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[coco1997]

Perhaps the PTS can involve Bond having to prove himself to MI6, by passing a field test of some sort.

Maybe...I do have an idea in mind for a PTS that I'll submit provided no one else snatches it up before Round 2.

[terminus]

EON has discovered young, Afro-British artists before, so there's precedent, for this alternate reality...

Are you speaking of Shirley Bassey - who had six albums and thirty singles (nine of them Top 10 in the UK) before she did Goldfinger? Or perhaps Louis Armstrong who had a career stretching almost fifty years before he recorded 'All The Time In The World'. Or Gladys Knight, who'd had several albums and singers (as a solo artist, more as a member of The Pips which started as a group in 1961).

And Tina Turner certainly can't be considered a new discovery.

As far as I'm aware, the closest you could likely come to a 'new discovery' would be Sheena Easton - and even then she'd had five singles (one of which 'Nine to Five (Morning Train)' had been a Number 1 in the UK and USA) and an album before she released For Your Eyes Only.

I really don't think Ephraim Lewis is a viable choice, mrblofeld. I'm sorry.

Nice casting, coco1997 He scares the crap out of me in Ghostbusters 2.

Good plot, dinovelvet. I do like the idea - seeing as Dalton never really got his 'Goldfinger'. I didn't specify the 'redemption' plot point as I didn't want to pin the plot down too much for people, but if the group decision is that we want to run a subplot (even if just in the PTS) then I wouldn't mind that at all. I planned to do something similar in a Daniel Craig Era fanfic screenplay - inspired by the firing range in the novels - in which it would be training but the audience wouldn't initially be aware of that, a la TLD and NSNA.

[Captain Tightpants]

I swapped Stahl around because the more I wrote my entry, the more he seemed like a henchman rather than the resident Big Bad. I wasn't intending the entry to be as long as it is, but I figured I needed a hook to get Bond involved. I'm actually pretty proud of this one - I really like the idea behind it.

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - For Tomorrow We Die (working title)

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and attempts to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Bond is sent after Granger after he kills a relative of a high-ranking MOD member; MI6 believes that (as Granger has no distinct killing pattern because of his use of LSD and is in the unplanned and disorganised variety of serial killers) it may be an attack on the MOD. He takes the opportunity to send Bond after the killer, so that Bond can re-earn his Double-Oh status after the events of LICENCE TO KILL. Granger is under the protection of Amadeus Stahl and acts has his enforcer as Strahl has convinced him he can save him from Dark Granger.

8 M: Robert Maxwell
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

EDIT: Changed Granger's actor from Jean Reno to Alan Rickman - he was originally going to be an openly-gay Eruotrash mobster infatuated with the idea of communism before I had a better idea. I just forgot to change the actor.

[terminus]

That's five participants so far - myself, coco1997, mrblofeld (who should change his entry to a more viable one), CT and dinovelvet. I think we've three more (Samuel, tdalton and perhaps chrisno?) and then it will be time for Round 2. I've got a smashing casting choice lined up, if I do say so myself.


Okay - the Villain field means they're the villain, nothing to do with henchman - that's what the henchman field is for.

It is also far too long - and much more detailed than you should be putting down. Yes, you want a hook - but you've stipulated plot points (yet again) and that's not under your remit by filling in that field! You also shouldn't be randomly swapping fields that have been filled in because you believe it will make your field better. Have edited out the offending material in this repost.

Rickman is awesome casting, though. And he'd have done Die Hard only two years earlier, so would have been an excellent candidate.


0 Title (Group Decision Field) - For Tomorrow We Die (working title)

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy):
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him.

8 M: Robert Maxwell
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

[SamuelKevlar]

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - For Tomorrow We Die (working title)

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him.

8 M: Robert Maxwell
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

[terminus]

Given the two 'villain' characters are essentially glorified henchmen - with that casting and that character, looks like we may have a true female villain.

That's six.

Has anyone heard from tdalton? I looked at his profile and noticed he's not been online in almost a week - so I may move ahead with Round 2 if we're not sure when he'll return.

[coco1997]

Haha, I just realized that both Homburg and Rickman were in "Die Hard" together.

As for how Homburg is used, it's really up to the group, and I don't have any real strong vision of what I want to do with the character. I really liked the casting choice and the background (Homburg's real background was as a German boxer-turned-actor) but other than that, feel free to do with him whatever you feel is most organic to the story. I don't think he's ever played a leading role in a film and from what I've heard, he couldn't even speak English (he was famously overdubbed by Max von Sydow, AKA Blofeld in "NSNA", for his role as Vigo the Carpathian in "Ghostbuster 2") so I'm guessing the actor would've had to have been overdubbed or spoken in very broken English.

