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[seawolfnyy]

A broken man following the death of his wife, James Bond must put aside his personal demons to prevent the world from going to war.

 

                                        Seawolfnyy and Coco1997 present

 

                                                        George Lazenby

 

                                          as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007

                                                                   in

 

                                                             "SKYFALL"

 

 

An adaptation of EON Productions' Skyfall set in 1969, created for the community at Commanderbond.net.

 

Created by Seawolfnyy and Coco1997 with special thanks to x007AceofSpades.

 

Coming Soon....

[Call Billy Bob]

Damn! Now looking forward to this greatly.

[seawolfnyy]

Cast

 

James Bond      George Lazenby

Silva                  Anthony Quinn

Andress            Claudia Cardinale

Sévérine            Sofia Loren

M                       Bernard Lee

Q                        Desmond Llewellyn

Gareth Mallory   Alec Guiness

Felix Leiter         Jack Lord

Tanner                Ian Hendry

Moneypenny      Lois Maxwell

Draco                 Gabriele Ferzetti

Otto                    Christopher Plummer

Tracy di Vicenzo   Diana Rigg

Kincade                Edward Ashley

Minister of Defence    Robert Stephens

Daphne                 France Nuyen

Walter Cronkite     Himself

 

Directed by: Peter R. Hunt

Title Song: "A Man Alone" by Frank Sinatra

[seawolfnyy]

Filming Locations:

 

Málaga, Spain

Dunblane, Scotland

Bangkok, Thailand

Cambodia

Pinewood Studios, London, United Kingdom

[MadeleineSwann]

I'm very interested to read this

[seawolfnyy]

It's coming Friday, January 23.

[JCRendle]

[seawolfnyy]

Haha, love it. Fantastic work JC as always.

[seawolfnyy]

[seawolfnyy]

Act I is up. Act II will be released soon in 2 parts. Followed closely by Act III.

[Call Billy Bob]

Bravo! Loved Act I, and looking forward to the rest. Top marks to seawolf, Coco and Ace!

[seawolfnyy]

Thanks Billy Bob! Glad you liked it. Act II Part I should be up by tomorrow.

[seawolfnyy]

The title song of Skyfall 1969: "A Man Alone" performed by Frank Sinatra.

 

[seawolfnyy]

Act II Part I has been uploaded and is pending approval.

[Dustin]

Read it here: http://debrief.comma...9/#entry1298686

[Major Tallon]

Hi, Guys, I haven't really had time to get into this, having given it the briefest of brief skims.  For now, I'll just say that it looks interesting and intriguing, and I mean that in a positive light.  The reason I'm posting this is because I picked up an entirely understandable technical error in Bond's discussion with Andress regarding Mallory's background.  You've changed "Hereford Regiment" as used in the original screenplay to "Royal Army," but in fact there is no such thing.  Unlike the navy and the air force, the army is only the "British Army," although individual corps and regiments are often designated "Royal."  Thus, you'll find the Royal Logistics Regiment, the Royal Hampshire Regiment, or the Royal Armoured Corps.  If you plan on making the change, be careful, as the British Army has suffered (and I do mean suffered) numerous cuts and regimental amalgamations since the 1969 period you're writing about, and the names and identities of many regiments have changed.

 

Now, why this stood out to me, I can't imagine, but it just popped out as I was skimming.  My schedule's a bit full at the moment, but I hope to give you more considered comments when I get a chance.  Anyway, keep writing!

[seawolfnyy]

Ah, that one would be on me. I think I originally had it written as British Army, but for whatever reason changed. However, I think it can stay as is as the whole story exists in a fictional universe anyway. Just as the Bond films have been known to do in LALD when San Monique stood in for Jamaica and LTK when Isthmus City was the fictional state in place of Mexico. By this reasoning, we can believe that in this universe the British Army is referred to as the Royal Army. Another thing that is changed from the real world is the use of the ARPANET system. While it's true that ARPANET went online in 1969, it did so at only 4 universities: UCLA, Stanford, UCSB and the University of Utah. The Department of Defense did not begin using it until 1975. However, in my fictional continuity I included it as being developed and used a military tool several years earlier. 

