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[terminus]

Bugger - that doesn't fit with what I'd envisaged happening with that character at all and what I was going to submit.

The idea I'd had had been that he'd have been a trainee Double-Oh (as stated, not a full one - thus without a rank), a bit younger than Bond but similar in many respects. I'd hoped to pick Tom Hardy for the role - and, when Bond retires at the end of the movie to settle down with Lucia, M finalises his promotion and makes him 007.

Anyway - if we're following Fleming then 009 was the next designation due to be used for a Double-Oh, not 002.

[tdalton]

Withdrawing the suggestion for a new Double-oh agent.

New suggestion is for the director, who I'm suggesting based on how big a fan I am of The Bourne Identity as well as the very positive reviews Fair Game is getting.


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: Doug Liman

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:

[coco1997]

Even though Isaacs didn't fit the bill of what terminus is imagining, he's a great actor and I think you should definitely keep him in mind for the Ultimate Brosnan project.

[terminus]

And, here we open Round 4 - everyone feel free to take one more, and presumably final, turn:


UB28: 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: - Max Brown as Lieutenant Laurence Catesby (A new trainee Double-Oh operative - a former member, like Bond, of the SBS and one of the newest candidates for Double-Oh status following the fatality and injuries in St. Petersburg. He's only recently been made a candidate - but he's certainly the most promising on there is.) Max Brown - almost IN character

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: Doug Liman
31 Music By:

32 Themetune Sung By: Grace Jones.
33 Themetune Written By: David Arnold, lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

[coco1997]

UB28: 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: - Max Brown as Lieutenant Laurence Catesby (A new trainee Double-Oh operative - a former member, like Bond, of the SBS and one of the newest candidates for Double-Oh status following the fatality and injuries in St. Petersburg. He's only recently been made a candidate - but he's certainly the most promising on there is.) Max Brown - almost IN character

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: Doug Liman
31 Music By: Patrick Doyle

32 Themetune Sung By: Grace Jones.
33 Themetune Written By: David Arnold, lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

[tdalton]

OK, for my fourth go-round, I'm trying a new spin on what I originally suggested for my third try. Since there's been discussion about having an attack that is directly made against M, how about incorporating a former high-ranking British agent who has worked closely with M into the attack, which gives the attack an element of surprise. If the motorcade idea that has been thrown around is what we're going with, then maybe he could be a part of the motorcade, or could approach it when it stops, with maybe even M tipping his hat to him or acknowledging him in some way, before the attack commences, with the agent leading the attack himself, perhaps with help from Quinn and/or Jonas Black (I would also like to get him at least one other good scene other than the action sequence on the MORPHotel. Maybe he could be a part of the attack on M's motorcade as well).


UB28: 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: Jason Isaacs as Nathan Hall

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: - Max Brown as Lieutenant Laurence Catesby (A new trainee Double-Oh operative - a former member, like Bond, of the SBS and one of the newest candidates for Double-Oh status following the fatality and injuries in St. Petersburg. He's only recently been made a candidate - but he's certainly the most promising on there is.) Max Brown - almost IN character

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: Doug Liman
31 Music By: Patrick Doyle

32 Themetune Sung By: Grace Jones.
33 Themetune Written By: David Arnold, lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

[coco1997]

Nice suggestion, t. I initially pictured the character to be a bit like Mitchell from "QoS" but I imagine with someone like Isaacs in the role, he would leave a much bigger impression.

[Captain Tightpants]

Issacs is fairly old. He's 47, older than Craig. So I don't think he'd be a trainee. Perhaps he could be written as a former Double-Oh who was promoted to section chief, but gets recalled to deal with the war on Quantum because MI6 need every man they can find. I thik that would be more interesting than having a trainee, especially as Hastings was only a rookie Double-Oh in THE HILDEBRAND RARITY.

[coco1997]

Issacs is fairly old. He's 47, older than Craig. So I don't think he'd be a trainee. Perhaps he could be written as a former Double-Oh who was promoted to section chief, but gets recalled to deal with the war on Quantum because MI6 need every man they can find. I thik that would be more interesting than having a trainee, especially as Hastings was only a rookie Double-Oh in THE HILDEBRAND RARITY.

