935 replies to this topic

[coco1997]

14 Location 2: A series of caves populated by incredible crystals somewhere in eastern Macedonia

I just want to say how much I love this idea.

Also, interesting that after all these submissions, we still don't have a concrete story.

[SamuelKevlar]

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - 'Semper Occultus'.'Always Secret' (proposed title - 'Semper Occultus' is the motto of MI6. I picture it being used in the film during an encounter between Moneypenny and Bond, during which Moneypenny asks how Bond is coping and how he's dealing with the anger and survivors guilt - 'Semper Occultus," he responds. "Always secret".)

1 Bond - George Lazenby

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Mia Farrow as Summer Long, American peace activist.
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: Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (though the movie should be about Bond tracking him down - therefore he will not appear throughout the film, just in a final confrontation)
7 Villain 2: Richard Burton as Robert Walker (a rival agent Bond has crossed paths with before; currently employed by Blofeld)
7b Villain 3: A Body/Voice Double as Irma Bunt (to be confirmed)

8 M: Bernard Lee
9 Moneypenny: Lois Maxwell
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn

11 Ally 1:

Re: Locations - feel free to use multiple locations within a given country but we should avoid repeat locations unless absolutely necessary.

12 Pre-Titles Location: Northern Italy
12b Location A: The Maginot Line, Franco-German Border
13 Location 1:
14 Location 2: A series of caves populated by incredible crystals somewhere in eastern Macedonia
15 Location 3: RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (the ship was comissioned in 1969 on voyages from Southampton to New York so would have been quite topical. I imagine that Bond would pursue the secondary villain onto the ship from Location 2 to Havana [via Southampton and New York])
16 Location 4: Havana, Cuba
17 Location 5: Niagara Falls (where Bond has his final confrontation with Blofeld)

KEY PLOT POINTS

18 Villains Plot: Bond is out for revenge but in order to reach Blofeld he must make a deal with the Soviets, the only ones who know his whereabouts. In return for this information he must remove a prickly thorn in their side, an international mercenary company called Black Shield. Comprised mainly of UK and US veterans, it is now loyal to no nation and is presently, through various front organisations and Swiss bank accounts, being bankrolled by SPECTRE. Black Shield has recently been sighted in Vietnam, where it's been hitting the Viet-Cong hard and using methods that even the most ruthless hawks in the US government would balk at. The leader of Black Shield is Robert Walker, a rogue SAS captain and an old rival of Bond.

19 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy is being used as a 'dead-drop' by SPECTRE. A dead-drop is what they call a place where organizations leave parcels for other agents in bins, under park benches, etc. Bond finds it's a dead-drop location and follows someone to a crypt at the cemetery. Bond sneaks in, opens the coffin and takes the note from the corpse but gets into a fight in the crypt with someone. He defeats them, throws them into the coffin and shuts the lid on the man and the corpse, making some witty retort in the process. As Bond prepares to exit the crypt, tucking the piece of paper that was dead-dropped, we find that the crypt has been rigged to blow--and as Bond runs to safety, the explosion whites out the screen, which segues to the main title sequence.

19b Irma Bunt Scene: See Here

20 Major Stunt 1:

21 Major Stunt 2:

22 Major Stunt 3: Bond hopes to draw Blofeld out of hiding; he works with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and there is a furious gunfight in a suburban house -- several of the Mounties are killed, but Bond captures one of the team, forcing him to spit out a cyanide pill before he can use it... and, thus, he learns where in Canada Blofeld is.

23 Finale Stunt: Bond dies - literally. Torn apart by the presence of Blofeld, he lets his emotions get the better of him an attacks without thought for his situation. A SPECTRE sniper hidden somewhere up behind Bond, shoots him from a distance. Two bullets lodge themselves in Bond's chest and he collapses into an expanding pool of his own blood, with Blofeld watching on. Bond's last words are an expression of disbelief, not that he is about to die (his psychological assessment shows that he does not expect to live until retirement), but because he was shot by an unseen and un-named lackey and not by Blofeld himself. Blofeld retorts that Bond was never worth his time (thus explaining why he "didn't recognise" Bond in Piz Gloria - he did recognise him, he just wasn't bothered by it) and walks away as Bond bleeds out. Cut to a hospital room with the main girl who tells him that he he was technically dead for six and a half minutes before he could be revived. This revelation is enough to force Bond into giving up his quest for vengeance.

23b Closing Moment: Bond spends time with the main girl, sliding a picture of Tracey into his bedside cabinet - he's moving on from her death. We cut to MI6 where M, Monypenny and Q are standing at M's desk and looking at dozens of photographs of Blofeld, showing him in locations around the world - Tokyo, Cairo, Kathmandu, Beijing, Sydney, Key West, Madrid. Moneypenny: "How are we going to tell him -" M: "Carefully"

STUFF

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

25 Gadget 1:
26 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Peter Hunt

28 Music By: John Barry
29 Themetune 'Always Secret' (a la 'On Her Majesties Secret Service') By John Barry

30 "Almost" written by Buddy Kaye and Ben Weiseman, arranged by John Barry
31 Song sung by: Elvis Presley

32 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
33 Description of Titles:

Edited by SamuelKevlar, 24 November 2010 - 09:50 AM.

[coco1997]

That plot is extremely cool. I love the way you worked the Vietnam angle into it.

Bring on Round 3!

[terminus]

I think that's Round 2 over and done with - and Round 3 open:


0 Title (Group Decision Field) - 'Semper Occultus'.'Always Secret' (proposed title - 'Semper Occultus' is the motto of MI6. I picture it being used in the film during an encounter between Moneypenny and Bond, during which Moneypenny asks how Bond is coping and how he's dealing with the anger and survivors guilt - 'Semper Occultus," he responds. "Always secret".)