And terminus, I PM'd tdalton a few days ago to notify him that UB Dalton would be up soon, but I haven't heard from him since.

[Captain Tightpants]

I specifically created Granger to address the problem posed by the end of LICENCE TO KILL - namely, that Bond ignored orders and went off on his own. It's never really specified how a licence to kill actually works, but I've always figured it would work in such a way that Bond (or any other Double-Oh) can only use it when on assignment. Bond went so far off the reservation in LICENCE TO KILL that was he did equated to murder. That's something that absolutely needs to be addressed in this episode. M isn't going to simply welcome him back with open arms - Bond has to prove that he can be trusted to stay the course. I figure M trying to deal with Bond's actions in LICENCE TO KILL could make for a nice little subplot. It wouldn't so much be the can-I-trust-you-or-not? deal that we've seen of late, but moreso that there would be fallout from the Sanchez killings that MI6 need to deal with. As such, I have Granger in mind as a low-level field mission for Bond, the foundation for which M's trust will be built back up. Of course, I've always felt that the best stories are the ones that start with something small that invariably lead to something big. Look at LETHAL WEAPON, and the way a prostitute's suicide is the first in a series of events that lead to Riggs and Murtaugh uncovering a conspiracy of ex-CIA operatives smuggling heroin out of Vietnam. I figure the sequence of events could be something similar here: Bond gets a supposedly low-level assignment - investigate the suspicious death of somebody connected to the Ministry of Defence (or some such), only to find that the killer is part of a much wider conspiracy.

Also, I'm going to update Granger with a few extra details about him, namely his modus operandi. I'm also thinking that Jean Reno should play Dark Granger, largely because I see similarities between him and Dalton, which is a major part of what Granger is trying to do.


0 Title (Group Decision Field) - For Tomorrow We Die (working title)

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki):
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger and Jean Reno as Dark Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Dark Granger is classified as a "disorganised" serial killer, in that he does not actually plan his crimes. Rather, he simply responds to the urge to kill by taking LSD and letting Dark Granger take over. When Gideon Granger (Rickman) takes the LSD, he hallucinates that Dark Granger (Reno) is the one committing the crimes. Granger kills by slashing his victims' major veins arteries - the aorta, jugular, femoral, etc. - with a straight razor. His profile indicates that he has medical knowledge for the accuracy with which he cuts them, but this is contradicted by the fact that one cut would be enough to kill them when he cuts all of them.

8 M: Robert Maxwell
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

[SamuelKevlar]

Given the two 'villain' characters are essentially glorified henchmen - with that casting and that character, looks like we may have a true female villain.

Eh? She's the Bond girl. Like a Lisbeth Salander for the 90s.

I specifically created Granger to address the problem posed by the end of LICENCE TO KILL - namely, that Bond ignored orders and went off on his own. It's never really specified how a licence to kill actually works, but I've always figured it would work in such a way that Bond (or any other Double-Oh) can only use it when on assignment. Bond went so far off the reservation in LICENCE TO KILL that was he did equated to murder. That's something that absolutely needs to be addressed in this episode. M isn't going to simply welcome him back with open arms - Bond has to prove that he can be trusted to stay the course. I figure M trying to deal with Bond's actions in LICENCE TO KILL could make for a nice little subplot. It wouldn't so much be the can-I-trust-you-or-not? deal that we've seen of late, but moreso that there would be fallout from the Sanchez killings that MI6 need to deal with. As such, I have Granger in mind as a low-level field mission for Bond, the foundation for which M's trust will be built back up. Of course, I've always felt that the best stories are the ones that start with something small that invariably lead to something big. Look at LETHAL WEAPON, and the way a prostitute's suicide is the first in a series of events that lead to Riggs and Murtaugh uncovering a conspiracy of ex-CIA operatives smuggling heroin out of Vietnam. I figure the sequence of events could be something similar here: Bond gets a supposedly low-level assignment - investigate the suspicious death of somebody connected to the Ministry of Defence (or some such), only to find that the killer is part of a much wider conspiracy.

I'm digging all this, Captain. If Bond's dealing with the repercussions of going outside the law to get justice that gives him something in common with Chun. Not only can he be earning back M's trust, but also his own belief in the MI6 way of doing things - Dalton's Bond has always had an uneasy relationship with the Service ("If he fires me I'll thank him for it"). Vigilante justice can be a tempting but slippery slope.

Edited by SamuelKevlar, 19 December 2010 - 01:03 AM.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Erm... why is "Robert Maxwell" listed as M, when it should be Robert Brown?

