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  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,892
    CigaretteLeiter wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Here's an idea I've had for a while. Was considering writing a fanfic story set between QOS and SF, but it could work as a new story for a new Bond. Freely/heavily inspired by DN and MR.

    -Colonel Pardaleos (real name unknown) is the reclusive, shadowy head of a small PMC called New Sparta, a barely legal organisation that sells its services to the highest bidder. Sometimes dictators and authoritarian regimes, sometimes terrorist groups. He lives on a heavily guarded Greek island, or somewhere in the Mediterranea anyway. Little is known for certain about him, except that he served in the French Foreign Legion and that he specialised in explosives and bomb making.
    -He's been paid an insane amount of money by an unspecified client to detonate a bomb (not a nuke, but a conventional if massive bomb, maybe a MOAB) in a British port close to a petrol refinery. The blast and subsequent fire would effectively destroy said city and cripple British economy. In effect, he'd be using a boat as a detonator.
    -Of course, Bond and MI6 wouldn't be aware of this right away, it would start with a routine investigation like in Dr No, some station agent being executed, or maybe Pardaleos testing his plan on a smaller scale, like using a little boat to sink a British ship.

    I like it! It reminds me of Djibouti (the Elmore Leonard book) and that one draft of SPECTRE.

    I read Djibouti, so I might have been influenced by it. Not my favourite Elmore Leonard novel.
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
    Posts: 2,828
    Even though it was used as a macguffin in Skyfall. I'd love the villain or an organisation to be leaking the identities of spies and M sends Bond to go and recover the list to keep other operatives safe.

    It could even be the plot for the pre title sequence, that M promotes a young Bond because she's lost agents through the leaking of their identities.

    His first mission could be to keep say 002 safe and get them out of danger and then go to find the main villain, take them down
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited July 16 Posts: 5,603
    Maybe to shake up that idea it could be a list of the 00 agents specifically (or maybe the villain gets access to that information when another 00 is sent on the initial mission/said villain kills that 00 in typical Bond film fashion. From there Bond is sent to follow up).

    Could be a way of setting up the 00 section in this new era a bit more.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,892
    007HallY wrote: »
    Maybe to shake up that idea it could be a list of the 00 agents specifically (or maybe the villain gets access to that information when another 00 is sent on the initial mission/said villain kills that 00 in typical Bond film fashion. From there Bond is sent to follow up).

    Could be a way of setting up the 00 section in this new era a bit more.

    I think I suggested it before in this very thread: have a consultant criminal organisation (SPECTRE, a revamped SMERSH, or something new) be contracted at a high price to cripple the 00 section by killing its members.
  • CigaretteLeiterCigaretteLeiter United States
    edited July 16 Posts: 119
    Had an idea for a plot that's maybe a little too timely/divisive but would work excellently with how much Villeneuve loves filming deserts.

    The villain is the CEO of a massive renewable energy company and is regarded as a benevolent hero by the NGO-Industrial complex. He has speaking slots at Davos, magazine profiles, all of that. His newest project is the construction of a gargantuan nuclear power plant in North Africa (probably Sudan or something), designed to provide low-cost energy to the third world. Western media adores him for this and hails him as a savior of the Global South.

    However, the mysterious death of a British national IAEA inspector leaving one of the CEO's sites leads MI6 to believe that more could be going on than meets the eye.

    Eventually, Bond discovers that the villain is secretly a White Nationalist, and with the help of a sexy, brainy engineer, learns that there is a flaw in the reactor that will cause a catastrophic meltdown. Once captured by the villain, Bond berates him for constructing a device that will kill millions (through the explosion, fallout, and irradiation of crops and dwindling water supplies in the region) just for the crime of being born elsewhere.

    The villain laughs. The meltdown is just the tip of the iceberg. The initial explosion isn't merely designed to kill people, though it certainly will. Chernobyl will look like a house fire compared to what he has in store. His real plan is to render the water supplies toxic, the fields fallow, and the air thick with poison, causing widespread starvation and forcing millions of third-worlders to migrate northward. As the immigrants flood Europe's borders, a race war will consume the continent, and Europa will be reborn in his white supremacist vision.

