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I've made a conscious decision to stand back on this round, thus my lengthy original post putting a great deal of my ideas forth - that said, here are a few ideas.

-Bond uses a bug to eavesdrop on their conversation
-Bond tails Blofeld out of the gala and the two are involved in a high-speed chase, which ends with Blofeld escaping, although with a nasty scar from wrecking his car.

-Bond returns to the hotel to find Jill Masterson on his bed, dead by way of gold paint.

Your bullet point treatment is very good (and whilst blofeld's dialogue section is well written, it doesn't fit with the scenes that have been suggested in the treatment) and I have only one suggestion:

- Reinstall the sequence from my treatment with Oddjob using scuba equipment to take the Iraqi gold from the shipwreck on which it had been stowed, and the ensuing fight that Bond has with him, bludgeoning him with the bar of Iraqi gold. This can occur without the submarine in a speedboat if needed, but when Bond returns to his hotel room, it is then that he finds Jill dead by epidermal asphyxiation.

- This would mean that the gold drop would need to be mentioned in the conversation that Bond eavesdrops on, perhaps he hears the name of a woman and when he asks Tanner to run it through the databanks, it churns out the name of a ship that sank off the coast of Dubai.

- I'd also put the gala event in a museum, set in a fort in the desert (there are plenty of these about in Dubai).

Afterwards:

- Bond, presumably, tracks Goldfinger to New York (or Hong Kong) where he meets up with Tilly who knows about her sisters death and confesses to Bond that her sister knew that Goldfinger was up to something and involved in very bad things. At some point, Bond bumps into Pussy Galore (and her cat) who is Goldfinger's Personal Financial Advisor - and the sequence ends with Bond and Tilly being abducted by Goldfinger.

- At Goldfinger's ranch in Kentucky, Bond listens in on a meeting between Goldfinger, Blofeld and Pussy (this is the scene with Blofeld shooing the cat away) that reveals the plan. Pussy is a con artist, a member of a group of lesbian con artists known as the Cement Mixers, and she's in it for the money that it will yield for herself - in other words, for Pussy, this is just another job. Goldfinger, on the other hand, has bought into Blofeld's dream of world control. This results in the heist at Fort Knox, which Bond bribes Pussy to get a message to Felix about the use of the magnetic device.

[Mr. Blofeld]

(and whilst blofeld's dialogue section is well written, it doesn't fit with the scenes that have been suggested in the treatment)

We have a golf scene, and Bond is purposefully, subtly antagonizing Goldfinger -- but Goldfinger's recognized his voice (that is, if we have the whole earpiece plot device for the remake; if not, he could just be suspicious); I crafted the scene to make it work, be subtly funny, yet also have that undercurrent of menace.

(It's also a neat little shout-out to those who know where a name like "Peregrine Maltravers" comes from... )

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(and whilst blofeld's dialogue section is well written, it doesn't fit with the scenes that have been suggested in the treatment)

We have a golf scene, and Bond is purposefully, subtly antagonizing Goldfinger -- but Goldfinger's recognized his voice (that is, if we have the whole earpiece plot device for the remake; if not, he could just be suspicious); I crafted the scene to make it work, be subtly funny, yet also have that undercurrent of menace.

(It's also a neat little shout-out to those who know where a name like "Peregrine Maltravers" comes from... )

Except, as it stands, Bond is playing Goldfinger because he's played Blofeld - at the point of the golf game, he wants to get to Blofeld through Goldfinger, which makes antagonising an assinine idea. Bond doesn't get sent on the mission because he's tracking Bond down - more to the point, he's met both Jill and Goldfinger in Miami before he meets them in Dubai, both would know him and recognise him as James Bond. The use of the codename makes zero sense - not to say the codename couldn't be used, but in the situation of the plot as it stands, it does not work.

[tdalton]

Maybe Bond uses the codename in Miami, then later is exposed as Bond (presumably by Blofeld) in Dubai when he encounters Goldfinger for the second time.

[terminus]

That would certainly work - it would mean, however, that Jill would never know him as James Bond and only as 'Perry'

[tdalton]

I'll get to work on fleshing this thing out starting tomorrow if nobody else wants to take a crack at it (if someone else does, feel free to do so, as I would imagine that someone else could probably do it a lot faster than I have proven to be capable of doing).

