James Bond 007 in "MURDER ON WHEELS" ● A Story Treatment [UPDATE: Waltz doesn't return, so..?]

edited October 2017 in Fan Creations Posts: 11,119
I have been in doubt for quite a long time to actually publish my own story treatment for a future Bond film on here. I have been asking around some great forummember-friends for advice though. Both story-wise, as well as industry-wise. And now I have a good understanding of how the movie industry works. "Pitching" is apparently the keyword, and in my situation that's sheer impossible.

However, I do not wish to keep this story treatment only for myself and a few select friends. Bond fans should share each others creative writing skills. Industry pro's could actually learn from real dedicated fans. Frankly, I do believe movie industries are throwing away lots of talent (especially on this forum!) for the sake of Dollar prospects and networking fetishes. So enough about that. Down below, in collaboration with the great Pat Carbajal (thanks for visualizing my ideas so perfectly!), and being inspired by Anthony Horowitz and Ian Fleming, I present you:

DANIEL CRAIG

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IAN FLEMING'S

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https://www.docdroid.net/q503afj/story-treatment-james-bond-007-in-murder-on-wheels-final-2docx.pdf.html

In his 5th Bond adventure, following up the events of "SPECTRE" :-).

CAST:

Team MI6
- Daniel Craig ● JAMES BOND - 007
- Alicia Vikander ● GALATEA BRAND
- Lupita Nyong'o ● CARLA SPANG
- Colin Firth ● SIR DAVID MOSS
- Ralph Fiennes ● "M"
- Ben Whishaw ● "Q"
- Kayvan Novak ● PRINCE KASEEM BASHIR
- Jeffrey Wright ● FELIX LEITER
- Naomie Harris ● MISS MONEYPENNY
- Léa Seydoux ● MADELEINE SWANN
- Elizabeth Debicki ● MONIQUE

Team S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
- Michael Fassbender ● JACK SPANG
- Christoph Waltz ● ERNST STAVRO BLOFELD, SPECTRE NR. 1
- Tilda Swinton ● IRMA BUNT, SPECTRE NR. 3
- Dave Bautista ● MR. HINX
- Amr Waked ● GENERAL YASHRAF GHORBANI
- Brigitte Millar ● DR. VOGEL, SPECTRE NR. 8
- Marc Zinga ● MOREAU
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Comments

  • Posts: 11,119
    Please let me know what you think of it. I'm very curious ;-).
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Gustav, good sir, I will read this when I have the chance.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Wow, Gustav, scrolling though this, I can see you put a lot of work in this. I'm definitely going to read your story.
  • marketto007marketto007 Brazil
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    I had the opportunity to read this amazing piece of writing by our good friend @Gustav_Graves, and all I can say is that EON promptly will remove this topic, if you know what I mean. ;)
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    I will definitely be checking this out.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I'll be reading this too, Guvtav. :)
  • CigaretteLeiterCigaretteLeiter United States
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    That was one hell of a ride, pun not intended! Excellent job!
  • Posts: 11,119
    Thank you @CigaretteLeiter ;-). I'm curious what your review would be. And those of others :-).
  • stagstag In the thick of it!
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    @Gustav_Graves I have yet to read the PDF but I must say the artwork is great!
  • SeanCraigSeanCraig Germany
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    Read it and: Great! I really like how you solved the mess SP left us with and still save SPECTRE itself. Excellent!
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    SeanCraig wrote: »
    Read it and: Great! I really like how you solved the mess SP left us with and still save SPECTRE itself. Excellent!

    Thanks ;-). It's very much do-able I think ;-). On top of that.....I wanted to make sure that the final 3/4th of the story would become a plain solid MI6-mission for 007. You have to.....solve the narrative problems from "SPECTRE"s finale in a logical yet satisfying way. And that's entirely possible :-). I hope you read my motivations as well @SeanCraig :-).

  • CigaretteLeiterCigaretteLeiter United States
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    Thank you @CigaretteLeiter ;-). I'm curious what your review would be. And those of others :-).

