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[terminus]

I don't know what everyone else would do, but I could see them sliding him in as the pilot of the fated concorde in Monument Valley, perhaps? Killed when the concorde crashes - though Bond manages to save everyone else?

[SamuelKevlar]

MJ's a good choice, though cameo-wise I'm not sure he'd be willing to be killed. Maybe a CIA or DEA or even (if he doesn't speak) MI6 agent standing in the background somewhere? Or a face on a computer screen, one of Chun's fellow hackers.

I like much of CT's plot suggestions, but I must stress that Chun Qiao would never work for any sort of government, especially not repressive Bejing. It's also not so much that they're a mismatched buddy-cop team, but actually very closely matched, considering Bond's recently gone rogue. More similar than perhaps he is comfortable with admitting. Chun fights the good fight without being bound to red tape - Dalton's Bond would be attracted to that.

[terminus]

I'm sure you can CT can hash out the details between you both.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I regret adding in that field, but I needed a location for my action sequence; one can't exist without the other.

I suppose I ought to change those other fields, now:

0 - For Tomorrow We Die

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): Christopher Greener 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: Bill Paxton as Felix Leiter (post-LTK, I see him as having Fleming's hook-hand, and being able to walk, with a false leg, and using a cane. (A cane that doubles as a rifle, perhaps? )

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: The remains of Franz Sanchez's drug empire in Isthmus City, Isthmus (now a part of Honduras - things have fallen apart since Sanchez died and the Republic of Isthmus has been unable to sustain itself, being absorbed into its immediate neighbour)
17 Location 2: A Concorde jet over Monument Valley. (There could be an action sequence here where the jet is attacked by helicopters and Bond is forced to land in the valley.)
18 Location 4: Burma (to match up with CT's prison stunt)
29 Location 5: Rome
20 Location 6: 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

21 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!).

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond is staying in a small cottage, his only companion a dog. Against a brooding sky, Bond rides a motorcycle, with the dog trotting alongside, when they hear a plane overhead; Bond looks up to see a shapely parachutist descending. When she lands the dog runs to greet her, against Bond’s wishes. Once he has the animal in check, Bond introduces himself to the skydiver (Any suggestions as to what role, if any, the skydiver plays in the main story can be up to the group). A Land Rover appears, and Bond’s assumption that the vehicle is there to pick up the girl is proven incorrect when it veers towards him and tries to run him over. After the third attempt, Bond is sideswiped and on the ground when the driver attempts to kill Bond with a pistol, which Bond is able to karate chop away. Once Bond has the revolver, he fires at the vehicle, which then crashes and flings the driver out. Bond examines the body and it turns out to be __________ (Again, this can be discussed amongst the group. Perhaps an actual assassin has infiltrated the Falklands, although that might be too similar to “TLD”).
23 Major Stunt 1: Through lots of proper detective work Bond has tracked Chun down to a major city, where he engineers a chance encounter at a café or somewhere scenic. Flirting eventually leads to a sexually-charged dance. It is made clear that they've quickly figured out the other for who they are, but are continuing the charade because of the undeniable mutual attraction. Chun invites Bond to her chique top floor apartment that night, where he proposes he take her in (she's been offered amnesty or a reduced sentence if she'll help). She refuses, a fight develops, but with both of them disarmed and in close quarters kissing soon follows. Bond wakes the next morning handcuffed to a bedpost, and Chun informing him she's just alerted the police to a break-in, before giving him a farewell kiss and heading out the window. Bond uses a gadget or brute strength to get out of the handcuffs and, still only half-dressed, evades the police and pursues Chun across the rooftops.
24 Major Stunt 2: Coming out of danger from the Concorde crashing, Bond and Chun happen upon an old logging camp. With no other means of transport, the two clamp on some skiis and attempt to go down the dry slopes to some semblance of civilization -- except Stahl has learned that Bond has survived his arranged plane crash, and sends his goons out; they commandeer a logging chopper from the site, and try to run down Bond and Chun with the deadly sawblades hanging from their helicopter as the two ski through treacherous hazards.
25 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 before a team of soldiers sent by Leonid Pushkin 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.
26 Major Stunt 4:
27 Finale Stunt:

EQUIPMENT

28 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets - if any): Aston Martin Virage (all the usual extras: ejector seat, heat seeking missiles, ejectible tacks, oil slick dispensor etc - the car was introduced in 1990 and was later replaced by the Vanquish)

29 Gadget 1: A set of shaped charges that are disguised as rosary beads. Each bead is a tiny wad of high-density explosive inside a concussive metal plate that is used to direct the the force of the blast, effectively making it a series of miniature claymore mines. The rosary beads can be strung out to form a circle the size of a dinner plate, with the wire connecting them all acting as a detoantor cord (the beads cannot be removed from the wire and exploded independently). The crucifix serves as the detonator and has a ten-second delay. Theoretically, the small shape and concussive plates mean that Bond can stand right next to it and detonate them safetly; for example, if he were locked in a safe the size of the fridge, he could place the beads on the inside of the door and blow a hole in it large enough to reach through with little to no danger to himself.
30 Gadget 2: A pack of cigarettes which generate red smoke (as in a flare) when burned
31 Gadget 3: A digital data container that can be plugged into any computer but is disguised as a pen. A gadget for Chun Qiao - it could carry secret documents, the virus, its cure, etc. Basically a USB stick, but that would be space age stuff in 1990.

PRODUCTION

32 Director: John McTiernan

33 Music By: Tangerine Dream

34 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
35 Themetune Sung by: Michael Jackson
36 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
37 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

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

[terminus]

I'm not sure that's a decent excuse, I'm afraid. Especially when similar things have happened in the past - and warnings have been issued in the past.

We've all found that locations we submitted weren't submitted in the way we'd hoped for, or that action sequences weren't set in locations we'd pictured them as. Even myself. But that's part of the collaborative nature of the game. Adding a field ISN'T the way to go about it - it just looks sneaky and childish. I'm reminded of the situation with Easy in the last proforma when you changed her name in the proforma because you didn't like it - and I told you it was childish and not the way to approach things. Same thing here, I'm afraid.

