Share your Bond Sequel ideas

[Iceburgeruk]

I have had 2 ideas for future plots that could work as two seperate bond film plots.

1) Quite simply have a billion dollar price tag put on Bond`s head. So while he is trying to solve a standard bond villain scheme there are some unique and interesting assasins trying to take him down. It would provide a very simple route to get around the unlikely henchman problem (by which i mean each bond films has a henchman who has a unique attribute which at best are very cool and at worst seem contrived and laughable.) as only the most skilled (and in some cases bizarre) assasins would be able to track him down. Set one assasin out from the others as being the main threat and let the sparks fly.

2) Have the normal debriefing at the start with the usual "someone within this organisation is up to no good. try and find out whats going on but leave the boss alone." Bond heads to this corporation and starts butting heads with the sinister boss of the company. Bond gains an ally in one of the boss` lackeys and bond gets close to solving the crisis. Half way through the film though the tables get turned. Bond confronts the boss with evidence of what his company is up to. The boss is genuinely surprised and then is swiftly killed by the lackey bond had worked with. Bond realizes that FOR ONCE it really was someone working within the corporation that had been orchorstrating the scheme. Bond is then beaten and removed by the lackey villain`s henchman to be killed but not before the lackey villain reveals that Bond`s interference and investigation was actually integral to cementing the final stages of his plan. Film continues obviously with bond escaping certain death and delivering the lackey villain`s demise.

What you all think?

What do you think would make an interesting bond plot elemt or storyline?

 

[Goldeneye]

I think they should make it more fun...something the other movies are known for. Make it more sexy, exciting and have a better villian and overall plot

 

[hippie_hunter]

I say with the new Bond franchise that they should make the movies based upon the books. Live and Let Die should be the next one, make it as faithful as Casino Royale was.

 

[Agentsands77]

Well, we already know the basic story idea for BOND 22:

Spoiler

Bond continues hunting down the organization behind Le Chiffre and Mr. White. In the process, he runs into Vesper's Algerian lover, who is a villain.

 

[The Englishman]

I think he should find the organisations terrorist training camp (ran by algerian lover bloke) and team up with the SAS to take it down for the final battle.

 

[Catman]

Quite simply have a billion dollar price tag put on Bond`s head. So while he is trying to solve a standard bond villain scheme there are some unique and interesting assasins trying to take him down. It would provide a very simple route to get around the unlikely henchman problem (by which i mean each bond films has a henchman who has a unique attribute which at best are very cool and at worst seem contrived and laughable.) as only the most skilled (and in some cases bizarre) assasins would be able to track him down. Set one assasin out from the others as being the main threat and let the sparks fly.

Um...it could work. But, that was pretty much the plot of From Russia With Love. Then again, it wouldn't be the first time storylines are repeated. YOLT, TSWLM, and Moonraker are pretty much the same movie.

So, it could work.

 

[st barbara]

I wouldn't mind seing them film some of the "post Fleming" Bond novels. ("Licence Renewed", "For Special Services", "Icebreaker" or even "Colonel Sun")

 

[Master_Shaitan]

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!

 

[Planesonaasnake]

does anyone else think it would be a cool idea to turn the video games into movies?
I mean, not nessecarly the same level-by-level, but the same basic plot. Then you could work with that plot to create the more realistic bond that Craig has brought to the role.