Not sure if you saw, CT, but tdalton has since rescinded his initial submission of Isaac as a Double-0 trainee and used him as a henchman instead. Terminus submitted an alternate suggestion for the new recruit.

[Captain Tightpants]

I'm still against the idea of having another trainee Double-Oh. I'd be okay with it if we hadn't already done it with Hastings and Goodnight. I think it would be better to have M recall a section chief to active duty, even if he's not quite up to standard. Otherwise, we're just repaeting ourselves. And with Hastings dead and Goodnight injured, it comes across as if M just has an army of disposable young people to throw at Quantum. It's way more interesting if we revive a retired one.

[coco1997]

From what I'm getting, and I admit I might be completely wrong, terminus is picturing Catesby in more of a cameo role than anything else. Your idea for the retired Double-0/section chief is definitely an interesting one, though; maybe terminus will allow you to add the character to the pro forma as an additional 'Ally'.

Looking forward to seeing your fourth and final submission.

[Captain Tightpants]

If I use it, I'll use it in a future UB.

[SamuelKevlar]

Does seem like MI6 is going through bright young 00s at a rate of knots, doesn't it? I do hope the pay is good.

UB28: 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): Katja Schuurman as Sophie de Winter, Dutch Intelligence field operative.
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: Jason Isaacs as Nathan Hall

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: - Max Brown as Lieutenant Laurence Catesby (A new trainee Double-Oh operative - a former member, like Bond, of the SBS and one of the newest candidates for Double-Oh status following the fatality and injuries in St. Petersburg. He's only recently been made a candidate - but he's certainly the most promising on there is.) Max Brown - almost IN character

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: Doug Liman
31 Music By: Patrick Doyle

32 Themetune Sung By: Grace Jones.
33 Themetune Written By: David Arnold, lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

[tdalton]

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

Thanks for the help on that. I couldn't get to the computer pretty much at all yesterday, so it's very much appreciated.

Also, I know that the sequence as I have it currently written up is rather bare-bones and has a bit of editorial content on my part explaining the thought process behind the scene to this point. I'm going to go back and flesh it out a bit more, probably sometime later today, if that's agreeable.

Nice suggestion, t. I initially pictured the character to be a bit like Mitchell from "QoS" but I imagine with someone like Isaacs in the role, he would leave a much bigger impression.

That's pretty much what I was going for, perhaps even something of a cross between an Alec Trevelyan type of character and a Mitchell type of character. I kind of see him as being perhaps a guy that was, at one point, a rather good agent, the kind of agent who could have been a Double-oh at some point (although probably never was), and one that M would have had some dealings with in the past to the point that has a great deal of trust in him, which makes the fact that he either has a part in the attack on the motorcade or actually leads the attack himself all the more surprising to M, and might even give the two of them a good stand-off moment for Isaacs and Dalton to really flex their acting chops (if this were an actual film, of course )

I also don't know exactly what terminus has in mind for the entire Quantum vs. MI6 theme, but this scene with M could also give Quinn and Jonas Black another good scene as well, perhaps with them taking part in the attack on M. M could get to experience at that point, first hand, what Bond had been dealing with in his attempts to get rid of Quinn, and it could potentially give Jonas a rather good villainous moment as well.

[terminus]

Here's the first attempt at doing a bullet point outline for the film - and pulling the elements together.

The idea for the next batch of UB treatments (after the anthology has been done) is that we run with the Alec North character as 007 (I have changed the name from Laurence Catesby). The final scene, which can be dumped should we so wish, is there to suggest that with the death of the Head of Quantum, there is a power vacuum in the organisations hierarchy - so there will be a power struggle between factions to become leader. I expect we can milk another movie or two out of that idea.

As always - the above idea (and the treatment) are open to suggestions and constructive criticism.

• Guatemala
  
  Bond must infiltrate the hidden coastal hangar of a fleet of three machine-gun equipped flying boats in order to blow them up. However, the soldiers assigned to the hangar discover Bond and the explosives and plan to move the flying boats out. Luckily, not all of the explosives have been discovered - one of the flying boats goes up in a fireball and Bond escapes, having to climb onto another of the flying boats which is leaving the hangar to get out.
  
