New Bond Film - "Spectre" - October / November 2015

[prisonermonkeys]

The second easiest way to convince EON that you shouldn't do a Bond theme is to publicly announce that you'd like to do a Bond theme. The easiest way to convince them is to sign up for one, then talk about it in the media before EON say you can, which Meatloaf found out the hard way when he was approached to perform the theme for The World Is Not Enough.

As far as the Spectre theme goes, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran and Adele have all been named as potential candidates. But according to Ben Whishaw at the December press conference, the title performer has already been chosen, which goes against the recent trend - Chris Cornell, Jack White and Alicia Keys, and Adele - where the selection process has taken place after the start of filming. If EON have chosen in advance, they've done a very good job of keeping it under wraps.

I really hope that it won't be Sam Smith. He's all wrong for Bond. Sounds like he just stumbled out of a pub and into a recording studio by mistake.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Do we know when a trailer for this is coming, I tried to look for a date and couldn't find one. It's about as elusive as the BvS trailer.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Do we know when a trailer for this is coming, I tried to look for a date and couldn't find one.

This Saturday. I don't know the time, but EON have confirmed it.

 

[stiggygonzalez]

I had this dream the other night,that Sam...Bailey was going to sing the Spectre theme.(for some strange reason)

Also,any word on who's doing the OST?
It'll probably be Thomas Newman again,(I don't mind as his music is usually good}but David Arnold is a better Bond composer for me.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

It's Newman.

The popular consensus among fans is that Arnold was a bad choice, mostly because of his bombastic orchestral arrangements that lacked the subtlety of John Barry whilst trying to imitate him.

 

[Sanji Himura]

It's Newman.

The popular consensus among fans is that Arnold was a bad choice, mostly because of his bombastic orchestral arrangements that lacked the subtlety of John Barry whilst trying to imitate him.

I had thought that the only reason why Newman got the job was because of him being Sam Mendes's composer of choice, and nothing more. Though Skyfall has convinced me that Mendes should stay on as the series composer...

 

[prisonermonkeys]

That's true, but Newman proved to be so popular that a lot of fans wanted him to stay with the franchise, with or without Mendes.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

So, with the trailer being released tomorrow, I have been thinking about how I would do it if I was cutting the trailer, and this is what I have come up with:

Spoiler

We start with a black-tie party in a grand Italian villa. A silver knife taps against a crystal glass. The music stops and everyone's attention turns to a figure atop a mezzanine overlooking the party. It's Oberhauser, with Mr. Hinx appearing alongside him. Hinx checks his watch and nods.

Oberhauser: "Ladies, gentlemen, dignitaries; welcome! Welcome to the Villa Sciarra!"

We cut to a shot of Bond from SKYFALL, standing on the roof of the MI6 building, overlooking London.

Oberhauser: "You are here this evening because you all have one thing in common - you are the best at what you do."

Cut to Bond taking down Silva's thugs after Silva kills Severine.

Oberhauser: "Some of you got to where you are through cunning."

Cut to Bond fleeing from the CIA in the bar in QUANTUM OF SOLACE.

Oberhauser: "Some of you through your audacity."

Cut to Bond 'interrogating' Solange in CASINO ROYALE.

Oberhauser: "And some of you through sheer, bloody-minded ruthlessness."

Cut to Bond throwing the Special Branch agent from the opera house roof in QUANTUM OF SOLACE.

Oberhauser: "But there is one thing that you lack. That you have always lacked - a certain ... creativity."

Cut to Bond using the digger to bridge the gap between the train carriages in SKYFALL.

Oberhauser: "And so I have come to you tonight with a proposal, one that will see you rich beyond measure."

We see a short montage of Bond villains - Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene, Raoul Silva.

Oberhauser: "All I ask in return is your unyielding loyalty ... and a controlling stake in your business interests."

This is not popular. Everyone in the room starts talking at once. We follow Bond, in a tuxedo, as he walks down a corridor to the ballroom. Oberhauser regains control just as he enters.

Oberhauser: "Ladies and gentlemen, I hardly expected you to agree on the spot, but I have little patience with negotiation. So I took the liberty of poisoning your drinks. You now have three minutes to sign over your controlling stake in exchange for the antidote."

Chaos breaks out in the ballroom, but the camera stays on Oberhauser, who smiles and raises his glass to the room - and there, on his finger, we see it. A ring engraved with an octopus.

Smash cut to title.

