Here's what I hope is the final treatment for GOLDFINGER. As already stated, it's a bit light on dialogue in comparison to some of our more recent efforts, but I think (and hope) I covered all of the plot points that had been suggested.
Logos / Gun barrel LogoMEXICO CITYThe film opens up on an exterior shot of the Chapultepec Castle lit up at night. We move to an interior setting, a dining fancy dining room with a long, rectangular table running through the middle of the room. The room is full of diplomats and world leaders, as they have convened to discuss the economic crisis that has spread across the globe.
James Bond (Daniel Craig) sits down at the table, joining in on a conversation with some of the representatives from the United States regarding their deficit spending versus the need to cut certain programs.
Bond surveys the room. Having been sent by the British government as their representative at the conference, Bond knows that he must put up the impression that he’s at the very least economically competent. The real reason he’s there, however, is to eliminate an assassin that is believed to be after one of the world leaders.
As Bond engages the US representatives in conversation, he notices a waitress that is acting out of the ordinary. He excuses himself from the table and follows her into the kitchen, confronting her and conducting a rather casual interrogation. As he is speaking to her, gunshots ring out in the dining room. Bond rushes back in and sees that one of the representatives has been shot and sees the assassin fleeing the room.
Bond pursues the assassin through the labyrinth of hallways in the palace before the two make their way up to the roof. Bond and the assassin struggle, with Bond eventually sending the assassin to his death by throwing him off the roof of the palace.
Cut to a shot of Bond standing at the edge of the roof looking down at the assassin’s body on the pavement, fading into the title sequence.
Title Sequence featuring “Goldfinger” performed by Norah Jones
Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions Presents
Daniel Craig
as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007
in
GOLDFINGER
Starring:
Alexander Skarsgård
Juno Temple
Elizabeth Banks
Christina Hendricks
Byung-hun Lee
Tom So
Anna Friel
Jeffrey Wright
Rory Kinnear
with
Peter Serafinowicz
Dianna Agron
and
Judi Dench as ‘M’
End of Title SequenceMIAMIThe film picks back up with an establishing shot of Miami, after which we find Bond lying face down on a lawn chair by a pool at a rather upscale hotel. He is being massaged by an unidentified woman. We see a shadow cast across Bond and when he turns around to see who it is, he stands up and extends his hand.
The visitor is Mr. Fukutu (Tom So), one of the men who played in the poker tournament at Casino Royale. Fukutu extends his thanks to Bond for defeating Le Chiffre, noting that it has made his business dealings much easier now that Le Chiffre is out of the picture. The two men exchange a few pleasantries before Fukutu informs Bond that he must leave as he is expected for a card game against a Mr. Auric Goldfinger.
Bond follows Fukutu to the card table where he is introduced to Goldfinger (Alexander Skarsgard).
FUKUTU: Mr. Goldfinger, I’d like to introduce you to…
BOND: Peregrine Maltravers. How do you do?
Bond shakes Goldfinger’s hand while Fukutu looks on confused. Goldfinger involuntarily snorts, causing Bond to shoot him a quizzical look.
BOND: What’s so funny?
GOLDFINGER (laughing): What a name! I hope you forgive me saying this, but it sounds like an advertisement for high-priced bourbon! You must have given your parents hell for that.”
BOND: Surely, it couldn’t be as bad a name as Auric Goldfinger.
GOLDFINGER: That is a name of my own choosing, Mr. Maltravers. I have an affinity for gold—
BOND: And Auric? Hell of a forename.”
GOLDFINGER: It helps, Mr. Maltravers, to learn a little Latin in the course of your education; you may find it useful in the course of our interactions.
Goldfinger pauses.
GOLDFINGER: Speaking of which, would you care to join us for some poker?
BOND: No, thank you. I’m not much of a gambler.
Fukutu shoots Bond another surprised look.
Bond leaves the men to play cards, but watches from afar. He is surprised to see that Fukutu loses nearly every hand, as Bond remembered him being a formidable opponent I Montenegro. Suspecting that Goldfinger must be cheating somehow, Bond decides to investigate. He cons a cleaning lady to let him into Goldfinger’s room.