Yes - you can change the stunt to something more suitable. I hope I shan't need to mention this again.

[Captain Tightpants]

Okay, I haven't spoken to Samuel just yet, but this is a rough draft of the treatment, as I'd do it based on what we have so far:

Falkland Islands
- Following the events of LICENCE TO KILL, Bond is in the Falklands. His relationship with M is quite strained because he ignored orders and went rogue. M does not know what he is going to do with Bond, but certainly does not want to see him right now and so he has sent Bond to MI6's Falklands base - as far away from London as he can be - for evaluation.
- Bond has been off the job for two years, and is feeling rather abandoned, though he does understand what M is doing and why he is doing it. He has adopted a semi-vagrant lifestyle, living on his own with a stray dog. One day, whilst riding a motorcycle back from the MI6 facility, he spots a parachutist in the sky. He approaches her once she lands.
- The parachutist claims she was aiming for Argentina, but missed when she was blown off-course (Bond is living on the western end of the islands). Bond is impressed; she is clearly no amateur to have made a jump from a height where she could be blown off-course. However, dialogue implies that the girl is lying and is exactly where she wants to be.
- They are rudely interrupted by the arrival of a four-wheel-drive that attempts to kill Bond. Bond is able to kill the driver - but lets the girl leave - and uncovers him as one of the drug lords entering into a business transaction with Franz Sanchez in LICENCE TO KILL. Angry that he lost millions, he is attempting to kill Bond personally.
- Bond decides that enough is enough; he is tired of being forgotten by MI6 and takes a flight to Isthmus City.

Isthmus City, Honduras
- In the time since Franz Sanchez's death, Isthmus City has collapsed. Without Sanchez backing him up, the President has proven weak and ineffective (Sanchez was the de facto leader of Isthmus; the President was just a puppet). The country has been absorbed into neighbouring Honduras.
- In the middle of all this is DEA agent Dean Soma. He was working with Felix Leiter in breaking up Franz Sanchez's cocaine empire, but Bond overthrew Sanchez. Finding the drug lord's body in the desert, Soma comes to the conclusion that it was an inside job perpertrated by Dario (as Dario was shredded, his body was obviously never found). He believes that Dario and Bond are actually the same person and has taken control of Sanchez's empire after overthrowing him.
- Aiding Soma is Gideon Granger, one of the world's foremost experts on serial criminals. Granger is the source of most of Soma's insight into Bond/Dario (or "Bondario"), and while he at first appears incompetent, he actually has a dark secret. After consulting with Soma, he buys some LSD on the street, at which point he morphs into Dark Granger, abducts a girl and goes to work on her, dumping the body before the LSD wears off.
- While Granger is off killing, Soma catches a break. Chun Qiao, a Chinese hacker, is in Isthmus. She is identified at the airport, and is known to be a freelance cyberspy. While in Isthmus, she attempts to access a DEA slush fund where the money from collapsed drug empires is stored. Soma arrests her, and facing charges of espionage, he forces her into helping him find Bondario. Unbeknownst to Soma, she has been employed by Gideon Granger to deliver a computer virus known as "" to him.
- Bond returns to Isthmus City, slipping in over the border from nearby Nicaragua. At some point along the way, he comes to the realisation that this is what M wanted him to do the entire time he was in the Falklands: to face up to the fact that he committed murder. With this in mind, he returns to the ruins of Sanchez's waterfront villa and allows himself to be caught by the DEA.

Los Angeles, California
- Bond and Chun are taken to Los Angeles, where Bond awaits extradition to London via a chartered Concorde jet. As Soma has no further use for Chun, he sends her with him.
- Felix Leiter pulls some strings and is able to get access to Bond. He gives Bond the rosary bead explosives.

Monument Valley, Utah
- Enraged that Chun escaped, Gideon Granger attempts to attack Bond's Concorde. The Concorde is forced to land in the middle of Monument Valley after being harried by helicopters; this sequence involves the Concorde weaving around the actual monuments before putting down on those famously-long highways.
- During the chase, Bond uses the rosary beads to escape the confines of his cell at the back of the plane, just as Felix intended for him to do.
- Chun is abducted by Gideon Granger's men. Bond is subdued and handcuffed to the seats of the Concorde as the crew resume extradition.

London, England
- M is less than impressed to see Bond, but happy that Bond has come to terms with what he did. Bond reports on Chun's presence in Isthmus and the way the Concorde was attacked. M concludes as Bond did: that Chun has something. In order to prove his worth to MI6, M sends Bond looking for her on a low-risk mission.
- Q equips Bond with the red cigarette flares and helps track Chun's previous movements. They come to the conclusion that Chun has been based out of Rome.

Rome. Italy
- In Rome, Bond is able to track Chun down to Wilhelm von Homburg, a former boxer turned career criminal. Bond and von Homburg have a bare-knuckle boxing fight that Bond wins.
- Chun and Bond are re-united at some point. Chun reveals that she passed the virus on to her employer.
- Granger activates the virus from Burma. He is able to seize control over the world's military, or at least the computerised parts of it.
- At some point, Bond will chase Savatier through the catacombs underneath Rome.
- Bond may also ally with the carabinieri when more victims of Granger turn up when he recogises the pattern from Isthmus City.
- MI6 is able to track down the location of the signal.

