Suggestions for Bond 22
Master_Shaitan
Posts: 1MI6 Agent
What I suggest is coming up with fresh ideas but using the story lines from the books. What I mean is that, for example, Moonraker the novel was actually about the bad guy Drax creating a new protoype missile that could go further than anything created before. The man himself was in fact a imposter posing as a British war hero and he planned to blow the missile up in London. The film went a step further. The moonraker was Drax's plan to build a giant space station where he would breed a master race and at the same time destroy every human on earth. Silly stuff.
So I say, use the real espionage stories designed by Fleming. Update them as per casino royale and give them new characters and new titles.
For example, a possible idea for Bond 22 could be based upon the You Only Live Twice novel. It may be a bit extreme for the sceond film and Craig's Bond's second assignemt/mission but it could work.
In the You Only Live Twice novel, Bond is very depressed after the death of his wife Tracy (OHMSS came before YOLT in flemings novels). Due to this his work at MI6 has gone downhill. He isnt the same guy. He's been making mistakes. So in a bid to sort him out "M" gives him an "impossible" mission. He is sent to Japan to try and persuade their head of secret serve Tiger Tanaka to provide information about an informant within the Soviet Union called Magic 44. In exchange Tiger asks Bond to Kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, who operates a politically embarrassing "Garden of Death" in Japan where people go to commit suicide, whether they want to or not. Bond discovers that this Shatterhand is infact Blofeld, the killer of his wife and thus seeks revenge.
He infiltrates the Garden of Death and kills Blofeld. However in his escape he takes a blow to the head and gets amnesia. The books finishes with MI6 believing Bond is dead and with him living in a japanese villaige with a pearl diver called Kissy Suzuki.
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So thats all quite intense stuff. But you could adapt it...
Bond could be looking to seek revenge against the people that had Vesper killed. However, as MI6 believe the trail has gone cold, they take Bond off the mission. He tries to do other jobs but isnt focused on them and makes big mistakes. In a bid to snap Bond out of it M sends him on a very dangerous mission to perhaps a middle eastern country where he has to convince a secret service head (maybe Pakistan) to divulge information regarding a terrorist organisation. In exchange this person could ask Bond to kill some guy who is causing trouble within the country but whom they can't officialy do anything about. Bond could go after this person and discover that it is in fact the people behind Le Chiffre in his first mission...
Or something along those lines. I think this kind of thing would tie in well with what happened in Royale, stick to Flemings design and continue this development of the beginnings of Bond.
Whats more, you could continue on from their with the plot line from The Man With the Golden Gun (obviously rename it!). In the time between the novels Bond had made his way into the soviet union to discover his identity (he had amnesia but had vivid notions of the USSR). In that time he was taken in and brainwashed by the KGB. The novel starts with Bond back in England and after security checks going to have a meeting with M. Bond had in fact been brainwashed into killing M but his assassination fails. Rather than putting Bond on the scrap heap M shows faith that he can get back to his best and so, after he is fit and well again (although less sure of himself) is sent to go after Scaramanga, whom is a gun for hire and who has killed some of Bonds fellow agents.
Bond manages to get close to Scaramanga (becomes his personal assisstant) and learns that he is involved with a syndicate of American gangsters and the KGB, who are working several schemes, including the destabilisation of Western interests in the Caribbean's sugar industry, running drugs into America, smuggling women from Mexico into America and launching casinos in Jamaica. Initially unaware of Bond's presence in Jamaica, Felix Leiter has also been recalled to duty by the CIA and assigned to Scaramanga's hotel staff.
Bond kills Scaramanga during a train journey, with the assistance of Felix Leiter and his former secretary, Mary Goodnight, now assigned to the Kingston station of the Service. Leiter goes one step further and liquidates Scaramanga's gangster allies. In the process of all this, both Bond and Leiter are badly wounded, but they survive. Bond is offered a knighthood (KCMG — Bond already has CMG) for services past and present to Britain — but he turns it down because of his love for anonymity.
So you can see how easily that book could be adapted as well, keeping close to the story but just changing a few names and updating the motivations behind the storyline.
It would become three great and well connected films. With Vespers boyfriend apparantly making an appearance, i'd hold him off until the last film I described and have him in the scaramanga role. IMO it would work really well for a number of reasons that would make this post just too long!
So I say, use the real espionage stories designed by Fleming. Update them as per casino royale and give them new characters and new titles.
