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[AgentM]

In the course of my script, ONLY TIME WILL KILL, Bond travels to an island off the coast of Italy (East or West, I haven't decided) where he stays at the Resort of an Arms Dealer and a small action sequence takes place involving commandos and night vision.

There are also some scenes in a nearby village - I was just wondering if anyone could give me a perspective on what the culture is like around that area. Geography, population, business, anything like that.

[Carver]

Italy is friendly, warm and nice. The population is quite high, but I hear that the villages are more quite. I don't know anything about the business, but I do know that they hold markets, Check TSWLM, it is set in Sardinia, which is the island below Corsica, in the Med, Sardinia belongs to Italy. Hope that ehlps, but then again, I ain't much help...

[AgentM]

Great reply, but sadly i knew all that.

Ah well, I guess he doesn't need to see any culture.

[Carver]

Ah, sorry then, I ain't much help:o. Someone out there must know something though, surely one of us has been to Italy?

[Joyce Carrington]

Well, actually, it isn't a Bond novel, because the main character is Joyce Carrington, agent 009, but Bond does have a small part in it... Never mind that, I was wondering if the MI6 Headquarters in TWINE has a name. Is it called Castle ...? And where exactly in Scotland is it? If nobody knows, I can just make something up. But I'd like to know, since some things in my book take place there.

[scaramanga]

I'm not a 100% sure, but I remember somewhere hearing it called Castle Thane.

[Joyce Carrington]

You're right, thanks Scar!

[Double-0 Six]

The castle they used in TWINE is Eilean Donan Castle and its located on the mainland close to The Isle of Skye.

If you have a road atlas, find The Isle of Skye and follow the A87 over Skye Bridge and stick to that road until you get to a village called Dornie ... Eilean Donan Castle is on the corner next to the river mouth.

Hope that helps!

[Joyce Carrington]

'kay thanks!!

[Kronsteen]

I could really use some help right now.
I need at least one name of a villain (major or minor- doeasnt matter) that survived Flemings books. I cant think of anyone, so please help me!

[scaramanga]

Mr Sanguinetti - The Spy Who Loved Me
Michael "Shady" Tree - Diamonds Are Forever
Irma Bunt - You Only Live Twice, survives but is killed in Benson's short story Blast From The Past. So I guess it depends on what era your writing in.

Those are all I can think of at the moment. Hope it helps.

[Mister Asterix]

Irma Bunt survived the Fleming novels. But Raymond Benson took care of her in “Blast from the Past”. I think many of the gang leaders from Goldfinger survived. I'll give it some more thought.

[scaramanga]

Originally posted by Mister Asterix
Irma Bunt survived the Fleming novels. But Raymond Benson took care of her in “Blast from the Past”. I think many of the gang leaders from Goldfinger survived. I'll give it some more thought.

Actually, Pussy Galore was the only gang leader to survive.

Goldfinger crossed one leg over the other. He gazed away from Bond, up the aisle. He said in a relaxed, conversational tone, "I took three trucks and drove across country to the vicinity of Cape Hatteras. One of the trucks contained my personal hoard of gold bullion. The other two contained my drivers, spare personnel and those gangsters. I required none of them except Miss Galore. I kept a nucleus of the staff I would need, paid off the others with huge sums and dispersed them gradually along the route. At the coast I held a meeting with the four gang leaders in a deserted place, having left Miss Galore under some pretext with the trucks. I shot the four men in my usual fashion-one bullet for each. I went back to the trucks and explained that the four men has chosen money and independant action. I was now left with six men, the girl and the bullion."

Chapter 22 'The Last Trick', Goldfinger

[RossMan]

Kronsteen from From Russia With Love.

[Thunderbird]

Tough one, you want someone named do you? Otherwise it could be a minor henchman...what about one of the girls who comes back...EVIL!

Maybe not. If and only if you are considering it part of the genre, you could trawl John Pearson's fictional biography of 007, there might be something in there. There was a card player called Vlacek who I don't think died.

[007ES]

I am creating a comic book and was wondering if anyone would like to help develop characters and or help with the project, here is a list of the needed characters:


Characters
Main Villian: Blofeld
Henchmen:
Allies:
Bond Girl: Nebula Valentine


Locations
Enemy Base:
ETC.


Gadgets

[007ES]

You can e-mail the ideas here


[email protected]

[Max Zorin]

After the earlier MGM debacle, I'm curious how that effects fan fiction...am I allowed to use elements and/or characters from previous Bond films freely? Or is that a no-no?

[Max Zorin]

C'mon, guys, give a friend a hand...!

For the life of me, I can't think of a decent title for my fan fiction...any suggestions?

[Miss Frost]

What's it about?

[Max Zorin]

Whoops, good point. The story takes place right after the events in DAD. Bond has been having nightmares about his experience in Korea, when M puts him on a new case - track down hired assassin Ezekial Shriver before he strikes against a respected German scientist. And while he does it, he must deal with the mysterious Mr. Kite...a man who's tracking Bond's every move and reminding him more about his past than he would care to remember.

[marktmurphy]

never live to regret.

[Icephoenix]

Spectre Of The Past (only really good if spectre is involved though )

Time Waits Forever

That all I can come up with at the moment

[Double-0 Six]

Assuming Mr. Kite is shadowing Bond, how about :

A Shadow of Doubt

or something more general, such as :

The Forgotten Past
Best Left Forgotten or a combination, such as
The Forgotten Shadow

That's all I can think of for now - Funny, I'm usually pretty good with titles.

[Mister Asterix]

Making Up For Lost Time

[Max Zorin]

Wow, thanks a lot for the input guys. Now I just have to decide which one to use...

[Kingdom Come]

Straosphere or GlobeFall

1 title Bond films have on the whole been the most succsessful ...

[philbowski]

Yesterday Never Dies ..... no just kidding!

[AgentM]

Everyone, I am quite frustrated.

Ever since last June, I have been working on a screenplay, ONLY TIME WILL KILL. I am a Bond nut - I know all the trivia, and consider myself something of an expert.

Yet I know MGM will never even look at this script.

It's a disappointment, but even if I did manage to get it into the hands of Michael G. Wilson or Barbara Broccoli, the script would be turned out.

Not because it isn't good, but because it is far too 'real world.'

Very real occurrences involving the IRA are mentioned. The villain himself is a patriotic Irishman, who wants to basically annihilate several delegates who, if they are allowed to succeed, would agree to a policy that would see the IRA finally eliminated.

It's a great story, but it would just never happen.

The action sequences are pure Bond - dirtbikes in the Irish moors, a train finale that blows the pants of many of the 007 finales that have been USED.

I'm not trying to brag, I just honestly think it's true.

Sigh.

Why won't they open up a contest accepting fan scripts? Would it be that difficult, especially if fans signed an online waiver or something? Not just that, but at least if MGM signed one? What could be the harm?

Yes, I know that if this happened it would open the fanfiction floodgates and there would be too many scripts to read.

It's just kind of frustrating.

I've got two more screenplays in the eventual works that are far more fantastical and James Bond-ish in nature that AREN'T that politically oriented and COULD be made into the movie.

If they accepted the godawful shooting script for TND, then why won't they even look at some of ours?????

Once again, sigh.

Thanks for listening.

[solitaire]

I too am a screenwriter,and I know how frustrating it can be when you feel you have put your heart and soul into something,only to feel it will probably be ignored. Don't be frustrated by MGM,keep on with your work,and if you feel confident you should submit it to them anyway. You never know what may happen. They may actually love it,i've seen it happen.