Burma
- Bond travels to Burma, where he is arrested by the military junta.
- He is put in prison, where he encounters Gideon Granger. Granger explains his drug-induced split personality and the way he has come to associate Bond with Dark Granger. He believes that killing Bond will free him from his Dark Granger personality.
- Bond is taken to be executed at the gallows. He is able to talk Granger down, claiming that having him killed won't be enough. Granger - Gideon, not Dark - will have to do the deed himself. He also explains that killing is much easier than any man will ever tell him, but much harder to do than he can possibly imagine and that it takes a long time to be psychologically okay with killing. Granger believes him, and has him cut down and taken back to his cell.
- The Russians, who have also suffered from Granger's virus, have located the transmitter and attack.
- Bond escaped his cell with the help of Sienna, a human rights activist imprisoned in Burma and whose existence is denied by the government (because she is unlawfully incarcerated).
- Bond climbs the transmaitter array as the Russians firebomb the prison. Granger follows him up, having decided that he has to kill Bond himself. Bond is able to destroy the transmitter array by using the cigarette flares to attract the Russians' attention to it. An RPG is fired, destroying the transmitter. Unfortunately, the scaffolding begins to collapse. Bond is able to make it down, but Granger is trapped. Bond then sabotages the power array that suppliers the transmitter, overloading it. Granger is electrocuted in the process and falls into the inferno.
- With the Russians withdrawing and the prison burning around them, Bond and Sienna have to find their way through the maze of cell blocks and torture chambers before the prison collapses. They narrowly escape with their lives, and Bond escorts Sienna to the nearest international airport - Dhaka, in Bangladesh.

I'm not sure how to work in Rotarua or the ski chase. The ski chase could work in Italy, with Bond travelling north to follow the trail of Granger's victims. Rotarua may be a secondary facility established by Granger and/or Stahl, with a fail-deadly installed: in the event of Granger's death, the facility automatically ativates, giving Bond twelve hours to shut it down before the system takes control of the world's military and ... does soemthing. not a nuke. Nukes are over-used.

[terminus]

Sounds good to me, CT - we'll see what everyone else thinks. Perhaps Samuel and the others have a clearer ideas about how Rotorua could be worked into the plot you have described.

I think mrblofeld may change the ski-chase judging by his previous comment - we will need to see what he now submits.

Could the computer virus be the Corinthian? The title I put as the working title is a quote from Corinthians: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." - so it would tie in that way.

[Captain Tightpants]

Oops. I totally forgot to include the name of the virus. I meant to, but I had no idea what to call it, and then I forgot.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Willem von Hornburg is the actor's name, not the character's name; just pointing that out.

Perhaps the ski chase sequence could come earlier in the film? Just a thought...

[Captain Tightpants]

I can't really put the ski chase any earlier in the film. Not without inventing an entirely new location for it. The Falklands does not have snow, and if it did, it calls for the presence of Chun Qiao. Honduras might have snow, but Bond is mostly traipsing through locations in Isthmus City from LICENCE TO KILL. Los Angeles does not have snow, and is mostly there for the chartered Concorde flight to extradite Bond. Likewise, Monument Valley does not have snow because it is in the middle of the desert. The earliest I could get the ski chase in was in Italy. I figure Bond would have defeated Stahl (who make take pride in his 'undefeated' record during his professional boxing days, possibly because his people paid off his opponents), who is now a mobster and career criminal. While Bond is aiding the investigation into Granger's killings in Italy, Stahl retaliates for the loss in the boxing ring by sending his people after Bond with a helicopter. That's the earliest and the only place that I can work it into the film.

[terminus]

If Michael Jackson is the themetune singer - then I'm assuming that Michael Jackson and Tangerine Dream would write the themetune.

I'm not familiar with the MJ back catalogue - are there any existant MJ songs that could be cited as a possible themetune, or themetune inspiration?

I'm sure however the ski sequence is worked in, it will make sense in the end.

[tdalton]

I'll post my action sequence here in a bit. I would have done it earlier in the day, but getting online has been difficult to say the least today, and now I need a chance to read over the changes that have been made today so that I can get something into the proforma that will work well with what's currently there.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I'm not familiar with the MJ back catalogue - are there any existant MJ songs that could be cited as a possible themetune, or themetune inspiration?

This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEEMi2j6lYE&fmt=18

[tdalton]

Before I post my action sequence, having now read over everything, I'm left with a couple of questions that the answers to which I think could help me to put together a better sequence.

1. What happens to Chun after the sequence in Rome?

2. Would it be possible for Bond to encounter Granger in his Dark Granger state in Italy? I know that the current outline has Bond meeting him in Burma, but one suggestion I might throw out there would be for Bond to have his first encounter with Granger (as Dark Granger) in the catacombs in Rome, and then have Granger escape (and maybe even capture or debilitate Bond and then take him to Burma himself), where Bond would then meet the other part of his personality in Burma, leaving Bond rather confused by what he's dealing with. At which point, with Bond having now seen both sides of Granger, he would go about talking him down just like CT had in the outline.

The only reason I ask is primarily because I still feel a bit behind the rest of you in terms of where the project is at currently, and I want to make sure that I'm not stepping on anyone's toes with the sequence and also I want to be able to contribute something worthwhile to it that fits into what's currently there.

[Captain Tightpants]

Thinking about the use of Rotarua, I just can't find a plausible explanation for it. Unless we have Bond and Chun go there to get away from the world. Once Granger is dead, he's dead. Having a fail-deadly system changes his entire motivations for doing everything, which contradicts his entire character. I know someone was suggesting an "underground base"-like scene, but I jsut can't make it work. Unless the place Bond and Chun visit for their holiday is actually underground. But I just can't make it work as an action scene. Not unless I swap its place around with Burma or maybe even move it up to come before Rome.

I could see it as the third location, though. Bond would be extradited to England, Granger would have the Concorde intercepted, and Bond would be rerouted to meet M in New Zealand, where he is currently on leave, as far from the office as he can get. The underground base could be a secret MI6 facility outside Rotarua. It would continue the gag of having M's office in an unusual location, not unlike the submarine in YOLT, the semi-capsized warship in TMWTGG and the back of the airplane in TLD. And it would give us a good joke about M being on leave ("You take your leave, travel halfway around the world to get away from the office and you're still only six miles away from it?")

1. What happens to Chun after the sequence in Rome?

I'm not really sure. She could go to Burma. Bond would get captured while she would escape - possibly by blending in as a local; Granger isn't looking for her. He thinks she is still in Rome. She might help the Russians out. They're looking for the prison camp, because that's the source of the transmitter. Maybe she can lead them to it.

