Bond doesn't get the mission in the mail, he gets an important message. Giving him the mission would be MI-style and not Bondian, as you correctly point out.
On the other hand Bond has a tradition of using new tech. Toyota has invested a lot of money in their air taxi and it's planned to be operational next year, maybe in Japan. I'd like to see this in Bond movie! It doesn't have to be a big part of the plot. Maybe Bond uses the air taxi to move from A to B without much comment. The taxi can be hailed by smartphone like an Uber taxi and a pilot flies you.
Another possibility is to paint the taxi black or green and use it as an inflltration vehicle. the air taxi is electric and it generates only a small fraction of the noise a helicopter makes.
I liked Craig, they wrote it well but, what they wrote well was not something I liked. He was a burned out, betrayed tired agent who lost the love of his life.
So, here's what I want next time. I want Bond to be in full 100% top fighting shape - ready for anything. This 50ish guy, a zillionaire who's in the computer business, secretly has a satellite that will send a signal that can burn all computer chips of everyone on Earth. He wrote the code with another programmer - a cute lady in the 30s. James Bond is made aware of this and needs to get the girl to enter the code but, has to be done from one specific place. So he picks her up a US state - where he can use his car and this time - all hell breaks loose - gadgets galore on this car - make the chase scene longer and use new gadgets!
After the rescue they must leave for that specific place to enter the code - make it South Africa station. But, an evil henchman is after them. WE MUST HAVE a totally new classic villain in the style of Oddjob multiplied by Jaws. Bald guy with cross eyes, dresses all in white, very tall - not too big but extremely well trained in kung fu. His gimmick will a cane that he'll do all kinds of stuff with it and - it will also have a retractable knife at its end.
After finishing THE DAY OF THE JACKAL miniseries, I'm rather keen on seeing Eddie Redmayne playing a Bond villain. He'd make an amazing Scaramanga type character.
Have you ever heard of Bidzina Ivanishvili? No too many in the West has. He's a oligarch in Georgia, that is the country in the Caucasus. He's a former Prime minister and the richest person in the country. He owns 25% of the country's GDP! Ivanishvili is a key player in the party Georgian Dream that wants to come into the Russian sphere of influence against the wishes of the majority of the voters.
The main reason I write about Bidzina Ivanishvili is his house in the capital Tblisi.
is Ivanishvili expecting Mister Bond? it looks that way. He even has his own shark tank in the house!
This is his albino rapper son:
Georgia is a very beautiful country:
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But Ivanishvili is moving it towards a dictatorship under his and Putin's control. Bond villains don't seem so unrealistic in some parts of the world!
Not only is that house amazing, it is 100% insanely bizarre: all that metalwork and vast spaces. It looks more like a parliament building than a home. I am reminded of Nero's palace in ancient Rome which supposedly overlooked the forum and was linked by a walkway bridge to the senate house. This modern dictator [a financial dictator] seems to have equally astounding and power-crazed architectural ideas.
For some reason I've been reading more about the Arctic and especially Greenland in terms of strategic importance lately. EON always say they look at current and near future threats when writing scripts for Bond movies. This is one that hasn't been used in any Bond movie or even action movie I can think of, and some of the locations will also be exotic and unknown for most audiences (even though scenes for the upcoming Mission Impossible movie was filmed in Svalbard).
In 2014 the first civilian transport ship sailed the North-East Passage (north of Russia) without assistance from an ice breaker, and commercial use of the new northern trade routes will only increase in the future. If you don't belive the scientists on this, perhaps you'll belive the leaders of China and especially Russia who invest heavily on this future. Those routes will only take about half the time to sail compared to the traditional ones through the Suez canal and the Panama canal. These areas of the world also have a lot of important minerals and about 1/4 of the oil reserves in the world hidden under the ice. In military terms the fastest route for missiles between Russia and north America is over the Arctic. While a Bond film shouldn't use Russia as the main villain or make something like "The hunt for the Red October", I think this topic has a lot of potential. Make the villain a shipping magnate for example. That magnate can be based in for example Japan or Norway, adding locations that has been underused or only used decades ago in Bond movies.
Subsea mining is another element that can be used in this scenario.
Ice hotels has unfortunately already been used in one of the lesser Bond movies .....
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I don't think it would be the mission in that letter. As you point out, this woud be more MI than 007. An important message, that's all.
Bond doesn't get the mission in the mail, he gets an important message. Giving him the mission would be MI-style and not Bondian, as you correctly point out.