[terminus]

Okay - NEW RULE One that I've been pondering implementing for a while - once you have filled in a field within a section (CAST, PLOT, LOCATIONS, STUFF, PRODUCTION) of the proforma, you may not fill in a field in that section for the rest of the current proforma (ie, I previously submitted something in the production field, thus cannot fill in a field in that one again).

I'm opening Round 2 now - as we don't know if/when tdalton will return.

If Chun Qiao does turn out to be the 'main villain' of the piece (I've not actually read the Millenium Trilogy, Samuel, though I own them, so can't really compare) as I interpreted her, then my new submission can be the secondary girl - if not, Chun Qiao can be the villain with Miss Lauder as the 'main girl'.


0 Title (Group Decision Field) - For Tomorrow We Die (working title)

CAST

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Iman Abdulmajid as Miss Sienna Lauder (Apart from being 'Mrs David Bowie', Iman was Marta in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and played Mariammo in 'Out of Africa' alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer, Graham Crowden and Michael Kitchen; I picture Lauder as being a bit of a do-gooder, a human-rights-activist).
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger and Jean Reno as Dark Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Dark Granger is classified as a "disorganised" serial killer, in that he does not actually plan his crimes. Rather, he simply responds to the urge to kill by taking LSD and letting Dark Granger take over. When Gideon Granger (Rickman) takes the LSD, he hallucinates that Dark Granger (Reno) is the one committing the crimes. Granger kills by slashing his victims' major veins arteries - the aorta, jugular, femoral, etc. - with a straight razor. His profile indicates that he has medical knowledge for the accuracy with which he cuts them, but this is contradicted by the fact that one cut would be enough to kill them when he cuts all of them.

8 M: Robert Brown
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

[Captain Tightpants]

Damn, terminus - I had a great idea for Ed Harris as a DEA agent investigating the breakup of Franz Sanchez's cocaine empire.

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - For Tomorrow We Die (working title)

CAST

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Iman Abdulmajid as Miss Sienna Lauder (Apart from being 'Mrs David Bowie', Iman was Marta in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and played Mariammo in 'Out of Africa' alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer and Michael Kitchen; I picture Lauder as being a bit of a do-gooder, a human-rights-activist).
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger and Jean Reno as Dark Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Dark Granger is classified as a "disorganised" serial killer, in that he does not actually plan his crimes. Rather, he simply responds to the urge to kill by taking LSD and letting Dark Granger take over. When Gideon Granger (Rickman) takes the LSD, he hallucinates that Dark Granger (Reno) is the one committing the crimes. Granger kills by slashing his victims' major veins arteries - the aorta, jugular, femoral, etc. - with a straight razor. His profile indicates that he has medical knowledge for the accuracy with which he cuts them, but this is contradicted by the fact that one cut would be enough to kill them when he cuts all of them.

8 M: Robert Brown
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3: Bond is trapped in a prison that is a cross between the Russian Woodpecker and the Hanoi Hilton. Bond is very nearly executed at the gallows when a team of soldiers sent by Anatol Gogol attack the camp (unaware that Bond is currently being held prisoner). Their attack results in the prison being set on fire. With the help of Sienna - who is currently incarcerated as a human rights activist - Bond must scale the outside of the transmitter to destroy the beacon, then take out the massive power array that is powering it. Gideon Granger is killed in the process. Having chased Bond up the transmitter tower, he is electrocuted when he is trapped on the tower and Bond overloads the power array. Bond and Sienna then have to find a way through the prison as it burns around them. They narrowly escape before everything collapses in around them.
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

[Mr. Blofeld]

I hope my henchman idea proves more to your tastes, terminus:

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - For Tomorrow We Die (working title)

CAST

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Iman Abdulmajid as Miss Sienna Lauder (Apart from being 'Mrs David Bowie', Iman was Marta in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and played Mariammo in 'Out of Africa' alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer and Michael Kitchen; I picture Lauder as being a bit of a do-gooder, a human-rights-activist).
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob): Robert Maillet as Savatier, a mute, remorseless killer with a noticeably scarred throat

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger and Jean Reno as Dark Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Dark Granger is classified as a "disorganised" serial killer, in that he does not actually plan his crimes. Rather, he simply responds to the urge to kill by taking LSD and letting Dark Granger take over. When Gideon Granger (Rickman) takes the LSD, he hallucinates that Dark Granger (Reno) is the one committing the crimes. Granger kills by slashing his victims' major veins arteries - the aorta, jugular, femoral, etc. - with a straight razor. His profile indicates that he has medical knowledge for the accuracy with which he cuts them, but this is contradicted by the fact that one cut would be enough to kill them when he cuts all of them.