  Intercut with this, we see the attack on Bond's yacht from the end of 'The Hildebrand Rarity' - with Yelena being killed in the attack, Bond escapes by the skin of his teeth using diving equipment and hiding in the sinking hulk of the yacht.
  
• Rebirth Island
  
  A joint United Nations/Corporate project to clean-up the biological weapons spillage on Rebirth Island is going ahead under the supervision of Scotsman, Quentin Moray, who walks with leg braces due to having polio as a child. He's a renowned philanthropist, but the worlds intelligence and military communities obviously have their concerns about the project - and have assigned observers. One of these is Canada Juarez, the British observer, who it is revealed has commenced a sexual relationship with Moray himself.
  
• London
  
  M is warned that there will be a direct assault on his family home - and orders his family to be evacuated in a motorcade to a safe location outside the city. Bond is not present, but a candidate for Double-Oh status, Alec North, is - alongside a couple of other bodyguards. The motorcade is attacked in the streets of the city - although M's daughter escapes unscathed, his wife is killed and the survivors of the motorcade pinned down. With two of the bodyguards quickly taken out - it is up to M and North to take the battle to the attackers, led by Nathan Hall - a former Double Oh (M's protege when he was a Double-Oh) who has defected to Quantum, simply because the money was good. M stands off against Hall - whilst North handles the others - and the elder man is forced to take down his former protege, pained to do so but given no other choice.
  
  The following day - Bond has returned from his mission in Guatemala and learns about the attack on the motorcade. Bond tries to offer his superior some words of comfort. Bond: "You know, your predecessor once told me that it would be a very cold man who wanted revenge for the death of someone he loved." M: "My predecessor was a very wise woman."
  
  Bond recieves a message to meet a contact in the city - the meeting turns out to be on a crowded underground car with a man with slicked back black hair and an impeccably tailored suit. He tells Bond that they have a mutual friend - Quinn. The man works for Quantum - Quinn has become a liability due to her desire for revenge on Bond and they're willing to sell her out. He tells Bond that Quinn is planning to pursue Mary Goodnight - as the underground train reaches the next station, Bond asks the mans name. The man says his name is 'Mr White' before he steps out into the crowded platform -
  
  Bond pursues, but the man has vanished.
  
• Mumbai
  
  Bond arrives in Mumbai, ostensibly just to investigate a lead but covertly to protect Goodnight, now the Head of Station for Station IM. He keeps the threat on her life from Goodnight - and the pair refresh their relationship. Goodnight doesn't hold any grudges against Bond for her injuries in St. Petersburg - she understood the dangers when she accepted a position in the Double-Oh section, thus placing her as a direct contrast to Quinn. To try and bring Quinn out of the woodwork, he needs to make Goodnight as visible as possible - and thus he arranges for them to attend a casino on the luxurious MORPHOTEL which has been docked off the Mumbai coastline.
  
  Quinn falls for the trap - and whilst Bond and Goodnight are having dinner, Quinn and her henchperson, Jonas Black, crash the party. 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 using the solar powered party boat from earlier.
  
  Bond saves Goodnight, Black escapes and Quinn is killed by Bond - after learning that her pursuit of Goodnight/Bond had been blown by Quantum and that the organisation had betrayed her. In turn, she points Bond towards something that Quantum are after - they're involved in something known as Operation: Shatterhand.
  
• Rebirth Island
  
  At which point we learn that Operation: Shatterhand is the name of the operation that Quentin Moray is running on Rebirth Island to clean up the toxins. He's using the operation to covertly smuggle cannisters of biological weapons off the island to an unknown location - and this is done, in part, with the assistance of Canada Juarez who, it is revealed (though it was suggested earlier) is actually working for Quantum too.
  
  (There is more information here - the project is shut down, but neither Canada or Moray are uncovered as yet. Bond doesn't trust Moray so decides to keep an eye on him.)
  
