Predicting Future James Bond Titles | How Many Ian Fleming Titles Are Left?
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I'm a big fan of Fleming's working title for For Your Eyes Only: Death Leaves an Echo. I'd love to see that one used someday.
That could have been a good title for Quantum.
Envy of the Dead
It's another title about death but I think it's very Fleming in tone.
@@EDC_Bond Also for Bond 26
Also fits well as a successor for No time to die xD
Daniel Craig will return as Bond in "Please Don't Kill Me Again"
"You Can't Kill Me Twice"
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Daniel Craig will return as Bond in "The Spy Who Blew Up"
It will be a remake of you only live twice
I think Stuntman Ignition did a similar title better: _Never Kill Me Again._
A title I like would be 'Carte Blanche.' It's a good term to describe Bond and his job because it means Bond has free reign to do whatever is needed to get the mission done
That was used for one of the continuation novels too wasn't it? The Jeffrey Deaver one IIRC where Bond had to fight an evil recycling magnate or something.
@@craigcharlesworth1538 :Correct, that was the name of the 2011 novel by Jeffery Deaver. James Bond does fight a bad guy whom has made millions on recycling.
@@craigcharlesworth1538 _Carte Blanche_ wasn't so much a continuation novel as it was a reboot. It is to the Fleming novels what Daniel Craig's _Casino Royale_ was to the previous twenty movies.
Forever and a Day would be a great title for the reboot. The story is essentially the "first Bond story" and it'll set the standard of Eon using other novel titles.
So you want a period piece?
@@codpro627 Was Casino Royale set in the 1950's? (Well, the one we talk about.)
@@btf_flotsam478 Obviously not because the film makes it obviously clear that the film is based in 2006.
@@codpro627 Well, the book was set in the 1950's so clearly the movie should also be set then. I mean, you're making that exact argument!
Yes, the plot can't be carried over perfectly, but the Bond woman being a cougar definitely could, and they switched out the baccarat and roulette to Texas holdem (and the Cold War to terrorism) to modernize the plot for Royale.
@@btf_flotsam478 That's why I don't think they'll ever do a period piece [despite that being a common speculated move from fans] as Casino was updated to the present day rather than keeping the original setting.
The Hildebrand Rarity sounds exactly like one of those under the radar 1970s thrillers starring either Michael Caine or Telly Savalas or James Caan or all three.
James Cann passed away a few days ago.
@@bobsmithy9024 i know! So sad. I watched Rollerball to remember him.
It would, of course, be based on a novel by Robert Ludlum.
I think if thy used that Title it would be shortened to just Hildebrand.
"The Property of a Lady" sound more like a crime mistery, by Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle.
I think Bond 26 needs to be titled "License Renewed" because it perfectly represents the re-imagining of Bond.
Agreed, might as well do som Gardner books with some more modern plots
As much as I LOVE that as the title of a reboot of Bond, it might be misread as a sequel to an earlier movie. It would also only really work in a meta sense, which to my knowledge has never been done in an EON production Bond film(NSNA doesn't count).
I do think a reworking could... um work. Like License Obtained or License Secured. Those sound more like start of a career titles.
“Everything or Nothing” is perfect and must be used 🙌🏻
Agreed
Borrowing from M's farewell speech to the MI6 staff in Spectre, I think "The Fate Of Glass" would be a good Bond title. It would have worked well as an alternative to No Time To Die, given how that film ended.
And extra appropriate, because it's the Bond movie where he has "family." Maybe a Vin Diesel cameo?
(The Fate of the Furious)
The title concept sounded something out of Shamaylan's superhero trilogy (Unbreakable, Split and Glass)
Raymond Benson's "Never Dream of Dying" and "High Time to Kill" would make solid film titles.
I quite like High Time to Kill!
Can we please retire "Die", "Kill" or any of their derivations from Bond titles from now on?