8 M: Robert Brown
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains' Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3: Bond is trapped in a prison that is a cross between the Russian Woodpecker and the Hanoi Hilton. After nearly being executed at the gallows, Bond is able to escape while the prison burns around him. He must sabotage the transmitted signal and the power array before getting out alive.
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

[terminus]

Interesting stunt idea, CT. Me likey.

Interesting - if, again, unorthodox - casting choice, mrblofeld. Maillet would have been only 21 at the time, didn't sign with the WWF until 1997 and had only previously wrestled in Japan. Still, I guess it's more likely than your title theme singer - which I'm really really not keen on.

[Captain Tightpants]

Updated my sequence to what I originally intended. I had to disappear for a few minutes to move the cars around the driveway so that my brother could get the lawnmower out, but I didn't want to lose my place.

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - For Tomorrow We Die (working title)

CAST

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Iman Abdulmajid as Miss Sienna Lauder (Apart from being 'Mrs David Bowie', Iman was Marta in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and played Mariammo in 'Out of Africa' alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer and Michael Kitchen; I picture Lauder as being a bit of a do-gooder, a human-rights-activist).
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob): Robert Maillet as Savatier, a mute, remorseless killer with a noticeably scarred throat

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger and Jean Reno as Dark Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Dark Granger is classified as a "disorganised" serial killer, in that he does not actually plan his crimes. Rather, he simply responds to the urge to kill by taking LSD and letting Dark Granger take over. When Gideon Granger (Rickman) takes the LSD, he hallucinates that Dark Granger (Reno) is the one committing the crimes. Granger kills by slashing his victims' major veins arteries - the aorta, jugular, femoral, etc. - with a straight razor. His profile indicates that he has medical knowledge for the accuracy with which he cuts them, but this is contradicted by the fact that one cut would be enough to kill them when he cuts all of them.

8 M: Robert Brown
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5:

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains' Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3: Bond is trapped in a prison that is a cross between the Russian Woodpecker and the Hanoi Hilton. Bond is very nearly executed at the gallows when a team of soldiers sent by Anatol Gogol attack the camp (unaware that Bond is currently being held prisoner). Their attack results in the prison being set on fire. With the help of Sienna - who is currently incarcerated as a human rights activist - Bond must scale the outside of the transmitter to destroy the beacon, then take out the massive power array that is powering it. Gideon Granger is killed in the process. Having chased Bond up the transmitter tower, he is electrocuted when he is trapped on the tower and Bond overloads the power array. Bond and Sienna then have to find a way through the prison as it burns around them. They narrowly escape before everything collapses in around them.
25 Major Stunt 4:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

[terminus]

It would be Pushkin at this point, I think, who'd dispatch the assault team (AFAIK, TLD made Pushkin Head of the KGB with Gogol just a diplomat) - but otherwise, decent action sequence and I like the way you've incorporated Miss Lauder.

[Captain Tightpants]

Well, I was going for the whole film-within-a-film feel with it. I wanted to give Bond a clear objective for it and then have all hell break loose. Not only does he have to destroy the transmitter and its power supply, but he has to contend with the fire, keeping Sienna alive, fighting off Granger and all whilst being caught in the middle of a small-scale war between the Russians and the military prison. I didn't want Bond to be fully aware of what was happening around him. I also reckon the free-climbing sequence (which could also be some kind of fight with Granger) would be very exciting. Exactly what you want to do with the transmitter is up to you, but I imagine it would be central to the villain's plot in some way. Rather than giving the villain full control over England's army, I'd suggest the virus/Trojan horse has simply allowed the villain access to their nuclear arsenals. And that the ultiamte villain may want to start a war and make it look like somebody else fired the first shot.

[SamuelKevlar]

If Chun Qiao does turn out to be the 'main villain' of the piece (I've not actually read the Millenium Trilogy, Samuel, though I own them, so can't really compare) as I interpreted her, then my new submission can be the secondary girl - if not, Chun Qiao can be the villain with Miss Lauder as the 'main girl'.

Lisbeth Salander is a goth-y, tattoed, bisexual hacker with eidetic memory and a short fuse. She uses her skills to take on the corrupt and the perverted in power. It all gets a bit silly (everyone in the Swedish government appears to be a sexist, sadistic Nazi-sympathiser) but the gist of the comparison is here is a character who can take care of herself both physically and mentally, has a strong sense of morality but no people skills, and is (rightly, for the most part) distrustful of authority in all its forms.