On the other hand Bond has a tradition of using new tech. Toyota has invested a lot of money in their air taxi and it's planned to be operational next year, maybe in Japan. I'd like to see this in Bond movie! It doesn't have to be a big part of the plot. Maybe Bond uses the air taxi to move from A to B without much comment. The taxi can be hailed by smartphone like an Uber taxi and a pilot flies you.
Another possibility is to paint the taxi black or green and use it as an inflltration vehicle. the air taxi is electric and it generates only a small fraction of the noise a helicopter makes.
I liked Craig, they wrote it well but, what they wrote well was not something I liked. He was a burned out, betrayed tired agent who lost the love of his life.
So, here's what I want next time. I want Bond to be in full 100% top fighting shape - ready for anything. This 50ish guy, a zillionaire who's in the computer business, secretly has a satellite that will send a signal that can burn all computer chips of everyone on Earth. He wrote the code with another programmer - a cute lady in the 30s. James Bond is made aware of this and needs to get the girl to enter the code but, has to be done from one specific place. So he picks her up a US state - where he can use his car and this time - all hell breaks loose - gadgets galore on this car - make the chase scene longer and use new gadgets!
After the rescue they must leave for that specific place to enter the code - make it South Africa station. But, an evil henchman is after them. WE MUST HAVE a totally new classic villain in the style of Oddjob multiplied by Jaws. Bald guy with cross eyes, dresses all in white, very tall - not too big but extremely well trained in kung fu. His gimmick will a cane that he'll do all kinds of stuff with it and - it will also have a retractable knife at its end.
After finishing THE DAY OF THE JACKAL miniseries, I'm rather keen on seeing Eddie Redmayne playing a Bond villain. He'd make an amazing Scaramanga type character.
Have you ever heard of Bidzina Ivanishvili? No too many in the West has. He's a oligarch in Georgia, that is the country in the Caucasus. He's a former Prime minister and the richest person in the country. He owns 25% of the country's GDP! Ivanishvili is a key player in the party Georgian Dream that wants to come into the Russian sphere of influence against the wishes of the majority of the voters.
The main reason I write about Bidzina Ivanishvili is his house in the capital Tblisi.
is Ivanishvili expecting Mister Bond? it looks that way. He even has his own shark tank in the house!
This is his albino rapper son:
Georgia is a very beautiful country:
'
But Ivanishvili is moving it towards a dictatorship under his and Putin's control. Bond villains don't seem so unrealistic in some parts of the world!
Not only is that house amazing, it is 100% insanely bizarre: all that metalwork and vast spaces. It looks more like a parliament building than a home. I am reminded of Nero's palace in ancient Rome which supposedly overlooked the forum and was linked by a walkway bridge to the senate house. This modern dictator [a financial dictator] seems to have equally astounding and power-crazed architectural ideas.
He's a real life Bond villain. His son even looks like Zao!
All that P&W would need to do is change the names and location enough to avoid being sued.
I don't think the risk for P&W isn't getting sued in this case. I think Ivanishivili would've sent assassins, and I think he knows people ....
For some reason I've been reading more about the Arctic and especially Greenland in terms of strategic importance lately. EON always say they look at current and near future threats when writing scripts for Bond movies. This is one that hasn't been used in any Bond movie or even action movie I can think of, and some of the locations will also be exotic and unknown for most audiences (even though scenes for the upcoming Mission Impossible movie was filmed in Svalbard).
In 2014 the first civilian transport ship sailed the North-East Passage (north of Russia) without assistance from an ice breaker, and commercial use of the new northern trade routes will only increase in the future. If you don't belive the scientists on this, perhaps you'll belive the leaders of China and especially Russia who invest heavily on this future. Those routes will only take about half the time to sail compared to the traditional ones through the Suez canal and the Panama canal. These areas of the world also have a lot of important minerals and about 1/4 of the oil reserves in the world hidden under the ice. In military terms the fastest route for missiles between Russia and north America is over the Arctic. While a Bond film shouldn't use Russia as the main villain or make something like "The hunt for the Red October", I think this topic has a lot of potential. Make the villain a shipping magnate for example. That magnate can be based in for example Japan or Norway, adding locations that has been underused or only used decades ago in Bond movies.
Subsea mining is another element that can be used in this scenario.
Ice hotels has unfortunately already been used in one of the lesser Bond movies .....
An ornate golden diamond studded knife-gun? Every Bond villain should have one!