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[SamuelKevlar]

I think Scientology would be the best model for this. An unspectacular central figure with enough charisma and connections to get some influential people on side, and a religion that is on the one hand heavy on the proclaiming of the good news, and on the other harsh on critics and 'lapsed' members. Devotees would probably have a particular piece of jewelry to identify themselves, rather than full-on robes.

Edited by SamuelKevlar, 10 December 2010 - 12:01 AM.

[Captain Tightpants]

Something like that. I'm seeing them as basically a group of people who have ideas about how the worl should work, and think the world will be a better place if those ideas were introduced. Of course, they have no real qualification for this and aren't open to any ideas but their own.

Vigeaux may also be a criminal and the original founder of the cult, who created it as a way to hide away from the world. Over time, the cult-community grew in a way that fuelled their ideas about the world, and Vigeaux selected the charismatic LaFiera as their leader. Maybe.

[terminus]

I'd rather Lafiera be the true mastermind and cult leader, otherwise it diminishes the Lafiera role. I'd imagine Vigeaux as the most dangerous of followers - one who hasn't needed to be brainwashed at all and believes in Lafiera and his spiel wholeheartedly. This might also help us to add foundation to Samantha's role - she's grown increasingly unhappy with how Vigeaux has fallen under Lafiera's spell, coupled with the fact that Vigeaux's money is actually her family fortune.

Until now, he's protected her from the cult (he's not been brainwashed, neither has she) but as events build and she's shown to be against the use of the nuclear missiles (which Vigeaux buys into wholeheartedly), then Vigeaux could hand her over to Lafiera and permits her to be drugged and brainwashed.

This could occur after the Gropius House sequence (in which she openly helps Bond) which adds to the reasons Bond needs to board the Nautilus, he not only needs to stop the missiles being launched, he also needs to use the white sound inducing ear-plugs in order to reverse the brainwashing of Samantha.

This all makes Samantha more integrated into the plot.

[SamuelKevlar]

I'm liking this. Perhaps Vigeaux's high birth isn't matched by his money (a lot of nobles lost their standing in the 18th and 19th Centuries in favour of the rising industrial magnates), and he married Samantha because she's equally aristocratic but actually has a fortune to back it up. LaFiera could be working on his insecurities about being a knight in a time without chivalry, promising him that a world run by ScientologyLite (we need a name for LaFiera's cult) will see him back in his rightful place.

Maybe Bond doesn't initially realise that Samantha has been 'turned' - he initially just wants to rescue her from the Nautilus - until she temporarily sabotages his efforts to stop the launch.

[terminus]

Awesome.

I was going to suggest the name 'The Hand of God' as a title a few days ago, but I forgot and it got pushed aside. It could be the title and the name of the cult - although using 'God' in the title could be a bit too religious.

How about calling it Serenitology - (replacing science with serenity; i'd suggest serentology - but that's apparantly something to do with forensics)?

[dinovelvet]

Awesome.

I was going to suggest the name 'The Hand of God' as a title a few days ago, but I forgot and it got pushed aside. It could be the title and the name of the cult - although using 'God' in the title could be a bit too religious.

How about calling it Serenitology - (replacing science with serenity; i'd suggest serentology - but that's apparantly something to do with forensics)?

Incidentally, 'Fiera' as in LaFiera means demon. Bond can make note of this at some point and raise an eyebrow.

[Captain Tightpants]

I'd rather Lafiera be the true mastermind and cult leader, otherwise it diminishes the Lafiera role. I'd imagine Vigeaux as the most dangerous of followers - one who hasn't needed to be brainwashed at all and believes in Lafiera and his spiel wholeheartedly.

