Here is a revised draft of the treatment -
GUN BARREL OPENS ON
An expansive wooden hotel somewhere in the
Aberdare National Park in Kenya (modelled on the
Treetops Hotel) where Bond is sat behind a canvas in a bedroom. He's painting the voluptuous curves of a beautiful blonde South African woman called Livia - LITERALLY painting her, running the paintbrush across her skin, down her firm stomach and across her thighs. It's very sensual - but done in an ever-so PG fashion.
MI6 HeadquartersM sits behind his desk in London and makes an inquiry (a la Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me) about Bond's location to Moneypenny. She, in turn, makes a pithy quip about his location: "He's just finishing things off down in Kenya -". And we're back in -
Aberdare National ParkLATER - with Bond and the woman enjoying a cleansing shower together, the phone rings and a voice informs Bond that his guest will meet him in the garden. Bond dresses, heads to the garden - it is night, the moonlight filtering down through the branches of trees and illuminating the flowers. Beautiful. Bond meets with his contact, George (Michael Sheard). George is the Head of Station in Nairobi and, to make a bit of cash, he's been selling secrets to the Soviets. Bond takes a file from George, flicks through it - and then confronts George with the fact that MI6 know he's a double agent.
The two men fight in the garden - it's swift and brutal, with at least one Moore-esque quip thrown into the mix. George throws Bond to the ground, thinks he's got the advantage and flees. As Bond is near the door to the stairwell, George opens a door nearby - tearing through a 'DANGER: BUILDING SITE' banner across it ...
And PLUNGES TO HIS DEATH. Bond looks down through the open doorway as a lion advances on the contacts injured body, roars as it pounces - "What's the matter, George, cat got your tongue?" - the fireworks display commences and we move into another title sequence designed by Maurice Binder.
Each firework burns onto the screen as we begin the titles - a typical affair with silhouetted naked women dancing to the themetune. At one point, women-shaped missiles are loaded into canons and fired at a moon - which then morphs into the curves of a woman, glimpsed only like the moon during an eclipse, writhing to the music. This, mixed in with some religious-type symbols and icons.
CB.n PRESENTS
ROGER MOORE
as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
in
CBN MEMBERS'
EVERYTHING OR NOTHING
Vanessa Redgrave
Raquel Welch
Marlon Brando
Armand Assante
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sybil Danning
Clifton James
Michael Sheard
Lois Maxwell
Desmond Llewelyn
with
Bernard Lee as M
"Everything or Nothing" sung by Cher
"Everything or Nothing" written by John Barry, Cher and Johnny Durrell
Soundtrack by John Barry
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Titles Designed by Maurice Binder
MI6 HeadquartersBond has returned from his mission in Africa - with a tan that he teases Moneypenny is an 'all over' tan - before he is called in to see M who is joined by an advisor from the Foreign Office. M has the file that Bond took from George in Kenya and opens it to a report that he explains is about a French-Canadian businessman John Vigeaux. M explains that the report suggests that Vigeaux has been trying to source a pair of nuclear missiles on the black market -
Nuclear missiles cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of a civilian and Bond is ordered by M to travel to Quebec, Canada, to look into the matter. After his meeting with M, Bond visits Q to recieve his equipment - including a gun metal grey Rolls Royce Camargue with all the usual refinements and contact lenses programmed to pick up the energy signatures of nuclear missiles (Q gives a technical explanation of the red-tinted contact lenses, Bond accepts them with a quip - "Don't see red, Q" or simply "I see").
QuebecBond travels to Canada where he eliminates a member of Vigeaux's racing team in order to gain entry to Vigeaux's inner circle by taking part in a catamaran race in Quebec (styled after the GOLDFINGER golf game, but Bond is partnered with VIgeau'x crew rather than competing against him). Bond, on the trapeze, ends up capsizing the catamaran into an icy river after a risky move for the lead fails and they crash into a pier. Bond and Vigeaux both end up in the river with the remains of the destroyed catamaran.
Vigeaux finds this outrageously funny, and invites Bond to join him at a black tie gala dinner that evening as he is impressed with Bond's willingness to take a risk even when the odds are heavily stacked against him; had Bond succeeded, their catamaran would have won the race. That night, Bond meets LaFiera for the first time at the ball - and isn't taken in by the mans charisma and religious spiel. Bond makes an excuse to dance with Samantha, Vigeaux's wife, using an energetic tango around the room to pick out the rest of Vigeaux's undercover security (including Schwartz) without arousing suspicion.
Later, Bond sneaks around Vigeaux's chateau, breaks into a safe - but is knocked out by an assailant that he does not see but we understand to be Schwartz (think the scene in Goldfinger where Bond is knocked out by Oddjob). He awakes in -
West Germany- West Germany at a religious conclave in a forest. There, Lafiera tries to have Bond brainwashed using drugs and verbal suggestion, but the CIA have an agent undercover in the cult (Easy Phillips) and she puts white sound inducing ear-plugs into Bonds ears to stop the brainwashing process. As a result, Bond ends up just feeling a bit sick as a side effect of the drugs - but covers up the fact and plays the part of the dutiful cult member.