Again, I don't know where you're getting these villain vibes from. If I'd gotten to the villain spot first I would have put in John Malkovich, but as it is I went with my second choice, the Bond girl, and picked Joan Chen. I like her, Bond hasn't had an Asian love interest since YOLT, and it fits the computer virus plot. I figured Bond would be sent to find her as she may be the only one able to 'crack the code' (or whatever 90s Hollywood spin they give to the inner workings of the internet). Maybe she's even worked on an earlier, less harmful version of the code, and the authorities suspect her to be the one behind it all. Bond is sent to apprehend her but they're eventually able to persuade each other of their good intentions. In the later stages her computer skills would come in handy with the real villains revealed.

I really like Iman as the secondary girl. Maybe Sienna is a friend/contact of Chun's, and helping in rescuing her is a prerequisite for getting her help? I was actually going to propose Bowie to do the 1975 song. Maybe he can do this one, if it is decided to ditch Ephraim Lewis?

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - For Tomorrow We Die (working title)

CAST

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Iman Abdulmajid as Miss Sienna Lauder (Apart from being 'Mrs David Bowie', Iman was Marta in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and played Mariammo in 'Out of Africa' alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer and Michael Kitchen; I picture Lauder as being a bit of a do-gooder, a human-rights-activist).
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob): Robert Maillet as Savatier, a mute, remorseless killer with a noticeably scarred throat

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger and Jean Reno as Dark Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Dark Granger is classified as a "disorganised" serial killer, in that he does not actually plan his crimes. Rather, he simply responds to the urge to kill by taking LSD and letting Dark Granger take over. When Gideon Granger (Rickman) takes the LSD, he hallucinates that Dark Granger (Reno) is the one committing the crimes. Granger kills by slashing his victims' major veins arteries - the aorta, jugular, femoral, etc. - with a straight razor. His profile indicates that he has medical knowledge for the accuracy with which he cuts them, but this is contradicted by the fact that one cut would be enough to kill them when he cuts all of them.

8 M: Robert Brown
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5: New Zealand, particularly Rotorua (geysers, bubbling mud pools to throw someone into, Lake Rotorua for an underground/underwater base, and hot springs for the romantic assignation afterwards).

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains' Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3: Bond is trapped in a prison that is a cross between the Russian Woodpecker and the Hanoi Hilton. Bond is very nearly executed at the gallows when a team of soldiers sent by Anatol Gogol attack the camp (unaware that Bond is currently being held prisoner). Their attack results in the prison being set on fire. With the help of Sienna - who is currently incarcerated as a human rights activist - Bond must scale the outside of the transmitter to destroy the beacon, then take out the massive power array that is powering it. Gideon Granger is killed in the process. Having chased Bond up the transmitter tower, he is electrocuted when he is trapped on the tower and Bond overloads the power array. Bond and Sienna then have to find a way through the prison as it burns around them. They narrowly escape before everything collapses in around them.
25 Major Stunt 4:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

[terminus]

Okay - I understand what you're gunning for now, Samuel

It's beginning to look like we may need to bump coco's character up to main villain then - assuming he doesn't mind us doing so. It does offer some hiccups re: he'd need to be overdubbed - by Max von Sydow possibly - as he was in the 'previous years' Ghostbusters 2.

I wouldn't be opposed to swapping Ephraim Lewis for David Bowie, though in the late eighties/early nineties, he was going through a quiet period and not putting out much music at all (he released an album in 87, then didn't put one out until 93) so he might be better kept for a potential future UB Moore film.

[Captain Tightpants]

Do we really have to go to Rotarua for the finale? After all, we did the Great Barrier Reef as the finale of UB-Moore; it just feels a bit repetitive. And while I can see the villain dying by sliding into the superheated mud, the series already did that in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.

That said, I could see M sending Bond there as the first location. After all, Bond basically committed multiple murders in LICENCE TO KILL, so M probably doesn't want to see him right now. So he sends Bond to a Shurblands-like health clinic for re-evaluation - except that this health clinic is on the opposite side of the world, as far away from M as Bond can be whilst still remaining on the face of the earth. In the meantime, M has to decide what to do about Bond.

[terminus]

If Samuel agrees to that. CT - and from the hypothesis the PTS could feature Bond undergoing some sort of assault/training course - then perhaps NZ could be the first location in the main bulk of the movie (after the titles) and M could assign Bond as temporary 'Head of Station' in New Zealand? As opposed to the Shrublands facility - or, perhaps, somehow mixing the two together.

But, ultimately, it is Samuel's choice.

[SamuelKevlar]

Okay - I understand what you're gunning for now, Samuel

It's beginning to look like we may need to bump coco's character up to main villain then - assuming he doesn't mind us doing so. It does offer some hiccups re: he'd need to be overdubbed - by Max von Sydow possibly - as he was in the 'previous years' Ghostbusters 2.

