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[terminus]

I could see, in that case, an assault on a motorcade, perhaps - with M having to take up the gun of a fallen bodyguard in order to help defend his family from the last remaining attackers.

[Captain Tightpants]

The more I think about it, the more I'm against it. I don't think M should be involved in an action sequence at all. He's M. It's a common complaint of the current films that M is getting far too much screen time, particularly with her being a "field agent", so I think having Dalton's M being involved in a major action sequence is a bit far-fetched. His dialogue tricking his would-be assassin into admitting the wine is poisoned is far too Bondian, and most train carriages are only wide enough to have cars in single file, so M would smehow have to drive over a dozen cars. And as for the collision destroying part of the train carriage, I have to ask: is the train made of paper towel? There's no way a car would be able to make part of the train collapse without actually killing M because the car would fare worse than the train itself. In short, it just sounds like an excuse to have Dalton reprise his role as Bond in some small way, it's completely out of chracter and context and it doesn't really make any sense.

[terminus]

Would you be agreeable to something more in keeping with what I posted above - the assault on the motorcade, CT? I think that, from what Mrblofeld has said, that at the core of what he wants the sequence to demonstrate is Quantum making a direct assault on M - and M being shown to become more proactive and making it, almost, personal.

We could even go to the extent of having M's wife being killed in the assault, with M managing to save his daughter and grandchild. M looks like he's making it into a personnal vendetta, Bond could say 'Your predecessor once told me it would be a very cold man who didn't want revenge for the death of someone he loved -' with M responding: 'My predecessor was a very wise woman'.

[Captain Tightpants]

It depends. The point is that M shouldn't be involved in a sequence unless he absolutely has to be. Imply that he has a history as a field agent (but not a Double-Oh) before becoming M by all means, but don't make him the focus of the scene. Because it just feels like we're trying to put Dalton in the role of Bond again, and that shouldn't happen.

[tdalton]

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?

While I do have a scene in mind, I'm not sure that it would necessarily be allowable now that I think about it, as it necessitates a bit more than just a slot next to "Action Sequence" in the proforma. It kind of builds on the idea a bit that SamuelKevlar mentioned in one of his earlier posts, about a meeting between the villains and the good guys (in this case, specifically Bond, Goodnight, Quinn, and Jonas Black), which would take place in a large dining room in the MORPHotel.

The reason that I'm not sure it would be allowable is that it necessitates a plot point prior to the scene, where Bond would be either compelled to go on his own to protect Goodnight (who would be directly targeted by Quinn and Jonas in some kind of message or clue that Bond and/or MI6 come across at some point), or he's sent directly by M to do so, and they end up somehow at this hotel. What I had been thinking was a scene that starts off more or less like a standard dinner scene (think the Bond/Vesper dinner after he won the card game in Casino Royale, although with other people around), but is then turned into an action sequence when Quinn and Jonas crash the party. I was thinking, at that point, a mixture of tense nature of the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds, with Quinn and Jonas laying out exactly why they're there, guns drawn on Bond and Goodnight underneath the table. Somehow Bond turns the tables on the two of them and orchestrates some kind of escape from the immediate area, with a chase/gunfight through the many different areas of the floating hotel, before they end up either fighting on the boat or involved in some kind of high-speed boat chase (I'm still thinking about how all of that would go, as the main thought process has been, to this point, behind the actual dinner scene itself).

Anyway, that's kind of what I was thinking up, but I don't think it's necessarily allowable which is why I haven't put it forth yet.

[coco1997]

Anyway, that's kind of what I was thinking up, but I don't think it's necessarily allowable which is why I haven't put it forth yet.

I'm pretty sure that would be allowable. There is a context behind most of the action sequences that have been submitted, especially over the course of the last few Ultimate Bonds. For instance, Mr. Blofeld's recent action sequence submission calls for a plot point involving Quantum targeting M. And since you're not suggesting a location (besides the MORPHotel, which has already been embraced and can be placed just about anywhere with a seaport), it's not infringing on any of the other fields.

I say you submit it, and if terminus has any problems with it, we can discuss them tomorrow. If not, then, as he's said, he'll open the floor for the third round.

[terminus]

I'm happy to accept it! And it sounds like it could be different enough to not be too similar to SamuelKevlar's Amsterdam chase.

[coco1997]

Since tdalton is the last of the 'usual suspects' to submit his idea for the third round, can we open the floor to round three? I've got some good ideas in mind that I'd like to get off my chest.