Vigeaux has money. LaFiera has charisma. Perhaps they share a common belief, but LaFiera is the leader because he can placate the masses while Vigeaux bankrolls the whole thing. Vigeaux still genuinely believes everything, but he has not paid attention as the cult drifted from its foundations, instead beliving everything his friend LaFiera says. While both were created equal, to quote George Orwell, LaFIera is more equal than Vigeaux. The cult today is radically different to what it was when it was established. I like the idea that the two men couldn't find their place in the world and so decided to isolate themselves from it, creating a small community in a compound. As more and more people flocked to it, their power grew and instead of being a sect that slid into a cult, they started as a cult that has become a religion - after a fashion - in its own right

[coco1997]

Some very cool discussions going on since I last checked in.

Any more work on the outline, terminus?

[Mr. Blofeld]

I didn't see Vigeaux as equal in starting the cult; he stumbled upon it and became attracted to it, like a moth does to candlelight. Vigeaux almost sees LaFiera as a prophetical "father" figure, a Joseph Smith of the Nuclear Age, but LaFiera's only using Vigeaux to bankroll the whole project.

I would imagine Vigeaux would fight to the death for LaFiera, even in the face of his hypocrisy.

[terminus]

Some very cool discussions going on since I last checked in.

Any more work on the outline, terminus?

Not as such, no - sorry. I was out christmas shopping on Thursday with the mother-in-law, I had my kid brother over for the afternoon/evening on Friday and was out with my Doctor Who fanclub XMas Party today. Hopefully going to get some work in on the outline tomorrow.

[coco1997]

Some very cool discussions going on since I last checked in.

Any more work on the outline, terminus?

Not as such, no - sorry. I was out christmas shopping on Thursday with the mother-in-law, I had my kid brother over for the afternoon/evening on Friday and was out with my Doctor Who fanclub XMas Party today. Hopefully going to get some work in on the outline tomorrow.

That's ok. Just good to know that you're still alive.

[coco1997]

I'm guessing no progress to report?

[Mr. Blofeld]

Any progress on the outline, terminus? I'm looking forward to seeing the completed scenario...

[dinovelvet]

Well I can throw something together if terminus is on hiatus. We wrote alternating segments in the first of these Ultimate Bond games

I don't know if this is going to completely derail what terminus had in mind for the rest of the film!

Iran

Bond and Easy arrive in Tehran and head for the nearest opulent hotel. As Bond books a suite (with the receptionist automatically knowing who he is, naturally), Easy demands her own room - "My name isn't an invitation, Mr.Bond"

Later that night, the two of them pick up a dune buggy, and head north to the Darabad Mountains. Bond slips on his contact lenses and is able to follow the infrared wavelengths of the missiles to the meeting point. Bond and Easy are above the meeting point in a rocky area, where they see Vigeaux and a few henchmen loading two warheads into another buggy. Moving a little closer, Easy accidentally kicks a loose rock which attracts Vigeaux's attention. The henchmen quickly open fire as Vigeaux climbs into the buggy to escape.

Bond and Easy get back into their own buggy to pursue Vigeaux into the city. The rest of the henchmen follow in their own buggies - cue an action packed chase scene with buggies jumping over sand dunes. It ends with Bond bumping the last buggy, causing the last henchman to crash into a dune.

Easy - He should have looked where he was going!
Bond - Poor fellow had his head in the sand.

Bond picks up the wavelength trail again and heads back into the city. They are about to catch up with Vigeaux when, out of Bond's sight, we see Vigeaux pull up behind a huge 18 wheeler truck on a main road. The back of the truck opens and a ramp lowers to allow Vigeaux to drive right into it, with the ramp closing behind it. Bond immediately loses the signal, and pulls over, frustrated.

Back at the hotel, M berates Bond over the phone. The only remaining lead is some sort of exclusive gathering that has been organized by the Cult at Gropius House, MA....

[coco1997]

Great write-up, dino. It's nice to see that enthusiasm for this project still runs high even in terminus' absence. I would have tried some sort of connect-the-dots myself, but I've always been more an ideas man than an implementation man. And even though I really can't wait to see this particular edition completely fleshed out, I'm jonesing to get started on UB Dalton--I've got plenty of good ideas in mind.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I liked that first one-liner, myself...

[terminus]

My life has been yoyo-ing a bit the past week. Hopefully it'll settle down soon!