I wouldn't be opposed to swapping Ephraim Lewis for David Bowie, though in the late eighties/early nineties, he was going through a quiet period and not putting out much music at all (he released an album in 87, then didn't put one out until 93) so he might be better kept for a potential future UB Moore film.

Yeah, the late 80s, early 90s weren't a good time for him musically, as he was trying to do a band called Tin Machine. Simple rock without any of his usual subtleties. Sort of his mid-life crisis, really. He got good again with Black Tie White Noise in 1993. If not Bowie, maybe Siouxsie Sioux or Annie Lennox? I love It's A Sin, by the way.

I've got to say, I'd rather have Alan Rickman (or indeed Jean Reno) as the main villain (maybe one playing both sides of Granger, Jekyll/Hyde-style, and the other as the big baddie), but as we say in Holland, we must row with the oars we have.

Do we really have to go to Rotarua for the finale? After all, we did the Great Barrier Reef as the finale of UB-Moore; it just feels a bit repetitive. And while I can see the villain dying by sliding into the superheated mud, the series already did that in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.

I'm sorry, but have you ever been to Rotorua? It has no more in common with the Great Barrier Reef than it does with Exeter. They're both in Oceania and that's about it.

I like the Shrublands/assault course idea, but I'd hate to 'waste' New Zealand on it. I live here, of course, and may be biased, but there's a lot of mileage to be had out of this location. The mud can claim a mook - I said nothing of the villain dying in this way. The underground base could be fuelled by geothermal energy, could be flooded in the final battle, and could look something like this.

Edited by SamuelKevlar, 19 December 2010 - 02:18 AM.

[terminus]

Annie Lennox would be awesome - if not her as a solo artiste, then definitely her as part of The Eurythmics (although they too began their hiatus and solo careers at that point). It would be a bit like TLD using The Pretenders

Not so keen on the Siouxsie Sue suggestion - 'Devil Gate Drive' doesn't suggest to me that she'd be a good singer for a Bond theme.

BTW - does anyone fancy including the Prince Charles/Princess Diana cameo in the finale that was reportedly considered for TLD?

[SamuelKevlar]

I support both The Eurythmics and the Charles/Diana gag, although it should come a bit before the very end - it's a Dalton not a Moore flick, so it should end on a kiss rather than a laugh.

[Captain Tightpants]

If Samuel agrees to that. CT - and from the hypothesis the PTS could feature Bond undergoing some sort of assault/training course - then perhaps NZ could be the first location in the main bulk of the movie (after the titles) and M could assign Bond as temporary 'Head of Station' in New Zealand? As opposed to the Shrublands facility - or, perhaps, somehow mixing the two together.

But, ultimately, it is Samuel's choice.

Well, I was going to suggest Isthmus City as the PTS location (if it's still open when the third round comes about).

I've got to say, I'd rather have Alan Rickman (or indeed Jean Reno) as the main villain (maybe one playing both sides of Granger, Jekyll/Hyde-style, and the other as the big baddie), but as we say in Holland, we must row with the oars we have.

That's what they do. Alan Rickman is Gideon Granger; when he takes LSD and becomes Dark Granger, the part is played by Jean Reno. I deliberately case two actors, because I wanted to externalise Dark Granger. Gideon believes that Bond and Dark Granger have so much in common that if he kills Bond, Dark Granger will die and he will be freed. I could see the entire plot being a plot by Gideon Granger to lure Bond out of hiding, though that would mean the prison/array sequence would become the final scene.

And yes, I have been to Rotarua. I think it could work as either a Shrublands-style health centre or as the final location Bond and the girl visit once everything is over ... but I'm just hesitant to once again have the climax being in Australia/New Zealand. It's like the way he had a second Double-Oh Agent in UB24-27. It just got repetitive.

[terminus]

Remember, though, we are fifteen years after 'Everything or Nothing' would have taken place - so two visits to Australasia in fifteen years ain't bad.

And that bunker looks awesome

[SamuelKevlar]

And yes, I have been to Rotarua. I think it could work as either a Shrublands-style health centre or as the final location Bond and the girl visit once everything is over ... but I'm just hesitant to once again have the climax being in Australia/New Zealand. It's like the way he had a second Double-Oh Agent in UB24-27. It just got repetitive.

If you've been here then you'll know that visually the mud, ferns and lakes of Rotorua are nothing like the sand and jungle of coastal Queensland (not that Moore actually goes there in EON) nor the reefs of the, well, Reef. Geographically, Bond has stuck around similar areas plenty, especially in Europe, and besides, technically there'd be a fifteen year gap between EON and FTWD.

Remember, though, we are fifteen years after 'Everything or Nothing' would have taken place - so two visits to Australasia in fifteen years ain't bad.

EDIT: Heh. Great minds think alike.