2. Would it be possible for Bond to encounter Granger in his Dark Granger state in Italy? I know that the current outline has Bond meeting him in Burma, but one suggestion I might throw out there would be for Bond to have his first encounter with Granger (as Dark Granger) in the catacombs in Rome, and then have Granger escape (and maybe even capture or debilitate Bond and then take him to Burma himself), where Bond would then meet the other part of his personality in Burma, leaving Bond rather confused by what he's dealing with. At which point, with Bond having now seen both sides of Granger, he would go about talking him down just like CT had in the outline.

That might be possible. Although when Granger is in his Dark Granger state, he's hallucinating that someone else is committing the murders. What somebody hallucinates when under the influence of LSD is directly linked to their state of mind at the time (ie, if you take it when you're happy, you're less likely to have a bad trip than when you'r angry or depressed). So Granger always has the same hallucination because he's in the same state of mind. He takes LSD as a direct response to his mood. If Bond encountered Dark Granger in Italy, then he would see Gideon Granger carrying out the murders. From Granger's point of view, Dark Granger would be carrying them out.

Now that you mention thi, it's very definitely something that should be included. It would help the audience see that Granger is hallucinating, show them that Granger is beginning to associate Bond with Dark Granger, and that way, what Granger says in the prison in Burma makes more sense.

[tdalton]

2. Would it be possible for Bond to encounter Granger in his Dark Granger state in Italy? I know that the current outline has Bond meeting him in Burma, but one suggestion I might throw out there would be for Bond to have his first encounter with Granger (as Dark Granger) in the catacombs in Rome, and then have Granger escape (and maybe even capture or debilitate Bond and then take him to Burma himself), where Bond would then meet the other part of his personality in Burma, leaving Bond rather confused by what he's dealing with. At which point, with Bond having now seen both sides of Granger, he would go about talking him down just like CT had in the outline.

That might be possible. Although when Granger is in his Dark Granger state, he's hallucinating that someone else is committing the murders. What somebody hallucinates when under the influence of LSD is directly linked to their state of mind at the time (ie, if you take it when you're happy, you're less likely to have a bad trip than when you'r angry or depressed). So Granger always has the same hallucination because he's in the same state of mind. He takes LSD as a direct response to his mood. If Bond encountered Dark Granger in Italy, then he would see Gideon Granger carrying out the murders. From Granger's point of view, Dark Granger would be carrying them out.

Now that you mention thi, it's very definitely something that should be included. It would help the audience see that Granger is hallucinating, show them that Granger is beginning to associate Bond with Dark Granger, and that way, what Granger says in the prison in Burma makes more sense.

I hadn't thought about it, but your comment about Bond seeing Gideon Granger carrying out a murder in Italy while Granger himself would be under the idea that the Dark Granger side of him was committing the act, would be a cool idea to put on the screen.

With that said, I do think you're correct on that and it does add more depth to the idea I was looking at, the main reason that I asked was that the idea of Granger on an LSD trip in the catacombs of Rome was an idea that was just too creepy and interesting at the same time that I really wanted to "see" it "on screen". It was really more of a superficial desire to just put that idea out there, but now that you've give it more depth beyond just the spectacle that I was going for with it, I think that it would definitely work.

I'll start working on it a bit and hopefully have something posted sometime soon.

[Captain Tightpants]

That could work. I'd just swap Savatier out in favour of Granger. Savatier would become Stahl's henchman during the ski chase.

In order for the catacomb chase to be successful, Bond would have to encounter an LSD-affected Granger dumping the body. When Granger takes LSD, Dark Granger is the one who abducts a victim, kills them and dumps the body. The scene would have to be shown from the perspective of Granger/Dark Granger rather than Bond, because Bond is not under the influence of LSD, and so the sequence wouldn't make sense from his point of view.

Actualy, now that I think on it, we could show Dark Granger's first kill in Isthmus in such a way that it looks like Gideon Granger is just a witness to it all. The Rome murder would make it clear that both are involved in it somehow, with the hallucination making it very trippy. It won't be until Bond starts chasing Granger across Italy - since he recognises Granger by sight - that he comes to the conclusion that Gideon and Dark Granger are one and the same.

[tdalton]

In order for the catacomb chase to be successful, Bond would have to encounter an LSD-affected Granger dumping the body. When Granger takes LSD, Dark Granger is the one who abducts a victim, kills them and dumps the body. The scene would have to be shown from the perspective of Granger/Dark Granger rather than Bond, because Bond is not under the influence of LSD, and so the sequence wouldn't make sense from his point of view.

That's more or less what I had been thinking. Just in terms of preliminary thoughts on the scene, I was thinking that perhaps Granger was actually committing the act down in the catacombs (maybe he drugged his victim and then took them down there, perhaps in some ways similar to how the title character on DEXTER drugs his victims only to have them wake up somewhere else entirely before he finishes the job), when Bond would them stumble upon Granger because he has, through other means, been lured down to the catacombs and happens upon Granger. I think that, based on the pictures I've looked at of the Rome catacombs, the visual aspect of the scene would be rather powerful, with Bond roaming through walls that are covered in skulls and skeletons while having to deal with a murderer who is on a severe LSD trip.

As far as the point of view of the scene, I think that it could be accomplished by looking through both the perspectives of both men. Bond does need to see Granger through his own eyes, which would see him fairly clearly seeing that it's Gideon Granger committing the act. How that would be accomplished, I'm not sure (haven't had that much time to think it over yet), but perhaps the scene could start from the perspective of Bond as he makes his way into the catacombs only to have it switch over to Granger's at some point. The contrasting viewpoints between a clear-headed Bond and an LSD-tripping Granger could be rather unsettling for an audience and could add to the terror that such a scene would already be set-up to accomplish.

[Captain Tightpants]

How that would be accomplished, I'm not sure (haven't had that much time to think it over yet), but perhaps the scene could start from the perspective of Bond as he makes his way into the catacombs only to have it switch over to Granger's at some point.

That's what I thought as soon as I read your post. Bond goes down into the catacombs and encounters Granger disposing of a body. We cut to Granger, and see Dark Granger is there with him doing the deed. They talk among one another. Cut back to Bond, as he starts the chase with no sign of Dark Granger. Gideon Granger is talking to himself. We do the first half of the chase with Bond, and the second with Granger as the LSD wears off.