1 Bond - George Lazenby

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Mia Farrow as Summer Long, American peace activist.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Linda Thorson as Mary Trueblood, a junior MI6 operative - certainly not a Double Oh (think Strawberry Fields for the Lazenby Era)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling):

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (though the movie should be about Bond tracking him down - therefore he will not appear throughout the film, just in a final confrontation)
7 Villain 2: Richard Burton as Robert Walker (a rival agent Bond has crossed paths with before; currently employed by Blofeld)
7b Villain 3: A Body/Voice Double as Irma Bunt (to be confirmed)

8 M: Bernard Lee
9 Moneypenny: Lois Maxwell
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn

11 Ally 1:

Re: Locations - feel free to use multiple locations within a given country but we should avoid repeat locations unless absolutely necessary.

12 Pre-Titles Location: Northern Italy
12b Location A: The Maginot Line, Franco-German Border
13 Location 1:
14 Location 2: A series of caves populated by incredible crystals somewhere in eastern Macedonia
15 Location 3: RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (the ship was comissioned in 1969 on voyages from Southampton to New York so would have been quite topical. I imagine that Bond would pursue the secondary villain onto the ship from Macedonia to Havana [via Southampton and New York])
16 Location 4: Havana, Cuba
17 Location 5: Niagara Falls (where Bond has his final confrontation with Blofeld)

KEY PLOT POINTS

18 Villains Plot: Bond is out for revenge but in order to reach Blofeld he must make a deal with the Soviets, the only ones who know his whereabouts. In return for this information he must remove a prickly thorn in their side, an international mercenary company called Black Shield. Comprised mainly of UK and US veterans, it is now loyal to no nation and is presently, through various front organisations and Swiss bank accounts, being bankrolled by SPECTRE. Black Shield has recently been sighted in Vietnam, where it's been hitting the Viet-Cong hard and using methods that even the most ruthless hawks in the US government would balk at. The leader of Black Shield is Robert Walker, a rogue SAS captain and an old rival of Bond.

19 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy is being used as a 'dead-drop' by SPECTRE. A dead-drop is what they call a place where organizations leave parcels for other agents in bins, under park benches, etc. Bond finds it's a dead-drop location and follows someone to a crypt at the cemetery. Bond sneaks in, opens the coffin and takes the note from the corpse but gets into a fight in the crypt with someone. He defeats them, throws them into the coffin and shuts the lid on the man and the corpse, making some witty retort in the process. As Bond prepares to exit the crypt, tucking the piece of paper that was dead-dropped, we find that the crypt has been rigged to blow--and as Bond runs to safety, the explosion whites out the screen, which segues to the main title sequence.

19b Irma Bunt Scene: See Here

20 Major Stunt 1:

21 Major Stunt 2:

22 Major Stunt 3: Bond hopes to draw Blofeld out of hiding; he works with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and there is a furious gunfight in a suburban house -- several of the Mounties are killed, but Bond captures one of the team, forcing him to spit out a cyanide pill before he can use it... and, thus, he learns where in Canada Blofeld is.

23 Finale Stunt: Bond dies - literally. Torn apart by the presence of Blofeld, he lets his emotions get the better of him an attacks without thought for his situation. A SPECTRE sniper hidden somewhere up behind Bond, shoots him from a distance. Two bullets lodge themselves in Bond's chest and he collapses into an expanding pool of his own blood, with Blofeld watching on. Bond's last words are an expression of disbelief, not that he is about to die (his psychological assessment shows that he does not expect to live until retirement), but because he was shot by an unseen and un-named lackey and not by Blofeld himself. Blofeld retorts that Bond was never worth his time (thus explaining why he "didn't recognise" Bond in Piz Gloria - he did recognise him, he just wasn't bothered by it) and walks away as Bond bleeds out. Cut to a hospital room with the main girl who tells him that he he was technically dead for six and a half minutes before he could be revived. This revelation is enough to force Bond into giving up his quest for vengeance.

23b Closing Moment: Bond spends time with the main girl, sliding a picture of Tracey into his bedside cabinet - he's moving on from her death. We cut to MI6 where M, Monypenny and Q are standing at M's desk and looking at dozens of photographs of Blofeld, showing him in locations around the world - Tokyo, Cairo, Kathmandu, Beijing, Sydney, Key West, Madrid. Moneypenny: "How are we going to tell him -" M: "Carefully"

STUFF

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

25 Gadget 1:
26 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Peter Hunt

28 Music By: John Barry
29 Themetune 'Always Secret' (a la 'On Her Majesties Secret Service') By John Barry

30 "Almost" written by Buddy Kaye and Ben Weiseman, arranged by John Barry
31 Song sung by: Elvis Presley

32 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
33 Description of Titles:

[coco1997]

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - 'Semper Occultus'.'Always Secret' (proposed title - 'Semper Occultus' is the motto of MI6. I picture it being used in the film during an encounter between Moneypenny and Bond, during which Moneypenny asks how Bond is coping and how he's dealing with the anger and survivors guilt - 'Semper Occultus," he responds. "Always secret".)

1 Bond - George Lazenby

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Mia Farrow as Summer Long, American peace activist.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Linda Thorson as Mary Trueblood, a junior MI6 operative - certainly not a Double Oh (think Strawberry Fields for the Lazenby Era)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling): Lola Falana as Nancy, a prostitute Bond meets in Cuba (or possibly earlier in the story, depending on what is chosen for Location #1)

5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (though the movie should be about Bond tracking him down - therefore he will not appear throughout the film, just in a final confrontation)
7 Villain 2: Richard Burton as Robert Walker (a rival agent Bond has crossed paths with before; currently employed by Blofeld)
7b Villain 3: A Body/Voice Double as Irma Bunt (to be confirmed)

8 M: Bernard Lee
9 Moneypenny: Lois Maxwell
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn

11 Ally 1:

Re: Locations - feel free to use multiple locations within a given country but we should avoid repeat locations unless absolutely necessary.

