007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

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ZariusTwo's avatar
007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

A 1hr, 18 minute cut of Skyfall with a happy ending for (almost) everyone.

Timeline

-MGM/Columbia Logo
-Film opens with M writing Bond's obituary
-M and Mallory discuss the loss of the list and the trasnsition building to her retirement-
-MI6 attacked
-Bond in a right state abroad, hears of the attacks on the news
-Opening credits. Depeche Mode's "Waiting For The Night" plays instead of Adel's "Skyfall"
-Aftrt the titles, we open on M looking over the caskets of the fallen MI6 employees
-Bond visits M at her home
-Bond visits the new MI6 headquarters.
-Bond goes through the training and gets breifed. Psychiatric evaluation failed because he calls M "bitch". Skyfall reference omitted
-Bond removing the bullet shrapnel from his chest cut, as well as all reference to it, since the opening pre-credits has been cut, we don't see him being shot with the bullet that clues them in to Petrice, instead it's just implied they're going on Bond's memory, which will become a bit clearer later. I've had to do a bit of creative editing here.
-M tells Bond to await further instructions at Shanghai, but does not tell Bond to "terminate" Petrice.
-Bond meets Q. Exchange between them heavily trimmed to omit the weird bit about not pulling anything in pyjamas. Q gives Bond his things after the much frostier line "every now and then a trigger has to be pulled"
-Bond flashbacks to the day he was accidently shot by Naomi Harras whilst swimming, just so this little mystery is wrapped up without having to cover the whole thing. Flashback ends when Bond hits the water and we cut back to him staring out at the pool
-Movie resumes as normal for a bit
-When Bond is on the boat, the scene of him activating the radio has been cut, it's better when it's revealed at the end.
-M and Mallory watch as more of the NATO agents are compromised. Dialouge trimmed to omit talks of the hearing.
-When reviewing Bond's evaluation, Sylva does not bring up the "unresolved childhood trauma"
-Sylva is captured and has his scene with M. M reveals Sylva's background to Bond.
-"Two Months Later": Bond atop rooftop, Harras gives him the dog, as M's job is done and she's retired. No revelation she is Moneypenny or that Mallory is the new M (I wanted to keep this, but the continuity with Mallory's arm prevented it)
-Gunbarrle ending. Credits.

The Aluminum Falcon's avatar
RE: 007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

An edit for Skyfall already, somewhat interested in this... So basically, you just lopped off the second half?

ZariusTwo's avatar
RE: 007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

Yep, I just wanted to give Bond a mission that goes right instead of having it blow up in his face and costs him M.  The first half of Skyfall is basicly all I liked about it. (besides the poetry reading by M...wish I could have kept that)

 

Last edited on June 16, 2013 at 5:09 PM by ZariusTwo
The Aluminum Falcon's avatar
RE: 007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

Okay, cool. Be interested to see how it turns out. I guess this time it's NOT personal. :)

FremenDar007's avatar
RE: 007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

Instead, make a fan-edit of Die Another Day. SKYFALL is literally one of the best OO7 films around.

 

Also, read my signature.

Go for HD or GTFO.

ZariusTwo's avatar
RE: 007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

Everybody and their mother does Die Another Day dude ^_^

 

 

Last edited on June 17, 2013 at 11:19 AM by ZariusTwo
Trekkie313's avatar
RE: 007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

This sounds bad, I'm sorry but someone close to Bond always dies in the movies. It would be too jarring to have everyone live, just like Bond getting married....it's wrong!

The Aluminum Falcon's avatar
RE: 007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

Trekkie313 said:

This sounds bad, I'm sorry but someone close to Bond always dies in the movies. It would be too jarring to have everyone live, just like Bond getting married....it's wrong!

Films without close ones dying:

Live and Let Die

The Spy Who Loved Me

Moonraker

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

Goldeneye

The World Is Not Enough

Die Another Day

Quantum of Solace

I have to admit that I kind of like the idea sometimes of a Bond mission where it's really just a mission, not anything emotional for Bond. 

xhonzi's avatar
RE: 007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

I found Skyfall to be an uncomfortable mix of classic Bond over-the-topness, and Bourneish/Nolanish 'realism'. 

Either Bond is superman, or he gets old and has to retire.  Can't have it both ways.

If you head into a gun fight with 30 year old intel on where the guns are-  don't be surprised if someone moved them while you were out.

Fix that (if you can) and maybe I will have some use for Skyfall.  As it is now, it's too silly to be serious and too serious to be fun. 

(And maybe add a post credits scene of Kevin from Home Alone waking up and it was all a dream.  If you keep the Home Alone action at the end, that is... which it sounds like you're not.)

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

ZariusTwo's avatar
RE: 007: Waiting For the Night- A Skyfall Fan Edit

Trekkie313 said:

This sounds bad, I'm sorry but someone close to Bond always dies in the movies. It would be too jarring to have everyone live, just like Bond getting married....it's wrong!

True, but keep in mind Ian Flemming once did give Bond something of a  happy ending in the "You Only Live Twice" novel, tying up all the loose ends and leaving him with amensia and a wife...didnt last too long mind you.

Oh ,there's an idea to try...go with Peter Hunt's proposed ending for OHMSS and end the film with Bond and Tracy driving off into the sunset (granted though, part of that proposal was killing her off in the pre-credits of Diamond), Diamonds was crap anyway so it's probably better to pretend the original SPECTRE-driven era of Bond ended happily

Anyway, it's not all a happy ending, as Sylva's prostitute still dies, I still maintain that sense of ruthlessness required for a Bond film.

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Last edited on September 6, 2013 at 10:59 AM by ZariusTwo
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