[Mr. Blofeld]

Except, as it stands, Bond is playing Goldfinger because he's played Blofeld - at the point of the golf game, he wants to get to Blofeld through Goldfinger, which makes antagonising an assinine idea. Bond doesn't get sent on the mission because he's tracking Bond down - more to the point, he's met both Jill and Goldfinger in Miami before he meets them in Dubai, both would know him and recognise him as James Bond. The use of the codename makes zero sense - not to say the codename couldn't be used, but in the situation of the plot as it stands, it does not work.

I'd swap it out to Blofeld... except I tailored that dialogue to fit Goldfinger, including highlighting his ridiculous name; I'd hate to lose it.

[terminus]

I don't think that Blofeld's the type to mess about with 'playing along' with the codename when he knows Bond's real name - you may just need to keep it for Live and Let Die for the confrontation with Mr Big.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I don't think that Blofeld's the type to mess about with 'playing along' with the codename when he knows Bond's real name - you may just need to keep it for Live and Let Die for the confrontation with Mr Big.

Well... at least Goldfinger's excuse is that it's a name he gave himself; "Buonaparte Ignace Gallia" has no such excuse.

[terminus]

I don't think that Blofeld's the type to mess about with 'playing along' with the codename when he knows Bond's real name - you may just need to keep it for Live and Let Die for the confrontation with Mr Big.

Well... at least Goldfinger's excuse is that it's a name he gave himself; "Buonaparte Ignace Gallia" has no such excuse.

I wasn't aware that Goldfinger chose his name for himself in the novel.

[tdalton]

I'm going to try to work the dialogue into the treatment, so we'll see how it goes. I'm currently trying to plot out the second half of the film (so if anyone has some ideas about how that should go, feel free to post them), so I haven't begun actually figuring out how to fit the dialogue in yet. It might need to be slightly tweaked to fit it into a different context, but I'm hopeful it can be retained to some degree.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I wasn't aware that Goldfinger chose his name for himself in the novel.

From Wikipedia:

Goldfinger is typically a German-Jewish name, and the protagonists of the novel know this, but neither Bond nor Mr. Du Pont think Goldfinger is Jewish. Instead, Bond pegs the red-haired, blue-eyed man as a Balt. And, indeed, Goldfinger proves an expatriate Latvian.

Therefore, we can assume that, since Goldfinger is not German-Jewish, he gave himself the name due to his overwhelming obsession with gold; indeed, screenwriter Richard Maibaum put such words into Blofeld's mouth for a screenplay draft of OHMSS where the two men were brothers -- what's not to say a similar conceit (the self-given name, not the brothers) couldn't work, here?

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I wasn't aware that Goldfinger chose his name for himself in the novel.

From Wikipedia:

Goldfinger is typically a German-Jewish name, and the protagonists of the novel know this, but neither Bond nor Mr. Du Pont think Goldfinger is Jewish. Instead, Bond pegs the red-haired, blue-eyed man as a Balt. And, indeed, Goldfinger proves an expatriate Latvian.

Therefore, we can assume that, since Goldfinger is not German-Jewish, he gave himself the name due to his overwhelming obsession with gold; indeed, screenwriter Richard Maibaum put such words into Blofeld's mouth for a screenplay draft of OHMSS where the two men were brothers -- what's not to say a similar conceit (the self-given name, not the brothers) couldn't work, here?

Oh, I knew about that - but you were stating it like it was a fact, which is certainly not the case, and, in my opinion, without definitive word from Fleming himself (and we can't use Maibaum's thoughts as intent - indeed, they also pondered using Goldfinger's brother 'Gustav Goldfinger' as the central villain in 'Diamonds are Forever'), we certainly can't safely assume such things. Anyway - as tdalton has already postulated, perhaps it's a scene that could be included in the Miami poker sequence instead of in the Dubai golf sequence.

[tdalton]

In attempt to try to rework a lot of this and get things moving towards a treatment being completed, here's a revised bullet-point of the entire story. I'm thinking that, for the ending of the film, instead of having Bond cornered on some kind of mode of transportation such as a plane or train like he was in the previous version, that the car chase involving Goldfinger's gold Delorean could be moved to the ending. We could have a good car chase to close things out on, followed by the two of them wrecking the vehicles and being forced to duel it out in a gunfight at the very end.

I'm also toying with the idea of leaving the film on a bit of a cliffhanger that would lead us into LALD, which I'll post when we get to the second half of the bullet-point outline to see if it ends up being satisfactory.