12 Pre-Titles Location: Northern Italy
12b Location A: The Maginot Line, Franco-German Border
13 Location 1:
14 Location 2: A series of caves populated by incredible crystals somewhere in eastern Macedonia
15 Location 3: RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (the ship was comissioned in 1969 on voyages from Southampton to New York so would have been quite topical. I imagine that Bond would pursue the secondary villain onto the ship from Macedonia to Havana [via Southampton and New York])
16 Location 4: Havana, Cuba
17 Location 5: Niagara Falls (where Bond has his final confrontation with Blofeld)

KEY PLOT POINTS

18 Villains Plot: Bond is out for revenge but in order to reach Blofeld he must make a deal with the Soviets, the only ones who know his whereabouts. In return for this information he must remove a prickly thorn in their side, an international mercenary company called Black Shield. Comprised mainly of UK and US veterans, it is now loyal to no nation and is presently, through various front organisations and Swiss bank accounts, being bankrolled by SPECTRE. Black Shield has recently been sighted in Vietnam, where it's been hitting the Viet-Cong hard and using methods that even the most ruthless hawks in the US government would balk at. The leader of Black Shield is Robert Walker, a rogue SAS captain and an old rival of Bond.

19 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy is being used as a 'dead-drop' by SPECTRE. A dead-drop is what they call a place where organizations leave parcels for other agents in bins, under park benches, etc. Bond finds it's a dead-drop location and follows someone to a crypt at the cemetery. Bond sneaks in, opens the coffin and takes the note from the corpse but gets into a fight in the crypt with someone. He defeats them, throws them into the coffin and shuts the lid on the man and the corpse, making some witty retort in the process. As Bond prepares to exit the crypt, tucking the piece of paper that was dead-dropped, we find that the crypt has been rigged to blow--and as Bond runs to safety, the explosion whites out the screen, which segues to the main title sequence.

19b Irma Bunt Scene: See Here

20 Major Stunt 1:

21 Major Stunt 2:

22 Major Stunt 3: Bond hopes to draw Blofeld out of hiding; he works with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and there is a furious gunfight in a suburban house -- several of the Mounties are killed, but Bond captures one of the team, forcing him to spit out a cyanide pill before he can use it... and, thus, he learns where in Canada Blofeld is.

23 Finale Stunt: Bond dies - literally. Torn apart by the presence of Blofeld, he lets his emotions get the better of him an attacks without thought for his situation. A SPECTRE sniper hidden somewhere up behind Bond, shoots him from a distance. Two bullets lodge themselves in Bond's chest and he collapses into an expanding pool of his own blood, with Blofeld watching on. Bond's last words are an expression of disbelief, not that he is about to die (his psychological assessment shows that he does not expect to live until retirement), but because he was shot by an unseen and un-named lackey and not by Blofeld himself. Blofeld retorts that Bond was never worth his time (thus explaining why he "didn't recognise" Bond in Piz Gloria - he did recognise him, he just wasn't bothered by it) and walks away as Bond bleeds out. Cut to a hospital room with the main girl who tells him that he he was technically dead for six and a half minutes before he could be revived. This revelation is enough to force Bond into giving up his quest for vengeance.

23b Closing Moment: Bond spends time with the main girl, sliding a picture of Tracey into his bedside cabinet - he's moving on from her death. We cut to MI6 where M, Monypenny and Q are standing at M's desk and looking at dozens of photographs of Blofeld, showing him in locations around the world - Tokyo, Cairo, Kathmandu, Beijing, Sydney, Key West, Madrid. Moneypenny: "How are we going to tell him -" M: "Carefully"

STUFF

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

25 Gadget 1:
26 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Peter Hunt

28 Music By: John Barry
29 Themetune 'Always Secret' (a la 'On Her Majesties Secret Service') By John Barry

30 "Almost" written by Buddy Kaye and Ben Weiseman, arranged by John Barry
31 Song sung by: Elvis Presley

32 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
33 Description of Titles:

[Mr. Blofeld]

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - 'Semper Occultus'.'Always Secret' (proposed title - 'Semper Occultus' is the motto of MI6. I picture it being used in the film during an encounter between Moneypenny and Bond, during which Moneypenny asks how Bond is coping and how he's dealing with the anger and survivor's guilt - 'Semper Occultus," he responds. "Always secret".)

1 Bond - George Lazenby

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Mia Farrow as Summer Long, American peace activist.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Linda Thorson as Mary Trueblood, a junior MI6 operative - certainly not a Double Oh (think Strawberry Fields for the Lazenby Era)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling): Lola Falana as Nancy, a prostitute Bond meets in Cuba (or possibly earlier in the story, depending on what is chosen for Location #1)
5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (though the movie should be about Bond tracking him down -- therefore he will not appear throughout the film, just in a final confrontation)
7 Villain 2: Richard Burton as Robert Walker (a rival agent Bond has crossed paths with before; currently employed by Blofeld)
7b Villain 3: A Body/Voice Double as Irma Bunt (to be confirmed)

8 M: Bernard Lee
9 Moneypenny: Lois Maxwell
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn

11 Ally 1: George Pravda as Dr. Ladislav Kutze, a nuclear scientist in hiding from SPECTRE in Toronto, and the target of the Black Shield strike team in Major Stunt 3

Re: Locations - feel free to use multiple locations within a given country but we should avoid repeat locations unless absolutely necessary.