Edited by SamuelKevlar, 19 December 2010 - 02:43 AM.

[dinovelvet]

CAST

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Iman Abdulmajid as Miss Sienna Lauder (Apart from being 'Mrs David Bowie', Iman was Marta in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and played Mariammo in 'Out of Africa' alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer and Michael Kitchen; I picture Lauder as being a bit of a do-gooder, a human-rights-activist).
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob): Robert Maillet as Savatier, a mute, remorseless killer with a noticeably scarred throat

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger and Jean Reno as Dark Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Dark Granger is classified as a "disorganised" serial killer, in that he does not actually plan his crimes. Rather, he simply responds to the urge to kill by taking LSD and letting Dark Granger take over. When Gideon Granger (Rickman) takes the LSD, he hallucinates that Dark Granger (Reno) is the one committing the crimes. Granger kills by slashing his victims' major veins arteries - the aorta, jugular, femoral, etc. - with a straight razor. His profile indicates that he has medical knowledge for the accuracy with which he cuts them, but this is contradicted by the fact that one cut would be enough to kill them when he cuts all of them.

8 M: Robert Brown
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5: New Zealand, particularly Rotorua (geysers, bubbling mud pools to throw someone into, Lake Rotorua for an underground/underwater base, and hot springs for the romantic assignation afterwards).

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains' Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond is on a train, sent by MI6 to assassinate an enemy agent before he disembarks. However, unknown to Bond, the enemy agent knows Bond is there, and what his mission is, and thus has filled the train with several of his own henchmen, disguised as porters, waiters, etc ready to take Bond out once he makes his move. (Perhaps Bond can unmask a fake sommelier as in the scrapped Goldeneye first draft PTS!) This scene could also tie in with the main plot in that it could later be revealed, post-credit sequence that the enemy agent had a computer disk with details of Bond's mission on it, thus letting MI6 know they've been hacked into.

22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3: Bond is trapped in a prison that is a cross between the Russian Woodpecker and the Hanoi Hilton. Bond is very nearly executed at the gallows when a team of soldiers sent by Anatol Gogol attack the camp (unaware that Bond is currently being held prisoner). Their attack results in the prison being set on fire. With the help of Sienna - who is currently incarcerated as a human rights activist - Bond must scale the outside of the transmitter to destroy the beacon, then take out the massive power array that is powering it. Gideon Granger is killed in the process. Having chased Bond up the transmitter tower, he is electrocuted when he is trapped on the tower and Bond overloads the power array. Bond and Sienna then have to find a way through the prison as it burns around them. They narrowly escape before everything collapses in around them.
25 Major Stunt 4:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

STUFF

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:
[/quote]

[terminus]

Whoops - the 'new rule' field got missed off subsequent reposts, dino, so you may have missed it! In short, as you submitted the plot - you can't fill in something in the 'PLOT' section again during UB-Dalton

That said, I don't suppose people would mind if elements were utilised.

I've removed your PTS stunt - and you're free to submit a location, the remaining casting or any production or equipment fields.

CAST

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Iman Abdulmajid as Miss Sienna Lauder (Apart from being 'Mrs David Bowie', Iman was Marta in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and played Mariammo in 'Out of Africa' alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer and Michael Kitchen; I picture Lauder as being a bit of a do-gooder, a human-rights-activist).
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob): Robert Maillet as Savatier, a mute, remorseless killer with a noticeably scarred throat

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger and Jean Reno as Dark Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Dark Granger is classified as a "disorganised" serial killer, in that he does not actually plan his crimes. Rather, he simply responds to the urge to kill by taking LSD and letting Dark Granger take over. When Gideon Granger (Rickman) takes the LSD, he hallucinates that Dark Granger (Reno) is the one committing the crimes. Granger kills by slashing his victims' major veins arteries - the aorta, jugular, femoral, etc. - with a straight razor. His profile indicates that he has medical knowledge for the accuracy with which he cuts them, but this is contradicted by the fact that one cut would be enough to kill them when he cuts all of them.

8 M: Robert Brown
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location:
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5: New Zealand, particularly Rotorua (geysers, bubbling mud pools to throw someone into, Lake Rotorua for an underground/underwater base, and hot springs for the romantic assignation afterwards).

