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[GBaxter]

In terms of what would be done and also the location, what cool action stunts would you
like seeing get filmed, for Daniel Craig to do in the Bond 23 - 26 films.

Edited by GBaxter, 26 November 2011 - 02:57 PM.

[Quantumofsolace007]

since there doesn't seem to be a ski chase in skyfall i'd enjoy that in Bond 24.

[Captain Tightpants]

My suggestions:

It's the middle of the night, and Bond agrees to meet with the villain for some kind of exchange. The meeting place is an old - and possibly abandoned - cable car station. The cable cars themselves are strung across a wide chasm over three hundred feet deep. At least. Bond and the villain meet at the lower station because the gondolas are closed for the night.

Although it is in the interests of both Bond and the villain for this exchange to go like clockwork, things fall apart. Probably because by this point in the story, Bond has knowledge that the villain does not realise, and so gets caught out in a lie. The villain has placed a sharpshooter in the upper station as insurance, who opens fire on Bond. Bond has a brief gun battle of his own with two or three redshirts in the lower station, but the villain escapes. However, the shooter is currently pinning Bond in; he cannot exit the station without exposing himself to fire. He could wait until the shooter runs out of ammunition and simply walk out, but the shooter is the last remaining member of the villain's party and Bond wants to know why things went so badly.

Naturally, Bond does the only thing he can do: he starts the gondola up. The sniper has realised this, and so starts concentrating fire on the car. And, of course, he's armed with a .50 calibre rifle, which will punch a fist-sized hole in a concrete slab, and a hole the size of a dinner plate in the side of a gondola car. In order to get to the top, Bond must ride the gondola car to the upper station by clinging on to the outside so that he has an entire gondola car between himself and the bullets. In the freezing cold. At midnight. A hundred metres over pitch darkness, probably with spiky rocks below. And he has to remain perfectly still or else risk giving his position away to the sniper, who will instantly perforate him with bullets.

Bond drops off the gondola at the top of the cliffside, and must climb up into the receiving station, which is a fancy restaurant and observation deck and all very touristy. Realising that he is off the gondola, the sniper uses a well-placed shot to disable the cable mechanism (which he probably should have done in the first place, but we all have 20/20 hindsight). Bond stalks the sniper as the sniper stalks him, a cat-and-mouse game that Bond ultimately wins. But now, trapped in the upper station, Bond must find a way out. He uses a length of cable to abseil down the cliff face, down into the dark ravine.

And:

Bond is high up on a glacier, having climbed most of the way up. He has climbed up in an inverted 'L' shape (straight up, and then across), and is planting a series of explosive charges in the face of the glacier. The intention is to trigger an avalanche and cut off access to a road or destroy an enemy encampment or something along those lines. Before he can get down, he is forced to trigger the explosions - but he has planned for this eventuality. Each of the pitons he has driven into the ice face (except for the first one at the top of the vertical climb) has a small explosive charge embedded in the tip. Bond detonates the explosives he planted to trigger the avalanche, and then triggers the explosives in the pitons. This frees him from the ice face, dropping him down and swinging him across the ice face as the avalanche comes rushing over his head. He swings out beyond the avalanche, and around the corner of the glacier to safety.

[The Shark]

First one reminds me of the Ravine level from Nightfire.

[Skudor]

A tightly focused fist fight.

A really good skiing sequence - no silly gadgets to it, just some really cool, exciting skiing

A stunning new take on the good old underwater work - hard to make exciting, so there's a challenge

Landing a vertical take off/landing jet inside a huge transport plane (beat that!)

[The Shark]

Spelunking.

[Captain Tightpants]

First one reminds me of the Ravine level from Nightfire.

I've never played it.

[Matt_13]

A good ski sequence is in order.

[univex]

A good ski sequence is in order.

Very true.
As is scubadiving...which does not involve action stunts ...my bad.

[DamnCoffee]

Just played an epic James Bond style sequence on Assassin's Creed. I seriously want it in a Bond movie! There's a part near the end of the game, where you're with this woman called Sophia and you're on horse back and carriage trying to catch this Prince, and Ezio falls off the carriage and grabs on to a rope and he can't get back onto the carrage, so he deploys his parachute, so he shoots up into the air, still attatched to the carriage, and there's this massive battle where you're flying along behind sophia steering, assassinating guards from your parachute that are trying to kill her. so so cool. Almost makes up for the last 5 boring DNA sequences.