12 Pre-Titles Location: Northern Italy
12b Location A: The Maginot Line, Franco-German Border
13 Location 1:
14 Location 2: A series of caves populated by incredible crystals somewhere in eastern Macedonia
15 Location 3: RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (the ship was comissioned in 1969 on voyages from Southampton to New York so would have been quite topical. I imagine that Bond would pursue the secondary villain onto the ship from Macedonia to Havana [via Southampton and New York])
16 Location 4: Havana, Cuba
17 Location 5: Niagara Falls (where Bond has his final confrontation with Blofeld)

KEY PLOT POINTS

18 Villains Plot: Bond is out for revenge but in order to reach Blofeld he must make a deal with the Soviets, the only ones who know his whereabouts. In return for this information he must remove a prickly thorn in their side, an international mercenary company called Black Shield. Comprised mainly of UK and US veterans, it is now loyal to no nation and is presently, through various front organisations and Swiss bank accounts, being bankrolled by SPECTRE. Black Shield has recently been sighted in Vietnam, where it's been hitting the Viet-Cong hard and using methods that even the most ruthless hawks in the US government would balk at. The leader of Black Shield is Robert Walker, a rogue SAS captain and an old rival of Bond.

19 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy is being used as a 'dead-drop' by SPECTRE. A dead-drop is what they call a place where organizations leave parcels for other agents in bins, under park benches, etc. Bond finds it's a dead-drop location and follows someone to a crypt at the cemetery. Bond sneaks in, opens the coffin and takes the note from the corpse but gets into a fight in the crypt with someone. He defeats them, throws them into the coffin and shuts the lid on the man and the corpse, making some witty retort in the process. As Bond prepares to exit the crypt, tucking the piece of paper that was dead-dropped, we find that the crypt has been rigged to blow--and as Bond runs to safety, the explosion whites out the screen, which segues to the main title sequence.

19b Irma Bunt Scene: See Here

20 Major Stunt 1:

21 Major Stunt 2:

22 Major Stunt 3: Bond hopes to draw Blofeld out of hiding; he works with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and there is a furious gunfight in a suburban house with the Black Shielf -- several of the Mounties are killed, but Bond captures one of the strike team, forcing him to spit out a cyanide pill before he can use it... and, thus, he learns where in Canada Blofeld is.

23 Finale Stunt: Bond dies - literally. Torn apart by the presence of Blofeld, he lets his emotions get the better of him an attacks without thought for his situation. A SPECTRE sniper hidden somewhere up behind Bond, shoots him from a distance. Two bullets lodge themselves in Bond's chest and he collapses into an expanding pool of his own blood, with Blofeld watching on. Bond's last words are an expression of disbelief, not that he is about to die (his psychological assessment shows that he does not expect to live until retirement), but because he was shot by an unseen and un-named lackey and not by Blofeld himself. Blofeld retorts that Bond was never worth his time (thus explaining why he "didn't recognise" Bond in Piz Gloria - he did recognise him, he just wasn't bothered by it) and walks away as Bond bleeds out. Cut to a hospital room with the main girl who tells him that he he was technically dead for six and a half minutes before he could be revived. This revelation is enough to force Bond into giving up his quest for vengeance.

23b Closing Moment: Bond spends time with the main girl, sliding a picture of Tracey into his bedside cabinet - he's moving on from her death. We cut to MI6 where M, Monypenny and Q are standing at M's desk and looking at dozens of photographs of Blofeld, showing him in locations around the world - Tokyo, Cairo, Kathmandu, Beijing, Sydney, Key West, Madrid. Moneypenny: "How are we going to tell him -" M: "Carefully"

STUFF

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

25 Gadget 1:
26 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Peter Hunt

28 Music By: John Barry
29 Themetune 'Always Secret' (a la 'On Her Majesties Secret Service') By John Barry

30 "Almost" written by Buddy Kaye and Ben Weiseman, arranged by John Barry
31 Song sung by: Elvis Presley

32 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
33 Description of Titles:

[SamuelKevlar]

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - 'Semper Occultus'.'Always Secret' (proposed title - 'Semper Occultus' is the motto of MI6. I picture it being used in the film during an encounter between Moneypenny and Bond, during which Moneypenny asks how Bond is coping and how he's dealing with the anger and survivor's guilt - 'Semper Occultus," he responds. "Always secret".)

1 Bond - George Lazenby

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Mia Farrow as Summer Long, American peace activist.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Linda Thorson as Mary Trueblood, a junior MI6 operative - certainly not a Double Oh (think Strawberry Fields for the Lazenby Era)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling): Lola Falana as Nancy, a prostitute Bond meets in Cuba (or possibly earlier in the story, depending on what is chosen for Location #1)
5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (though the movie should be about Bond tracking him down -- therefore he will not appear throughout the film, just in a final confrontation)
7 Villain 2: Richard Burton as Robert Walker (a rival agent Bond has crossed paths with before; currently employed by Blofeld)
7b Villain 3: A Body/Voice Double as Irma Bunt (to be confirmed)

8 M: Bernard Lee
9 Moneypenny: Lois Maxwell
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn

11 Ally 1: George Pravda as Dr. Ladislav Kutze, a nuclear scientist in hiding from SPECTRE in Toronto, and the target of the Black Shield strike team in Major Stunt 3

Re: Locations - feel free to use multiple locations within a given country but we should avoid repeat locations unless absolutely necessary.