Below is a reworked version of the first half of the film, in more detail than the first time. If anyone has an ideas regarding this portion, or especially the second half of the film, please post them so that we can get this treatment moving towards a fairly swift conclusion.



MEXICO

• Bond is undercover at a high-level dinner meeting with various heads of state at the Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City. Bond is seated at the table, sent by MI6 as Britain's representative at the meeting, which is simply a cover as he's really there to eliminate an assassin who is looking to eliminate one of the leaders in attendance at the meeting.
• Based on the intelligence that Bond and MI6 have attained, the assassin is a woman. Bond finds a waitress acting suspiciously while serving the meal, prompting Bond to leave the table to corner her in an adjacent room. While he's interrogating her, he hears a gunshot in the dining room, causing him to rush back in to see that the assassin had gotten to one of the leaders.
• Bond sees the assassin fleeing the room, and he pursues him through the palace before they end up on the roof. They struggle, and eventually Bond sends the assassin off the roof to his death. Bond stands at the edge of the roof looking down on the assassin as we cut to the title sequence.

MIAMI

• Bond is relaxing by the pool at a high-end hotel resort in Miami, getting a massage from an unidentified woman, when he's greeted by Mr. Fukutu, whom Bond remembers from the card game at Casino Royale. They exchange brief pleasantries about Le Chiffre's loss at the poker table, which Fukutu is happy about because he no longer has to deal with Le Chiffre in his business dealings. Fukutu brings a man by the name of Goldfinger to his attention, noting that he is set to play him in cards shortly. Fukutu asks Bond if he would like to meet Goldfinger, which Bond agrees to. Bond introduces himself to Goldfinger as Peregrine Maltravers, which confuses Fukutu although he says nothing because he figures Bond is working some kind of an angle. Goldfinger offers Bond the opportunity to join their game, but Bond refuses, stating that he's not much of a gambler.
• Bond watches the card game from afar, noticing that Fukutu, whom Bond remembers as a formidable card player, loses every hand. Suspecting that Goldfinger is cheating, Bond decides to investigate. He makes his way into the hotel, conning a cleaning lady to reveal to him Goldfinger's suite number, which he breaks into to find a woman lying out on the balcony, working on her tan while also looking at satellite imagery of Fukutu's cards on a small tablet PC. Bond alerts the woman to his presence, causing her to hide the tablet and cover herself. Bond asks how she is communicating with Goldfinger, after which she hands to him a small blue-tooth like device, which Bond speaks into, informing Goldfinger that he's been caught cheating, and that he is to lose back all of the money he had cheated Fukutu out of plus an additional sum of money or he'll take the evidence to the authorities.
• Bond then offers to take the woman, who introduces herself as Jill Masterson, to lunch, claiming that Goldfinger will be busy for quite a while.

LONDON

• Bond, M, and Tanner go over security footage of the incident at the concert hall where Mr. White was assassinated. They identify a suspect leaving Mr. White's box, who Tatiana Romanova has identified as Blofeld. She doesn't know his first name, or if Blofeld is even his real name, but that's how he was identified by the Quantum leadership. M makes the capture of Blofeld MI6's top priority, sending Bond to Dubai to find him, as the security footage at the airport shows Blofeld boarding a plane headed for Dubai.