    Well for one, it's a perfect modern old-school Bond film! It's a movie where Bond just does his job, but it ties up all the loose ends of SPECTRE satisfyingly. It's centered around three major contemporary issues, but blends them all seamlessly. I know we fans were clamoring for a racing Bond movie, and you definitely delivered! Using Texas of all places was an unpredictable but amazing move. The way you center the meat of the plot in one location harkens back to the golden age. My only problem was the choice of Fassbender as Spang, but that's because I didn't read the cast list first and pictured Kevin Spacey. Overall, I could see this grossing close to a billion if we were ever lucky enough for it to be produced!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I agree. Gustav, you "fixed" things from SP. In a way, you have written the perfect follow-up to SP and I mean this unironically. I can even picture Craig as your Bond.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    It's a well thought out concept.
  • Posts: 11,119
    It's a well thought out concept.

    Thanks @BondJasonBond006 ;-). I appreciate your advice after reading my draft a few months ago. We may be harsh sometimes to each other, but we do share a passion for good Bond stories. Aren't we all?
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    Don't mix up harsh with passionate discussion ;)

    Besides politics I think we are brothers :D you sweet cutie :)
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    I liked that! Something of a 'fresh' Bond story, with lots of elements not seen before. Bond racing would be interesting. Good job. Michael Fassbender would be good in a Bond movie too, I think.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    Something I realised while reading is that I automatically imagined Brosnan in the role. The whole Formular 1 setting and how the story unfolds fits the Brosnan era nicely, even if it is a sequel to Spectre. Remember, Spectre is quite Brosnan Bond in approach too.

    Also it would make a great comic! I am currently reading Hammerhead and I was thinking you would have a real talent for writing stories.
  • Posts: 11,119
    Thanks @BondJasonBond006 :-). One thing I discovered however, is the fact that it's quite difficult to make a sound and logical story #:-S.
  • Hi @Gustav_Graves! This is a really interesting and original treatment! I liked the racing segments and the plot combined some interesting themes too. The bullet ants were great and I could see them working really well in a Bond film!
    My one constructive comment is that I could imagine the first half of the film as being quite slow paced with a lot of setting up. But overall I really enjoyed reading :-)
  • edited January 2017 Posts: 11,119
    My one constructive comment is that I could imagine the first half of the film as being quite slow paced with a lot of setting up. But overall I really enjoyed reading :-)

    That's perhaps because I wanted to get rid of the narrative complications from the "SPECTRE" finale as fast as possible (Blofeld still alive, but being captured, Bond & Madeleine are in a love relationship, boyfriend and girlfriend). But again....better to get rid of it, than dwelling on it during the entire film. And I just hope the Bond producers do it a bit like this...

    I also deliberately did not bring back Tanner. I think it's nice to replace him with Felix Leiter. Same with Lucia Sciarra. Mentioning her yes, but I didn't want her back as there wasn't any narrative reason to do so.

    The bullet ants? Well, have a look at this ;-):


    So I thought: I want Dr. Vogel to be the sacrificial lamb :-). I wanted her to suffer so hard that it would cringe the toes of cinema audiences :-). And then, bluntly, I wanted Mr Hinx to kill her off, in the back of her head. Goodbye Dr. Vogel.

  • Yes that was a brave decision! I too felt they made a bit of mess for themselves to clear up at the end of spectre... So well done on your attempt to clean that up! My personal preference is for them to soft reboot after spectre but if they decide to continue with Craig's story then what you are proposing or something similar would work well.
  • Posts: 4,599
    Writing any new Bond script takes alot of effort but trying to find something that fits in with the mess that we have been left with makes it ten times the effort IMHO so this is a great effort. A clean sheet is always going to be easier.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Excellent stuff, @Gustav_Graves. Very inventive.
  • edited January 2017 Posts: 123
    Hi @Gustav_Graves,

    I had a great time reading your treatment. There's a lot to like that others have already touched on--the racing concept, the locations, the cast, the bullet ants, the quick wrap-up of the "Spectre" loose ends, etc. I wanted to comment on a few things that did not work for me, and I hope you take them into consideration if you do another draft of "Murder on Wheels."

    * I don't think Bond (especially Craig's Bond) would have immediately left the scene of Blofeld's assassination just to attend a meeting with M. Certainly this would have led to some sort of foot/rooftop chase with Bond going after Hinx. The simple fix for this is to simply have Bond not be present during the sentencing for some reason, or if you want to be a little more ambitious, insert the aforementioned chase sequence after the assassination.

    * While very much a 2017 type thing to happen, Madeleine dumping Bond via text did not sit well with me. If you're going to have her break it off with him, I think it would be more meaningful to have her do so in person at his flat early in the film. That you left their relationship status uncertain made me expect that she was going to pop up again later in the treatment in a more meaningful role.

