and interviewed by the authorities.
24 Major Stunt 2:
25 Major Stunt 3:
26 Finale Stunt: Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum's undersea base - known as "Erehwon" ("nowhere" spelt backwards) - is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.

Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erehwon.

As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after Our Villain, who beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.

Our Villain overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.

Now robbed of his one escape from Erehwon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

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

34 Title Sequence Description:

[SamuelKevlar]

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): (there was some discussion about bringing Lucia back for the finale, but this doesn't need to be done)

5 Henchman: Dolph Lundgren as Jonas Black
6 Henchman 2:

7 Villain: Paul Higgins as Quentin Moray (a Largo-esque figure)
8 Villain 2: Tom Hiddleston as 'Mr White' (if the original holder of the 'Mr White' identity was cold and ruthless, imagine how cold and ruthless a man less than half his age would need to be to attain his position - in short, the inheritor of the 'Mr White' mantle is an extremely dangerous person).
9 Villain 3: Rutger Hauer as The Head of Quantum (named to be confirmed)
10 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn

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: - (a new trainee Double-Oh operative)

LOCATIONS - There are no restrictions on locations, but please try to avoid using locations we've previously used, if at all possible.

16 Pre-Titles Location:
17 Location 1:
18 Location 2:
19 Location 3: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20 Location 4: The Antarctic. Specifically - a hidden lair composed of sunken ships, oil rigs and submarines welded together. Almost a hodge-podge steampunk meets futuristic version of Atlantis (from TSWLM).

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 Villains Plot: A 'nuclear bomb' sort of movie (think Thunderball) - mixed in with Quantum declaring all out war on MI6.

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond has to infiltrate the fleet headquarters of an open-cockpit flying boat squadron to blow them up--one of the boats makes a getaway and Bond has to climb on board and stop it. The idea was taken from the recent unveiling of Iran's new war machines. (This would be a standalone PTS in the vein of MR, FYEO, or OP, i.e., not necessarily connected to the film's plot)
23 Major Stunt 1: On a train in southern France, M and his family are heading out for a quiet week in the countryside. When a sommelier proves not to be one (he attempts to poison M with tainted wine, but M sniffs it out and tricks him with dialogue concerning Mouton Rothschild and clarets), M springs into action, getting his family into the back of the car and ushering all the other passengers out with them while the sommelier sprays the car with machine gun fire. Finally, M gets him into the next car, full of various automobiles; M dashes out of sight, and the sommelier sprays the front row of cars with lead -- but then a roar starts up: He was in a car in the back row. Revving over the rows of cars, M drives down and pins the sommelier to the wall of the train car, but the weight of the car proves too great; the wall breaks down, and the sommelier falls between the gaps and under the train to his death. M gets out of the car and checks his own blood pressure, and we cut to him being reunited with his family and interviewed by the authorities.
24 Major Stunt 2:
25 Major Stunt 3: A meeting between villains in a museum (using those self-guided tour headsets to communicate), which quickly goes awry when Bond intervenes. Tourists scatter and security guards panic as bullets perforate a number of Rembrandts and Vermeers. The confrontation spills out onto the street and becomes a chase, first on foot through the winding streets, then on speedboats through the canals, finally culminating in a stand-off in the harbour, where oil spills are set alight and the battleground becomes a sea of fire.
26 Finale Stunt: Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum's undersea base - known as "Erehwon" ("nowhere" spelt backwards) - is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.

Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erehwon.

As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after Our Villain, who beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.

Our Villain overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.

Now robbed of his one escape from Erehwon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

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

34 Title Sequence Description:

Edited by SamuelKevlar, 08 November 2010 - 08:51 PM.

[terminus]

23 Major Stunt 1: On a train in southern France, M and his family are heading out for a quiet week in the countryside. When a sommelier proves not to be one (he attempts to poison M with tainted wine, but M sniffs it out and tricks him with dialogue concerning Mouton Rothschild and clarets), M springs into action, getting his family into the back of the car and ushering all the other passengers out with them while the sommelier sprays the car with machine gun fire. Finally, M gets him into the next car, full of various automobiles; M dashes out of sight, and the sommelier sprays the front row of cars with lead -- but then a roar starts up: He was in a car in the back row. Revving over the rows of cars, M drives down and pins the sommelier to the wall of the train car, but the weight of the car proves too great; the wall breaks down, and the sommelier falls between the gaps and under the train to his death. M gets out of the car and checks his own blood pressure, and we cut to him being reunited with his family and interviewed by the authorities.

In essence - a lift of the pretitles of the original draft of GoldenEye? Not so keen on lifting someone else's work - and just replacing Bond with M. And you've specified a location - which isn't allowed.