Much appreciated for stepping up to the plate, dinovelvet. I wouldn't be opposed to having more help from everyone - it would help make the project much more cooperative

Your sequence didn't quite match what I had in mind (I had Vigeaux exiting the script and popping up again in Massachussets) but your version is much better and has a couple of excellent one-liners. I also need a couple of one-liners for the earlier Kenya/Germany segments, if you've got any in mind for those sequences!

[terminus]

This is the groundwork as it stands - obviously more work is needed, especially at Gropius House and Australia.



GUN BARREL OPENS ON

An expansive wooden hotel somewhere in the Aberdare National Park in Kenya (modelled on the Treetops Hotel) where Bond is sat behind a canvas in a bedroom. He's painting the voluptuous curves of a beautiful blonde South African woman called Livia - LITERALLY painting her, running the paintbrush across her skin, down her firm stomach and across her thighs. It's very sensual - but done in an ever-so PG fashion.

MI6 Headquarters

M sits behind his desk in London and makes an inquiry (a la Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me) about Bond's location to Moneypenny. She, in turn, makes a pithy quip about his location: "He's just finishing things off down in Kenya -". And we're back in -

Aberdare National Park

LATER - with Bond and the woman enjoying a cleansing shower together, the phone rings and a voice informs Bond that his guest will meet him in the garden. Bond dresses, heads to the garden - it is night, the moonlight filtering down through the branches of trees and illuminating the flowers. Beautiful. Bond meets with his contact, George (Michael Sheard). George is the Head of Station in Nairobi and, to make a bit of cash, he's been selling secrets to the Soviets. Bond takes a file from George, flicks through it - and then confronts George with the fact that MI6 know he's a double agent.

The two men fight in the garden - it's swift and brutal, with at least one Moore-esque quip thrown into the mix. George throws Bond to the ground, thinks he's got the advantage and flees. As Bond is near the door to the stairwell, George opens a door nearby - tearing through a 'DANGER: BUILDING SITE' banner across it ...

And PLUNGES TO HIS DEATH. Bond looks down through the open doorway as a lion advances on the contacts injured body, roars as it pounces - "What's the matter, George, cat got your tongue?" - the fireworks display commences and we move into another title sequence designed by Maurice Binder.

Each firework burns onto the screen as we begin the titles - a typical affair with silhouetted naked women dancing to the themetune. At one point, women-shaped missiles are loaded into canons and fired at a moon - which then morphs into the curves of a woman, glimpsed only like the moon during an eclipse, writhing to the music. This, mixed in with some religious-type symbols and icons.

CB.n PRESENTS

ROGER MOORE
as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007

in

CBN MEMBERS'
EVERYTHING OR NOTHING


Vanessa Redgrave
Raquel Welch

Marlon Brando
Armand Assante
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sybil Danning

Clifton James
Michael Sheard

Lois Maxwell
Desmond Llewelyn

with

Bernard Lee as M

"Everything or Nothing" sung by Cher
"Everything or Nothing" written by John Barry, Cher and Johnny Durrell

Soundtrack by John Barry

Directed by Guy Hamilton

Titles Designed by Maurice Binder

MI6 Headquarters


Bond has returned from his mission in Africa - with a tan that he teases Moneypenny is an 'all over' tan - before he is called in to see M who is joined by an advisor from the Foreign Office. M has the file that Bond took from George in Kenya and opens it to a report that he explains is about a French-Canadian businessman John Vigeaux. M explains that the report suggests that Vigeaux has been trying to source a pair of nuclear missiles on the black market -

Nuclear missiles cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of a civilian and Bond is ordered by M to travel to Quebec, Canada, to look into the matter. After his meeting with M, Bond visits Q to recieve his equipment - including a gun metal grey Rolls Royce Camargue with all the usual refinements and contact lenses programmed to pick up the energy signatures of nuclear missiles (Q gives a technical explanation of the red-tinted contact lenses, Bond accepts them with a quip - "Don't see red, Q" or simply "I see").