DUBAI

• Bond arrives in Dubai and is set up to play in a golf game with Blofeld by an intelligence officer assigned to Bond by MI6. When Bond arrives, Blofeld is a no show, but his usual golf partner, Goldfinger is willing to play with Bond, stating that they wager will be the amount of money that Bond blackmailed Blofeld into losing in Miami.
• They play golf, with Bond discovering that Goldfinger is cheating by way of magnetized golf balls, with magnets being placed into the holes to attract the golf balls by his assistant, Oddjob.
• Bond heads that evening to a gala event that Blofeld is thought to be attending. He spots Blofeld sitting with a blonde-haired gentlemen, whose back is to Bond, at a table in the corner of the room. Bond waits until one of the waiters is not looking, then placing a bug on the bottom of one of the champagne glasses, which then makes its way to Blofeld's table.
• As Bond is listening from the other end of the room, he feels a hand on his shoulder. He turns around to see Jill Masterson. She questions him as to why he's in Dubai, which Bond makes up an excuse for. He turns his attention momentarily back to Blofeld's table to see that the man sitting with him is Goldfinger. The two discuss plans to take a large sum of gold to a vessel called the "Octopus" later that night.
• Bond asks Jill for her assistance in investigating Blofeld and Goldfinger, which she agrees to do, noting that Goldfinger had become suspicious of her intentions since the incident with Bond in Miami, and she's looking for a way out.
• When the meeting between Blofeld and Goldfinger breaks up, Bond spots Goldfinger leaving the gala with Oddjob.
• Bond tails Blofeld from the building, which results in a high-speed chase between the two. Both Bond and Blofeld wreck their car. Blofeld escapes, albeit with a nasty scar.
• With Jill's help, Bond locates the "Octopus". He decides that Jill has been helpful enough, giving her his hotel key and asking her to wait for him in his room.
• Bond spots Oddjob sneaking aboard small submarine in the dockyard. Bond grabs some scuba gear from a nearby building and makes his way out to a shipwreck site that Oddjob has taken the sub out to. Bond spots him loading gold onto the submarine.
• Bond confronts Oddjob and the two fight aboard the sub. Bond bludgeons Oddjob with a bar of gold and then sets the submarine to self destruct. Bond escapes and heads back to the hotel.
• Bond finds Jill in his bed, dead and naked, painted gold from head to toe. Next to her is a dented gold bar and inscribed on her back in black ink is the threat: "Her death is on your hands, Mr. Bond"

Edited by tdalton, 01 February 2011 - 10:36 PM.

[terminus]

Excellent treatment work so far, tdalton.

PS - the Octopus is a real yacht and actually carries a submarine onboard it. http://en.wikipedia..../Octopus_(yacht) Also - if we can get the background that I suggested for Goldfinger in there somewhere, that he's a person of undefined Eastern European citizenry who grew up very working class before getting lucky (perhaps he stumbled upon a treasure trove on his fathers farm whilst ploughing it - thus begeting his love of gold and jewellery) and falling into money. But, like so much new money, he doesn't just try to be like the old money, he tries to outdo them - tries to be more 'old money' than the 'old money' itself which leads to some almost grotesque behaviour - his yacht is just like there's, but one foot longer, his villa just like there's but with one more bathroom etc. He's overcompensating - embarassed at his humble background. Maybe Bond could pull this out of Goldfinger in the Kentucky sequence in a manner similar to the exchange/interrogation between Bond and Vesper on the train.

[tdalton]

Excellent treatment work so far, tdalton.

PS - the Octopus is a real yacht and actually carries a submarine onboard it. http://en.wikipedia..../Octopus_(yacht) Also - if we can get the background that I suggested for Goldfinger in there somewhere, that he's a person of undefined Eastern European citizenry who grew up very working class before getting lucky (perhaps he stumbled upon a treasure trove on his fathers farm whilst ploughing it - thus begeting his love of gold and jewellery) and falling into money. But, like so much new money, he doesn't just try to be like the old money, he tries to outdo them - tries to be more 'old money' than the 'old money' itself which leads to some almost grotesque behaviour - his yacht is just like there's, but one foot longer, his villa just like there's but with one more bathroom etc. He's overcompensating - embarassed at his humble background. Maybe Bond could pull this out of Goldfinger in the Kentucky sequence in a manner similar to the exchange/interrogation between Bond and Vesper on the train.

I think that can be worked in. Right now I'm pretty much just bullet-pointing this out in such extreme detail that all I have to do is add in dialogue sequences, which is what I think would be the form this idea would take in the treatment, so that it hopefully doesn't take me as long to do as the last treatment.

What I'm hoping to have accomplished is to get a bullet-pointed outline for the entire film done by mid-day tomorrow, followed by the final treatment not too long after that, at which point we can move on to LALD.


Also, I just want to make sure that we've got everything cast:

Auric Goldfinger - Alexander Skarsgard
Jill Masterson - January Jones
Tilly Masterson - Juno Temple
Pussy Galore - Elizabeth Banks
Oddjob - Byung-hun Lee
Ernst Stavro Blofeld - Peter Serafinowicz
Mr. Fukutu - Tom So
M - Judi Dench
Miss Moneypenny - Anna Friel
Tanner - Rory Kinnear

Edited by tdalton, 01 February 2011 - 11:01 PM.

[terminus]

Don't forget Tom So as Mr Fukutu.

