Hi guys
Just a little fun.
I began a timeline in 1961 with the films in book order
I casted new Bonds completely and this just a teaser Another copy I also casted the Bond girls, M, Q, the main baddie etc with no actors from the franchise included
NB: Solange is 007 in New York
Hildebrands are Rare is self- explanatory
Tomorrow Always Comes is John Gardner’s idea for No Deals
And ColdFall the US name for Cold is so much better imo
Oh my god, can you imagine if 2021’s Bond film was The Man From Barbarossa?
Yeah. Thought exactly the same…
Blame Solange and Per Fine Ounce lol
No Gardner novelisations of Licence to Kill or GoldenEye? Or Benson’s TND, TWINE and DAD novelisations, the last two of which are improvements over the films?
And would Win, Lose or Die still feature George H. Bush and Gorbachev in 2017 as a 1988 period piece, or be updated?
Great points about the films that became novelisations
However, in my defence they were not films in this timeline but could be going forward
As for the other books, well I literally ran out of time.
I made it to 2021, though now you have me considering a Never Say Never Again scenario in which a rival film company made Licence to Kill onwards…
As for Win,lose or Die I guess we have you go with Obama, Putin etc
My film timeline: Most things are the same with minor changes too casting and writing credits.
Keep Jack Lord as Felix Leiter in GF and TB. David Hedison takes the role in DAF, LALD and LTK. He is also in GE, instead of Jack Wade, with Michael Madsen playing him. He reprises his role in DAD, leading us to get a minor distrust between Bond and Leiter for the first time in the series. This also gives us the version that is in DAF, that fans don’t like. In TLD and TND, the CIA roles are replaced with Q. There is technical support for him to help out with and explain. Desmond Llewelyn is also Q and referred to as such in DN. He is not in LALD and TWINE is still his final appearances as is. Other recasting notes: Max von Sydow is Dikko Henderson, making it more of a shock for the audience when he is killed suddenly so soon. Peter Burton is Morzeny in FRWL. Faye Dunaway is Octopussy. I really don’t like it when EON uses the same people for different big roles!
Now for proper writing credits. FRWL’s screenplay is fully credited to Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood. No adaptation credit. TSWLM is credited to Tom Mankiewicz after Wood’s and Maibaum’s credits. For GE, Michael France and Kevin Wade are given screenplay credits after the other two. France is still credited with the story. For TND, Bruce Feirstein is credited with the story. He is also credited with the screenplay along with Nicholas Meyer, Dan Petrie, Jr. and David Campbell Wilson. They are credited in Raymond Benson’s novelization, they should be credited in the movie. For TWINE, Dana Stevens is credited for screenplay after the trio. For QOS, Michael G. Wilson, Paul Haggis and Marc Forster are credited with the story. Joshua Zetumer is credited with the screenplay, after the trio. Lastly for NTTD, Paul Haggis is credited with the story. Sometimes, writers honestly don’t get the credit they deserve.
Now for unmade James Bond material that should have been made.
First, Bruce Feirstein should have done novelizations of Everything or Nothing and Bloodstone. EON should have had a scene between Max Zorin and Nikolai Diavolo, maybe too make Diavolo more evil or even strangely sympathetic. Moneypenny should be included as well. I’d also have more AVTAK ties in the novel as well. Explain why Diavolo wasn’t at Project Main Strike. Also a proper introduction about why Jaws is back and how Diavolo hired him. Also give more background info on all of the new characters introduced in EON’s story. Same with Bloodstone, in particular Nicole Hunter, Rak and Stefan Pomerov. I’d also reference CR, QOS and GE, make Bond in mid-career. End of the story, Bond questions if Quantum was behind it. Lastly, I’d like John Logan to write a novelization of Skyfall. Including more scenes and backstory for everyone, in one way or another, in particular Sévérine and her deleted scenes.
Two movies that should have been made. Timothy Dalton’s 3rd Bond film. I’d have Sir Anthony Hopkins as Denholm Crisp. With Roger Spottiswoode directing. Released in December 1992, to avoid competition, namely Aladdin. Next, I’d have the Jinx spinoff be a Jinx and Wai Lin spinoff of them working together. They take on the Spang Brother’s worldwide gambling empire. Here’s where I get controversial: they are played by Kevin Kline and Kevin Spacey. Michael Madsen comes back as Felix Leiter and Pierce Brosnan as a cameo as Bond. The reason given for why Bond isn’t helping them out is that the events of Everything or Nothing are happening at the same time. Willem Dafoe cameo is welcome as well. Purvis and Wade would write the main script and David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible 1, Spider-Man 1) would give rewrites. Michael Apted would direct.
As for my personal future timeline, I have a few ideas. Mostly adapting books faithfully with a modern era for awhile. Start with Forever and a Day, setting up Bond and the MI6 regulars, with a minor role for Charmian Bond. Next is Carte Blanche, setting up Bond’s world with reoccurring characters. More also into Bond’s family history using his parents’ subplots. Other ideas for the future are using Dynamite Comics’ Felix Leiter story for a subplot like M’s in SF. Another is building up Blofeld and Spectre again using an original story.
Another unique Bond Timeline but with book publishing.
Per Fine Ounce by Geoffrey Jenkins is published in 1966, to keep the Bond copyright. Jenkins isn’t asked back, and because of the movies being successful, a second novel is ordered. Kingsley Amis then is asked to write what becomes Colonel Sun, without the Robert Markham pseudonym. Amis also writes his Bond short story, about an assassination on a train. Bond himself doesn’t die.
After his script for TSWLM is rejected, Anthony Burgess approaches IFP to allow him to write his Bond script into a novel. CHAOS is the main threat. It is released in 1978. Burgess is not asked back and discussions with John Gardener begin.
In 1985, Chris Moore’s novelization of AVTAK is released worldwide with help from IFP. This makes up for John Gardener’s year off.
In 2003, EA and IFP team up to release two video game novelizations.
First is Everything or Nothing by Bruce Feirstein. EON would have had a scene between Max Zorin and Nikolai Diavolo, maybe too make Diavolo more evil or even strangely sympathetic. Moneypenny would be included as well. There’d also have more AVTAK ties in the novel as well. It is explained why Diavolo wasn’t at Project Main Strike. Also, a proper introduction about why Jaws is back and how Diavolo hired him. It’d mix the books, movies and video games histories together. Also give more background info on all of the new characters introduced in EON’s story.
Second, is Goldeneye Rogue Agent by Raymond Benson. Same story as the video game, but in novel format.
These two make up for the adult Bond novels between 2002-2008.
Some ideas for now, James Bond is one of the best characters ever!
I quite like this idea. There was so much potential to do something really new, fun, and exciting with the bare bones of DIE ANOTHER DAY’s plot that it makes the end result that we got, as subpar as it is, all the more disappointing. Having Damien Falco be Felix Leiter instead would have made for a more interesting dynamic in the film than what’s ultimately there.
They spend so much of the first part of the film setting up that Bond has been captured and that M has burned him while he’s been in captivity to only drop that almost completely as we head into the second act of the film. And it’s done so haphazardly and clumsily that it really renders the beginning of the film somewhat pointless and nothing more than a brief experiment within the Bond franchise.