[tdalton]

How that would be accomplished, I'm not sure (haven't had that much time to think it over yet), but perhaps the scene could start from the perspective of Bond as he makes his way into the catacombs only to have it switch over to Granger's at some point.

That's what I thought as soon as I read your post. Bond goes down into the catacombs and encounters Granger disposing of a body. We cut to Granger, and see Dark Granger is there with him doing the deed. They talk among one another. Cut back to Bond, as he starts the chase with no sign of Dark Granger. Gideon Granger is talking to himself. We do the first half of the chase with Bond, and the second with Granger as the LSD wears off.

Sounds like we're basically on the same page with this one. The whole Granger talking to himself thing was something I kind of had in mind for when Bond encountered him. What I'm going to go for with it is to have a scene that is very unsettling. Given the location (some of the pictures of those catacombs are pretty creepy, to say the very least) and the villain (Granger talking to himself while either committing murder and/or disposing of a body), I think that just about anyone would be rather freaked out by what they would be witnessing if they were in Bond's shoes.

I'm going to try to post it sometime probably tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. I've got a bit more research to do on it, given some of the discussion that we've had on the scene.

[Captain Tightpants]

Well, it won't be a while until I get around to that part. For now, I'm concentrating on the Falklands and maybe Isthmus and Monument Valley, unless someone wants to add more to those scenes.

[tdalton]

Well, it won't be a while until I get around to that part. For now, I'm concentrating on the Falklands and maybe Isthmus and Monument Valley, unless someone wants to add more to those scenes.

Fair enough. Maybe what I'll do, if terminus is OK with it, is put a placemarker for the scene in the proforma with a short description of the scene (probably something like "Bond trails Granger through catacombs") and then come back a bit later with a more detailed account of it a bit later on.

[coco1997]

I regret adding in that field, but I needed a location for my action sequence; one can't exist without the other.

I don't really get what you've done here. You changed your casting for the henchman and replaced Lewis with Jackson, sure, but you still haven't filled in one of the remaining empty fields.

As for your "Stranger in Moscow" suggestion, it's a great song, but it wasn't written until 1993 and thus would not fit in this timeline. I would suggest something along the lines of "Who Is It":



According to Wikipedia, it was originally written in 1989 under the title "It Doesn't Seem to Matter"/"Lying To Myself", finally appearing on MJ's "Dangerous" album in 1991. Perhaps we could use the prototype of the song as our theme tune and use the original title "Lying to Myself".

Also, very good job on the outline, CT. There's been some very thought provoking discussion between yourself and tdalton recently and I think the ultimate result will give us the most compelling villains in the UB Anthology series to date. And good job working my cigarette gadget into the story and having it play an important role.

I think one of the reasons you may be struggling to find something action-wise to happen in New Zealand is, because, frankly, it's still empty. In light of terminus' new rule, the only members eligible to submit an action sequence idea now are dinovelvet and terminus himself. Perhaps one of them could step up to the plate and submit something new?

Regarding the title sequence description, Maurice Binder's credits sequences had become pretty tepid by the twilight of his career, as terminus pointed out while we were trying to craft the sequence for UB Moore. So something as simple as silhouetted nudes with guns, etc. might suffice, unless someone has a flash of inspiration and comes up with something really cool.

Also, kudos to you for including a boxing match between Bond and Stahl. With the brief background I gave the character, I was kind of implying that I wanted to see von Homburg's physical prowess displayed in the film, but I figured a sparring match between between he and Bond was too menial to submit as a "Major Action Sequence." And yes, as Mr. Blofeld pointed out, you used the name of the actor who plays my character in the outline, but since it's just the rough draft, I'll let it slide. However, the more I think about it, the more I dislike the character's forename. Amadeus might be too wordy and bombastic, and my second choice, Adolf Stahl, just sounds too stereotypically evil, for obvious reasons. If anyone could propose a better name for the character, I'd be more than happy to hear your ideas.

[Captain Tightpants]

I don't think we're so much looking for a song that could serve as the title theme, but rather that we're looking to see if Jackson had any songs in his discography that stand in as a Bond theme. It's a way of judging how appropriate he is as a choice. The exact title of the song is up to the person submitting the field; it could be called "Kill With A Kiss" or "Fires In Heaven" or "For Tomorrow We Die". The point is that songs like Stranger In Moscow and Who Is It demonstrate that, if asked to by the producers, Michael Jackson could have written and performed a James Bond theme.

[coco1997]

I don't think we're so much looking for a song that could serve as the title theme, but rather that we're looking to see if Jackson had any songs in his discography that stand in as a Bond theme. It's a way of judging how appropriate he is as a choice. The exact title of the song is up to the person submitting the field; it could be called "Kill With A Kiss" or "Fires In Heaven" or "For Tomorrow We Die". The point is that songs like Stranger In Moscow and Who Is It demonstrate that, if asked to by the producers, Michael Jackson could have written and performed a James Bond theme.

Well, terminus did ask if there were any songs in MJ's catalog that "could be cited as a possible theme tune", and I feel "Who Is It" is the best demonstration of how an MJ-penned and recorded Bond theme would potentially sound given the time period with which we're dealing. Regardless of having a specific example in mind, I'd say Jackson could have recorded a ball-to-the-wall, kick- Bond theme.

A bit off topic, but when I was in San Diego this past July with Righty007 and theMoorethemerrier, we learned from Danny Elfman that Warner Bros' original idea for "Batman" was to have Jackson perform the "Batman" theme, Prince perform the Joker's theme, and George Michael record the Bruce Wayne/Vicki Vale "love" theme. Just thought that was an interesting bit of trivia.

[terminus]

I could see it as the third location, though. Bond would be extradited to England, Granger would have the Concorde intercepted, and Bond would be rerouted to meet M in New Zealand, where he is currently on leave, as far from the office as he can get. The underground base could be a secret MI6 facility outside Rotarua. It would continue the gag of having M's office in an unusual location, not unlike the submarine in YOLT, the semi-capsized warship in TMWTGG and the back of the airplane in TLD. And it would give us a good joke about M being on leave ("You take your leave, travel halfway around the world to get away from the office and you're still only six miles away from it?")