For example, a possible idea for Bond 22 could be based upon the You Only Live Twice novel. It may be a bit extreme for the sceond film and Craig's Bond's second assignemt/mission but it could work.
In the You Only Live Twice novel, Bond is very depressed after the death of his wife Tracy (OHMSS came before YOLT in flemings novels). Due to this his work at MI6 has gone downhill. He isnt the same guy. He's been making mistakes. So in a bid to sort him out "M" gives him an "impossible" mission. He is sent to Japan to try and persuade their head of secret serve Tiger Tanaka to provide information about an informant within the Soviet Union called Magic 44. In exchange Tiger asks Bond to Kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, who operates a politically embarrassing "Garden of Death" in Japan where people go to commit suicide, whether they want to or not. Bond discovers that this Shatterhand is infact Blofeld, the killer of his wife and thus seeks revenge.
He infiltrates the Garden of Death and kills Blofeld. However in his escape he takes a blow to the head and gets amnesia. The books finishes with MI6 believing Bond is dead and with him living in a japanese villaige with a pearl diver called Kissy Suzuki.
...
So thats all quite intense stuff. But you could adapt it...
Bond could be looking to seek revenge against the people that had Vesper killed. However, as MI6 believe the trail has gone cold, they take Bond off the mission. He tries to do other jobs but isnt focused on them and makes big mistakes. In a bid to snap Bond out of it M sends him on a very dangerous mission to perhaps a middle eastern country where he has to convince a secret service head (maybe Pakistan) to divulge information regarding a terrorist organisation. In exchange this person could ask Bond to kill some guy who is causing trouble within the country but whom they can't officialy do anything about. Bond could go after this person and discover that it is in fact the people behind Le Chiffre in his first mission...
Or something along those lines. I think this kind of thing would tie in well with what happened in Royale, stick to Flemings design and continue this development of the beginnings of Bond.
Whats more, you could continue on from their with the plot line from The Man With the Golden Gun (obviously rename it!). In the time between the novels Bond had made his way into the soviet union to discover his identity (he had amnesia but had vivid notions of the USSR). In that time he was taken in and brainwashed by the KGB. The novel starts with Bond back in England and after security checks going to have a meeting with M. Bond had in fact been brainwashed into killing M but his assassination fails. Rather than putting Bond on the scrap heap M shows faith that he can get back to his best and so, after he is fit and well again (although less sure of himself) is sent to go after Scaramanga, whom is a gun for hire and who has killed some of Bonds fellow agents.
Bond manages to get close to Scaramanga (becomes his personal assisstant) and learns that he is involved with a syndicate of American gangsters and the KGB, who are working several schemes, including the destabilisation of Western interests in the Caribbean's sugar industry, running drugs into America, smuggling women from Mexico into America and launching casinos in Jamaica. Initially unaware of Bond's presence in Jamaica, Felix Leiter has also been recalled to duty by the CIA and assigned to Scaramanga's hotel staff.
Bond kills Scaramanga during a train journey, with the assistance of Felix Leiter and his former secretary, Mary Goodnight, now assigned to the Kingston station of the Service. Leiter goes one step further and liquidates Scaramanga's gangster allies. In the process of all this, both Bond and Leiter are badly wounded, but they survive. Bond is offered a knighthood (KCMG — Bond already has CMG) for services past and present to Britain — but he turns it down because of his love for anonymity.
So you can see how easily that book could be adapted as well, keeping close to the story but just changing a few names and updating the motivations behind the storyline.
It would become three great and well connected films. With Vespers boyfriend apparantly making an appearance, i'd hold him off until the last film I described and have him in the scaramanga role. IMO it would work really well for a number of reasons that would make this post just too long!
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Look how many times they have used the story of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians/ And Then There Were None. Every movie version has been freshly told.
Now that Skyfall (2012) is behind us, maybe they will go back to continue the Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace storyline about the Quantum organization.
It's too bad they killed off "Le Chiffre" (played by Mads Mikkelsen). I would have liked for this villain to make a surprise return. The only villain I have ever known to come back and attack James Bond was "Jaws" (played by Richard Kiel).
If they want to use the story of or title of a John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Charlie Higson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver book, I have no problem with that either.
I was thinking maybe that is why we won't get a James Bond movie in 2014, because they want to wait and see what is in the next James Bond novel, SOLO, by William Boyd (to be released September 26, 2013).