• Amsterdam
  
  Events on Rebirth Island lead Bond to Amsterdam where he is teamed with Dutch operative, Sophie. Trailing Moray through the city, the two operatives observe Moray at a meeting between Quantum members in a museum (using those self-guided tour headsets to communicate - the smuggling of the biological weapons from Rebirth Island to 'Erewhon' is confirmed at this point), 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.
  
  Black makes his reapparance here - and is killed.
  
  Moray is killed - but he dies clutching a picture. Bond pulls the picture from Moray's hand and discovers that it is a picture of himself and Canada Juarez. Bond makes connections -
  
• London
  
  And manages to stop Canada just as she is about to detonate a biological weaponry device in the centre of the City of London. Bond talks her out of it, explaining that Moray is dead - but suggesting that Quantum betrayed him and left him to die. He encourages her to seek vengeance on the organisation - and forces the location of 'Erewhon' out of her.
  
• The Antarctic
  
  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 a man revealed to be the Head of Quantum - Hjalmar Kohl (or whatever we end up calling him). Kohl is an older man but still a viable physical threat - he's deceptively strong. Kohl 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.
  
  Kohl 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.
  
  Bond climbs out of the Akula and collapses to tis deck - a helicopter piloted by North coming in to land on the ice nearby.
  
• Switzerland
  
  Bond recuperates from his ordeals and borderline hypothermia in a clinic in Switzerland where he has the chance to consider what he will do now that Quantum has been beaten. He opens an e-mail program on his laptop -
  
• Paris
  
  And meets Lucia at the base of the Eiffel Tower - no longer willing to propose, he tells her everything and explains that he has given that life up and wishes to spend it with her. She, after a moments hesitation, agrees.
  
• London
  
  M brings the three trainee Double-Oh operatives before him - 009 and 006 are given to a man and a woman respectively with North, upon the suggestion of Bond himself, being the recipient of the 007 designation. The credits roll.
  
  

  THE END OF
  'SHATTERHAND'
  
  BUT
  
  007 WILL RETURN

  
  And then, after the credits have rolled -
  
• Location Unknown
  
  The new holder of the 'Mr White' designation is shown to be alive and well - sitting behind a desk in a city (exact city to be confirmed). He explains that although 'Number One' has been killed, it is far from the end for Quantum.

[tdalton]

One suggestion that I might offer up would be, and I think it's a fairly minor one, would be to have what Quinn tells Bond shortly before her demise to turn out to be a lie, an attempt on her part to lure him into a trap of her own. I kind of picture it at this point in the story that she has such a blinding hatred of Bond that, even when faced with the fact that her own superiors have sold her out, she still wouldn't help him in any way. Maybe she had already discussed a contingency plan with Jonas Black before they crashed the dinner scene about what they would do to lure Bond into one final trap, so that either she or Black could finish him off if something were to happen to one of them.

One other idea for the dinner scene, which I'll still try to flesh out a bit later today within the context of the outline, would be to have either it not be a trap set by Bond and Goodnight, or to at least have Goodnight not in on the fact that it's a trap set for Quantum. I kind of had an idea in mind for the scene where Bond and Goodnight would be enjoying a nice dinner together, a call back of sorts to their relationship in Choice of Weapons, with Bond seeing a sudden look of terror come across her face as she spots Jonas Black (with Quinn by his side) coming down a staircase into the dining area, with many of the other diners noticing the menacing pair as well.

[terminus]

One suggestion that I might offer up would be, and I think it's a fairly minor one, would be to have what Quinn tells Bond shortly before her demise to turn out to be a lie, an attempt on her part to lure him into a trap of her own. I kind of picture it at this point in the story that she has such a blinding hatred of Bond that, even when faced with the fact that her own superiors have sold her out, she still wouldn't help him in any way. Maybe she had already discussed a contingency plan with Jonas Black before they crashed the dinner scene about what they would do to lure Bond into one final trap, so that either she or Black could finish him off if something were to happen to one of them.

Hmmm. It's a big link in the chain to get Bond from Quinn in Mumbai to Moray on Rebirth Island/Amsterdam. Black turns up in Amsterdam - perhaps he has trailed Bond from Mumbai to Amsterdam in order to finish him off. Perhaps my idea wasn't put across properly in the treatment.