He finds a bikini-clad woman lying out on the balcony. He approaches her and sees that she is looking at satellite imagery of Fukutu’s cards on a tablet computer and relaying the information down to Goldfinger. Bond asks how she is relaying the information to Goldfinger. She replies by handing him a small blue-tooth like device. Bond speaks into it, informing Goldfinger that he’s been caught cheating, and that he will lose back all the money he’s taken from Fukutu plus an additional fifty percent for wasting Fukutu’s afternoon, or he’ll take this information to the authorities.
Bond then offers to take the woman, who introduces herself as Jill Masterson (Christina Hendricks) to lunch, claiming that Goldfinger will be busy for quite a while.
LONDONBond, M, and Tanner are standing in front of a wall-size display screen running security footage of the concert hall during Mr. White’s assassination. M states that, based on information provided by Tatiana Romanova, the man seen leaving White’s private box is a man that goes by the name Blofeld. According to Tatiana, Blofeld is, or was, a new member of the Quantum leadership.
M informs Bond that he is on the next flight to Dubai, where Blofeld is believed to be after security cameras at the airport spotted him boarding a flight for the country.
DUBAIBond 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 the wager will be the amount of money that Bond blackmailed Goldfinger into losing in Miami.
As the two men play golf, Bond begins to discover that Goldfinger is, once again, cheating. He spots the Korean man that is serving as Goldfinger’s caddy, Oddjob (Byung-hun Lee), dropping something into the hole when he goes to pull the flag prior to Goldfinger putting. Bond later discovers that it is a magnet, and deduces that Goldfinger has also put a magnet in his golf ball and is using the magnets to make the more difficult shots look easy.
Late in the round, with the score even, Bond manages to pick Oddjob’s pocket, robbing him of the magnet. Bond proceeds to beat Blofeld by four strokes on the final two holes to take the win.
The two men speak to one another after the game, with Goldfinger telling Bond that he doesn’t want to see him again, as once can be passed off as happenstance, twice as coincidence, but a third time would be considered enemy action.
Based on intelligence obtained by his MI6 contact, Bond has reason to suspect that Blofeld will be in attendance at a gala being held at a museum on the outskirts of Dubai. Bond arrives at the gala, surveying the premises for Blofeld.
After a while, Bond finds Blofeld (Peter Serafinowicz)sitting at a table at the far end of the ballroom talking to a man who has his back to Bond. Bond notices that the two men are nearly finished with their champagne. He finds a waiter that is working not too far from their table and distracts him long enough to place a bug on the bottom of a champagne glass. The glass is then delivered to Blofeld’s table, allowing Bond to listen in.
Bond situates himself at a table at the opposite end of the room, listening in on their conversation. The two men talk about a ship called “Octopus” and discuss some gold drops that have been taking place. Bond realizes that the man with his back to him is none other than Goldfinger when Oddjob sits down at the table.
Blofeld and Goldfinger continue to talk, with the topic of conversation shifting to a robbery plan, the target of which is never discussed. The name of the operation is “Operation Grandslam”.
As Bond is listening, he feels a hand on his shoulder. He turns around to see Jill Masterson standing behind him.
JILL: Good evening, Mr. Maltravers. I didn’t think I’d see you again after Miami.
BOND: About that…
JILL: You said you’d call.
BOND: Something came up.
JILL: Of course it did. All you men are the same.
BOND: If you’ll help me with something, I promise to make it up to you.
JILL: What did you have in mind.
BOND: Does the phrase ‘Operation Grandslam’ mean anything to you?
JILL: I’ve heard Goldfinger talk about it from time to time, but never anything specific. I know that he’s probably got himself in too deep yet again.
BOND: Would you care to join me for a drive?
Bond asks her this as he sees Blofeld, Goldfinger, and Oddjob heading towards the exit.
JILL: I suppose I could be persuaded to join you. Where are we going?
BOND: I’m not entirely sure.
Bond leads Jill to his car and he begins tailing Blofeld’s car. Eventually, Blofeld notices that he is being followed and begins to drive aggressively.
JILL: What are you doing?
BOND: Your friend Goldfinger is in deep with some bad people. This man here (
Bond slams the car into Blofeld’s) was having dinner with Goldfinger, discussing the Grandslam plan. He’s also number one on our most wanted fugitives list.
JILL: I only work for Mr. Goldfinger. The most accurate description of my job I guess would be secretary. I’m looking for a way out, though. Goldfinger has started becoming suspicious of me since you showed up in Miami.
