Silliest ideas you definitely don’t want to see in future Bond films

Bond going rogue in order to

  • get revenge
  • clear his „good“ name
  • help M (or other superiors and colleagues) cover up tragic mistakes
  • sulk while going fishing because a woman he barely knows might be working for the bad guys (although he has no real proof for it)
  • quit the service soon because he actually never really wanted to work in a hierarchy (despite doing exactly that for years)
  • prove he is still relevant (despite people constantly asking him to work as a secret agent)
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Have a personal childhood connection to an iconic villain if they are brought back. We don’t need Goldfinger swearing revenge because Bond stole his lucky gold coin.

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  • A Bond film without James Bond (it’s coming at some point, just wait)
  • Bond going rogue
  • Bond being asked about his relevancy for the umpteenth time
  • Moneypenny
  • Q
  • More than 15 minutes of screen time for M
  • The old Aston Martins (the Goldfinger car should be permanently retired from service)
  • References to any of the other films
  • Villains with any personal relationship to Bond
  • Bond being tracked in the field by his superiors; it’s a lazy plot device that plays right into some of the major issues with the Craig era
  • Trust issues between M and Bond
  • Bond having a child
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Ditto this list :point_up:

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Yes, I know why I suggested this thread but didn’t start it – because I knew what would happen. We don’t need the umpteenth thread for people to vent what they didn’t like in the past and what they don’t want to happen again – but this is exactly what’s happening. :roll_eyes:

This was meant for creativity, come up with your own silly ideas which you don’t want to happen – every man his own Purvis & Wade. Put your back into it, folks

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  • Bond being chided for being a childless cat lady
  • Bond and Felix having their bromance getaway on Mykonos interrupted by a henchperson
  • Moneypenny pregnant
  • Bond asking Moneypenny what to get Q as a wedding present
  • The villain’s lair in the midst of a gut renovation
  • A villain who has to pick up their kids from school
  • A henchperson who has to pick up their kids from school
  • Bond asking if he can film the sex he is about to have
  • Q on a panel at a tech conference
  • M wearing shorts or a skort
  • Bond in a grocery store reading the labels on items
  • Bond in a Gamblers Anonymous meeting
  • Bond taking Viagra
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Well said

Bond gaming
Bond anywhere near a motor racing track
Bond in anymore age gap romances.
Anything to with cyber terrorism

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Bond being a cyborg reconstructed by Q from the atoms of whatever was left of him at the end of No Time to Die.
Bond’s DNA being used to clone him from the atoms of whatever etc. etc.
Bond being very unpleasant to Germans and Koreans, to what he considers passes for their faces.
Bond in a Q-branch Utili-Kilt.
Bond moping over the death of his parents for the nth time and this allegedly justifies vigilante action.
Bond being bitten by an enhanced eel and thus developing light-touch superpowers.
Bond eats crisps.
Vegan Bond,although it’s an easy script to write as every third line will be him telling us he’s vegan.
An AI villain as that’s just really boring now.
A musical, because that’ll be crap.
Bond has a pet.
Bond goes undercover as a social media influencer with a dubious attractiveness for teenage boys notionally without any other voice.
Dr No is a monkey.
Bond washes his intestines by hand… hold on.
Bond is a codename.
Bond makes a quiche… hold on.
Jane Bond, because various deluded and greedy people keep trying this and it’s tedious and never works.
The game is… slapsies.
Time-travel.
Lava-surfing.
Cress.
Bond goes shopping for socks and a toothbrush… hold on.
Bond endorses regular eating of broccoli because… well, cringe.
Characters named after the writer’s chums or people involved in the Bond series because… well, cringe.
Bond has his heart on the other side of his body because that’s really stoopid.
The Day Bond Wore A Sarong.
Bond in a Burqa.
Bond eats a burger.
Bond is put into cryogenic freezing and wakes up many years later and really doesn’t get the three seashells thing, the twerp.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Torture by grafting various body parts onto him, in an unbelievably upsetting manner.
A henchman made of “issues”.
Bond punches a donkey.
Bond punches a camel.
Bond punches the Pope.
Bond is part of a relentlessly anodyne team about whom we care little but are given undue prominence and do stuff with computers or whatever, yawn.
Bond does the ironing.
Bond sees dead people. Most of whom he’s shot.
Bond is put on trial for all the destruction and incidental disruption to public welfare over the years. It’d be awful.
Bond breakdances, or whatever it’s called.
Any previous Bond coming back in another role although as they’ll all be long dead by the time it eventually gets made, probably not going to happen.
AI reconstruction of Sean Connery with the film set in an AI-generated 1950s, although I strongly suspect this has crossed what is laughably called their “minds”.

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You´re right. But the sillier ideas will come after the venting. I hope.

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Bond drinking kombucha because he wants the health benefits

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To get out of a villains trap, Bond looks up tutorials on YouTube.

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Bond quits the service and goes to work for Pinkerton’s with Felix.

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-Bond investigating a prison break from a maximum-security prison on the moon

-Bond battling a baddie who kills high profile targets with faked horoscopes

-Bond finding out about his family connection to the Royals

-The Royals finding out about their family connection to Bond

-M having been friends with Bond’s parents

-Bond’s aunt Charmian popping up and M having designs on her

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  • a crossover with the Marvel universe
  • flashbacks to Bond‘s youth at Skyfall
  • origin stories for Q‘s cat and Moneypenny‘s time at the shooting range
  • Bond title songs written and performed by AI
  • remakes of the Brosnan era
  • Hoagy Carmichael-impersonator as the next Bond
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Also, NO crossover with Doctor Who and/or Lord of the Rings!

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The Flemingverse Phase 1

Bond drives Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Didn’t that already happen in TMWTGG, a flying car I mean, we just missed the scene where Scaramanga and Nick Nack sang the theme song:

“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang we love you
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang what we’ll do” etc…

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Now, on the plus side, for EON anyway, is that would give some legitimate credence to the “is Bond relevant” question they love to ask in the films the past couple of decades.

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Well…
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