[terminus]

Have added tdalton's submission to the proforma - and hearby open the third round:

UB 28: Shatterhand

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: Guatemala (or, an island off the coast of it)
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: A meeting between the villains and the good guys (in this case, specifically Bond, Goodnight, Quinn, and Jonas Black), which would take place in a large dining room in the MORPHotel. A scene that starts off more or less like a standard dinner scene (think the Bond/Vesper dinner after he won the card game in Casino Royale, although with other people around), but is then turned into an action sequence when Quinn and Jonas crash the party. I was thinking, at that point, a mixture of tense nature of the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds, with Quinn and Jonas laying out exactly why they're there, guns drawn on Bond and Goodnight underneath the table. Somehow Bond turns the tables on the two of them and orchestrates some kind of escape from the immediate area, with a chase/gunfight through the many different areas of the floating hotel, before they end up either fighting on the boat or involved in some kind of high-speed boat chase (I'm still thinking about how all of that would go, as the main thought process has been, to this point, behind the actual dinner scene itself).

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]

UB 28: Shatterhand

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: Guatemala (or, an island off the coast of it)
17 Location 1: Mumbai, India
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: A meeting between the villains and the good guys (in this case, specifically Bond, Goodnight, Quinn, and Jonas Black), which would take place in a large dining room in the MORPHotel. A scene that starts off more or less like a standard dinner scene (think the Bond/Vesper dinner after he won the card game in Casino Royale, although with other people around), but is then turned into an action sequence when Quinn and Jonas crash the party. I was thinking, at that point, a mixture of tense nature of the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds, with Quinn and Jonas laying out exactly why they're there, guns drawn on Bond and Goodnight underneath the table. Somehow Bond turns the tables on the two of them and orchestrates some kind of escape from the immediate area, with a chase/gunfight through the many different areas of the floating hotel, before they end up either fighting on the boat or involved in some kind of high-speed boat chase (I'm still thinking about how all of that would go, as the main thought process has been, to this point, behind the actual dinner scene itself).

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]

SHATTERHAND

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: Guatemala (or, an island off the coast of it)
17 Location 1: Mumbai, India
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 high-scale passenger train, M and his family are heading out for a quiet day at Brighton Beach. 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: A meeting between the villains and the good guys (in this case, specifically Bond, Goodnight, Quinn, and Jonas Black), which would take place in a large dining room in the MORPHotel. A scene that starts off more or less like a standard dinner scene (think the Bond/Vesper dinner after he won the card game in Casino Royale, although with other people around), but is then turned into an action sequence when Quinn and Jonas crash the party. I was thinking, at that point, a mixture of tense nature of the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds, with Quinn and Jonas laying out exactly why they're there, guns drawn on Bond and Goodnight underneath the table. Somehow Bond turns the tables on the two of them and orchestrates some kind of escape from the immediate area, with a chase/gunfight through the many different areas of the floating hotel, before they end up either fighting on the boat or involved in some kind of high-speed boat chase (I'm still thinking about how all of that would go, as the main thought process has been, to this point, behind the actual dinner scene itself).

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: David Arnold, from the composition 007, by John Barry

34 Title Sequence Description:

[terminus]

You can have david arnold but you cant specify the 007 thing - do you mean you want him for the soundtrack?

[Mr. Blofeld]

You can have david arnold but you cant specify the 007 thing - do you mean you want him for the soundtrack?

I will tweak it, but coco wanted a reason to include 007; there's your reason.

Also, Arnold wouldn't do the score; he'd just adapt the tune from the original composition.

Changed:

SHATTERHAND

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: Guatemala (or, an island off the coast of it)
17 Location 1: Mumbai, India
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 high-scale passenger train, M and his family are heading out for a quiet day at Brighton Beach. 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: A meeting between the villains and the good guys (in this case, specifically Bond, Goodnight, Quinn, and Jonas Black), which would take place in a large dining room in the MORPHotel. A scene that starts off more or less like a standard dinner scene (think the Bond/Vesper dinner after he won the card game in Casino Royale, although with other people around), but is then turned into an action sequence when Quinn and Jonas crash the party. I was thinking, at that point, a mixture of tense nature of the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds, with Quinn and Jonas laying out exactly why they're there, guns drawn on Bond and Goodnight underneath the table. Somehow Bond turns the tables on the two of them and orchestrates some kind of escape from the immediate area, with a chase/gunfight through the many different areas of the floating hotel, before they end up either fighting on the boat or involved in some kind of high-speed boat chase (I'm still thinking about how all of that would go, as the main thought process has been, to this point, behind the actual dinner scene itself).

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 Adapted and Arranged By: David Arnold, from the composition 007, by John Barry; lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

[terminus]

No, I'm sorry - you misunderstand me. You cannot specify the use of 007 as the themetune! You can suggest that David Arnold and Don Black wrote the themetune - but you cannot specify that it's the 007 piece.

007 can be used in the soundtrack, as coco1997 suggested.

[coco1997]

I also don't support the choice to use David Arnold--it's highly unlikely he would be brought back after five films (in the UB universe).