    * The idea that the winner of the endurance race would be rewarded with a seat on the Flexum Motors Board of Directors as well as access to all of the corporation's "business and technical secrets" seems very unrealistic.

    * I'm American, so I don't have as intimate of an understanding about this as others here, and I don't mean to start a political debate, but hasn't the British economy actually flourished since Brexit?

    * Although in general you didn't include much dialogue, some of it came across as a little tone deaf. Galatea referring to Bond as a "retard" certainly would not fly today. And not that I necessarily agree with this, but Bunt and Bond teasing Hinx over his long fingernails would probably be criticized as a form of homophobia.

    Keep in mind I greatly enjoyed your treatment, but these were just a few areas I felt could use some improvement.
  • Posts: 11,119
    Thanks @Coco1997. Thanks to your comments I am actually considering to touch up my story a bit. Here are my comments:
    coco1997 wrote: »
    Hi @Gustav_Graves,

    I had a great time reading your treatment. There's a lot to like that others have already touched on--the racing concept, the locations, the cast, the bullet ants, the quick wrap-up of the "Spectre" loose ends, etc. I wanted to comment on a few things that did not work for me, and I hope you take them into consideration if you do another draft of "Murder on Wheels."

    * I don't think Bond (especially Craig's Bond) would have immediately left the scene of Blofeld's assassination just to attend a meeting with M. Certainly this would have led to some sort of foot/rooftop chase with Bond going after Hinx. The simple fix for this is to simply have Bond not be present during the sentencing for some reason, or if you want to be a little more ambitious, insert the aforementioned chase sequence after the assassination.

    I love the idea of some kind of footchase going after Hinx. But I do think it's better at this stage to let Bond stay in the dark about this. A bit like Grant shadowing Tanya in FRWL, Bond trying to find out who shot the banker's henchman in the PTS of TWINE, and Bond being surprised that Gibson has been shot in TMWTGG.

    I do agree that it's better to let Bond stay out of this scene altogether then. On the other hand, I would love to see Bond's impression while he's kneeling down on Blofeld's (double's) dead body.
    coco1997 wrote: »
    * While very much a 2017 type thing to happen, Madeleine dumping Bond via text did not sit well with me. If you're going to have her break it off with him, I think it would be more meaningful to have her do so in person at his flat early in the film. That you left their relationship status uncertain made me expect that she was going to pop up again later in the treatment in a more meaningful role.

    I wanted to 'get rid of' Madeleine in the best way possible. I really did not want her to re-appear later in the story treatment. So then I reread the novel "From Russia With Love", in which Fleming neatly disposed of Tiffany Case at the start of the novel.

    What I would like to do is dramatize the scene in Bond's apartment between Bond and Madeleine. I would turn it into a fight that's a bit similar of the verbal fight between Bond and Madeleine in the snow in "SPECTRE". However, this time I would let it culminate into Madeleine crying in the doorway when an angry Bond heads to his car.

    At this stage the audience would probably already know that the relationship is over between Bond and Madeleine. So a short and final reminder in which Madeleine is texting Bond.......could actually work. Although I wouldn't mind to leave it out either.
    coco1997 wrote: »
    * The idea that the winner of the endurance race would be rewarded with a seat on the Flexum Motors Board of Directors as well as access to all of the corporation's "business and technical secrets" seems very unrealistic.

    I have struggled hugely with the financial stakes of this GTE-endurance race. I tried to look a bit to the high stakes poker game in "Casino Royale". I mean, how realistic is it that a representative of the HM Treasury is actually injecting tax payer's money into something as ridiculous as a.....poker game no less. There's no way that this would happen in real life.

    But, this is Ian Fleming's James Bond 007, and here in lies the slightly larger-than-life stakes of the Bond franchise. So it obviously feels 'unrealistic' to increase the stakes of a GTE car chase to such heights. But it does make the actual car race exciting and tense.

    I would welcome an adjustment from your side though. How would you make the stakes of this car race more realistic? How would this GTE-endurance race feel like a real-life situation?
    coco1997 wrote: »
    * I'm American, so I don't have as intimate of an understanding about this as others here, and I don't mean to start a political debate, but hasn't the British economy actually flourished since Brexit?