I'm really not sure about this. Any thoughts anyone?

25 Major Stunt 3: A meeting between villains in a museum (using those self-guided tour headsets to communicate), which quickly goes awry when Bond intervenes. Tourists scatter and security guards panic as bullets perforate a number of Rembrandts and Vermeers. The confrontation spills out onto the street and becomes a chase, first on foot through the winding streets, then on speedboats through the canals, finally culminating in a stand-off in the harbour, where oil spills are set alight and the battleground becomes a sea of fire.

Definitely an interesting scene. I know that this is supposed to match up with Amsterdam and I know tdalton had an idea for how to use the morphotel and the solar powered boat that coco1997 and I mentioned, but it would be awesome to combine the stunt you have described with the morphotel and the boat - albeit, shifting it to a warmer climate. And maybe using Amsterdam for something else?

[coco1997]

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Violante Placido as Canada Juarez, a Quantum double agent.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): (there was some discussion about bringing Lucia back for the finale, but this doesn't need to be done)

5 Henchman: Dolph Lundgren as Jonas Black
6 Henchman 2:

7 Villain: Paul Higgins as Quentin Moray (a Largo-esque figure)
8 Villain 2: Tom Hiddleston as 'Mr White' (if the original holder of the 'Mr White' identity was cold and ruthless, imagine how cold and ruthless a man less than half his age would need to be to attain his position - in short, the inheritor of the 'Mr White' mantle is an extremely dangerous person).
9 Villain 3: Rutger Hauer as The Head of Quantum (named to be confirmed)
10 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn

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: - (a new trainee Double-Oh operative)

LOCATIONS - There are no restrictions on locations, but please try to avoid using locations we've previously used, if at all possible.

16 Pre-Titles Location:
17 Location 1:
18 Location 2:
19 Location 3: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20 Location 4: The Antarctic. Specifically - a hidden lair composed of sunken ships, oil rigs and submarines welded together. Almost a hodge-podge steampunk meets futuristic version of Atlantis (from TSWLM).

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 Villains Plot: A 'nuclear bomb' sort of movie (think Thunderball) - mixed in with Quantum declaring all out war on MI6.

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond has to infiltrate the fleet headquarters of an open-cockpit flying boat squadron to blow them up--one of the boats makes a getaway and Bond has to climb on board and stop it. The idea was taken from the recent unveiling of Iran's new war machines. (This would be a standalone PTS in the vein of MR, FYEO, or OP, i.e., not necessarily connected to the film's plot)
23 Major Stunt 1: On a train in southern France, M and his family are heading out for a quiet week in the countryside. When a sommelier proves not to be one (he attempts to poison M with tainted wine, but M sniffs it out and tricks him with dialogue concerning Mouton Rothschild and clarets), M springs into action, getting his family into the back of the car and ushering all the other passengers out with them while the sommelier sprays the car with machine gun fire. Finally, M gets him into the next car, full of various automobiles; M dashes out of sight, and the sommelier sprays the front row of cars with lead -- but then a roar starts up: He was in a car in the back row. Revving over the rows of cars, M drives down and pins the sommelier to the wall of the train car, but the weight of the car proves too great; the wall breaks down, and the sommelier falls between the gaps and under the train to his death. M gets out of the car and checks his own blood pressure, and we cut to him being reunited with his family and interviewed by the authorities.
24 Major Stunt 2:
25 Major Stunt 3: A meeting between villains in a museum (using those self-guided tour headsets to communicate), which quickly goes awry when Bond intervenes. Tourists scatter and security guards panic as bullets perforate a number of Rembrandts and Vermeers. The confrontation spills out onto the street and becomes a chase, first on foot through the winding streets, then on speedboats through the canals, finally culminating in a stand-off in the harbour, where oil spills are set alight and the battleground becomes a sea of fire.
26 Finale Stunt: Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum's undersea base - known as "Erehwon" ("nowhere" spelt backwards) - is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.

Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erehwon.

As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after Our Villain, who beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.

Our Villain overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.

Now robbed of his one escape from Erehwon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

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

34 Title Sequence Description:

[Mr. Blofeld]

23 Major Stunt 1: On a train in southern France, M and his family are heading out for a quiet week in the countryside. When a sommelier proves not to be one (he attempts to poison M with tainted wine, but M sniffs it out and tricks him with dialogue concerning Mouton Rothschild and clarets), M springs into action, getting his family into the back of the car and ushering all the other passengers out with them while the sommelier sprays the car with machine gun fire. Finally, M gets him into the next car, full of various automobiles; M dashes out of sight, and the sommelier sprays the front row of cars with lead -- but then a roar starts up: He was in a car in the back row. Revving over the rows of cars, M drives down and pins the sommelier to the wall of the train car, but the weight of the car proves too great; the wall breaks down, and the sommelier falls between the gaps and under the train to his death. M gets out of the car and checks his own blood pressure, and we cut to him being reunited with his family and interviewed by the authorities.