[terminus]

I'm not much bothered about the use of Arnold - even if just to do the themetune. Yes, it's unlikely - but it's as possible as any of the other casting choices. In fact, it matches who I'm hoping someone will submit as the themetune singer!

Maybe if the other three post, we can get the fourth round open today too! And the field I'm eyeing up for my fourth turn, fingers crossed it's still open at that point.

[SamuelKevlar]

I'm liking the water theme that's developing here.

SHATTERHAND

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: Guatemala (or, an island off the coast of it)
17 Location 1: Mumbai, India
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 high-scale passenger train, M and his family are heading out for a quiet day at Brighton Beach. 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: A meeting between the villains and the good guys (in this case, specifically Bond, Goodnight, Quinn, and Jonas Black), which would take place in a large dining room in the MORPHotel. A scene that starts off more or less like a standard dinner scene (think the Bond/Vesper dinner after he won the card game in Casino Royale, although with other people around), but is then turned into an action sequence when Quinn and Jonas crash the party. I was thinking, at that point, a mixture of tense nature of the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds, with Quinn and Jonas laying out exactly why they're there, guns drawn on Bond and Goodnight underneath the table. Somehow Bond turns the tables on the two of them and orchestrates some kind of escape from the immediate area, with a chase/gunfight through the many different areas of the floating hotel, before they end up either fighting on the boat or involved in some kind of high-speed boat chase (I'm still thinking about how all of that would go, as the main thought process has been, to this point, behind the actual dinner scene itself).

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: Grace Jones.
33 Themetune Adapted and Arranged By: David Arnold, from the composition 007, by John Barry; lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

[terminus]

Interesting.

I was hoping someone would suggest Chris Cornell as a book end to the Craig Era themetunes - but Grace Jones doing the themetune is beyond awesome. I can imagine her belting out something a bit like her song 'Stormy Weather' with a touch of 'Surrender'.

Yes - the water theme is quite nice too

[Captain Tightpants]

Question: what are we doing about the train action sequence? I'm still deeply opposed to having M being an action figure, and the physics of the scene as it is suggested don't make sense.

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: Guatemala (or, an island off the coast of it)
17 Location 1: Mumbai, India
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 high-scale passenger train, M and his family are heading out for a quiet day at Brighton Beach. 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: A meeting between the villains and the good guys (in this case, specifically Bond, Goodnight, Quinn, and Jonas Black), which would take place in a large dining room in the MORPHotel. A scene that starts off more or less like a standard dinner scene (think the Bond/Vesper dinner after he won the card game in Casino Royale, although with other people around), but is then turned into an action sequence when Quinn and Jonas crash the party. I was thinking, at that point, a mixture of tense nature of the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds, with Quinn and Jonas laying out exactly why they're there, guns drawn on Bond and Goodnight underneath the table. Somehow Bond turns the tables on the two of them and orchestrates some kind of escape from the immediate area, with a chase/gunfight through the many different areas of the floating hotel, before they end up either fighting on the boat or involved in some kind of high-speed boat chase (I'm still thinking about how all of that would go, as the main thought process has been, to this point, behind the actual dinner scene itself).

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: A weaponsied form of anaesthetic gas, developed by the good folks in the Soviet bioweapons program. Originally intended for Soviet special forces to incapacitate victims and render them unconscious within two minutes of exposure, nearly thirty years of dormancy have made the gas chemically unstable and toxic. Worse, it varies from batch to batch; some will have no effect, others will cause an irreversible coma and an even more irreversible death and there is no way to tell what will happen until someone is exposed to it. It comes in a convenient pressurised grenade form and deploys in a thick, heavy cloud of yellowish smoke. When used in close quarters, it can often choke its victims before they are unconscious. It is nullified by the chemical element barium, and its anaesthetic prperties/toxicity drop off exponentially the longer it is active.
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

32 Themetune Sung By: Grace Jones.
33 Themetune Adapted and Arranged By: David Arnold, from the composition 007, by John Barry; lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

[terminus]

Interesting gadget

Question: what are we doing about the train action sequence? I'm still deeply opposed to having M being an action figure, and the physics of the scene as it is suggested don't make sense.

Answer from earlier:

Would you be agreeable to something more in keeping with what I posted above - the assault on the motorcade, CT? I think that, from what Mrblofeld has said, that at the core of what he wants the sequence to demonstrate is Quantum making a direct assault on M - and M being shown to become more proactive and making it, almost, personal.

We could even go to the extent of having M's wife being killed in the assault, with M managing to save his daughter and grandchild. M looks like he's making it into a personnal vendetta, Bond could say 'Your predecessor once told me it would be a very cold man who didn't want revenge for the death of someone he loved -' with M responding: 'My predecessor was a very wise woman'.