Taking advice from Easy on infiltrating the cult and masquerading as a member, he discovers that Lafiera is the one who wants the two nuclear missiles (Vigeaux is just financing the operation, using his wifes money) and the purchase will be undertaken in Iran. Under the cover of fetching food supplies from the local village, Bond tries to make a phone call to MI6 to inform them about the nuclear weapons - but the phone doesn't work. Luckily he bumps into his old friend Sheriff JW Pepper, who is accompanying his wife on a tour of European castles - he hears the southerner before he sees him: "Germans? We kicked their
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in dubya-dubya-two! <spit>"
Bond uses the American to pass a message to MI6 about the missiles - which then involves a comical exchange when Pepper places a call to MI6 from his hotel room and speaks directly to M and Miss Moneypenny.
M calls in NATO troops to storm the religious encampment, which gives Bond and Easy the chance to escape. But Schwartz, who is dressed in the armor of a medieval knight notices their escape and pursues - the two agents try and merge into a group of tourists entering a castle, leading to a pursuit through the castle, into sections that the public aren't allowed to enter, and a literal sword fight with Schwartz on the castles ramparts after Bond grabs a sword from a smashed siplay cabinet (think the glass museum fight in MR for the jist behind the fight). Bond takes on Schwartz, but ducks as the henchman takes a swing - and plummets to his death from the ramparts - cue "I think I'll take the stairs" (or some other such quip). During the escape, Bond runs past JW Pepper and Maybelle. When Schwartz takes a dive from the ramparts, he lands in front of the tour group that Pepper and Maybelle are part of - the southerner looks up at Bond who is peering down at the prone German from the ramparts, he stands with his foot on the Germans back and gives Bond a thumbs up: "Strike one to the tea-drinking son-of-a-gun ..."
IranBond and Easy arrive in Tehran and head for the nearest opulent hotel. As Bond books a suite (with the receptionist automatically knowing who he is, naturally), Easy demands her own room - "My name isn't an invitation, Mr.Bond"
Later that night, the two of them pick up a dune buggy, and head north to the Darabad Mountains. Bond slips on his contact lenses and is able to follow the infrared wavelengths of the missiles to the meeting point. Bond and Easy are above the meeting point in a rocky area, where they see severa; henchmen loading two warheads into another buggy. Moving a little closer, Easy accidentally kicks a loose rock which attracts the henchmen's attention. The henchmen quickly open fire as a henchman climbs into the missile-laden buggy to escape.
Bond and Easy get back into their own buggy to pursue the missiles. The rest of the henchmen follow in their own buggies - cue an action packed chase scene with buggies jumping over sand dunes. It ends with Bond bumping the last buggy, causing the last henchman to crash into a dune.
Easy - He should have looked where he was going!
Bond - Poor fellow had his head in the sand.
Bond picks up the wavelength trail again and heads back into the city. They are about to catch up with the missiles when, out of Bond's sight, we see the buggy pull up behind a huge 18 wheeler truck on a main road. The back of the truck opens and a ramp lowers to allow the buggy to drive right into it, with the ramp closing behind it. Bond immediately loses the signal, and pulls over, frustrated.
Back at the hotel, M berates Bond over the phone. The trail of the missiles has been lost - and Lafiera escaped the attack on the religious compound in West Germany. The only remaining lead is to pursue Vigeaux, who is hosting some sort of exclusive gathering at Gropius House, MA, that the rich man has bought for his own use.
In Easy's hotel room, Schwartz is hiding in the wardrobe and waits until Easy has disrobed and slipped into bed before emerging and stabbing her with a sword, pinning her to the bed. The giant man has escaped when Easy's screams from her last breaths bring Bond rushing into the room (he hangs up on the call to M to rush to her aid) - only for him to arrive too late, blood bubbling out of her mouth. He kisses her forehead and holds her as she slips into the undiscovered country.
Gropius House, MassachussettsBond walks into Vigeaux's house using the exclusive gathering as a cover: the gathering turns out to be a cover for a gathering for funders and members of the cult of Serenitology that Lafiera is behind. Amongst the guests are members of the world media - representatives of various print and television news networks who promise that they will transmit the footage of the celestial event, live, on their networks. Vigeaux promises them that they will have a special place in the new world order that Lafiera will institute.
After witnessing these promises, Bond confronts him about funding the purchase of the nuclear weapons. He is stunned when a room in the house descends into the foundation revealing a massive cave - not unlike the volcano base in YOLT. Bond is imprisoned, but escapes with the help of Samantha who betrays her husband - we learn that most of his money is actually hers and she's not happy with the way it has been spent. The suggestion is there that Vigeaux has actually shielded Samantha from the cult - that he has prevented her from being brainwashed by Lafiera.