12 Pre-Titles Location: Northern Italy
12b Location A: The Maginot Line, Franco-German Border
13 Location 1: United Nations Headquarters, New York City.
14 Location 2: A series of caves populated by incredible crystals somewhere in eastern Macedonia
15 Location 3: RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (the ship was comissioned in 1969 on voyages from Southampton to New York so would have been quite topical. I imagine that Bond would pursue the secondary villain onto the ship from Macedonia to Havana [via Southampton and New York])
16 Location 4: Havana, Cuba
17 Location 5: Niagara Falls (where Bond has his final confrontation with Blofeld)

KEY PLOT POINTS

18 Villains Plot: Bond is out for revenge but in order to reach Blofeld he must make a deal with the Soviets, the only ones who know his whereabouts. In return for this information he must remove a prickly thorn in their side, an international mercenary company called Black Shield. Comprised mainly of UK and US veterans, it is now loyal to no nation and is presently, through various front organisations and Swiss bank accounts, being bankrolled by SPECTRE. Black Shield has recently been sighted in Vietnam, where it's been hitting the Viet-Cong hard and using methods that even the most ruthless hawks in the US government would balk at. The leader of Black Shield is Robert Walker, a rogue SAS captain and an old rival of Bond.

19 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy is being used as a 'dead-drop' by SPECTRE. A dead-drop is what they call a place where organizations leave parcels for other agents in bins, under park benches, etc. Bond finds it's a dead-drop location and follows someone to a crypt at the cemetery. Bond sneaks in, opens the coffin and takes the note from the corpse but gets into a fight in the crypt with someone. He defeats them, throws them into the coffin and shuts the lid on the man and the corpse, making some witty retort in the process. As Bond prepares to exit the crypt, tucking the piece of paper that was dead-dropped, we find that the crypt has been rigged to blow--and as Bond runs to safety, the explosion whites out the screen, which segues to the main title sequence.

19b Irma Bunt Scene: See Here

20 Major Stunt 1:

21 Major Stunt 2:

22 Major Stunt 3: Bond hopes to draw Blofeld out of hiding; he works with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and there is a furious gunfight in a suburban house with the Black Shielf -- several of the Mounties are killed, but Bond captures one of the strike team, forcing him to spit out a cyanide pill before he can use it... and, thus, he learns where in Canada Blofeld is.

23 Finale Stunt: Bond dies - literally. Torn apart by the presence of Blofeld, he lets his emotions get the better of him an attacks without thought for his situation. A SPECTRE sniper hidden somewhere up behind Bond, shoots him from a distance. Two bullets lodge themselves in Bond's chest and he collapses into an expanding pool of his own blood, with Blofeld watching on. Bond's last words are an expression of disbelief, not that he is about to die (his psychological assessment shows that he does not expect to live until retirement), but because he was shot by an unseen and un-named lackey and not by Blofeld himself. Blofeld retorts that Bond was never worth his time (thus explaining why he "didn't recognise" Bond in Piz Gloria - he did recognise him, he just wasn't bothered by it) and walks away as Bond bleeds out. Cut to a hospital room with the main girl who tells him that he he was technically dead for six and a half minutes before he could be revived. This revelation is enough to force Bond into giving up his quest for vengeance.

23b Closing Moment: Bond spends time with the main girl, sliding a picture of Tracey into his bedside cabinet - he's moving on from her death. We cut to MI6 where M, Monypenny and Q are standing at M's desk and looking at dozens of photographs of Blofeld, showing him in locations around the world - Tokyo, Cairo, Kathmandu, Beijing, Sydney, Key West, Madrid. Moneypenny: "How are we going to tell him -" M: "Carefully"

STUFF

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

25 Gadget 1:
26 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Peter Hunt

28 Music By: John Barry
29 Themetune 'Always Secret' (a la 'On Her Majesties Secret Service') By John Barry

30 "Almost" written by Buddy Kaye and Ben Weiseman, arranged by John Barry
31 Song sung by: Elvis Presley

32 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
33 Description of Titles:

[terminus]

Interesting - I can start figuring stuff out now we've got locations. I think an extra location may need to be chucked in there somewhere and maybe some of the locations swapped around.

Not fantastically keen on Bond having to work with the Soviets again as we've just done it, but *shrugs* I have to work with what I've been given.

[Captain Tightpants]

Why do I keep seeing references to Canada - like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - if this film isn't going anywhere near Canada? I'm prety sure the Mounties have no jurisdiction outside Canada ...

0 Title (Group Decision Field) - 'Semper Occultus'.'Always Secret' (proposed title - 'Semper Occultus' is the motto of MI6. I picture it being used in the film during an encounter between Moneypenny and Bond, during which Moneypenny asks how Bond is coping and how he's dealing with the anger and survivor's guilt - 'Semper Occultus," he responds. "Always secret".)

1 Bond - George Lazenby

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Pussy Galore/Kissy): Mia Farrow as Summer Long, American peace activist.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Tilly Masterson/Aki): Linda Thorson as Mary Trueblood, a junior MI6 operative - certainly not a Double Oh (think Strawberry Fields for the Lazenby Era)
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl - Dink/Ling): Lola Falana as Nancy, a prostitute Bond meets in Cuba (or possibly earlier in the story, depending on what is chosen for Location #1)
5 Henchman (a la Oddjob):

6 Villain 1: Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (though the movie should be about Bond tracking him down -- therefore he will not appear throughout the film, just in a final confrontation)
7 Villain 2: Richard Burton as Robert Walker (a rival agent Bond has crossed paths with before; currently employed by Blofeld)
7b Villain 3: A Body/Voice Double as Irma Bunt (to be confirmed)

8 M: Bernard Lee
9 Moneypenny: Lois Maxwell
10 Q: Desmond Llewelyn

11 Ally 1: George Pravda as Dr. Ladislav Kutze, a nuclear scientist in hiding from SPECTRE in Toronto, and the target of the Black Shield strike team in Major Stunt 3

Re: Locations - feel free to use multiple locations within a given country but we should avoid repeat locations unless absolutely necessary.