 

[GTboyz]

Sounds great. Though i pictured it like this :

Spoiler

the teaser opens with overview shot of London. With M doing a speech to reason with the political forces who wants to shut MI6 down.

Then cut to shot of Bond finding out cryptic messages.

Then another shot of Bond and Bill Tanner on a boat as scene from the featurette.

All of this with M still doing the speech on the background.

After that we see Q briefing Bond and a brief shot of DB10.

Then a montage of action sequence in Austria including Mr. Hinx, the Bond girls, Oberhauser with 007 theme in the background.

Then we see the title

 

[prisonermonkeys]

I'm hearing rumours that ...

Spoiler

The film will not end in Morocco, as originally believed, but will instead only feature a relatively short sequence there before returning to London for the big finale, speculated to involve a helicopter stunt sequence.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

 

[ProjectWHaT]

A trailer for a trailer? Is this really necessary?

 

[prisonermonkeys]

A trailer for a trailer? Is this really necessary?

No, it's the actual trailer

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Huh. I thought I had linked to the actual trailet.

Oh sorry I didn't watch it. I only read the title and it said teaser trailer and I thought it meant a teaser for a trailer.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Oh sorry I didn't watch it. I only read the title and it said teaser trailer and I thought it meant a teaser for a trailer.

It's the actual trailer.

 

[GTboyz]

Damn what happened to Mr. White lol

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Damn what happened to Mr. White lol

Spoiler

He has been on the run.

He does a deal with Bond: he will tell Bond everything that he knows if Bond agrees to protect his daughter, Madeleine Swann.

 

[GTboyz]

Spoiler

He has been on the run.

He does a deal with Bond: he will tell Bond everything that he knows if Bond agrees to protect his daughter, Madeleine Swann.

How did you know this ? The leaked script ?

 

[prisonermonkeys]

How did you know this ?

Other forums. There are some people who are in the know there.

The leaked script ?

No, very little of that script was kept in the final draft.

 

[andrea]

10/10 will watch.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Rumours out of Mexico suggest that filming in Morocco has been shelved - except for what has already been shot there - and Mexico will take over.

 

[GTboyz]

I think the Oberhauser scene is in Rome. Maybe it goes down like this :

Spoiler

Bond infiltrates the Spectre meeting in the trailer, possibly in Rome. For some reason he gets detected and escapes in the DB10 with Mr. Hinx in pursuit as seen in the "behind the scenes"

Anyway, @prisonermonkeys, is there any rumors about how long the duration of this movie ?

 

[Sanji Himura]

Worth a look. Is the rumors of the film going over budget true?

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Is the rumors of the film going over budget true?

An exact budget figure has not been confirmed. During the Sony Pictures hack, there were reports that the budget had blown out to $300 million, but there has been no corroborating evidence of this and the hack published an early draft of the script which has since changed extensively, so it's possible that the budget details were misrepresented.

 

[sems4arsenal]

I have no idea what is happening in the trailer but looks good, time to watch a breakdown.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

I have no idea what is happening in the trailer

That's the idea - there are no plot details, just the overriding message that SPECTRE is back.

 

[sems4arsenal]

Yes but what's at stake here and who is SPECTRE? (bond noob here) @prisonermonkeys

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Yes but what's at stake here and who is SPECTRE? (bond noob here)

SPECTRE is the SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, established by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, James Bond's arch-nemesis.

Ian Fleming created them as an apolitical enemy for Bond to face off against. They are an alliance of criminal masterminds and former government agents born out of the remains of SMERSH, a notorious Soviet assassination bureau. They first appeared in Thunderball, holding the world to ransom, and are the original villainous supergroup.

They only made three appearances in the novels (though they are implied to have a hand in other events), but were used extensively in the original run of films, starting in From Russia With Love and running through to Diamonds Are Forever. They have largely been unused until now for two reasons: first, Flemimg was caught up in a legal battle with Kevin McClory, which ultimately awarded the film rights to SPECTRE to McClory, and EON Productions have only recently reacquired them; and secondly, Mike Myers rendered the traditional filmic version of Blofeld - bald head, white cat, Mao suit - unusable when he created Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers films, so EON knew that if they wanted to reuse him some day, then they had to reimagine him.

As for what's at stake in this film, we have no idea - but the presence of Mr. White is significant as he was a senior figure in the organisation known as Quantum, and as of Quantum of Solace, their fate remains unknown.

 

[sems4arsenal]

@prisonermonkeys That's a great summary, thank you so much for this

 

[andrea]

Mr. White sure likes his houses by the lake.