[seawolfnyy]

Act II Part II has been uploaded and is pending approval.

[Dustin]

Done: http://debrief.comma...9/#entry1298723

[seawolfnyy]

Act III has been uploaded and is awaiting approval. This was my first fan fic and I want to thank everyone who helped along the way! Enjoy the thrilling finale at Skyfall Lodge!

[Dustin]

Here it is: http://debrief.comma...9/#entry1298735

[coco1997]

Anyone else had a chance to read this?

[JCRendle]

I very much enjoyed it, well written and it works in the period setting

[seawolfnyy]

Thanks JC. Glad you enjoyed it.

[coco1997]

I'm curious if anyone feels anything needs to be changed; maybe scenes/sequences that would not have worked or fit in 1969.

[x007AceOfSpades]

Great job guys.

[Bryce (003)]

While rereading this, Skyfall was on one of my movie channels. For a period setting, this take really did work for me. If this had been the follow up to OHMSS with Lazenby in '71, it would have been quite epic and revamped the series and good old George could have played it out.

 

A great little bit of clever in doing this gents. Thanks and well done if only under the "what if?" scenario and certainly took both effort and thought and a love for Bond. Cheers!

[seawolfnyy]

Appreciate the feedback guys and I'm glad everyone is enjoying it. Also, thanks for your advice Ace, it really helped in finishing it.

[terminus]

Gave this a read too - there were parts I enjoyed, and parts I didn't. A few plotholes I felt that should have been tidied up - most notably the signal coming from the military base which was dropped like the proverbial hot potato and never followed up on. Never explained why or how Davis had the file on Otto in the safe or had information about his visit to Saigon - (and even if he were to have the file for security, why he would have kept it in the safe on a military base beggars belief) - nor what his stake in the situation was. Likewise, the fact that MI5 had already connected the theft of the documents to Davis and the military base and had, for whatever reason, not revealed that information to MI6 (who couldn't theoretically act on UK soil anyway) makes them culpable in the ensuing chaos, perhaps even more so than MI6 - yet this isn't even mentioned, by Bond (or Mallory, who must've known about it).

 

If I was Bond, I would be pissed off that the sister service had been keeping secrets about having a lead on the theft than anyone seems to be during the investigation.

 

M released Silva to the Soviets in 1962 - but Bond doesn't appear to know whom he was. If he was as important as Silva seems to be - and, indeed, as M suggests he was - then it's surprising that Bond wouldn't have been aware of the sacrifice, or at least, of the swap of agents given that by 1962 he was a seasoned Double-Oh agent. I'm also a bit puzzled about why the UK would have a top secret file on US troop deployments - surely that says more about their inability to keep documents secure than the abilities of MI6.

 

A similar puzzle is how Mallory knew that Bond was taking M to Skyfall in enough time to get Andress there shortly after Bond arrived. Or, indeed - how she got there as later there only appears to be the Bentley outside and no other car/motorbike and she presumably left a long time after Bond - unless we are to believe that Bond told Mallory he was taking M to Skyfall. And the dialogue between M and Andress about 'taking care of Bond' didn't quite make sense - this is the first time the two must have met, outside of the enquiry, given that she's not even his (or even, really, Mallorys) subordinate.

 

That said, I appreciate the time and skill it took to put the project together - I know how hard it can be to put something like this on the page. And it was, even with all my quibbles, an enjoyable read. But curiously, the parts I enjoyed more were the parts that diverted from the established plot and script and went into uncharted territory whilst keeping the same concept (thus the pretitles sequence and the sequence at the military base).

[x007AceOfSpades]

Appreciate the feedback guys and I'm glad everyone is enjoying it. Also, thanks for your advice Ace, it really helped in finishing it.

Not a problem, though you two did all the bulk of the work.