Quebec


Bond travels to Canada where he eliminates a member of Vigeaux's racing team in order to gain entry to Vigeaux's inner circle by taking part in a catamaran race in Quebec (styled after the GOLDFINGER golf game, but Bond is partnered with VIgeau'x crew rather than competing against him). Bond, on the trapeze, ends up capsizing the catamaran into an icy river after a risky move for the lead fails and they crash into a pier. Bond and Vigeaux both end up in the river with the remains of the destroyed catamaran.

Vigeaux finds this outrageously funny, and invites Bond to join him at a black tie gala dinner that evening as he is impressed with Bond's willingness to take a risk even when the odds are heavily stacked against him; had Bond succeeded, their catamaran would have won the race. That night, Bond meets LaFiera for the first time at the ball - and isn't taken in by the mans charisma and religious spiel. Bond makes an excuse to dance with Samantha, Vigeaux's wife, using an energetic tango around the room to pick out the rest of Vigeaux's undercover security (including Schwartz) without arousing suspicion.

Later, Bond sneaks around Vigeaux's chateau, breaks into a safe - but is knocked out by an assailant that he does not see but we understand to be Schwartz (think the scene in Goldfinger where Bond is knocked out by Oddjob). He awakes in -


West Germany


- West Germany at a religious conclave in a forest. There, Lafiera tries to have Bond brainwashed using drugs and verbal suggestion, but the CIA have an agent undercover in the cult (Easy Phillips) and she puts white sound inducing ear-plugs into Bonds ears to stop the brainwashing process. As a result, Bond ends up just feeling a bit sick as a side effect of the drugs - but covers up the fact and plays the part of the dutiful cult member.

Taking advice from Easy on infiltrating the cult and masquerading as a member, he discovers that Lafiera is the one who wants the two nuclear missiles (Vigeaux is just financing the operation, using his wifes money) and the purchase will be undertaken in Iran. Under the cover of fetching food supplies from the local village, Bond tries to make a phone call to MI6 to inform them about the nuclear weapons - but the phone doesn't work. Luckily he bumps into his old friend Sheriff JW Pepper, who is accompanying his wife on a tour of European castles - he hears the southerner before he sees him: "Germans? We kicked their in dubya-dubya-two! <spit>"

Bond uses the American to pass a message to MI6 about the missiles - which then involves a comical exchange when Pepper places a call to MI6 from his hotel room and speaks directly to M and Miss Moneypenny.

M calls in NATO troops to storm the religious encampment, which gives Bond and Easy the chance to escape. But Schwartz, who is dressed in the armor of a medieval knight notices their escape and pursues - the two agents try and merge into a group of tourists entering a castle, leading to a pursuit through the castle, into sections that the public aren't allowed to enter, and a literal sword fight with Schwartz on the castles ramparts after Bond grabs a sword from a smashed siplay cabinet (think the glass museum fight in MR for the jist behind the fight). Bond takes on Schwartz, but ducks as the henchman takes a swing - and plummets to his death from the ramparts - cue "I think I'll take the stairs" (or some other such quip). During the escape, Bond runs past JW Pepper and Maybelle. When Schwartz takes a dive from the ramparts, he lands in front of the tour group that Pepper and Maybelle are part of - the southerner looks up at Bond who is peering down at the prone German from the ramparts, he stands with his foot on the Germans back and gives Bond a thumbs up: "Strike one to the tea-drinking son-of-a-gun ..."


Iran


Bond and Easy arrive in Tehran and head for the nearest opulent hotel. As Bond books a suite (with the receptionist automatically knowing who he is, naturally), Easy demands her own room - "My name isn't an invitation, Mr.Bond"

Later that night, the two of them pick up a dune buggy, and head north to the Darabad Mountains. Bond slips on his contact lenses and is able to follow the infrared wavelengths of the missiles to the meeting point. Bond and Easy are above the meeting point in a rocky area, where they see severa; henchmen loading two warheads into another buggy. Moving a little closer, Easy accidentally kicks a loose rock which attracts the henchmen's attention. The henchmen quickly open fire as a henchman climbs into the missile-laden buggy to escape.