In essence - a lift of the pretitles of the original draft of GoldenEye? Not so keen on lifting someone else's work - and just replacing Bond with M. And you've specified a location - which isn't allowed.

I'll drop the location, but once my next turn comes around, I'll slot it in.

There's also some method to my madness: There haven't been any personal attacks on MI6 higher-ups, and I thought this'd be the perfect way to go with it. I also thought that Dalton's M being just as snobby in wines as Bond is would be highly ironic... not to mention bring about an awesome action sequence showing just how fit Dalton still is.

[terminus]

In short - all you want is an assault on M directly? I'd much rather work with that basic idea and build something new up than take so much from that early GoldenEye draft.

[Mr. Blofeld]

In short - all you want is an assault on M directly? I'd much rather work with that basic idea and build something new up than take so much from that early GoldenEye draft.

Well, there is also the fact that that early GoldenEye draft was written for Dalton; never employing that defining sequence with Dalton, even if it is in another role, would be too much to bear, for me.

[Captain Tightpants]

I think Mr. Blofeld's submission should be allowade, but the location should be left blank until someone comes along and fills it in.

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Violante Placido as Canada Juarez, a Quantum double agent.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): (there was some discussion about bringing Lucia back for the finale, but this doesn't need to be done)

5 Henchman: Dolph Lundgren as Jonas Black
6 Henchman 2:

7 Villain: Paul Higgins as Quentin Moray (a Largo-esque figure)
8 Villain 2: Tom Hiddleston as 'Mr White' (if the original holder of the 'Mr White' identity was cold and ruthless, imagine how cold and ruthless a man less than half his age would need to be to attain his position - in short, the inheritor of the 'Mr White' mantle is an extremely dangerous person).
9 Villain 3: Rutger Hauer as The Head of Quantum (named to be confirmed)
10 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn

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: - (a new trainee Double-Oh operative)

LOCATIONS - There are no restrictions on locations, but please try to avoid using locations we've previously used, if at all possible.

16 Pre-Titles Location:
17 Location 1: Dyatlov Pass, Russia
18 Location 2:
19 Location 3: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20 Location 4: The Antarctic. Specifically - a hidden lair composed of sunken ships, oil rigs and submarines welded together. Almost a hodge-podge steampunk meets futuristic version of Atlantis (from TSWLM).

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 Villains Plot: A 'nuclear bomb' sort of movie (think Thunderball) - mixed in with Quantum declaring all out war on MI6.

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond has to infiltrate the fleet headquarters of an open-cockpit flying boat squadron to blow them up--one of the boats makes a getaway and Bond has to climb on board and stop it. The idea was taken from the recent unveiling of Iran's new war machines. (This would be a standalone PTS in the vein of MR, FYEO, or OP, i.e., not necessarily connected to the film's plot)
23 Major Stunt 1: On a train in southern France, M and his family are heading out for a quiet week in the countryside. When a sommelier proves not to be one (he attempts to poison M with tainted wine, but M sniffs it out and tricks him with dialogue concerning Mouton Rothschild and clarets), M springs into action, getting his family into the back of the car and ushering all the other passengers out with them while the sommelier sprays the car with machine gun fire. Finally, M gets him into the next car, full of various automobiles; M dashes out of sight, and the sommelier sprays the front row of cars with lead -- but then a roar starts up: He was in a car in the back row. Revving over the rows of cars, M drives down and pins the sommelier to the wall of the train car, but the weight of the car proves too great; the wall breaks down, and the sommelier falls between the gaps and under the train to his death. M gets out of the car and checks his own blood pressure, and we cut to him being reunited with his family and interviewed by the authorities.
24 Major Stunt 2:
25 Major Stunt 3: A meeting between villains in a museum (using those self-guided tour headsets to communicate), which quickly goes awry when Bond intervenes. Tourists scatter and security guards panic as bullets perforate a number of Rembrandts and Vermeers. The confrontation spills out onto the street and becomes a chase, first on foot through the winding streets, then on speedboats through the canals, finally culminating in a stand-off in the harbour, where oil spills are set alight and the battleground becomes a sea of fire.
26 Finale Stunt: Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum's undersea base - known as "Erehwon" ("nowhere" spelt backwards) - is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.

Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erehwon.

As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after Our Villain, who beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.

Our Villain overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.