Bond pulls out his pistol and begins firing out the window at Blofeld’s tires as Jill is speaking. Jill ducks in her seat at the sound of the gunfire.
The chase continues for a few miles before Blofeld’s tires finally give out, causing him to wreck his car. Bond stops the car and gets out, racing to the wreckage to apprehend Blofeld, but he’s nowhere to be found.
Bond returns to his car.
BOND: What’s the “Octopus”?
JILL: It’s a boat.
BOND: Can you take me there?
JILL: Yes.
Jill gives Bond instructions to the Octopus, after which he drops her off at his hotel, giving her the key to his room. He instructs her to wait for him in his room.
Bond arrives at the dockyard and spots Oddjob sneaking aboard a small submarine in the dockyard. Bond grabs some scuba gear from a nearby building and makes his way out to the shipwreck site that Oddjob is taking the submarine to.
When Bond arrives at the wreckage, he finds that Oddjob is loading gold bars onto the submarine from the wreckage. He confronts Oddjob, and the two struggle, eventually making their way back into the sub. Bond escapes by grabbing a gold bar and bludgeoning Oddjob over the head with it. He sets the sub’s self destruct feature and swims to shore.
Bond heads back to the hotel. When he enters his room, he finds Jill lying on his bed naked. She is dead, and covered from head to toe in gold paint. Beside her body is a dented gold bar and written on her back in black paint is “Her death is on your hands, Mr. Bond.”
Bond leaves Jill’s body in the hotel room and meets up with Tanner and M at the British embassy. 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, unsettled by the fact that his cover has been blown.
NEW YORK CITYWhen Bond lands in New York City, he enlists the help of Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) to help him pick up Goldfinger’s trail. Leiter claims to have heard rumors that Goldfinger has been spotted at a warehouse on the waterfront, which Bond decides to go check out.
While 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 explains to her that he is trying to find Goldfinger, at which point the woman lowers her weapon.
The woman identifies herself as Tilly Masterson.
BOND: Are you related to Jill?
TILLY: Yes. Did you know her?
BOND: Briefly, yes. I’m very sorry for your loss.
TILLY: Thank you. She died because she knew too much. She had told me that she wanted to get away from Goldfinger, that he was getting himself into something very big that would get him and his associates into a lot of trouble.
Bond invites Tilly to dinner so that they can compare notes on Goldfinger. They are joined by Felix and a woman in her mid-thirties who identifies herself as Special Agent Katherine Plenty (Elizabeth Banks). 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 against him for several years.
As dinner progresses, Bond feels himself becoming ill, as does Tilly. It becomes apparent to Bond that they have been poisoned, and not long after, they both black out.
KENTUCKYBond wakes up to find himself tied down in a concrete room. Standing before him is Special Agent Plenty, who 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 actually in the employ of Goldfinger.
After Pussy is finished with Bond, Goldfinger enters the room, bringing to Bond’s attention the buzz saw that is attached to the table, which he shows him by pulling a protective sheet that had been covering it off.
Goldfinger turns it on and it slowly begins working its way up the table Bond is strapped to, heading right up between Bond’s legs. As the buzz saw inches closer and closer to castrating Bond, Goldfinger interrogates him. Unsatisfied with any of Bond’s answers, Goldfinger turns to leave before Bond pulls the phrase “Operation Grandslam” out of the ether, causing Goldfinger to stop the saw just centimeters before it castrated Bond.
Goldfinger informs Bond that he and Tilly will be joining him for dinner.
Bond and Tilly have dinner with Goldfinger on an outdoor terrace at his ranch. He explains to them his obsession with gold and jewelry, claiming that it stems from a desire to be more “old money” than the “old money”.
After dinner, they are joined by Blofeld and Pussy, who arrives carrying a white cat. Pussy sets the cat down on the ground as they begin talking about “Operation Grandslam”, which Goldfinger deems Bond worthy of hearing the particulars of since he won’t live to be able to stop it anyway. As they talk about the plan, which is to rob Fort Knox, the white cat jumps up in Blofeld’s lap.
BLOFELD: Get this damn thing away from me.
Blofeld shoos the cat away from him, causing it to run away.
Goldfinger has Pussy escort Bond and Tilly to their cell underneath the ranch, where they will stay until they leave in the morning for the attempt on Fort Knox.