And, given that it seems to be my role in this to suggest a themetune singer, may I humbly suggest that (after Chris Cornell, Jack White & Alicia Keys, Brandon Flowers and Plan we look at someone like Norah Jones - whilst she's not released a solo album since 2009, she released a collaborative album in 2010. For those of you who haven't heard her, she's got a very sultry bluesy voice - the song would presumably be in a similar vein to that sung by Plan B, except less pop and more blues/jazz.

[tdalton]

Don't forget Tom So as Mr Fukutu.

Added to the cast list.

And, given that it seems to be my role in this to suggest a themetune singer, may I humbly suggest that (after Chris Cornell, Jack White & Alicia Keys, Brandon Flowers and Plan we look at someone like Norah Jones - whilst she's not released a solo album since 2009, she released a collaborative album in 2010. For those of you who haven't heard her, she's got a very sultry bluesy voice - the song would presumably be in a similar vein to that sung by Plan B, except less pop and more blues/jazz.

Norah Jones is fine with me.

[tdalton]

Here's a little bit more.



DUBAI

• Bond meets up with M and Tanner at the British embassy in Dubai. They have intelligence to suggest that Goldfinger may have fled Dubai for New York City, and that Blofeld has dropped off the map. Bond decides to follow Goldfinger to New York.

NEW YORK CITY

• Bond tries to pick up Goldfinger's trail again in New York, enlisting the help of Felix Leiter.
• Leiter has heard rumors that Goldfinger has been spotted at a warehouse on the waterfront, which Bond decides to go check it out.
• Surveying the warehouse from a distance, Bond suddenly feels a gun pressed to the back of his head. He is ordered to turn around slowly until he is face to face with a very young blonde woman, who asks him what he's doing. He tells her, at which point she lowers the gun.
• The woman identifies herself as Tilly Masterson, Jill's sister. Bond offers to take Tilly out for dinner so that they can talk.
• At dinner, Bond expresses his condolences to Tilly about her sister, noting that he felt somewhat responsible for it. Tilly tells him that she knew that Goldfinger was involved in something that would be very big.
• They are joined later by Felix and a woman in her mid-thirties who identifies herself as Special Agent Katherine Plenty. Felix stays with them for a while before excusing himself. Katherine presents herself as an expert on Goldfinger, claiming to have been building a case on him for several years.
• As dinner progresses, Bond feels himself becoming ill, as does Tilly, until it becomes apparent that they've been poisoned. They both black out.

KENTUCKY

• Bond wakes up to find himself tied down in a concrete room. Standing before him is Special Agent Plenty, who then reveals to him that her real name is Pussy Galore. As she talks, Bond deduces that she is some sort of con artist and that she's in the employ of Goldfinger.
• After Pussy is done with Bond, Goldfinger enters the room, bringing to Bond's attention the buzzsaw that is attached the table, which he shows him by pulling a protective sheet off of it that had been covering it. He turns it on and as it slowly begins moving up between Bond's legs, Goldfinger interrogates Bond. Unsatisfied with Bond's answers, Goldfinger turns to leave before somehow pulling the name "Operation Grand Slam" out of the ether, causing Goldfinger to stop the saw just centimeters before it was about to castrate Bond.
• Goldfinger then informs Bond that he and Tilly will be joining him for dinner later that eening.
• Bond and Tilly have dinner with Goldfinger on an outdoor terrace at his ranch. He explains to them his obsession with gold and jewelery and about how he wants to be more "old money" than the "old money". It is at this point that Goldfinger explains to Bond his plan to rob Fort Knox, claiming that he doesn't mind telling the two of them because they will be dead shortly anyway.

Edited by tdalton, 01 February 2011 - 11:33 PM.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Personally, I think it would be better if we swapped out Elizabeth Banks and Anna Friel for their respective roles (if we haven't already established her as Moneypenny, that is); I can see Banks working better with the light banter of the M's office scenes, whereas Friel has a harder edge that I don't think Banks has really shown in her prior work.

[tdalton]

Personally, I think it would be better if we swapped out Elizabeth Banks and Anna Friel for their respective roles (if we haven't already established her as Moneypenny, that is); I can see Banks working better with the light banter of the M's office scenes, whereas Friel has a harder edge that I don't think Banks has really shown in her prior work.

Friel is already established as Moneypenny as she was featured in FRWL.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Friel is already established as Moneypenny as she was featured in FRWL.

Ahhhh... forget what I said, then.

[tdalton]

Here's the last bit of it. I'm not sure how to beef up Pussy Galore's part any more than it is, although it feels as though she's got far less screen time in this story than she originally did.