Now robbed of his one escape from Erehwon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

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

34 Title Sequence Description:

[coco1997]

In short - all you want is an assault on M directly? I'd much rather work with that basic idea and build something new up than take so much from that early GoldenEye draft.

Well, there is also the fact that that early GoldenEye draft was written for Dalton; never employing that defining sequence with Dalton, even if it is in another role, would be too much to bear, for me.

I understand the argument. Plenty of unused ideas from Bond scripts later resurfaced in other films. Case in point, the sinkhole parachute drop from "QoS" was also taken directly from an early version of "GE".

[terminus]

If the consensus is to keep the jist of the sequence and disallow the location, I'm happy to do that.

[Captain Tightpants]

I changed my mind. I figured I should put in a location relevant to the plot:

1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Violante Placido as Canada Juarez, a Quantum double agent.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): (there was some discussion about bringing Lucia back for the finale, but this doesn't need to be done)

5 Henchman: Dolph Lundgren as Jonas Black
6 Henchman 2:

7 Villain: Paul Higgins as Quentin Moray (a Largo-esque figure)
8 Villain 2: Tom Hiddleston as 'Mr White' (if the original holder of the 'Mr White' identity was cold and ruthless, imagine how cold and ruthless a man less than half his age would need to be to attain his position - in short, the inheritor of the 'Mr White' mantle is an extremely dangerous person).
9 Villain 3: Rutger Hauer as The Head of Quantum (named to be confirmed)
10 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn

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: - (a new trainee Double-Oh operative)

LOCATIONS - There are no restrictions on locations, but please try to avoid using locations we've previously used, if at all possible.

16 Pre-Titles Location:
17 Location 1:
18 Location 2: Rebirth Island (Vorozhdeniya), Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan
19 Location 3: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20 Location 4: The Antarctic. Specifically - a hidden lair composed of sunken ships, oil rigs and submarines welded together. Almost a hodge-podge steampunk meets futuristic version of Atlantis (from TSWLM).

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 Villains Plot: A 'nuclear bomb' sort of movie (think Thunderball) - mixed in with Quantum declaring all out war on MI6.

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond has to infiltrate the fleet headquarters of an open-cockpit flying boat squadron to blow them up--one of the boats makes a getaway and Bond has to climb on board and stop it. The idea was taken from the recent unveiling of Iran's new war machines. (This would be a standalone PTS in the vein of MR, FYEO, or OP, i.e., not necessarily connected to the film's plot)
23 Major Stunt 1: On a train in southern France, M and his family are heading out for a quiet week in the countryside. When a sommelier proves not to be one (he attempts to poison M with tainted wine, but M sniffs it out and tricks him with dialogue concerning Mouton Rothschild and clarets), M springs into action, getting his family into the back of the car and ushering all the other passengers out with them while the sommelier sprays the car with machine gun fire. Finally, M gets him into the next car, full of various automobiles; M dashes out of sight, and the sommelier sprays the front row of cars with lead -- but then a roar starts up: He was in a car in the back row. Revving over the rows of cars, M drives down and pins the sommelier to the wall of the train car, but the weight of the car proves too great; the wall breaks down, and the sommelier falls between the gaps and under the train to his death. M gets out of the car and checks his own blood pressure, and we cut to him being reunited with his family and interviewed by the authorities.
24 Major Stunt 2:
25 Major Stunt 3: A meeting between villains in a museum (using those self-guided tour headsets to communicate), which quickly goes awry when Bond intervenes. Tourists scatter and security guards panic as bullets perforate a number of Rembrandts and Vermeers. The confrontation spills out onto the street and becomes a chase, first on foot through the winding streets, then on speedboats through the canals, finally culminating in a stand-off in the harbour, where oil spills are set alight and the battleground becomes a sea of fire.
26 Finale Stunt: Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum's undersea base - known as "Erehwon" ("nowhere" spelt backwards) - is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.

Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erehwon.

As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after Our Villain, who beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.

Our Villain overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.

Now robbed of his one escape from Erehwon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

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

34 Title Sequence Description:

[terminus]

Oh - dammit - DAMN YOU!!!!

I'd been reading up on your other location and I'd figured out an interesting way of using it in a nuclear bomb sort of movie! The new location suggests something more biological weaponry.

[Captain Tightpants]

I didnt expect you to read it so quickly, much less come up with an idea.

But given that Dyatlov happened in the 1950s, hold that thought - we can use it for the period pieces (maybe even as the main plot), and drop Connery into the mix.

[terminus]

What can I say? I'm a speed reader!

Oh, yes - keep it in mind, definitely. The basic idea for the sequence actually works quite well into your new location too.

