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Post #325561

Author
edskizzorhands
Parent topic
James Bond 007 WARHEAD (* unfinished project *)
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Date created
31-Jul-2008, 7:17 PM
SkyJedi, First off this isn't an attempt to discredit Daniel Craig at all. I'm a James Bond fan. I have found something to love about every actor who has played this character. It's not a matter of moving on. Craig is the bond of record. Does moving on, mean we have to forget the actors to played bond before? No, What harm is this fan edit? Actually Warhead was the title of the ORIGINAL McClory bond film he developed with Connery in the late 70's, which had a different plot-line than NSNA. It wasn't until after a judges ruling that McClory only had rights to make "One" remake/retelling of Tunderball. He tried using the title Warhead, Warhead 2000 and Warhead A.D. for years after Never Say Never but was never able to get it off the ground. Anyways, My first post had this information, but I guess it didn't make it somehow. Warhead is a fan edit of the 1993 Brosnan film Detonator aka death train... The title Warhead refers to the nuke on the train, while also a nod to the McClory title. The film will work as a short film ( roughly 30 mins or so ), all about the mission. It will tighten up the action, (Think of how the TND opening worked) Brosnan in the field and away from the control room. It will play like an extended pre-title seq rather than a full 3 act story. It can in a sense work as a prequel to Goldeneye (timeline wise). The film as is, is paced horribly. New sound-effects and bond score will be added, along with the gunbarrel introduced in Goldeneye. Patrick Stewart will have a role similar to M. I haven't decided if it's possible to make him M in the edit or not. I won't know until I get to that point. Alexandra Paul's role will be edited down to be a part of the team, and not a bond girl/bond's equal character. Christopher Lee of-course will be the bad guy. With the exception of Alexandra Paul the cast isn't bad, and will some tight editing and new sound, I really think this is possible. The dead bond years between 1989 and 1995 will now have at-least one mission, at least in the fan-edit world. As far as extras go, I plan on creating a teaser and full trailer. Since Brosnan almost got the role in 1987, and was even announced with it. I toyed with the idea of making trailers for TLD,LTK and the 1991 never made film. Using footage of films Brosnan did around the same time intercut with footage from the Dalton era films. This project is in no way meant to dis-credit Daltons work, or any other bond actors work. It is simply, for fun.