But yeah, that could be awesome. Updated though, obviously.

Edited by Mharkin, 03 December 2011 - 08:05 PM.

[Tobbii]

A good ski sequence is in order.

Absolutely, Craig is the only EON Bond who haven't been chased down snow slopes right?

[DamnCoffee]

Connery didn't.

But yes, I agree. A Ski Sequence would be great.

Edited by Mharkin, 03 December 2011 - 07:57 PM.

[The Shark]

A lesbian mud wrestling scene with Judi Dench. Long overdue.

[glidrose]

A good ski sequence is in order.

Absolutely, Craig is the only EON Bond who haven't been chased down snow slopes right?

Ahem, *cough*, Connery, *cough*.

A lesbian mud wrestling scene with Judi Dench. Long overdue.

Will you mind if David Arnold scores it?

[Pussfeller]

Not exactly "stunts", but some action scenes I'd like to see. Mostly silly, but I prefer that to garden-variety car chases.

Bond neutralizes a sniper in the rafters of a cathedral while a ceremony is in progress.
Bond accompanies a Japanese villain on a private whaling expedition.
Bond sneaks into a funeral parlor to defuse a bomb planted in a gangster's corpse.
A villain tries to drown Bond in a vat of vodka.
Bond is attacked by axe-wielding lumberjacks. He escapes by climbing a tree and brachiating to safety.
Pre-title scene: A villain breaks into a supermax prison, kills the guards, and shanghais the inmates into his private army.
An assassin attempts to kill M in her office, but falls foul of an MI6 boobytrap.
Bond's drink is spiked with a hallucinogen. Instead of blacking out, he sees very strange things. But he still manages to get the job done.
Bond is stripped naked, coated with honey, and thrown into a den of bears. He uses his stickiness to climb a sheer stone wall.
A henchman assassinates someone by dropping a gigantic icicle on him.

[Captain Tightpants]

Bond's drink is spiked with a hallucinogen. Instead of blacking out, he sees very strange things. But he still manages to get the job done.

Perhaps those "very strange things" could be the titles? It would have to be played carefully, with Bond being drugged at the end of the pre-title sequence, but I could see the actual titles playing out so that Bond chases the villain through what he sees as a weird landscape.

[DamnCoffee]

That would be brilliant!

Just had an image of Bond getting chased down by a car, in very strong wind. The winds really bad here, so naturally I thought of an action sequence. Bond running out of the path of a car, with the wind pushing him back. He has to try with all his might to dodge it. Could lead into a foot chase etc. I love the idea of playing with the weather. Bond in a snow storm would be great, too.

[Pussfeller]

Wind and weather are generally underused in action films. It would be cool to see Bond and a heavy fighting on a rooftop in a storm, struggling not to be blown off by the wind.

I'd also like to see the giant squid fight from Dr No finally brought to the big screen.

[Captain Tightpants]

Daniel Craig recently made some comments to The Herald Sun about how he would "love to shoot in Australia". This, I suspect, is Craig playing diplomatic with the Australian press when asked about Bond coming to Australia - they used to ask Pierce Brosnan about it all the time (especially when he was doing interviews for the next Bond film), and despite his constant enthusiasm for it, a Bond film has never been shot or set in Australia.

The problem with Australia is that we don't have much to offer. Geopolitcally, we don't really have any influence outside out immediate region, and we're too isolated to play any significant role in anything - we (and New Zealand) are about as far away from England as you can get before you start heading back. Anything that was shot here could probably be shot anywhere else in the world, which I am afraid would make it quite generic, as was the case with MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2.

I do, however, have one idea: Sydney is the first major city to welcome in the New Year (Aucklandites might disagree with me, though). And as the first major city, Sydney's fireworks display is usually one of the most spectacular around the world:



There are usually half a dozen fireworks barges in the harbour (which itself is crammed with spectators on boats) and millions of dollars spent on fireworks. Sydney usually spends more on its fireworks than Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth combined.

So, here's my idea: Bond is in Sydney on New Year's Eve, trying to lose a tail of some kind. Natraully, this evolves into a chase. Both jump on jet-skis and try to evade one another as they navigate the boats in the harbour. And then the fireworks start exploding overhead, illuminating the whole scene. In the end, Bond captures or kills his pursuer, and the exploding fireworks form the segue into the titles.