12 Pre-Titles Location: Northern Italy
12b Location A: The Maginot Line, Franco-German Border
13 Location 1: United Nations Headquarters, New York City.
14 Location 2: A series of caves populated by incredible crystals somewhere in eastern Macedonia
15 Location 3: RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (the ship was comissioned in 1969 on voyages from Southampton to New York so would have been quite topical. I imagine that Bond would pursue the secondary villain onto the ship from Macedonia to Havana [via Southampton and New York])
16 Location 4: Havana, Cuba
17 Location 5: Niagara Falls (where Bond has his final confrontation with Blofeld)

KEY PLOT POINTS

18 Villains Plot: Bond is out for revenge but in order to reach Blofeld he must make a deal with the Soviets, the only ones who know his whereabouts. In return for this information he must remove a prickly thorn in their side, an international mercenary company called Black Shield. Comprised mainly of UK and US veterans, it is now loyal to no nation and is presently, through various front organisations and Swiss bank accounts, being bankrolled by SPECTRE. Black Shield has recently been sighted in Vietnam, where it's been hitting the Viet-Cong hard and using methods that even the most ruthless hawks in the US government would balk at. The leader of Black Shield is Robert Walker, a rogue SAS captain and an old rival of Bond.

19 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy is being used as a 'dead-drop' by SPECTRE. A dead-drop is what they call a place where organizations leave parcels for other agents in bins, under park benches, etc. Bond finds it's a dead-drop location and follows someone to a crypt at the cemetery. Bond sneaks in, opens the coffin and takes the note from the corpse but gets into a fight in the crypt with someone. He defeats them, throws them into the coffin and shuts the lid on the man and the corpse, making some witty retort in the process. As Bond prepares to exit the crypt, tucking the piece of paper that was dead-dropped, we find that the crypt has been rigged to blow--and as Bond runs to safety, the explosion whites out the screen, which segues to the main title sequence.

19b Irma Bunt Scene: See Here

20 Major Stunt 1: Bond attempts to eavesdrop on a conversation at the United Nations, but the villains keep changing frequencies. He is forced to randomly cycle through radio frequencies in an attempt to find them again, before stumbling onto a plot to assassinate a delegate ona separate freuency. Bond attempts to prevent the assassination, unaware that it is a trap designed to lure him out into the open. As soon as he shows his hand, he realises that he has been made and must escape the UN building as it begins crawling with SPECTRE agents.

21 Major Stunt 2:

22 Major Stunt 3: Bond hopes to draw Blofeld out of hiding; he works with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and there is a furious gunfight in a suburban house with the Black Shielf -- several of the Mounties are killed, but Bond captures one of the strike team, forcing him to spit out a cyanide pill before he can use it... and, thus, he learns where in Canada Blofeld is.

23 Finale Stunt: Bond dies - literally. Torn apart by the presence of Blofeld, he lets his emotions get the better of him an attacks without thought for his situation. A SPECTRE sniper hidden somewhere up behind Bond, shoots him from a distance. Two bullets lodge themselves in Bond's chest and he collapses into an expanding pool of his own blood, with Blofeld watching on. Bond's last words are an expression of disbelief, not that he is about to die (his psychological assessment shows that he does not expect to live until retirement), but because he was shot by an unseen and un-named lackey and not by Blofeld himself. Blofeld retorts that Bond was never worth his time (thus explaining why he "didn't recognise" Bond in Piz Gloria - he did recognise him, he just wasn't bothered by it) and walks away as Bond bleeds out. Cut to a hospital room with the main girl who tells him that he he was technically dead for six and a half minutes before he could be revived. This revelation is enough to force Bond into giving up his quest for vengeance.

23b Closing Moment: Bond spends time with the main girl, sliding a picture of Tracey into his bedside cabinet - he's moving on from her death. We cut to MI6 where M, Monypenny and Q are standing at M's desk and looking at dozens of photographs of Blofeld, showing him in locations around the world - Tokyo, Cairo, Kathmandu, Beijing, Sydney, Key West, Madrid. Moneypenny: "How are we going to tell him -" M: "Carefully"

STUFF

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

25 Gadget 1:
26 Gadget 2:

PRODUCTION

27 Director: Peter Hunt

28 Music By: John Barry
29 Themetune 'Always Secret' (a la 'On Her Majesties Secret Service') By John Barry

30 "Almost" written by Buddy Kaye and Ben Weiseman, arranged by John Barry
31 Song sung by: Elvis Presley

32 Titles Designed By: Maurice Binder
33 Description of Titles:

[Mr. Blofeld]

Why do I keep seeing references to Canada - like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - if this film isn't going anywhere near Canada? I'm prety sure the Mounties have no jurisdiction outside Canada ...

The final location is Niagara Falls; the third stunt of the film is specified as taking place in Toronto -- those aren't just references, Tighty.

[SamuelKevlar]

Not fantastically keen on Bond having to work with the Soviets again as we've just done it, but *shrugs* I have to work with what I've been given.

Working for rather than working with is the distinction, I feel, and it's a grudging relationship. And it could just as well be the Red Chinese - they were certainly more directly involved in Vietnam than the Soviets were.

[terminus]

20 Major Stunt 1: Bond attempts to eavesdrop on a conversation at the United Nations, but the villains keep changing frequencies. He is forced to randomly cycle through radio frequencies in an attempt to find them again, before stumbling onto a plot to assassinate a delegate ona separate freuency. Bond attempts to prevent the assassination, unaware that it is a trap designed to lure him out into the open. As soon as he shows his hand, he realises that he has been made and must escape the UN building as it begins crawling with SPECTRE agents.

Interesting idea.

Why do I keep seeing references to Canada - like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - if this film isn't going anywhere near Canada? I'm prety sure the Mounties have no jurisdiction outside Canada ...

The final location is Niagara Falls; the third stunt of the film is specified as taking place in Toronto -- those aren't just references, Tighty.

