Maibaum hat geschrieben:danielcc hat geschrieben:Das wäre ja amüstant gewesen. Den gleichen durchschnittlichen Stoff, mit der längst vergessenen Bond-Minimal-Lösung in der Hauptrolle.... das wäre was geworden...
Unabhängig was man von den Filmen hält, vom Stoff her ist das mit die stärkste Geschichte die Fleming wie auch die Bond Filme zu bieten hatten.
Sehe ich ähnlich, zumindest zähle ich den TB-Stoff zu den Top 5 Stoffen der Romane.
Den Dalton Warhead 2000 A.D. wollte McClory pikanterweise zusammen mit Sony drehen. Mehr Infos zu dem Projekt:
http://www.universalexports.net/00Warhead.shtml
http://www.alternative007.co.uk/73.htm
Unter ersterem Link zeigt sich auch eine abenteuerlich-kuriose News von Ende der Neunziger, als das Projekt unter dem Titel DOOMSDAY 2000 firmierte und man niemanden geringeren als Sean Connery für die Rolle des Bond wollte!
Hier mal die News:
Connery to return as 007 in Doomsday 2000-October 24, 1998
By World Entertainment News Network
Movie legend SEAN CONNERY is set to return as JAMES BOND at the age of 68.
Connery is lined up for another remake of THUNDERBALL - and a head-to-head challenge with latest 007 PIERCE BROSNAN.
The new movie DOOMSDAY 2000 will probably be released at the same time as Brosnan's new 007 film, to be called either PRESSURE POINT or THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH.
Filming for Doomsday 2000 is due to start in January (99) in Britain, Australia and the Bahamas.
And studio sources say the original MISS MONEYPENNY - LOIS MAXWELL - has already been signed up for the role.
A source says, "Sean Connery has been approached and he is very interested. It is a question of money - they have the money and they will get him."
The first remake of IAN FLEMING's THUNDERBALL was NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN - Connery's eighth and last Bond film. Now the second is to pitch him against Brosnan.
Bosses at UNITED ARTISTS and MGM, who are making the new Brosnan movie, say their legal fight to stop COLUMBIA making their new Bond movie is still on. (WNTMI/TS/VC)
Zeitweise wurden damals für das Projekt auch Dean Devlin (Producer) und Roland Emmerich (Regie) gehandelt!
Rückblende: Das TB-Remake kursierte schon in den 70ern unter dem Namen WARHEAD. Damals war Connery schon dabei und wirkte auch am Skript mit. Dieses findet sich übrigens im Internet als PDF. Eine Review hatte dieser Blogger geschrieben:
http://woutthielemans.blogspot.de/2009/ ... art-1.html
http://woutthielemans.blogspot.de/2009/ ... art-2.html
Auch das Magazin Total Film hatte einen Artikel zu dem Skript:
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the-lost-bond
Das ganze war wohl im Stile von TSWLM mit zwei extra Portionen extravaganz. SPECTRE-Unterwasserbasis, RoboterhaieHideout unter der Freiheitsstatue, Fallschirmjägerangriff auf dieselbige usw.
Neugierig? Hier die Synopsis aus dem obigen Link:
A plane is swallowed in the Bermuda Triangle by an movable underwater city/secret base, Aquapolis.
Immediately after, we meet James Bond at a tropical diving training facility, Shrublands, up to his usual seductive tricks. At the resort we also meet CIA agent Hellinger and his doctor and lover, the luscious Fatima Blush.
Back at Aquapolis, Blofeld arrives for the annual SPECTRE board meeting, together with his giant Mongol henchman, Genghis. After dealing with some incompetent members, he reveals his new plans for the future: SPECTRE will lay claim to all the world's oceans. The first demand to the nations of the world will be the immediate ceasing of all pollution - any country that disobeys will have its elected leader killed.
In order to get the nations of the world to agree to SPECTRE's dominance, they will launch Operation Hammerhead, and for this they need to get the nuclear missiles from a wrecked Russian submarine.
At Shrublands, Bond meets up with Felix Leiter and attends a CIA briefing where it's revealed the Chief Secretary of the UN has gone missing with his plane in the Bermuda Triangle, and an anonymous threatening message has been issued to all nations that this is but the first step in their plans. Leiter reveals to Bond that the CIA is going to salvage a Russian submarine wreck, and Hellinger is the expert in the matter.