One other idea for the dinner scene, which I'll still try to flesh out a bit later today within the context of the outline, would be to have either it not be a trap set by Bond and Goodnight, or to at least have Goodnight not in on the fact that it's a trap set for Quantum. I kind of had an idea in mind for the scene where Bond and Goodnight would be enjoying a nice dinner together, a call back of sorts to their relationship in Choice of Weapons, with Bond seeing a sudden look of terror come across her face as she spots Jonas Black (with Quinn by his side) coming down a staircase into the dining area, with many of the other diners noticing the menacing pair as well.

Oh - the intent was that Goodnight not know it's a trap, that Bond keeps it from her and she doesn't know anything about Quinn having her sights set on Goodnight. We can obviously incorporate the entrance idea into the outline.

[tdalton]

One suggestion that I might offer up would be, and I think it's a fairly minor one, would be to have what Quinn tells Bond shortly before her demise to turn out to be a lie, an attempt on her part to lure him into a trap of her own. I kind of picture it at this point in the story that she has such a blinding hatred of Bond that, even when faced with the fact that her own superiors have sold her out, she still wouldn't help him in any way. Maybe she had already discussed a contingency plan with Jonas Black before they crashed the dinner scene about what they would do to lure Bond into one final trap, so that either she or Black could finish him off if something were to happen to one of them.

Hmmm. It's a big link in the chain to get Bond from Quinn in Mumbai to Moray on Rebirth Island/Amsterdam. Black turns up in Amsterdam - perhaps he has trailed Bond from Mumbai to Amsterdam in order to finish him off. Perhaps my idea wasn't put across properly in the treatment.

One other idea for the dinner scene, which I'll still try to flesh out a bit later today within the context of the outline, would be to have either it not be a trap set by Bond and Goodnight, or to at least have Goodnight not in on the fact that it's a trap set for Quantum. I kind of had an idea in mind for the scene where Bond and Goodnight would be enjoying a nice dinner together, a call back of sorts to their relationship in Choice of Weapons, with Bond seeing a sudden look of terror come across her face as she spots Jonas Black (with Quinn by his side) coming down a staircase into the dining area, with many of the other diners noticing the menacing pair as well.

Oh - the intent was that Goodnight not know it's a trap, that Bond keeps it from her and she doesn't know anything about Quinn having her sights set on Goodnight. We can obviously incorporate the entrance idea into the outline.

The outline's probably pretty clear. I'm fairly tired, though, so the reading comprehension may not be entirely up to par on my part.

As far as Quinn giving up the information to Bond. Perhaps she does so with a state of mind that she's 100% confidant that his investigation of what she's told him will get him killed.


EDIT: I'd also add that I do quite like that scene with the new "Mr. White" selling out Quinn. I can see that being quite the ominous scene when he reveals his name to Bond before disappearing.

Edited by tdalton, 10 November 2010 - 05:44 PM.

[coco1997]

The outline is great, terminus, but a few points:

1. I think we definitely need a strong verbal confrontation between Bond and 'Kohl' before or after their fight. After all Quantum has put 007 through, I think it's pretty much assumed this will happen.

2. Quinn needs an extra dramatic death, since her whole character arc is built up to this moment.

3. Does Canada Juarez need to be British? I pictured her being Spanish or Italian, as evident by her name.

4. Would it be too cheesy to have Bond with Lucia in Jamaica at the end of the film, perhaps after the final scene with the new Mr. White? Even though I know you want to establish a sense of ominousness, I still think there should be a happy ending and Jamaica, as with Fleming himself, as always where I imagined Bond retiring to someday.

[terminus]

1. I think we definitely need a strong verbal confrontation between Bond and 'Kohl' before or after their fight. After all Quantum has put 007 through, I think it's pretty much assumed this will happen.

Any ideas for any specific lines?

2. Quinn needs an extra dramatic death, since her whole character arc is built up to this moment.

True - it occurs during the Mumbai chase sequence, but as this was only vaguely sketched out so far, it didn't really describe how the death would occur other than Bond is somehow responsible. Again - any thoughts?