    Bond races against time to prevent the meltdown. He and the villain battle in hazmat suits in the belly of the plant, culminating in Bond slashing open the villain's protective gear and leaving him to die of radiation sickness (in a final clash reminiscent of the end of Dr. No).
  • LudovicoLudovico
    edited July 16 Posts: 15,892
    Personally, I think it's a tad too big for Bond 26 and I'm generally not too keen on evil CEO villains.

    That said, I could definitely see it for Bond 28, a sort of Goldfinger/TSWLM for the new Bond actor. Of course, they can't plan that far in advance.
  • CigaretteLeiterCigaretteLeiter United States
    Posts: 119
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Personally, I think it's a tad too big for Bond 26 and I'm generally not too keen on evil CEO villains.

    That said, I could definitely see it for Bond 28, a sort of Goldfinger/TSWLM for the new Bond actor. Of course, they can't plan that far in advance.

    I don't think we've had an evil CEO since Greene in QOS. We haven't had one with any sort of gravitas since TWINE.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    Posts: 5,603
    CigaretteLeiter wrote: »
    Had an idea for a plot that's maybe a little too timely/divisive but would work excellently with how much Villeneuve loves filming deserts.

    The villain is the CEO of a massive renewable energy company and is regarded as a benevolent hero by the NGO-Industrial complex. He has speaking slots at Davos, magazine profiles, all of that. His newest project is the construction of a gargantuan nuclear power plant in North Africa (probably Sudan or something), designed to provide low-cost energy to the third world. Western media adores him for this and hails him as a savior of the Global South.

    However, the mysterious death of a British national IAEA inspector leaving one of the CEO's sites leads MI6 to believe that more could be going on than meets the eye.

    Eventually, Bond discovers that the villain is secretly a White Nationalist, and with the help of a sexy, brainy engineer, learns that there is a flaw in the reactor that will cause a catastrophic meltdown. Once captured by the villain, Bond berates him for constructing a device that will kill millions (through the explosion, fallout, and irradiation of crops and dwindling water supplies in the region) just for the crime of being born elsewhere.

    The villain laughs. The meltdown is just the tip of the iceberg. The initial explosion isn't merely designed to kill people, though it certainly will. Chernobyl will look like a house fire compared to what he has in store. His real plan is to render the water supplies toxic, the fields fallow, and the air thick with poison, causing widespread starvation and forcing millions of third-worlders to migrate northward. As the immigrants flood Europe's borders, a race war will consume the continent, and Europa will be reborn in his white supremacist vision.

    Bond races against time to prevent the meltdown. He and the villain battle in hazmat suits in the belly of the plant, culminating in Bond slashing open the villain's protective gear and leaving him to die of radiation sickness (in a final clash reminiscent of the end of Dr. No).

    I can imagine it being a bit too overtly political for Bond (or at least Amazon's Bond!) But as said above I'm sure aspects of it could be a potential third film or fourth film in an actor's tenure. It reads like a dark version of TSWLM or GF, which I'm all about.
    Ludovico wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    Maybe to shake up that idea it could be a list of the 00 agents specifically (or maybe the villain gets access to that information when another 00 is sent on the initial mission/said villain kills that 00 in typical Bond film fashion. From there Bond is sent to follow up).

    Could be a way of setting up the 00 section in this new era a bit more.

    I think I suggested it before in this very thread: have a consultant criminal organisation (SPECTRE, a revamped SMERSH, or something new) be contracted at a high price to cripple the 00 section by killing its members.

    I think there's something to that idea. I think the villain and their motivation would have to be worked out - ie. who are they - a Scaramanga type assassin, or perhaps a Silva or Alex Travelyan type? (Perhaps they were even the previous 007/connected to the 00 section that way, which while not wholly original would be a twist on the 'agent turned rogue' trope we've seen in modern EON). There's also the question of why would they hate MI6 so much that they want to take down the 00 section.