Actually - Mr Blofeld, I told you that your stunt sequence stipulated a location (that hadn't been already stipulated in the proforma in a location field) which wasn't permitted. Therefore, the stunt you have specified could, to all intents and purposes, be shifted elsewhere in the world and the RCMP replaced with another police organisation.

That said - the final location is Niagara Falls, half of which is in Canada.

Not fantastically keen on Bond having to work with the Soviets again as we've just done it, but *shrugs* I have to work with what I've been given.

Working for rather than working with is the distinction, I feel, and it's a grudging relationship. And it could just as well be the Red Chinese - they were certainly more directly involved in Vietnam than the Soviets were.

Do you mind if we make it the Red Chinese then? It would give the movies a bit more variety?

Only tdalton to submit before Round 4!

[coco1997]

Looks like we might need to add another field for an action sequence since there's only one spot open and I'm assuming there will be at least one aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 and in Havana.

[terminus]

Well, yes - we've actually three locations without stunts (the QE2, Yugoslavia and Cuba). I've got an idea what I want to do with the QE2 (inspired by the Young Sherlock book 'Red Leech') and I think that Mr Blofeld's stunt could easily be shifted to Havana with the basic idea intact.

[Captain Tightpants]

Why do I keep seeing references to Canada - like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - if this film isn't going anywhere near Canada? I'm prety sure the Mounties have no jurisdiction outside Canada ...

The final location is Niagara Falls; the third stunt of the film is specified as taking place in Toronto -- those aren't just references, Tighty.

Actually - Mr Blofeld, I told you that your stunt sequence stipulated a location (that hadn't been already stipulated in the proforma in a location field) which wasn't permitted. Therefore, the stunt you have specified could, to all intents and purposes, be shifted elsewhere in the world and the RCMP replaced with another police organisation.

Yes, I did notice how the third stunt takes place in Toronto, but there was no Toronto in the pro forma for locations. It could be moved to Cuba or Montenegro, since they're both without a sequence (Cuba is probably better since the sequence involves storming a house). And we already have a scene for Niagra Falls.

[terminus]

Montenegro? We've got a Macedonia - which was in Yugoslavia at the time the film takes place, as far as I understand it, but no Montenegro.

[Captain Tightpants]

Sorry, I meant Macedonia. I wasn't thinking. After all, I'm the one who added the crystal cave in eastern Macedonia ...

[terminus]

Okay - that's cool. We've all made a slip of the fingers at one time or another.

[SamuelKevlar]

Do you mind if we make it the Red Chinese then? It would give the movies a bit more variety?

Sure.

[terminus]

Here's a vague idea of how things stick together - there's room for two extra locations (one pre Yugoslavia, one before or after Cuba). I'm not entirely sure when Walker should be killed, nor totally sure about how to work Nancy and Mary into the story (my original idea was to put Mary onto the QE2 - but with Summer there, it makes Mary relatively superflous in that segment). The two extra locations may help in that regard.


Genoa Bond watches a crypt in a cemetary - the crypt turns out to be a dead drop used by SPECTRE. After watching a man enter, and leave, the crypt, Bond enters the crypt, searches it, and discovers a small envelope slipped into the pocket of the corpse in the tomb. He finds himself discovered - fights a SPECTRE goon, knocks him out and seals him in the tomb with the corpse with a witty one-liner.

The Maginot Line The note that Bond recovered from the pocket of the corpse has led him to a SPECTRE safehouse - a fortification on the Maginot Line on the Franco-German border. There, Bond finds and kills Irma Bunt.

New York Later, Bond finds himself on light duties and sent to the United Nations in New York on protection duty. There, he comes to suspect that an assasination attempt will be made on the representative from China. Outside the UN, there is a peace demonstration in which Summer Long takes place - she sees Bond and he sees her. Bond manages to stop the assasination attempt on the Chinese delegate - which MI6 believe may have been orchestrated by an organisation known as Black Shield. At a meeting between the British and Chinese delegates, Bond is officially loaned to the Chinese government, initially against his will, until he learns the terms of the loan - if Bond manages to eliminate Black Shield, Chinese Intelligence will share their files on SPECTRE. This term changes Bonds mind.

Possible Extra Location Here After an intervening trip to MI6 Headquarters in London wherein he is equipped by Q (and in which the title is mentioned) Bond begins his investigation of Black Sword.

Yugoslavia Bond tracks Black Sword operations to a training camp in the Macedonian region of Yugoslavia. Masquerarding as a Black Sword conscript, Bond stalks the organisations leadership through caves filled with crystals and discovers that the organisations leader is Robert Walker.

RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 After following Walker from Yugoslavia to the United Kingdom, Bond boards the QE2 in Southampton. There, he bumps into Summer Long - she has been at a peace march in London and is revealed to be from a very wealthy family. She is the black sheep of her family and Bond warms to her whilst he keeps an eye on Walker at the ships gaming tables, swimming pool, gym and restaurants - when Summer attempts to seduce Bond, he pushes her away and explains about Tracey (we get a montage as he explains, accompanied by 'Almost'). With the help of Summer, Bond discovers that Black Sword are after a Russian nuclear scientist known as Kutze - who is holed up in Russia's soviet ally, Cuba.

Havana After leaving Summer in New York, Bond arrives in Havana where he rushes to reach Kutze before the Black Sword members do - the secret agent moves the nuclear scientist to the house opposite and replaces him. When the Black Sword members break in to eliminate Kutze, Bond and his team leap into action - taking down the strike team.

Niagara Falls The information delivered by the Chinese leads Bond to a secret base under Niagara Falls where he confronts Blofeld and believes he has killed him, even though he believes he has sacrificed his own life to do so. He wakes in the arms of Summer Long, believing his quest is over - whilst in London, M, Q and Moneypenny peruse pictures of the leader of SPECTRE.