3. Does Canada Juarez need to be British? I pictured her being Spanish or Italian, as evident by her name.

True. Maybe have her as Italian - as we've already had a Spanish girl in the final trilogy (and she'll reappear in this one alone_.

4. Would it be too cheesy to have Bond with Lucia in Jamaica at the end of the film, perhaps after the final scene with the new Mr. White? Even though I know you want to establish a sense of ominousness, I still think there should be a happy ending and Jamaica, as with Fleming himself, as always where I imagined Bond retiring to someday.

Ah - I put the reunion in Paris because of the plan that Bond had to propose to her under the Eiffel Tower. We can change that to Jamaica if we do, indeed, go down the root of having Bond retire.

[tdalton]

2. Quinn needs an extra dramatic death, since her whole character arc is built up to this moment.

True - it occurs during the Mumbai chase sequence, but as this was only vaguely sketched out so far, it didn't really describe how the death would occur other than Bond is somehow responsible. Again - any thoughts?

I agree with coco1997 on the point of her demise coming as something rather dramatic. I'll see if I can come up with something for the scene and put it on the end of the MORPHotel sequence that I'll hopefully have fleshed out a bit more sometime tonight.

[coco1997]

Ah - I put the reunion in Paris because of the plan that Bond had to propose to her under the Eiffel Tower. We can change that to Jamaica if we do, indeed, go down the root of having Bond retire.

How about the scene in Paris ends with us unsure of Lucia's decision, and then we get our answer when we see Bond and Lucia lying on a beach somewhere in Jamaica in the tag scene?

Also, one other thought crossed my mind: I feel like we need to emphasize the global threat that Quantum poses in this one. Maybe a few scenes with the CIA, Mossad, SVR, etc. reacting to Quantum's latest actions? I think this should be the film where Quantum comes out of the woodwork and makes their presence known to the world.

[terminus]

I agree with coco1997 on the point of her demise coming as something rather dramatic. I'll see if I can come up with something for the scene and put it on the end of the MORPHotel sequence that I'll hopefully have fleshed out a bit more sometime tonight.

Okay - but make sure it fits into the treatment as it's been set up.

I'm pondering fitting in another location and sequence between the second Rebirth Island segment and the Amsterdam segment - we go from Bond being suspicious of Moray to catching him in Amsterdam. I think there needs to be another segment - set somewhere - to allow for some development on the Moray front and, possibly, another action sequence.

Maybe another South American location - maybe Chile or Argentina. I'm pondering how to use this location to help the story flow a bit better.

How about the scene in Paris ends with us unsure of Lucia's decision, and then we get our answer when we see Bond and Lucia lying on a beach somewhere in Jamaica in the tag scene?

Also, one other thought crossed my mind: I feel like we need to emphasize the global threat that Quantum poses in this one. Maybe a few scenes with the CIA, Mossad, SVR, etc. reacting to Quantum's latest actions? I think this should be the film where Quantum comes out of the woodwork and makes their presence known to the world.

Re: Bond/Lucia - it is something I will need to try and work into the treatment.

Yes - we do need to try and suggest a more global scale. I will see about how this can be further implicated into the outline.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I'm disappointed; I thought "Our Villain" would be Moray (the big action sequence being the foiling of the Quantum plot), and that Bond would meet and defeat (and greet? ) Quantum's head sometime later.

Also, I feel it would be more appropriate if the MI6 operation against Quantum is named Shatterhand, not any Quantum initiative; like in Thunderball, where it's an MI6-named mission -- in this case, it would be MI6 finally "shattering" the "hand" of Quantum, once and for all.

[terminus]

I'm disappointed; I thought "Our Villain" would be Moray (the big action sequence being the foiling of the Quantum plot), and that Bond would meet and defeat (and greet? ) Quantum's head sometime later.

The villain in the plot about the bio-terrorism is Moray - the confrontation at the end of the movie is with Kohl, or whatever the Head of Quantum ends up being called. Maybe adding the extra location and sequence, which would give Moray more screentime - would make us feel he's the more viable villain.