EDIT: I'm going to tweak the meeting scene where the plan is revealed to include Blofeld, per terminus' suggestion. I had simply forgotten about the suggestion due to the large volume of ideas we've had put out there for this one, and just simply neglected to include it. That and the white cat gag with Blofeld will be in the treatment.

As always, any and all suggestions are welcome. I feel like the first half is a bit stronger than the second, so if anyone has any ideas as to how to beef up the second half they're most certainly welcome.

Also, I put an epilogue scene on at the end with Blofeld and Simone Latrelle (Solitaire's actual name from the novel). I'm not necessarily married to the idea of it being included, but I thought it might be a good way of connecting the two films as well as establishing Solitaire as a much different character than we've seen her in either the novel or the previous film. I think I've got a really cool idea for her character and how she'll fit into the updated LALD, and I think that this scene is a good way to kick that off. It's not a completely necessary scene, though, and can be removed.

KENTUCKY

• Pussy locks Bond and Tilly in a cell below the ranch as Goldfinger goes to welcome a group of suppliers to the ranch.
• Goldfinger leads the suppliers into a large room and starts off by thanking them for bringing the necessary supplies for Operation Grandslam. He gives them one last opportunity to back out of the plan, which one man accepts. Goldfinger asks Pussy to show the man out, which she responds to by shooting the man in the head at point blank range. "Does anyone else want out?", Goldfinger asks.
• Goldfinger then proceeds to go over the plan for Operation Grandslam, which involves a gas attack performed by Pussy Galore's team, followed by a ground incursion led by Goldfinger, in which they will round up the gold and ship it out in a multitude of trucks that will go to different locations around the country to be shipped to an undisclosed location.
• While this meeting is occurring, Bond has escaped from his cell and is listening in to the plan.
• Goldfinger continues to describe the plan, saying that he will be able to track the gold by way of his satellite, warning the men that he will know if they have tampered with the shipments.

FORT KNOX

• The next day, Bond and Tilly are loaded up into a truck as Goldfinger leads the team towards Fort Knox for the start of the operation.
• Pussy successfully carries out the gas attack on the forces stationed there, giving Goldfinger a clear path to waltz in and take the gold.
• During the assault, Bond and Tilly manage to escape and proceed to try to foil the plan. They eliminate as many as Goldfinger's henchmen as possible, but they are very much outnumbered and Goldfinger is able to get most of the gold safely on board the trucks.
• Inside Fort Knox, Tilly has a standoff with Pussy in what is a very violent encounter. Tilly eventually dispatches Pussy, rejoining Bond as the trucks are just about to leave.
• After the gold is loaded up, the trucks begin to leave Fort Knox. Goldfinger and Oddjob climb into the gold Delorean and make a run for Goldfinger's private train, from which Goldfinger will be able to track the shipments via the satellite.
• Bond and Tilly steal one of the vehicles that Goldfinger's team had brought with them to Fort Knox and pursue Goldfinger, all the while Oddjob hangs out the side of the Delorean firing at them.
• Using a mobile phone that Bond finds in the vehicle, he makes a phone call to Felix, explaining to him how to track the shipments of gold.
• Goldfinger and Oddjob board the train, with Bond and Tilly able to make it on board just as it's starting to leave the station. The two of them begin to make their way towards the front of the train when they're stopped by Oddjob.
• Tilly leaves Bond to handle Oddjob, which Bond protests, while she goes off to get her revenge against Goldfinger.
• Bond and Oddjob fight, eventually working their way to a train car that is full of gold. The two fight on top of the massive piles of gold, which shift under their feet as the train moves, making the fight even more difficult. Bond eventually defeats Oddjob and makes his way to the front of the train to deal with Goldfinger.
• Bond finds Tilly standing by herself at the front of the train. "He isn't here," she tells Bond.
• Bond makes his way into the control room of the train and finds a countdown timer, on which there is about two minutes left.
• Bond and Tilly sprint to the back of the train, where they had seen some cars that Goldfinger was transporting. Bond puts the vehicle into reverse, telling Tilly to really brace herself, and then crashes the car through the back of the train, sending them plummeting out onto the tracks. The train explodes a few seconds later.
• Once the car comes to a rest, miraculously on its wheels, on the train tracks, Bond and Tilly get out and begin to walk to the nearest phone.
  