    Solely looking at short-term macro-economical factors: Yes. So far Brexit has been more or less a success. But the long-term prospects are different though. And especially for car manufacturers Brexit isn't something to be happy about. Elon Musk is now considering to built his new factory in The Netherlands or France, and the UK is already no option for Tesla Motors. The same goes for other car manufacturers like General Motors/Vauxhall and BMW/Mini. For them it will become way more expensive to import material to the UK. Hence Brexit here's mostly shows negative consequences.
    coco1997 wrote: »
    * Although in general you didn't include much dialogue, some of it came across as a little tone deaf. Galatea referring to Bond as a "retard" certainly would not fly today. And not that I necessarily agree with this, but Bunt and Bond teasing Hinx over his long fingernails would probably be criticized as a form of homophobia.

    Haha, I know, that was perhaps a bit too much :-P. But my intention was to write a fun. brassy, naughty, slightly perky and cheesy girl. Very much the antagonist of stylish women like Severine, Vesper Lynd and Madeleine Swann. I really wanted to create the modern-day interpretation of Tiffany Case who wasn't an intelligence agent. Just a girl who knows her stuff about car racing....and perhaps even more than Bond himself.

  • Posts: 123
    I love the idea of some kind of footchase going after Hinx. But I do think it's better at this stage to let Bond stay in the dark about this. A bit like Grant shadowing Tanya in FRWL, Bond trying to find out who shot the banker's henchman in the PTS of TWINE, and Bond being surprised that Gibson has been shot in TMWTGG.

    I do agree that it's better to let Bond stay out of this scene altogether then. On the other hand, I would love to see Bond's impression while he's kneeling down on Blofeld's (double's) dead body.

    I think you need to make a decision, then. Either include a chase scene or drop Bond from the scene altogether. If you want Bond to see Blofeld's dead body it could be over a news broadcast similar to the way he learned of the MI6 bombing in "Skyfall."
    What I would like to do is dramatize the scene in Bond's apartment between Bond and Madeleine. I would turn it into a fight that's a bit similar of the verbal fight between Bond and Madeleine in the snow in "SPECTRE". However, this time I would let it culminate into Madeleine crying in the doorway when an angry Bond heads to his car.

    At this stage the audience would probably already know that the relationship is over between Bond and Madeleine. So a short and final reminder in which Madeleine is texting Bond.......could actually work. Although I wouldn't mind to leave it out either.

    Hmm...I think if you have Bond leave Madeleine on a bad note then the text idea would work better. Still, it's kind of unsatisfying that the text would be the last we hear of her.
    I would welcome an adjustment from your side though. How would you make the stakes of this car race more realistic? How would this GTE-endurance race feel like a real-life situation?

    Unfortunately I'm not a storyteller, so I have no suggestions here. Perhaps others do?
    Solely looking at short-term macro-economical factors: Yes. So far Brexit has been more or less a success. But the long-term prospects are different though. And especially for car manufacturers Brexit isn't something to be happy about. Elon Musk is now considering to built his new factory in The Netherlands or France, and the UK is already no option for Tesla Motors. The same goes for other car manufacturers like General Motors/Vauxhall and BMW/Mini. For them it will become way more expensive to import material to the UK. Hence Brexit here's mostly shows negative consequences.

    Thanks for clearing that up.
    Haha, I know, that was perhaps a bit too much :-P. But my intention was to write a fun. brassy, naughty, slightly perky and cheesy girl. Very much the antagonist of stylish women like Severine, Vesper Lynd and Madeleine Swann. I really wanted to create the modern-day interpretation of Tiffany Case who wasn't an intelligence agent. Just a girl who knows her stuff about car racing....and perhaps even more than Bond himself.

    I get what you're trying to accomplish, but I think you can do it without relying on potentially harmful or insensitive language. I would leave the "retard" line out and come up with something else, or, since this is just a treatment, say something to the effect of "Galatea trades some sharp barbs with 007."

  • Posts: 11,119
    Thanks @coco1997 ;-). I think I'm going to correct the story a bit :-).
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    @coco1997 has form in this area with his many fan fictions on the Bond fora. As good a critic as one can get, I'd say. He writes from experience.

    Nice to see him over here with us again.
  • Posts: 123
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    @coco1997 has form in this area with his many fan fictions on the Bond fora. As good a critic as one can get, I'd say. He writes from experience.

    Nice to see him over here with us again.

    I never left. ;)

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