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains' Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3: Bond is trapped in a prison that is a cross between the Russian Woodpecker and the Hanoi Hilton. Bond is very nearly executed at the gallows when a team of soldiers sent by Anatol Gogol attack the camp (unaware that Bond is currently being held prisoner). Their attack results in the prison being set on fire. With the help of Sienna - who is currently incarcerated as a human rights activist - Bond must scale the outside of the transmitter to destroy the beacon, then take out the massive power array that is powering it. Gideon Granger is killed in the process. Having chased Bond up the transmitter tower, he is electrocuted when he is trapped on the tower and Bond overloads the power array. Bond and Sienna then have to find a way through the prison as it burns around them. They narrowly escape before everything collapses in around them.
25 Major Stunt 4:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

EQUIPMENT

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:

[dinovelvet]

OK, no problem (maybe I'll throw that scene back in for some future UB installment!), I added a location instead :

CAST

1 Bond - Timothy Dalton

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Joan Chen as Chun Qiao, hacker, political activist and fugitive; born in Hong Kong, now wanted all over the world for the release of sensitive government/military documents.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Iman Abdulmajid as Miss Sienna Lauder (Apart from being 'Mrs David Bowie', Iman was Marta in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and played Mariammo in 'Out of Africa' alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer and Michael Kitchen; I picture Lauder as being a bit of a do-gooder, a human-rights-activist).
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob): Robert Maillet as Savatier, a mute, remorseless killer with a noticeably scarred throat

6 Villain 1: Wilhelm von Homburg as Amadeus Stahl, a retired German boxer turned criminal
7 Villain 2: Alan Rickman as Gideon Granger and Jean Reno as Dark Granger, a serial killer who externalises his crimes by taking LSD when he cannot control his murderous impulses. This has created a distinct Jekyll-and-Hyde type of personality. He sees Bond as his saviour, associating Bond with his murderous side, Dark Granger. He becomes obsessed with Bond, believing him to be the physical manifestation of Dark Granger, and wants to kill him as he believes it will kill Dark Granger at the same time, finally freeing him. Dark Granger is classified as a "disorganised" serial killer, in that he does not actually plan his crimes. Rather, he simply responds to the urge to kill by taking LSD and letting Dark Granger take over. When Gideon Granger (Rickman) takes the LSD, he hallucinates that Dark Granger (Reno) is the one committing the crimes. Granger kills by slashing his victims' major veins arteries - the aorta, jugular, femoral, etc. - with a straight razor. His profile indicates that he has medical knowledge for the accuracy with which he cuts them, but this is contradicted by the fact that one cut would be enough to kill them when he cuts all of them.

8 M: Robert Brown
9 Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn
11 Sir Frederick Grey: Geoffrey Keen
12 General Leonid Pushkin: John Rhys-Davies / General Anatol Gogol: Walter Gotell (though not necessarily both - if the plot demands the Russians then we can use them, if not, then we don't need to use them)

13 Ally 1:

LOCATIONS:

15 Pre-Titles Location: The Falkland Islands (which according to DAD, is home to an MI6 evaluation center...if a certain MI6 agent needs re-evaluating after he went rogue )
16 Location 1:
17 Location 2:
17 Location 3:
18 Location 4:
19 Location 5: New Zealand, particularly Rotorua (geysers, bubbling mud pools to throw someone into, Lake Rotorua for an underground/underwater base, and hot springs for the romantic assignation afterwards).

KEY PLOT POINTS

20 Villains' Plot: (if you have submitted any of the plots for the UB Anthology Project, you can't fill this field in - let's give other people a chance of filling in this most important of fields)

An unstoppable computer virus penetrates the weapons systems of Britain and several other countries. The countries are forced to do the villain's bidding or he will order their weapons to attack each other, effectively causing World War Three. (Yes, I'm picturing this as Dalton's variation on YOLT/TSWLM/TND, with the "modern" and "cutting edge" threat of computer viruses!).

21 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt:
22 Major Stunt 1:
23 Major Stunt 2:
24 Major Stunt 3: Bond is trapped in a prison that is a cross between the Russian Woodpecker and the Hanoi Hilton. Bond is very nearly executed at the gallows when a team of soldiers sent by Anatol Gogol attack the camp (unaware that Bond is currently being held prisoner). Their attack results in the prison being set on fire. With the help of Sienna - who is currently incarcerated as a human rights activist - Bond must scale the outside of the transmitter to destroy the beacon, then take out the massive power array that is powering it. Gideon Granger is killed in the process. Having chased Bond up the transmitter tower, he is electrocuted when he is trapped on the tower and Bond overloads the power array. Bond and Sienna then have to find a way through the prison as it burns around them. They narrowly escape before everything collapses in around them.
25 Major Stunt 4:
25 Major Stunt 4:
26 Finale Stunt:

EQUIPMENT

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

28 Gadget 1:
29 Gadget 2:
30 Gadget 3:

PRODUCTION

31 Director:

32 Music By:

33 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
34 Themetune Sung by: Ephraim Lewis

35 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
36 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

37 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
38 Description of Titles:
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