I like this idea - and it would certainly be a unique manner of using the location, if the person who submitted it doesn't object. If not, then I'm sure we can work up an outline that includes it in some other manner - even if only as a backup transmitter to the Burma one, and have Stahl be the one who dies there instead of elsewhere.

Re: MJ - if there's a song that fits as an absolute 'this would've been the song' then we can cite that as being the themetune, or we can just say the song would have been 'like this' - like I did with Dark Lady by Cher for Everything or Nothing.

[tdalton]

I'm going to go ahead and put the very short and generic description of my action sequence into the proforma and will then go ahead and develop it a bit more later on today.



0 - For Tomorrow We Die

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): Christopher Greener 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: Bill Paxton as Felix Leiter (post-LTK, I see him as having Fleming's hook-hand, and being able to walk, with a false leg, and using a cane. (A cane that doubles as a rifle, perhaps? )

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: The remains of Franz Sanchez's drug empire in Isthmus City, Isthmus (now a part of Honduras - things have fallen apart since Sanchez died and the Republic of Isthmus has been unable to sustain itself, being absorbed into its immediate neighbour)
17 Location 2: A Concorde jet over Monument Valley. (There could be an action sequence here where the jet is attacked by helicopters and Bond is forced to land in the valley.)
18 Location 4: Burma (to match up with CT's prison stunt)
29 Location 5: Rome
20 Location 6: 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

21 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!).

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond is staying in a small cottage, his only companion a dog. Against a brooding sky, Bond rides a motorcycle, with the dog trotting alongside, when they hear a plane overhead; Bond looks up to see a shapely parachutist descending. When she lands the dog runs to greet her, against Bond’s wishes. Once he has the animal in check, Bond introduces himself to the skydiver (Any suggestions as to what role, if any, the skydiver plays in the main story can be up to the group). A Land Rover appears, and Bond’s assumption that the vehicle is there to pick up the girl is proven incorrect when it veers towards him and tries to run him over. After the third attempt, Bond is sideswiped and on the ground when the driver attempts to kill Bond with a pistol, which Bond is able to karate chop away. Once Bond has the revolver, he fires at the vehicle, which then crashes and flings the driver out. Bond examines the body and it turns out to be __________ (Again, this can be discussed amongst the group. Perhaps an actual assassin has infiltrated the Falklands, although that might be too similar to “TLD”).
23 Major Stunt 1: Through lots of proper detective work Bond has tracked Chun down to a major city, where he engineers a chance encounter at a café or somewhere scenic. Flirting eventually leads to a sexually-charged dance. It is made clear that they've quickly figured out the other for who they are, but are continuing the charade because of the undeniable mutual attraction. Chun invites Bond to her chique top floor apartment that night, where he proposes he take her in (she's been offered amnesty or a reduced sentence if she'll help). She refuses, a fight develops, but with both of them disarmed and in close quarters kissing soon follows. Bond wakes the next morning handcuffed to a bedpost, and Chun informing him she's just alerted the police to a break-in, before giving him a farewell kiss and heading out the window. Bond uses a gadget or brute strength to get out of the handcuffs and, still only half-dressed, evades the police and pursues Chun across the rooftops.
24 Major Stunt 2: Coming out of danger from the Concorde crashing, Bond and Chun happen upon an old logging camp. With no other means of transport, the two clamp on some skiis and attempt to go down the dry slopes to some semblance of civilization -- except Stahl has learned that Bond has survived his arranged plane crash, and sends his goons out; they commandeer a logging chopper from the site, and try to run down Bond and Chun with the deadly sawblades hanging from their helicopter as the two ski through treacherous hazards.
25 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 before a team of soldiers sent by Leonid Pushkin 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.
26 Major Stunt 4: Bond encounters Granger in the catacombs of Rome
27 Finale Stunt:

EQUIPMENT

28 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets - if any): Aston Martin Virage (all the usual extras: ejector seat, heat seeking missiles, ejectible tacks, oil slick dispensor etc - the car was introduced in 1990 and was later replaced by the Vanquish)

29 Gadget 1: A set of shaped charges that are disguised as rosary beads. Each bead is a tiny wad of high-density explosive inside a concussive metal plate that is used to direct the the force of the blast, effectively making it a series of miniature claymore mines. The rosary beads can be strung out to form a circle the size of a dinner plate, with the wire connecting them all acting as a detoantor cord (the beads cannot be removed from the wire and exploded independently). The crucifix serves as the detonator and has a ten-second delay. Theoretically, the small shape and concussive plates mean that Bond can stand right next to it and detonate them safetly; for example, if he were locked in a safe the size of the fridge, he could place the beads on the inside of the door and blow a hole in it large enough to reach through with little to no danger to himself.
30 Gadget 2: A pack of cigarettes which generate red smoke (as in a flare) when burned
31 Gadget 3: A digital data container that can be plugged into any computer but is disguised as a pen. A gadget for Chun Qiao - it could carry secret documents, the virus, its cure, etc. Basically a USB stick, but that would be space age stuff in 1990.

PRODUCTION

32 Director: John McTiernan

33 Music By: Tangerine Dream

34 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
35 Themetune Sung by: Michael Jackson
36 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
37 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

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

[coco1997]

Hopefully the issue I raised earlier about either dinovelvet or terminus submitting an action sequence for the finale is addressed. It would be the compass that guides us to the completion of the story.

I also think it would be cool to see Bond with a more rugged look this time around, i.e. a full grown beard, etc. to highlight his bitterness and solidarity from MI6.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Seeing as Dark Granger has completely subsumed Savatier in the outline, anyone think I should just retract the character and save him for a later UB?



0 - For Tomorrow We Die

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): Christopher Greener 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: Bill Paxton as Felix Leiter (post-LTK, I see him as having Fleming's hook-hand, and being able to walk, with a false leg, and using a cane. (A cane that doubles as a rifle, perhaps?)