And I know exactly where and what to do with that extra segment.

Also, I feel it would be more appropriate if the MI6 operation against Quantum is named Shatterhand, not any Quantum initiative; like in Thunderball, where it's an MI6-named mission -- in this case, it would be MI6 finally "shattering" the "hand" of Quantum, once and for all.

Shatterhand isn't the name of the Quantum initiative on Rebirth Island - it's the name of the joint UN/Corporate endeavour to rid the island of it's bio-weapons. Thus why Bond would know what Quinn was talking about when she mentions it to him just before her death - because it's a known United Nations (or NATO) operation.

[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): Katja Schuurman as Sophie de Winter, Dutch Intelligence field operative.
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: Jason Isaacs as Nathan Hall

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: - Max Brown as Lieutenant Laurence Catesby (A new trainee Double-Oh operative - a former member, like Bond, of the SBS and one of the newest candidates for Double-Oh status following the fatality and injuries in St. Petersburg. He's only recently been made a candidate - but he's certainly the most promising on there is.) Max Brown - almost IN character

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 properties/toxicity drop off exponentially the longer it is active.
29 Gadget 2: An explosive Quantum pin used only when blowing oneself up; is easily triggered by a shot to the heart, if worn on the lapel or as a brooch.

PRODUCTION

30 Director: Doug Liman
31 Music By: Patrick Doyle

32 Themetune Sung By: Grace Jones
33 Themetune Written By: David Arnold, lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

[terminus]

Mrblofeld - please stop editing in the 'from the original composition 007', I have told you several times and edited it out several times. It is not permitted.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I'm disappointed; I thought "Our Villain" would be Moray (the big action sequence being the foiling of the Quantum plot), and that Bond would meet and defeat (and greet? ) Quantum's head sometime later.

The villain in the plot about the bio-terrorism is Moray - the confrontation at the end of the movie is with Kohl, or whatever the Head of Quantum ends up being called. Maybe adding the extra location and sequence, which would give Moray more screentime -- would make us feel he's the more viable villain.

Hmmm... which extra location and sequence?

Also, I feel it would be more appropriate if the MI6 operation against Quantum is named Shatterhand, not any Quantum initiative; like in Thunderball, where it's an MI6-named mission -- in this case, it would be MI6 finally "shattering" the "hand" of Quantum, once and for all.

Shatterhand isn't the name of the Quantum initiative on Rebirth Island - it's the name of the joint UN/Corporate endeavour to rid the island of its bio-weapons. Thus why Bond would know what Quinn was talking about when she mentions it to him just before her death -- because it's a known United Nations (or NATO) operation.

Still, I feel more emphasis needs to be placed on Quantum... and Moray goes out far too early, far too easily, and without doing anything particularly villainous.

Also, the gadget I suggested? Please use it for Quinn's death scene; I propose she goads Bond into shooting her, hoping she takes him with her.

[terminus]

Hmmm... which extra location and sequence?

Either Argentina or Chile - still working on the details of the sequence.

Still, I feel more emphasis needs to be placed on Quantum... and Moray goes out far too early, far too easily, and without doing anything particularly villainous.

Also, the gadget I suggested? Please use it for Quinn's death scene; I propose she goads Bond into shooting her, hoping she takes him with her.

I'm not sure Moray goes out too early - he first appears immediately after the titles and makes it all the way to the penultimate action sequence. I'd guesstimate he makes it through, at least, a good hour and a bit of the movie - and the new location should help flesh that out.

He also - spearheads the covert theft of biological weapons, organises their shipment to the facility at the Antarctic and orchestrates the release of one of the bio-weapons in the centre of London. He is also involved in the Amsterdam sequence too, which I think SamuelKevlar mentioned he could/would flesh out a bit.

Unfortunately Mumbai and the Antarctic sequences are the ones that have been most fleshed out - so it does look a bit disproportionate at the moment.

Re: the gadget you suggested. tdalton is doing some work on the Mumbai morphotel sequence so we'll need to see what he comes up with and whether we can integrate the gadget into it.

[Mr. Blofeld]

All righty, then.