There's a few problems with this, of course. The fireworks generally last for only ten to fifteen minutes, and it is only done on one night of the year. EON would probably have to arrange a week's worth of fireworks just to get everything in, which would be expensive. And it would have to be done at some other time during the year, because the harbour would be full of drunk revellers; one boat drifing off-course could be a disaster. But I think it would make for a stunning scene - even if it is a little generic - and would be a good pre-title sequence.

[LoveVolpe]

All I know is, I want REAL, NON-CGI STUNTS. The car flip in TMWTGG, and then the ski-jump in TSWLM ... those are jaw-dropping sequences some 30+ years later. Let's get back to THAT Bond.

[Captain Tightpants]

Everything in CASINO ROYALE and QUANTUM OF SOLACE - except for the parachute jump - was done without CGI. So I don't know why you're acting as if Bond has been guilty of George Lucas-like levels of CGI for the past twenty years.

[The Shark]

Everything in CASINO ROYALE and QUANTUM OF SOLACE - except for the parachute jump - was done without CGI. So I don't know why you're acting as if Bond has been guilty of George Lucas-like levels of CGI for the past twenty years.

Wikipedia says there were 900+ vfx shots in QOS. Not sure about CR, but I think there are some fairly obvious ones there (police car blown by airplane's turbine, sinking house and the shot of White's estate).

[Captain Tightpants]

VFX can be as simple as digitally removing an actor's safety harness. I believe Ben Collins was wearing one when he jumped from crane to crane in CASINO ROYALE, but the safety line was removed. This is a very common VFX practice, and any group of VFX artists who cannot remove a harness without being obvious about it probably shouldn't be in VFX.

No, I mean there were no scenes with obviously-CGI backgrounds or actors, like in DIE ANOTHER DAY. Even the sinkhole parachute jump was simply a case of digitally superimposing actors over a pre-shot background. If and when CGI was used, it was to compliment the scene, rather than replace it.

[LoneWolf]

I'd really like to see a scene where Craig's Bond is rock climbing. More specifically, I'm talking about bouldering. I think it would fit nicely since they've done elements of Parkour in both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. If you want to see what I'm talking about - check out Chris Sharma's bouldering videos on youtube. http://www.youtube.c.../17/DXW5u0qFDr8

[Pussfeller]

Very cool, but the problem is how that kind of stunt could be integrated into an espionage storyline.

[Captain Tightpants]

The sequence where Bond infiltrates the Garden of Death springs to mind - he swims to the mainland, then scales a cliff face to get to the castle.

[Pussfeller]

There are quite a few politically touchy mountainous regions: the Kashmir, the Caucasus, etc. I can imagine Bond posing as a daredevil so as to penetrate some political hot spot.

[LoneWolf]

Yeah, a stealth scene with Bond climbing to infiltrate an enemy base would be pretty cool. However, there is nothing wrong with having a scene that shows him climbing outdoors recreationally. Look at the promo shot of Skyfall - chilling at the swimming pool (recreational activity). They could definitely do the same with some serious climbing routes. One other note, Craig's approach to Bond has been very physical as you well know. Bouldering / Climbing seems to fit into the mold extremely well.

Edited by LoneWolf, 16 January 2012 - 08:45 PM.

[Captain Tightpants]

However, there is nothing wrong with having a scene that shows him climbing outdoors recreationally.

The introdction of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 did it - Ethan Hunt was climbing in Utah as part of his vacation.

I also think that while Bond enjoys physical pursuits, extreme sports are not the kind of thing that he would do in his downtime. For example, if he went on a ski vacation, then he might take a certain enjoyment out of mastering a particularly challenging ski run ... but that doesn't mean he's going to go snowboarding down a high-speed run that ends with him launching off a high cliff and gliding back to earth with a wingsuit while an avalanche crashes down around behind him.

A free-climbing sequence would be good for Bond - the climb to St. Cyril's in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY was great - but I think it has to have the proper context or else it is out of character.

[Vauxhall]

The UK's annual failed attempt at handling the inevitability of winter got me thinking; how about a foot chase where both Bond and the villain are significant hampered by the weather conditions affecting a city's streets (battling driving rain, slipping and stumbling in snow and ice, all in an urban environment)?

Of course there's a risk of it all looking a bit slapstick, but done the right way, I think it could inject some real tension into an otherwise standard chase.