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: The remains of Franz Sanchez's drug empire in Isthmus City, Isthmus (now a part of Honduras - things have fallen apart since Sanchez died and the Republic of Isthmus has been unable to sustain itself, being absorbed into its immediate neighbour)
17 Location 2: A Concorde jet over Monument Valley. (There could be an action sequence here where the jet is attacked by helicopters and Bond is forced to land in the valley.)
18 Location 4: Burma (to match up with CT's prison stunt)
29 Location 5: Rome
20 Location 6: 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

21 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!).

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond is staying in a small cottage, his only companion a dog. Against a brooding sky, Bond rides a motorcycle, with the dog trotting alongside, when they hear a plane overhead; Bond looks up to see a shapely parachutist descending. When she lands the dog runs to greet her, against Bond’s wishes. Once he has the animal in check, Bond introduces himself to the skydiver (Any suggestions as to what role, if any, the skydiver plays in the main story can be up to the group). A Land Rover appears, and Bond’s assumption that the vehicle is there to pick up the girl is proven incorrect when it veers towards him and tries to run him over. After the third attempt, Bond is sideswiped and on the ground when the driver attempts to kill Bond with a pistol, which Bond is able to karate chop away. Once Bond has the revolver, he fires at the vehicle, which then crashes and flings the driver out. Bond examines the body and it turns out to be __________ (Again, this can be discussed amongst the group. Perhaps an actual assassin has infiltrated the Falklands, although that might be too similar to “TLD”).
23 Major Stunt 1: Through lots of proper detective work Bond has tracked Chun down to a major city, where he engineers a chance encounter at a café or somewhere scenic. Flirting eventually leads to a sexually-charged dance. It is made clear that they've quickly figured out the other for who they are, but are continuing the charade because of the undeniable mutual attraction. Chun invites Bond to her chique top floor apartment that night, where he proposes he take her in (she's been offered amnesty or a reduced sentence if she'll help). She refuses, a fight develops, but with both of them disarmed and in close quarters kissing soon follows. Bond wakes the next morning handcuffed to a bedpost, and Chun informing him she's just alerted the police to a break-in, before giving him a farewell kiss and heading out the window. Bond uses a gadget or brute strength to get out of the handcuffs and, still only half-dressed, evades the police and pursues Chun across the rooftops.
24 Major Stunt 2: Coming out of danger from the Concorde crashing, Bond and Chun happen upon an old logging camp. With no other means of transport, the two clamp on some skiis and attempt to go down the dry slopes to some semblance of civilization -- except Stahl has learned that Bond has survived his arranged plane crash, and sends his goons out; they commandeer a logging chopper from the site, and try to run down Bond and Chun with the deadly sawblades hanging from their helicopter as the two ski through treacherous hazards.
25 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 before a team of soldiers sent by Leonid Pushkin 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.
26 Major Stunt 4: Bond encounters Granger in the catacombs of Rome
27 Finale Stunt: Bond confronts Stahl amongst the geysers and boiling mud pools of Rotorua, only for Chun to seemingly drop out of the sky (being a sky diver) and put a bullet through Stahl's shoulder. She is furious that Stahl would use her beloved hacking and computers to threaten the world -- she is a moralist at heart, after all. She prepares to put a bullet through Stahl's skull, but Bond talks her into putting down the gun... only for, once she drops it, Stahl to pick it up with his uninjured arm and shoot her through the head. Bond, now deadly angry, takes chase as Stahl drops the gun and runs; the two jump amongst the boiling mud pools and attempt to evade the geysers as they erupt, one by one. Finally, Bond has Stahl cornerned in front of a mud pool, with a naturally formed rock face behind Stahl forming something like a series of steps. Bond urges Stahl to give up; there's nothing left. Stahl turns his head to look behind and smiles:

"Ahhh... but there is. The ultimate escape."

Bond realizes what he's about to do and attempts to grab his arm, but Stahl steps back... slowly, inch by inch, into the bubbling mud pool. As he immerses himself in the boiling stuff, Stahl's insanely confident grin becomes a rictus mask of pain, projecting inhuman confidence as his lower body is being seared away beneath him. As his neck is being submerged, Stahl lifts his head back, his teeth tightly gritted, and moans:

"Help... me..."

Bond, regretfully, takes his own PPK, aims, and fires; Stahl's bloodied head sinks below the surface.

EQUIPMENT

28 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets - if any): Aston Martin Virage (all the usual extras: ejector seat, heat seeking missiles, ejectible tacks, oil slick dispensor etc - the car was introduced in 1990 and was later replaced by the Vanquish)

29 Gadget 1: A set of shaped charges that are disguised as rosary beads. Each bead is a tiny wad of high-density explosive inside a concussive metal plate that is used to direct the the force of the blast, effectively making it a series of miniature claymore mines. The rosary beads can be strung out to form a circle the size of a dinner plate, with the wire connecting them all acting as a detoantor cord (the beads cannot be removed from the wire and exploded independently). The crucifix serves as the detonator and has a ten-second delay. Theoretically, the small shape and concussive plates mean that Bond can stand right next to it and detonate them safetly; for example, if he were locked in a safe the size of the fridge, he could place the beads on the inside of the door and blow a hole in it large enough to reach through with little to no danger to himself.
30 Gadget 2: A pack of cigarettes which generate red smoke (as in a flare) when burned
31 Gadget 3: A digital data container that can be plugged into any computer but is disguised as a pen. A gadget for Chun Qiao - it could carry secret documents, the virus, its cure, etc. Basically a USB stick, but that would be space age stuff in 1990.

PRODUCTION

32 Director: John McTiernan

33 Music By: Tangerine Dream

34 Themetune by [INSERT THEMETUNE WRITERS] and [INSERT THEMETUNE SINGER]
35 Themetune Sung by: Michael Jackson
36 Secondary Theme (a la 'If You Asked Me To', 'If There Was A Man' and 'Where Has Everybody Gone') by: The Pet Shop Boys
37 Secondary Theme Sung by: 'It's A Sin', The Pet Shop Boys

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

[terminus]

We still have room for a good background girl (a stewardess on the Concorde, perhaps?) and the finale action set-piece, which I'm drawing up a few scribbles to put towards - using that facility that someone posted a link to earlier as it looks fantastic THIS IS IT - but I'm happy to hand this over to dinovelvet or work in cooperation with him to create a suitable finale.