After she escorts them to their cell, Pussy begins making preparations for the meeting that Goldfinger is set to have with his suppliers. When they arrive, Pussy escorts them to the large meeting room, where Goldfinger has a massive hologram projection of Fort Knox coming up from the floor.
Goldfinger then enters the room and explains the plan to the men.
GOLDFINGER: Before we go any further, if any of you would like to opt out of the plan, you are more than welcome to do so. Miss Galore will show you out.
One of the men raises his hand, indicating that he wants to opt out of the plan. Pussy walks up to him, retrieving a pistol from her holster and executing the man at point blank range.
Blofeld, who has been standing in the corner of the room the entire time, speaks up.
BLOFELD: Does anyone else want out?
Goldfinger smiles.
GOLDFINGER: I didn’t think so.
Meanwhile, underneath the room, Bond has escaped from the cell and has been listening to the meeting through an air duct in the floor.
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 in any way at any point between Fort Knox and their final destination, which is an undisclosed tax shelter where he plans to deposit the money.
He also takes the time to thank one of the men for supplying them with an EMP, which he proclaims to be a much more effective way of breaking through the security than a gas attack on the structure.
FORT KNOXThe 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 EMP attack on the structure, causing enough of a distraction for Goldfinger’s man to eliminate the guards surrounding the structure.
During the assault on Fort Knox, Bond and Tilly manage to escape and proceed to try to foil the plan. They eliminate as many of 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 which results in a very violent showdown between the two women. Tilly eventually kills Pussy, rejoining Bond as the trucks are about to leave.
As the trucks begin flooding out of Fort Knox and towards their various destinations, Goldfinger and Oddjob climb into Goldfinger’s gold Delorean, making a run for Goldfinger’s private train.
Bond and Tilly steal one of the vehicles that Goldfinger’s team had arrived in and begin their pursuit of Goldfinger. They chase Goldfinger through various terrains, including highways, back roads, and off-road terrains. While he’s driving, Bond finds a mobile phone that was left in the vehicle. He calls Felix and explains to him how to recover the gold that has been stolen from Fort Knox.
Goldfinger pulls the Delorean into train yard and he and Oddjob make a run for the train.
Bond and Tilly manage to get on board the train just as it begins to pull out of the yard.
They make their way towards the front of the train and as they reach a train car that is full of gold, they are cornered by Oddjob. Tilly leaves Bond to go after Goldfinger on her own, which Bond protests.
Bond and Oddjob fight, eventually working their way up the massive stacks of gold that fill the car. The two fight on top of the stacks 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.
When he reaches the front of the train, he finds Tilly standing by herself.
TILLY: He isn’t here.
Bond makes his way into the control room of the train and finds a countdown timer, on which there were 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.
BOND: Brace yourself.
Tilly nods as Bond floors the accelerator, sending the car smashing through the back wall of the final train car, 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 by federal authorities in various locations across the United States, with the last stop being conducted by Felix Leiter himself.
UNDISCLOSED LOCATIONGoldfinger sits in front of a computer screen, cursing 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 relatively small.
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: I have to admit, Goldfinger, it was a good plan, and you pulled it off spectacularly.
GOLDFINGER: Go to hell.
Goldfinger reaches into his pocket, fishing for his gun, prompting Bond to pull the trigger, eliminating Goldfinger.
Bond and Tilly exit the building.
TILLY: So I guess this is goodbye?
BOND: It would appear so, yes.
TILLY: Thank you.
Tilly kisses Bond on the cheek before departing.
SWITZERLANDBlofeld stands in front of a full-length window, looking out on the snowy mountain on top of which his residence sits.
UNKNOWN: I told you this would happen.
Blofeld turns and sees a young woman in her mid 20s (Dianna Agron) walk into the room.
BLOFELD: How could you have possibly known that, Ms. Latrelle?
LATRELLE: I think you know the answer to that question. You’ll learn not to doubt me.
Blofeld stares at her blankly for a moment.
LATRELLE: Don’t worry, my associate and I will take care of it.
Blofeld watches as Ms. Latrelle walks out of the room.
THE END OF GOLDFINGER
BUT BOND WILL RETURN IN
LIVE AND LET DIE
Edited by tdalton, 02 February 2011 - 09:17 PM.