    I like it though. It hits Bond and M close to home and there's lots of dramatic potential there.
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
    Posts: 2,828
    https://news.sky.com/story/spies-and-special-forces-among-more-than-100-britons-whose-details-were-included-in-afghan-data-leak-13398068

    It's crazy that we were only talking about something similar to this as a possible plot for Bond yesterday
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,892
    CigaretteLeiter wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Personally, I think it's a tad too big for Bond 26 and I'm generally not too keen on evil CEO villains.

    That said, I could definitely see it for Bond 28, a sort of Goldfinger/TSWLM for the new Bond actor. Of course, they can't plan that far in advance.

    I don't think we've had an evil CEO since Greene in QOS. We haven't had one with any sort of gravitas since TWINE.

    True, but so many were Goldfinger wannabe. Even their schemes were often similar. I like QOS, but I'm glad he was the only businessman antagonist during the Craig era.
    007HallY wrote: »
    CigaretteLeiter wrote: »
    Had an idea for a plot that's maybe a little too timely/divisive but would work excellently with how much Villeneuve loves filming deserts.

    The villain is the CEO of a massive renewable energy company and is regarded as a benevolent hero by the NGO-Industrial complex. He has speaking slots at Davos, magazine profiles, all of that. His newest project is the construction of a gargantuan nuclear power plant in North Africa (probably Sudan or something), designed to provide low-cost energy to the third world. Western media adores him for this and hails him as a savior of the Global South.

    However, the mysterious death of a British national IAEA inspector leaving one of the CEO's sites leads MI6 to believe that more could be going on than meets the eye.

    Eventually, Bond discovers that the villain is secretly a White Nationalist, and with the help of a sexy, brainy engineer, learns that there is a flaw in the reactor that will cause a catastrophic meltdown. Once captured by the villain, Bond berates him for constructing a device that will kill millions (through the explosion, fallout, and irradiation of crops and dwindling water supplies in the region) just for the crime of being born elsewhere.

    The villain laughs. The meltdown is just the tip of the iceberg. The initial explosion isn't merely designed to kill people, though it certainly will. Chernobyl will look like a house fire compared to what he has in store. His real plan is to render the water supplies toxic, the fields fallow, and the air thick with poison, causing widespread starvation and forcing millions of third-worlders to migrate northward. As the immigrants flood Europe's borders, a race war will consume the continent, and Europa will be reborn in his white supremacist vision.

    Bond races against time to prevent the meltdown. He and the villain battle in hazmat suits in the belly of the plant, culminating in Bond slashing open the villain's protective gear and leaving him to die of radiation sickness (in a final clash reminiscent of the end of Dr. No).

    I can imagine it being a bit too overtly political for Bond (or at least Amazon's Bond!) But as said above I'm sure aspects of it could be a potential third film or fourth film in an actor's tenure. It reads like a dark version of TSWLM or GF, which I'm all about.
    Ludovico wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    Maybe to shake up that idea it could be a list of the 00 agents specifically (or maybe the villain gets access to that information when another 00 is sent on the initial mission/said villain kills that 00 in typical Bond film fashion. From there Bond is sent to follow up).

    Could be a way of setting up the 00 section in this new era a bit more.

    I think I suggested it before in this very thread: have a consultant criminal organisation (SPECTRE, a revamped SMERSH, or something new) be contracted at a high price to cripple the 00 section by killing its members.

    I think there's something to that idea. I think the villain and their motivation would have to be worked out - ie. who are they - a Scaramanga type assassin, or perhaps a Silva or Alex Travelyan type? (Perhaps they were even the previous 007/connected to the 00 section that way, which while not wholly original would be a twist on the 'agent turned rogue' trope we've seen in modern EON). There's also the question of why would they hate MI6 so much that they want to take down the 00 section.

    I like it though. It hits Bond and M close to home and there's lots of dramatic potential there.

    Maybe they're just paid by not-Russia, or not-North Korea, or some undefined but implied to be Saudi potentate. I'm sure that if in real life someone had the means and the know-how to seriously hurt MI6, he'd find someone willing to pay him for his services.
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