So, location-wise, we're looking at:

Falkland Islands - Isthmus City - Los Angeles - Monument Valley - Rome - Burma - Rotorua - CLOSING LOCATION

Re: closing location, this is just somewhere for Bond and Chun Qiao to end up for their romantic interlude.

Also - for the concorde, from what I've been reading, the reason that concorde didn't do flights across the USA was that a lot of state governments refused to allow the plane a permit for supersonic flight inside their state borders, thus making trans-American flights largely inviable. Thus, crossing Monument Valley the plane would be sub-sonic - as part of the action sequence, Bond could attempt to take the Concorde supersonic in an attempt to escape the pursuing helicopters, but this fails when the plane is punctured?

On the subject of Bond having a beard - maybe just from the Falklands to the Los Angeles sequence (even if only to the Isthmus City segment). I can't imagine Bond heading into Burma with a full beard. BTW - the notes CT posted say it's been two years since LTK but it would be just pushing one year (or eighteen months, given LTK came out in July and we could say this was a XMas release).

Re: Savatier, there's always room for another henchman - Grainger and Stahl are joint villains in this project, Savatier would just be a henchman.

Mrblofled - you've broken the rules (yet again!) - you've already submitted a stunt sequence, you aren't permitted to submit yet another one. And you killed Chun Qiao which I don't think has been discussed before.



0 - For Tomorrow We Die

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): Christopher Greener 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: Bill Paxton as Felix Leiter (post-LTK, I see him as having Fleming's hook-hand, and being able to walk, with a false leg, and using a cane. (A cane that doubles as a rifle, perhaps?)

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: The remains of Franz Sanchez's drug empire in Isthmus City, Isthmus (now a part of Honduras - things have fallen apart since Sanchez died and the Republic of Isthmus has been unable to sustain itself, being absorbed into its immediate neighbour)
17 Location 2: A Concorde jet over Monument Valley. (There could be an action sequence here where the jet is attacked by helicopters and Bond is forced to land in the valley.)
18 Location 4: Burma (to match up with CT's prison stunt)
29 Location 5: Rome
20 Location 6: 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

21 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!).

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond is staying in a small cottage, his only companion a dog. Against a brooding sky, Bond rides a motorcycle, with the dog trotting alongside, when they hear a plane overhead; Bond looks up to see a shapely parachutist descending. When she lands the dog runs to greet her, against Bond’s wishes. Once he has the animal in check, Bond introduces himself to the skydiver (Any suggestions as to what role, if any, the skydiver plays in the main story can be up to the group). A Land Rover appears, and Bond’s assumption that the vehicle is there to pick up the girl is proven incorrect when it veers towards him and tries to run him over. After the third attempt, Bond is sideswiped and on the ground when the driver attempts to kill Bond with a pistol, which Bond is able to karate chop away. Once Bond has the revolver, he fires at the vehicle, which then crashes and flings the driver out. Bond examines the body and it turns out to be __________ (Again, this can be discussed amongst the group. Perhaps an actual assassin has infiltrated the Falklands, although that might be too similar to “TLD”).
23 Major Stunt 1: Through lots of proper detective work Bond has tracked Chun down to a major city, where he engineers a chance encounter at a café or somewhere scenic. Flirting eventually leads to a sexually-charged dance. It is made clear that they've quickly figured out the other for who they are, but are continuing the charade because of the undeniable mutual attraction. Chun invites Bond to her chique top floor apartment that night, where he proposes he take her in (she's been offered amnesty or a reduced sentence if she'll help). She refuses, a fight develops, but with both of them disarmed and in close quarters kissing soon follows. Bond wakes the next morning handcuffed to a bedpost, and Chun informing him she's just alerted the police to a break-in, before giving him a farewell kiss and heading out the window. Bond uses a gadget or brute strength to get out of the handcuffs and, still only half-dressed, evades the police and pursues Chun across the rooftops.
24 Major Stunt 2: Coming out of danger from the Concorde crashing, Bond and Chun happen upon an old logging camp. With no other means of transport, the two clamp on some skiis and attempt to go down the dry slopes to some semblance of civilization -- except Stahl has learned that Bond has survived his arranged plane crash, and sends his goons out; they commandeer a logging chopper from the site, and try to run down Bond and Chun with the deadly sawblades hanging from their helicopter as the two ski through treacherous hazards.
25 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 before a team of soldiers sent by Leonid Pushkin 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.
26 Major Stunt 4: Bond encounters Granger in the catacombs of Rome
27 Finale Stunt: PREBOOKED (BY TERMINUS/DINOVELVET)

EQUIPMENT

28 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets - if any): Aston Martin Virage (all the usual extras: ejector seat, heat seeking missiles, ejectible tacks, oil slick dispensor etc - the car was introduced in 1990 and was later replaced by the Vanquish)

29 Gadget 1: A set of shaped charges that are disguised as rosary beads. Each bead is a tiny wad of high-density explosive inside a concussive metal plate that is used to direct the the force of the blast, effectively making it a series of miniature claymore mines. The rosary beads can be strung out to form a circle the size of a dinner plate, with the wire connecting them all acting as a detoantor cord (the beads cannot be removed from the wire and exploded independently). The crucifix serves as the detonator and has a ten-second delay. Theoretically, the small shape and concussive plates mean that Bond can stand right next to it and detonate them safetly; for example, if he were locked in a safe the size of the fridge, he could place the beads on the inside of the door and blow a hole in it large enough to reach through with little to no danger to himself.
30 Gadget 2: A pack of cigarettes which generate red smoke (as in a flare) when burned
31 Gadget 3: A digital data container that can be plugged into any computer but is disguised as a pen. A gadget for Chun Qiao - it could carry secret documents, the virus, its cure, etc. Basically a USB stick, but that would be space age stuff in 1990.

PRODUCTION

32 Director: John McTiernan

33 Music By: Tangerine Dream

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

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