By the way - have you heard the Doctor Who audio 'Brave New World'? It's set on an island in the Aral Sea, I wonder if the author got the idea from the island you've suggested as a location.

[coco1997]

I also think it's high time the '007 Theme' returns to the series--and we should specify its inclusion at some point.

[Captain Tightpants]

By the way - have you heard the Doctor Who audio 'Brave New World'? It's set on an island in the Aral Sea, I wonder if the author got the idea from the island you've suggested as a location.

Well, I was reading about Ken Alibek, also known as Kanatzhan Alibekov - a Soviet biochemist who ran the USSR's biochemical weapons program before his defection. Rebirth Island was one of the facilities under his control, and that's where I got the idea from.

[SamuelKevlar]

25 Major Stunt 3: A meeting between villains in a museum (using those self-guided tour headsets to communicate), which quickly goes awry when Bond intervenes. Tourists scatter and security guards panic as bullets perforate a number of Rembrandts and Vermeers. The confrontation spills out onto the street and becomes a chase, first on foot through the winding streets, then on speedboats through the canals, finally culminating in a stand-off in the harbour, where oil spills are set alight and the battleground becomes a sea of fire.

Definitely an interesting scene. I know that this is supposed to match up with Amsterdam and I know tdalton had an idea for how to use the morphotel and the solar powered boat that coco1997 and I mentioned, but it would be awesome to combine the stunt you have described with the morphotel and the boat - albeit, shifting it to a warmer climate. And maybe using Amsterdam for something else?

I'd really rather not, if at all possible. The sequence is quite specific to the city of Amsterdam, which is why I was so relieved that the second round opened so early before all the stunt entries were taken. There's some details I didn't include that make it particularly interesting - for example, the Rijksmuseum (where I imagine the Quantum meeting being set - incidentally, if a Quantum meet doesn't work for your overall plans, it could also be a meeting between good and bad on neutral ground, or Bond meeting with an informer who gets killed, etc) currently has the main wing under construction. Besides the actual galleries that are open there's also the closed-off areas with scaffolding, tarpaulin, ropes and pulleys, medieval armor and weapons in storage, and so on. And the Amsterdam harbour has a working reconstruction of an 18th Century ship lying docked. It could light on fire as well, and might provide a suitable demise for one of the many villains of this story. Finally, none of the above precludes other stuff also happening in Amsterdam, perhaps in a more investigative vein.

Regarding the train sequence, not having read the GE draft I rather liked it, but I'd hesitate to devote an entire action sequence to M. I thought the 'World Of Bond' entry was the last one, and this one should focus more on 007's own exploits. Maybe Bond could feature towards the end of the sequence, arriving in the nick of time, etc.

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Cool, SamuelKevlar - it's a shame that the sequence is so similar to what was pictured with the boat and the morphotel. We will need to try and slide them in in another sequence!

[Mr. Blofeld]

Regarding the train sequence, not having read the GE draft I rather liked it, but I'd hesitate to devote an entire action sequence to M. I thought the 'World Of Bond' entry was the last one, and this one should focus more on 007's own exploits. Maybe Bond could feature towards the end of the sequence, arriving in the nick of time, etc.

Bond can't always save the day; perhaps this could be the point of the first part of this story?

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Point is - it's unlikely that M wouldn't have some form of entourage keeping an eye on him at all times, especially in the current climate against Quantum that exists in the treatments (that said, he'd be unlikely to take a jolly jaunt off to France during the 'war' on Quantum either).

[Mr. Blofeld]

Point is - it's unlikely that M wouldn't have some form of entourage keeping an eye on him at all times, especially in the current climate against Quantum that exists in the treatments (that said, he'd be unlikely to take a jolly jaunt off to France during the 'war' on Quantum either).

How about just a train ride to Brighton Beach, then? Also, what if, in his hurry to force everyone to the back of the car, he discovers that his entourage have all been killed by the poisoned wine? We could certainly hint at it, beforehand, if you wished...

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As I've said, I'm not opposed to the idea of an assault on M directly - just not incredibly keen on how you have it set-up. It needs to be remembered that we've set up a world in which MI6 have declared war on Quantum and Quantum have declared war on MI6 - it's not a situation in which M would likely take a day away from the office.

I'm sure we could work a situation out wherein there's a direct assault on M, though.

[coco1997]

As I've said, I'm not opposed to the idea of an assault on M directly - just not incredibly keen on how you have it set-up. It needs to be remembered that we've set up a world in which MI6 have declared war on Quantum and Quantum have declared war on MI6 - it's not a situation in which M would likely take a day away from the office.

What if it wasn't a vacation, but a security measure after a threat was made on M and his family's life?