Bond and Easy get back into their own buggy to pursue the missiles. The rest of the henchmen follow in their own buggies - cue an action packed chase scene with buggies jumping over sand dunes. It ends with Bond bumping the last buggy, causing the last henchman to crash into a dune.

Easy - He should have looked where he was going!
Bond - Poor fellow had his head in the sand.

Bond picks up the wavelength trail again and heads back into the city. They are about to catch up with the missiles when, out of Bond's sight, we see the buggy pull up behind a huge 18 wheeler truck on a main road. The back of the truck opens and a ramp lowers to allow the buggy to drive right into it, with the ramp closing behind it. Bond immediately loses the signal, and pulls over, frustrated.

Back at the hotel, M berates Bond over the phone. The trail of the missiles has been lost - and Lafiera escaped the attack on the religious compound in West Germany. The only remaining lead is to pursue Vigeaux, who is hosting some sort of exclusive gathering at Gropius House, MA, that the rich man has bought for his own use.

Gropius House, Massachussetts

Bond walks into Vigeaux's house using the exclusive gathering as a cover: the gathering turns out to be a cover for a gathering for funders and members of the cult of Serenitology that Lafiera is behind - and confronts him about funding the purchase of the nuclear weapons. He is stunned when a room in the house descends into the foundation revealing a massive cave - not unlike the volcano base in YOLT. Bond is imprisoned, but escapes with the help of Samantha who betrays her husband - we learn that most of his money is actually hers.

Bond must race to Australia, Samantha is captured by Vigeaux in his escape.

Australia

In Australia, Bond infiltrates a hidden submarine dock near the Great Barrier Reef where Vigeaux has had a submarine, the Nautilus, constructed. The agent must infiltrate it and stop the launch of the nuclear missiles - whilst, elsewhere, when Lafiera's plan doesn't come to fruition, he is 'torn apart' by his followers.

Samantha has been brainwashed by the cult and Bond must reverse the brainwashing in order to stop Lafiera and Vigeaux's masterplan from going ahead.


THE END OF 'Everything or Nothing'

BUT JAMES BOND WILL RETURN

[coco1997]

Really good, terminus. The highlights for me since the last posted outline are definitely Sgt. Pepper having to speak directly to M and Moneypenny and the way you incorporated by 18-wheeler idea.

Just another thought: Perhaps, in the tradition of "DAF," "LALD" and "TMWTGG", the film could end with Bond learning that Schwartz isn't really dead and he and Samantha are attacked by him?

[terminus]

Good idea, re: Schwartz. Consider it done!

The 18 wheeler was in dinovelvet's Iran outline, so I can't take credit for it - all I did with that sequence was remove Vigeaux.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Lot of great work, here; let's see it get wrapped up and fleshed out in more detail!

[dinovelvet]

You know, we should probably kill Easy during the Iran sequence, if she doesn't really serve a purpose after that, and we need a 'sacrificial lamb' character.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I'd rather Samantha be the sacrificial lamb, and Bond picks up with Easy in the pre-credits tag.

[terminus]

You know, we should probably kill Easy during the Iran sequence, if she doesn't really serve a purpose after that, and we need a 'sacrificial lamb' character.

That actually happened in my scribbled outline of the treatment - so its something I'd definitely be agreeable to.

I'd rather Samantha be the sacrificial lamb, and Bond picks up with Easy in the pre-credits tag.

An interesting idea. But Samantha is our main Bond girl - not Easy.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I'd rather Samantha be the sacrificial lamb, and Bond picks up with Easy in the pre-credits tag.

An interesting idea. But Samantha is our main Bond girl - not Easy.

I know, but we've never seen a main Bond girl die and have Bond take up with the secondary one, which I think would be interesting to deploy.

[terminus]

I'd rather Samantha be the sacrificial lamb, and Bond picks up with Easy in the pre-credits tag.