That night, Fatima helps smuggle Genghis and a man looking just like Hellinger inside Shrublands. Bond notices something is amiss, and in order to save the mission Fatima seduces him. As they make love in a jacuzzi, Hellinger tries to drown Bond by altering the controls of the jacuzzi and then is murdered by Genghis and replaced by his double, Petacchi, who rescues Bond and Fatima from drowning but immediately gets into a quarrel with Bond.
The next day Petacchi tries to kill Bond during a parachute lesson. Bond survives and beats up Petacchi.
But Petacchi has other things to worry about: soon he's on board the CIA vessel in order to steal the nukes for SPECTRE, using an electronic device to complete sabotage the salvage ship. The operation succeeds but Petacchi is blown up by Blofeld once the mission is accomplished.
Bond is about to return to England, and Fatima ensures that she accompanies him. He doesn't trust her, but enjoys her company.
At MI6, Bond is briefed by M and Q about the salvage operation gone wrong, and the involvement of SPECTRE is established. Bond is to return to the Bahamas to look into the matter.
Returning home, Bond discovers he has a new cleaning lady (in fact a SPECTRE agent trying to kill him), and then Fatima comes over for some spirited lovemaking. Two men intrude in Bond's home and he takes them out, then Fatima and the SPECTRE cleaner both die when the bomb placed under Bond's Aston Martin blows up. It turns out the intruders were MI6 agents sent to protect Bond from an assassination attempt.
Soon after, Bond and Q find themselves on their way to Nassau, in a military transport plane, and Blofled has been pegged as the main suspect.
Bond and Leiter go to investigate Shark Island, the property of Blofeld, by night, while Bond is supposed to face Blofeld in a backgammon tournament. In Blofeld's home, Bond discovers Fatima's identical twin sister, Domino, who reveals she knows Blofeld is to blame for her death, wants revenge on him, and allows herself to be seduced by Bond. She promises to help him.
Bond and Leiter then go to investigate the laboratory on the grounds, and discover a prototype for a robot shark. They are interrupted by Blofeld, Genghis and his guards, and a fight ensues. Genghis finally subdues Bond and Leiter, being invincible.
Blofeld talks to professor Maslov, inventor of the robot sharks, about the plan: the sharks will be used to deliver the nuclear bombs to the target of Blofeld's choice. Bond and Leiter are put into a death trap - strapped in a Rapid Saturation Chamber which is shot through the tube connecting the chamber to Aquapolis - only Aquapolis isn't at the end of the tube!
Meanwhile, Blofeld has discovered Domino's betrayal and is threatening her with the robot shark. Maslov intervenes.
Q and M decide to have troops invade Shark Island, finding it deserted. Bond and Leiter recover from their ordeal and discover that Domino managed to save them. Now, however, she is missing together with Blofeld and all his accomplices.
A message from Blofeld is discovered in which his blackmailing scheme is revealed. Unless the UN agree to give SPECTRE complete dominance of the oceans, a major city is going to be destroyed, followed by the dislodging of the Antarctic ice cap if necessary.
Bond and Q ascertain that New York is the most likely candidate for being a SPECTRE target, and they quickly meet up with the heads of the CIA to mount an operation to stop Blofeld. Bond deduces that the sewers will be the best way for Blofeld to carry out his threat, and a team of divers is sent down to search for the robot sharks.
Meanwhile, Blofeld and company are holed up in the Statue of Liberty, which has been transformed into a Spectre base. The nukes are on their way to midtown Manhattan.
The divers get killed by the robot sharks, and Bond goes down into the sewers after them. He is attacked by the sharks and by Genghis, but manages to survive. Genghis is ripped to shreds when he falls into the shark-infested waters, and Bond manages to disable the shark with the bomb. Q shuts the warhead off just in time.
This is the signal for the assault on the Statue of Liberty. Bond joins the fray, but Blofeld escapes to Aquapolis. Bond follows but is unable to enter the undersea city and is dragged along by it as it speeds off into the oceans. Blofeld sets course for the Antarctic, ready to destroy the world.
Professor Maslov, however, has had enough and frees the captive Domino, asking her for help. Bond, meanwhile, accidentally gets inside Aquapolis and gets into a huge fight with SPECTRE agents and Blofeld. Blofeld gains the upper hand, but when Aquapolis hits an undersea rock and lurches, Bond presses a number of random buttons, which result in the destruction of the city and Blofeld being shot into the ocean depths. Bond saves Domino and they escape in Blofeld's luxury mini-submarine, and enjoy the compulsory post-bloodshed-and-massive-destruction coital epilogue.
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