I understand your concerns - and I share them to an extent - but at the core of the idea for the sequence is something very valid. Quantum would, more than likely, step up and launch an attack - or, at least - attempt an attack on M directly. I think the big question about mrblofeld's sequence is that the sequence on the train doesn't feel correct - but we can ove it towards something more like I have described.

Only tdalton left to submit before we can move onto the fourth round, I believe. And nobodies taken my choice yet!

[Captain Tightpants]

Fourth round? I only just sumbitted my third!

[terminus]

Indeed - but, as has been pointed out, there are few participants outside of the core six (seven if we include chrisno1) that have been participating the last couple of rounds. Thus, I have decided there is very little point in waiting forty eight hours after the end of each round on the off chance that someone new might drop in - of course, new participants are very much welcome and very much invited.

Perhaps the Anthology and the possible follow-up to the regular UB series might invite some participants - the near fifty page count and the ongoing mythos might be offputting to some.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I don't mind you changing around the scene, terminus, so long as the germ of the scene remains intact...

[terminus]

Cool Thankyou very much for agreeing to that.

[Captain Tightpants]

Interesting gadget

Well, it's Quantum's thing, not Bond's. The Head of Quantum uses it in the final show-down.

[coco1997]

By my count, there are enough fields left for everyone who's been participating to do one final round.

Question: Since Mr. Blofeld submitted David Arnold under the 'Themetune Adapted & Arranged By' field, does that mean David Arnold should be slotted into the 'Composer' field, as well? I have someone in mind to submit for composer, but it might be strange to have the composer of the main film be different than the one who wrote the title song.

[terminus]

Perhaps - but it wouldn't be the first time the themetune composer has been different to the soundtrack writer, would it? I'm sure that that's happened before.

And there's nine fields - eight if you include Arnold as soundtrack writer - seven if you count Lucia as the minor girl.

Hopefully tdalton will make his post - and then I can declare Round 4 open when I get up in the morning.

[tdalton]

Hopefully tdalton will make his post - and then I can declare Round 4 open when I get up in the morning.

I will hopefully in a few minutes. It's been a busy day and a half or so and I haven't had time to get online to submit anything other than the brief moment I had last night to submit the bare bones of the idea I had for the MORPHotel scene.

I'm just going to take a couple of minutes to read over the updates and hopefully contribute something shortly.

[terminus]

Ooooh - was about to head off, literally about to log out, will stick around for a few more minutes then!

[tdalton]

Maybe not the most original suggestion, but I've always wanted to see him in a Bond film and I think that going with an older actor in the part would be preferable to a younger, almost James Bond Jr. type of character in the part of the new Double-oh agent.


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: - Jason Isaacs as Bill Fairbanks, Agent 002 (an SAS soldier who is promoted to Double-oh status by M because of Quantum's declaration of war against the Western intelligence agencies) (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: Guatemala (or, an island off the coast of it)
17 Location 1: Mumbai, India
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 high-scale passenger train, M and his family are heading out for a quiet day at Brighton Beach. 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: A meeting between the villains and the good guys (in this case, specifically Bond, Goodnight, Quinn, and Jonas Black), which would take place in a large dining room in the MORPHotel. A scene that starts off more or less like a standard dinner scene (think the Bond/Vesper dinner after he won the card game in Casino Royale, although with other people around), but is then turned into an action sequence when Quinn and Jonas crash the party. I was thinking, at that point, a mixture of tense nature of the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds, with Quinn and Jonas laying out exactly why they're there, guns drawn on Bond and Goodnight underneath the table. Somehow Bond turns the tables on the two of them and orchestrates some kind of escape from the immediate area, with a chase/gunfight through the many different areas of the floating hotel, before they end up either fighting on the boat or involved in some kind of high-speed boat chase (I'm still thinking about how all of that would go, as the main thought process has been, to this point, behind the actual dinner scene itself).

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: A weaponsied form of anaesthetic gas, developed by the good folks in the Soviet bioweapons program. Originally intended for Soviet special forces to incapacitate victims and render them unconscious within two minutes of exposure, nearly thirty years of dormancy have made the gas chemically unstable and toxic. Worse, it varies from batch to batch; some will have no effect, others will cause an irreversible coma and an even more irreversible death and there is no way to tell what will happen until someone is exposed to it. It comes in a convenient pressurised grenade form and deploys in a thick, heavy cloud of yellowish smoke. When used in close quarters, it can often choke its victims before they are unconscious. It is nullified by the chemical element barium, and its anaesthetic prperties/toxicity drop off exponentially the longer it is active.
29 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

30 Director:

31 Music By:

32 Themetune Sung By: Grace Jones.
33 Themetune Adapted and Arranged By: David Arnold, from the composition 007, by John Barry; lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

Edited by tdalton, 10 November 2010 - 04:33 AM.