During the escape, Samantha is recaptured but Bond must leave her behind in order to ensure his own escape.
The Great Barrier ReefBond approaches the Great Barrier Reef in an Australian Navy helicopter. Using special diving equipment, he jumps out of the helicopter into the water, searches for, and eventually spots a hatch in the reef. Slipping inside, Bond finds himself in a cavernous, hollowed-out area concealing a custom submarine, the Nautilus. (Give a big hand to Ken Adam for the wonderful set design).
LaFiera stands on top of the Nautilus, giving a nutty speech to the hundred or so followers assembled below him (including Samantha Pole). This is being transmitted around the world - screens show the transmission in cities such as New York, London, Paris, Capetown and Rio. Bond sneaks aboard the submarine where Vigeaux is overseeing the missile launch countdown - cue a big red LED display counting down the seconds.
Bond and Vigeaux grapple as the huge coral roof opens and the Nautilus fires the missiles (the submarine has been custom designed to fire upwards). During the fight, Vigeaux accidentally elbows a switch which turns on a giant exhaust fan. The fan is powerful enough to suck the two men towards it; Bond grabs a conveniently placed railing as Vigeaux clings to Bond's arm in desperation. Bond dispatches him with a punch to the jaw; Vigeaux flies into the fan and is instantly obliterated. (In 2002, Bond fans will notice how DAD references this).
The fan shuts off, and the room begins to shudder. Bond notices and remarks "Now it's really hit the fan". With the missiles just moments away from detonating, Bond calmly manages to enter the abort code and the missiles drift away harmlessly into space.
Down below, LaFiera and followers are gathered around a huge wall-sized monitor waiting for the "celestial event". LaFiera remarks "In the next few moments my friends, we will have everything!"
"Or nothing", Bond interrupts. He informs everyone that the plan has failed, and that LaFiera is a sham. Due to the malfunction of the exhaust fan, the entire lair begins to rumble and collapse. LaFiera's followers surround him menacingly as Brando gives an insane, semi-improvised monologue in homage to Julius Caesar. Bond works his way through the crowd with his gun drawn, but stops as several of the followers draw knives and move towards LaFiera. The whole speech is seen on the screens around the world, in the aftermath of Bond's speech though, the observers begin to depart - fewer and fewer at each location as we move through them.
Bond spots Samantha and grabs her, dragging her towards the hatch, leaving LaFiera to his fate.
Heading back to the hatch, Bond undoes Samantha's brainwashing by...kissing her! "Oh, James!" she responds. The two of them climb into the submarine and Bond pilots it out of the secret hangar as an entire section of the reef collapses behind them -
The submarine surfaces outside the secret hangar, observed by the Australian Navy helicopter - the camera feed from which is being piped back to the operations room at MI6 Headquarters in London. The scene is being observed by M, Q and Moneypenny. But, suddenly, the submarine begins to submerge again -
M, drops the phone he's using, turns to Q: "What the hell does 007 think he's doing?"
Q looks over from his controls - "It looks like they're going down again, Sir!"
As we dissolve through to the opening stages of intercourse commencing: Bond putting the submarine on autopilot, kissing down from Samantha's lips, across her abdomen, moving lower -
MelbourneBond and Samantha have docked the submarine in Melbourne and are having a romantic break in the city, taking in the sights and using the city's trolly car network. This all goes to their plan, only for Schwartz to board the same trolley that they're on, undetected, with a trenchcoat over his armour - suddenly revealing himself and launching himself at Bond with one of his swords.
Bond grabs a parasol from an unwitting old woman and uses it as a makeshift sword - fighting the German swordsman and seeming to be on the loosing side. As the passengers panic and Samantha hammers on the drivers cab door, trying to get the elderly mans attention, the fight continues as the tram continues on its journey.
Eventually, the driver realises what is going on - just as the sword that Schwartz is using smashes through the glass partition. The driver faints - and the tram steams through a station, picking up speed.
Samantha must climb into the cab - and slam on the breaks, which throws Schwartz to the floor. As the other passengers open the doors using the emergency handles and pile out into the road, Bond continues the fight. Schwartz finds his sword taken from him and the hilt rammed into his chest, knocking him off his feet - and landing on the bonnet of a car, rolling over it and landing on the road where he's run over by a second car.
As Samantha clambers from the cab, Bond is standing in the doorway - and Schwartz has vanished. In a line which James Cameron will pay homage to nine years later, Bond mutters - "He'll be back".
Police cars, ambulances and fire engines start to arrive - as Bond takes Samantha's hand and the pair vanish into the crowds of Melburnians gathering around the trolley car as we shift to a helicopter shot, pulling out - then freezing as we move to the end credits ...
THE END OF 'Everything or Nothing'
BUT JAMES BOND WILL RETURN
I'm sure terminus will wholeheartedly approve.