An interesting idea. But Samantha is our main Bond girl - not Easy.

I know, but we've never seen a main Bond girl die and have Bond take up with the secondary one, which I think would be interesting to deploy.

I don't think that's the right direction to go in this film, though.

That said, I did deploy the idea in my fanfic screenplay 'For Queen and Country' - in which Bond shacked up with neither the main or the secondary girl, but the third tier one.

[coco1997]

Given that there seems to be little work left to be done on this one (I think only the Australia segment needs work--and then of course the tag and the Schwart scene at the end), any chance the pro forma for UB Dalton could be up by the weekend? I'll shoot out PMs to the usual cast of characters to notify them when it's posted.

[SamuelKevlar]

I'd rather Samantha be the sacrificial lamb, and Bond picks up with Easy in the pre-credits tag.

An interesting idea. But Samantha is our main Bond girl - not Easy.

I know, but we've never seen a main Bond girl die and have Bond take up with the secondary one, which I think would be interesting to deploy.

Absolutely not. It's not right for this film, Easy is a less developed character than Samantha, and frankly I'm sick of having my characters killed off for shock value.

Thumbs up to both dinovelvet and terminus for getting this show back on the road.

[terminus]

I agree we do need a deal more work - on Australia and the Gropius House segments, but Australia specifically - but I think we may be able to get the Dalton pro-forma up on Sunday, perhaps.

[dinovelvet]

I'll have a go at the Great Barrier Reef scenes :

I'm not sure who does what at Gropius House (I'm assuming at this point that Bond knows all about the villain's plan and where to go, etc!) I don't know if we were keeping Easy around by this point, feel free to edit this and include her if needed, etc.

THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

Bond approaches the Great Barrier Reef via a miniature submersible, courtesy of Q. Using special vision equipment, he spots a small square shaped hatch in the reef. He ejects from the sub and pries open the hatch. Slipping inside, Bond finds himself in a cavernous, hollowed-out area concealing a huge custom submarine, the Nautilus. (Give a big hand to Ken Adam for the wonderful set design).

LaFiera stands on top of the Nautilus, giving a nutty speech to the hundred or so followers assembled below him (including Samantha Pole). Bond sneaks around to The Control Room ™ where Vigeaux is overseeing the missile launch countdown - cue a big red LED display counting down the seconds.

Bond and Vigeaux grapple as the huge coral roof opens and the Nautilus fires the missiles (I assume it's been customized to fire upwards!). During the fight, Vigeaux accidentally elbows a switch which turns on a giant exhaust fan. The fan is powerful enough to suck the two men towards it; Bond grabs a conveniently placed railing as Vigeaux clings to Bond's arm in desperation. Bond dispatches him with a punch to the jaw; Vigeaux flies into the fan and is instantly obliterated. (In 2002, Bond fans will notice how DAD references this).

The fan shuts off, and the room begins to shudder. Bond notices and remarks "Now it's really hit the fan". With the missiles just moments away from detonating, Bond calmly manages to enter the abort code and the missiles drift away harmlessly into space.

Down below, LaFiera and followers are gathered around a huge wall-sized monitor waiting for the "celestial event". LaFiera remarks "In the next few moments my friends, we will have everything!"

"Or nothing", Bond interrupts. He informs everyone that the plan has failed, and that LaFiera is a sham. Due to the malfunction of the exhaust fan, the entire lair begins to rumble and collapse. LaFiera's followers surround him menacingly as Brando gives an insane, semi-improvised monologue in homage to Julius Caesar. Bond works his way through the crowd with his gun drawn, but stops as several of the followers draw knives and move towards LaFiera. Bond spots Samantha and grabs her, dragging her towards the hatch, leaving LaFiera to his fate.

Heading back to the hatch, Bond undoes Samantha's brainwashing by...kissing her! "Oh, James!" she responds. The two of them climb into the submersible and speed out of there as an entire section of the reef collapses behind them.

Cue the final showdown with Schwarz at another location, if someone else wants to tackle that...