• Next we cut to several shots of trucks being pulled over in various places across the US, with the last being a stop that is made by Felix Leiter himself.

UNDISCLOSED LOCATION

• Goldfinger sits in front of a computer screen, curing loudly when he sees that most of his trucks have disappeared off the map and the amount of money that has made it into his bank account is a relatively small number.
• As he sits at the computer staring at the screen, he hears a gun cocking behind him. It is Bond, with Tilly standing beside him.
• Bond and Goldfinger exchange some banter before Goldfinger reaches for a gun, causing Bond to eliminate him.
• Bond and Tilly exit the building. They speak outside for a moment. Tilly thanks him and they part ways.

SWITZERLAND

• Blofeld stands at a large full-length window, looking out on the snowy mountain that overlooks his residence.
• A young woman in her mid 20s speaks from off camera. "I told you this is what would happen."
• "How could you possibly have known that, Ms. Latrelle?"
• "I think you know how," she says. "My associate and I will take care of it,"
• Blofeld watches as Latrelle leaves the room.

Edited by tdalton, 02 February 2011 - 05:39 AM.

[coco1997]

Good work, tdalton, but didn't dino suggest that Goldfinger use an EMP instead of the gas attack?

[tdalton]

Good work, tdalton, but didn't dino suggest that Goldfinger use an EMP instead of the gas attack?

I'll go back and take a look. There's so much out there in terms of suggestions (and some of them are done in multi-quoted posts) that it's fairly easy to lose track of some of the information we've had put out there for this one.

I think it's a fairly easy change to make, though, and I'll change it for the treatment.

[terminus]

Excellent work tdalton, I like what you've done - and am interested to see what we'll do with this revised Simone.

[tdalton]

Excellent work tdalton, I like what you've done - and am interested to see what we'll do with this revised Simone.

Thanks.

I can't take too much credit for it, though. The only parts that are really mine are the PTS (and even that is based off of dino's idea of sending Bond to Mexico to target an assassin, I just filled in the details) and the epilogue scene that may or may not stay in. I'll have to tweak the epilogue scene if we keep it in to have Solitaire completely off camera for the entire duration, as we haven't cast her yet. I know who I want to play her, and I'll push for that casting when we get to the next round, but I can't say that it would be right for me to sneak her into the end scene like that.

Hopefully I'll have the treatment posted here sometime this afternoon. Should be easier than the last time around, as the bullet-point outline is basically a treatment in and of itself.

Edited by tdalton, 02 February 2011 - 03:54 PM.

[terminus]

I'll have to tweak the epilogue scene if we keep it in to have Solitaire completely off camera for the entire duration, as we haven't cast her yet. I know who I want to play her, and I'll push for that casting when we get to the next round, but I can't say that it would be right for me to sneak her into the end scene like that.

If the consensus is that the scene gets retained, it could be possible that we would be able to open the casting for Solitaire right now - as opposed to not showing her onscreen and waiting a day or two until the LALD Remake officially commences. I know coco1997 and I have a joint suggestion for Solitaire, and I think that he said there's another suggestion floating round (it may be yours).

[tdalton]

I'll have to tweak the epilogue scene if we keep it in to have Solitaire completely off camera for the entire duration, as we haven't cast her yet. I know who I want to play her, and I'll push for that casting when we get to the next round, but I can't say that it would be right for me to sneak her into the end scene like that.

If the consensus is that the scene gets retained, it could be possible that we would be able to open the casting for Solitaire right now - as opposed to not showing her onscreen and waiting a day or two until the LALD Remake officially commences. I know coco1997 and I have a joint suggestion for Solitaire, and I think that he said there's another suggestion floating round (it may be yours).

The other suggestion that's floating out there most likely is mine. Coco1997 and I discussed it a while back.

I'm, at the moment, inclined to leave the the scene in, so I guess we could open up the casting process for Solitaire now.

[terminus]

Okay - so here's the idea that coco and I both had. I can't speak for her acting talents - I saw the following photoshoot and the casting came to my mind, it could be a bit controversial to change the ethnicity of the character (but I seem to recall that when filming the original, they wanted Diana Ross for the role of Solitaire as well as singing the themetune, so this would be partly a nod of the head to that) but I think visually that she works. My suggeston is Nicki Minaj - this is the photoshoot: http://www.dailymail...ne-V-shoot.html

I've also got a suggestion for the themetune singer, but I will keep that until we commence the remake.