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I read Djibouti, so I might have been influenced by it. Not my favourite Elmore Leonard novel.
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
It's crazy that we were only talking about something similar to this as a possible plot for Bond yesterday
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.
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.
I used AI to create some mock concept art/production stills for this idea while I flesh out a full screenplay.
Pre- Titles Sequence
Title Sequence
Dangerous,Adrenaliene-fueled Countryside Drive
The Briefing
Khan and Miller Talk Shop
Bond, M, and Tanner Meet at Blades
Bond Contacts Syren
Bond Meets Thorne
Tokyo Superbike Chase
Q Branch
Bond, Felix, and Syren in Dubrovnik
Icelandic Athena Facility
After the pre-title sequence, M admonishes Bond for his failure and criticises his ability to run operations. Bond finds the criticism unfair, but M isn't having it.
(Depending on the pacing of the film the next part can be omitted completely); Bond lapses back into his daily domestic life. We get the picture that he's bored and desperate for a redemption mission. He even asks Moneypenny to try and get him on a mission but she says no
M gives Bond a mission, but one he doesn't like as punishment, dealing with gun-running from the Balkans. His goal is to get the leader, Jack Spang, to fly to the UK so he can be arrested. Similar to the novel version of DAF, Bond poses as a freelance intermediary for a British gang, to negotiate a new weapons deal. His contact, the inventory manager, is a more straight adaption of Tiffany Case.
Bond feels bad about it, but he uses her to meet important pieces and discover the smuggling patterns of the organisation. He realises that there's a heavy shipment of military-grade explosives to Norway. It turns out this order was by Fraternite Internationale de la Résistance Contre l’Oppression (a hint at SPECTRE for future editions).
Bond, suspicious of the potential of the plan, ditches the planned operation (a scene with M's approval could be inserted to demonstrate a progression of trust) and offers for him and Tiffany to fly to Norway to help with the smuggling and act as security. Their client, a Largo-esque figure, plans to use the bombs on behalf of backers to sabotage Norwegian oil and gas production, which will allow them to not only capitalise in the markets, but increase the illegal flow of oil and gas into Europe. Bond thwarts this plan
In a Hamilitonian coda, Jack Spang flies out to Bond to get revenge. After his organisation's failure their credibility was destroyed and FIRCO (SPECTRE) worked to ruin his organisation. Spang captures Bond and gives him a beating (the novel's Brooklyn stomping), but Tiffany acts quickly and saves Bond. The film ends with Bond and Tiffany wrapped in an embrace.