[Mr. Blofeld]

No, no, no... the whole point was to have it in Toronto because it's in Canada, near Niagara Falls, and it's straight out of Fleming -- I thought that was the idea for the first two UBs?

[terminus]

And as I told you - and have stated earlier - you stipulated a location that hadn't previously been stated in a stunt field, which isn't allowed. Yes, we're trying to take in as much of the unused Fleming stuff as we can - but if we put it in Ontario, then we'd have had three (at present, when the final stunt field has been filled in - two) locations without any stunts designated at all.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Fine; I'll move up the Toronto stunt to slot #2, and put a better-linking one in for #3, if that's still open -- I enjoy the globe-trotting, but I was imagining a scene or two with Kutze and Bond, or Bond getting to know the Mounties, something that requires Bond staying in one country or location for a good amount of time.

[coco1997]

The outline looks great, terminus, aside from you referring to Black Shield as 'Black Sword' about midway through. Regardless, I'm impressed by the way you put everything together--I really had no semblance in my mind of how things would work, but you've managed to do it. Summer is shaping up to be a very interesting Bond girl, and she needs to be handled delicately what with her being the first woman in Bond's life after Tracy. It's an interesting parallel that both Summer and Tracy come from money, but the former rejects that lifestyle for something more meaningful.

Maybe tdalton could offer some insight into what should happen to Walker, since the character was his creation.

[terminus]

I'd imagine that we could potentially break away from pursuit of Walker (once the QE2 arrives in New York, perhaps) to handle the attempted assasination/abuction of Kutze and return to him in the Hamptons, perhaps (this would be one of the extra two locations), which would serve to bring Summer back into the picture (she's glimpsed in the UN bit, encountered on the QE2 and reintroduced in the Hamptons). Walker could be from money too - and we could have a final confrontation with him there.

It would be a tip of the hat to Mia Farrow's role in 'The Great Gatsby' And we could possibly rework the scenes on the QE2 so that Summer is shown to be an aquaintance of Walker. This does subtly change Walker's presumed background of being Welsh to being American of Welsh decent or a Welsh immigrant - but given Burton is an actor, he can do an American accent and we can suggest he was a CIA/FBI operative.

Thus locations would run:

Genoa - France - New York - Location X - Yugoslavia - QE2 (with brief scenes showing departure/arrival in New York and Southampton) - Havana - The Hamptons - Niagara Falls

Maybe the troops that Bond calls on for assistance in Cuba are actually Red Chinese and not the RCMP (as was the original proposal, but given we've moved the stunt, at present, to Cuba, then we need to change that)?

[Mr. Blofeld]

Why not have Kutze's scenes in the Hamptons?

[Captain Tightpants]

Sorry, terminus, but I still reckon Blofeld should survive the final encounter unscathed whilst Bond bleeds out in front of him. Maybe Bond can believe that he killed Blofeld as a part of some fantasy his mind creates as it shuts down.

[terminus]

Sorry, terminus, but I still reckon Blofeld should survive the final encounter unscathed whilst Bond bleeds out in front of him. Maybe Bond can believe that he killed Blofeld as a part of some fantasy his mind creates as it shuts down.

It's something I'll need to think about.

[SamuelKevlar]

Good stuff, Terminus. Just a note on Black Shield. I purposely made their financing go through other channels before being sourced at SPECTRE because they are not on the surface a terrorist hit squad, but a legitimate paramilitary organisation that is tolerated by the West, perhaps even supported by some in the US government because they're effective and will get their hands dirty with things that the army would rather not deal with. M may be going against the wishes of his superiors by approving the Chinese deal. Maybe the UN meeting is regarding Black Shield and the Chinese delegate is speaking out against them. Summer, within her broader aim of protesting the Vietnam War, is there specifically because of Black Shield and Walker. Maybe Walker is even at the meeting himself - the first time we see him, being charming and convincing in his speech. Perhaps the assassination 'attempt' is actually intended for him instead, perhaps with the blame placed on the Chinese, to discredit them.

I made Walker a rogue SAS agent because he was already specified as a known rival of Bond. I think having him linked with Summer is just as if not more interesting. He could be an old family friend, impressively decked out in medals, and Summer is the only one in the WASP bunch who's cottoned on to his real nature. Her parents, disbelieving and unwilling to make waves, chose his side over hers - she cut her hair short in defiance, moved to San Francisco or New York and began fighting the good fight. It would be great if she was there for the final confrontation, whether in the Hamptons or not.

[terminus]

Good stuff, Terminus. Just a note on Black Shield. I purposely made their financing go through other channels before being sourced at SPECTRE because they are not on the surface a terrorist hit squad, but a legitimate paramilitary organisation that is tolerated by the West, perhaps even supported by some in the US government because they're effective and will get their hands dirty with things that the army would rather not deal with. M may be going against the wishes of his superiors by approving the Chinese deal. Maybe the UN meeting is regarding Black Shield and the Chinese delegate is speaking out against them. Summer, within her broader aim of protesting the Vietnam War, is there specifically because of Black Shield and Walker. Maybe Walker is even at the meeting himself - the first time we see him, being charming and convincing in his speech. Perhaps the assassination 'attempt' is actually intended for him instead, perhaps with the blame placed on the Chinese, to discredit them.

I made Walker a rogue SAS agent because he was already specified as a known rival of Bond. I think having him linked with Summer is just as if not more interesting. He could be an old family friend, impressively decked out in medals, and Summer is the only one in the WASP bunch who's cottoned on to his real nature. Her parents, disbelieving and unwilling to make waves, chose his side over hers - she cut her hair short in defiance, moved to San Francisco or New York and began fighting the good fight. It would be great if she was there for the final confrontation, whether in the Hamptons or not.

You've definitely given me some food for thought on Black Shield and Walker - will chew this over in bed and post a new outline tomorrow with the new fields filled in, hopefully.