Live and Let Die
A View to a Kill
License to Kill
Tomorrow Never Dies
Die Another Day
No Time to Die
Die-monds are Forever
You Only Live Twice and The Living Daylights were clever titles. I do like them.
Same with "Gold". It's been done. There must be, like, hundreds of other words in the English language.
"High Time To Kill" would be a brilliant title after "No Time To Die"
@@andrewklang809 By shocking coincidence, every Bond film title with "kill" or "die" have turned out to be rather underwhelming (at best).
@@bonghunezhou5051 Licence To Kill?
There’re still the Ian Fleming chapters. Something as The Death Collector is really Bondian as well. So is a Whisper of Love/Whisper of Hate. I just hope we never get something as plain as BOND or 007, it just doesn’t fit the series
The Death Collector is great! I love the more macabre sounding titles
Death Collector is too generic in my opinion. It could be applied to a million movie or books. Fleming may have used it for a chapter title but I don't think he would've put it on a book cover. I do like Whisper of Love/Whisper of Hate. That works for me.
I was also thinking of the chapter titles for inspiration. I know it's unlikely, but I like The Undertaker's Wind, from Live and Let Die.
Chapter 5 of Live and Let Die would make a good title
Was going to say just this! Ten Pints of Blood has always been my favorite Fleming chapter title. Blood and Thunder is another good one.
I wonder if Property of a Lady was ever considered for the Skyfall title. It would have been a reference to M of course but could have been spun to also refer to Bond's loyalty to the Crown as well. I'm not saying they should have used it, but I suspect it was seriously considered in private.
It was rumoured at the time but apparently not as the working titles were 'Once upon a spy' [the largely ignored Peter Morgan script] and 'Nothing is Forever'. Probably due to Quantum being a bit clunky, they seemed to lose interest in losing Fleming's titles by then.
If they ever do another James Bond space adventure they should call it "Science Fact".
I actually really enjoyed when “Shatterhand” was the rumoured title for NTTD. They could still use it but I suppose it would have to have Blofeld in it.
Not necessarily, Shatterhand has never been connected to Blofeld in the films so the word could be used for anything from a new character to a secret weapon
I like Shatterhand as a title but due to the unfortunate pun for British audiences it'll likely never get off the ground.
Wouldn’t surprise me if at some point we get Bond, James Bond. But maybe it’s a pun in the film like, I don’t know, there’s some evil super strong adhesive
Just remembered, Death to Spies is another words of Fleming title that could be used.
This would be very cool
Death to Spies, yes I like that.
I would absolutely watch a bond film with the Titel 'property of a lady'.
Gives some Roger Moore-ish era vibes.
Wonderful video :) The only reason why "Risico" sounds very un-fitting to me, is that here in Germany, that is the name of the board game that you call "Risk". If I saw the title "James Bond: Risiko", I'd think: "Oooh, they made a Bond themed version of that game? Cool."
They could just give it a different name in Germany. Perhaps "Risk." ;)
'Enigma' would be a good name for a Bond film. Or 'Ruthless'. Operation Ruthless was Fleming's unrealised plan to obtain an Enigma machine for analysis during the war. And the words could have meaning to basically any plot.
“Icebreaker,” would make a killer Bond screen epic.
That made me think of Ballbreaker🫣
I’ve wanted a Bond movie called “SMERSH,” with the SMERSH of the novels being reimagined as an organization dedicated to resurrecting the USSR. And with General G from “From Russia With Love” the novel bring reimagined as an evil version of Gogol.
Death To Spies would be a good, but it might be on the nose.
It would also be relevant to current events as well.
I'm pretty sure that Die Another Day was taken from a letter written to Fleming from a fan back in the 1960's regarding the novel Thunderball.
Calvin can you imagine how confusing a name 007 would be? Just type "007 theme" into CZcams and you'll see dozens of videos for the James Bond theme but Monty Norman, but you'll have to search very hard for the actual '007 Theme' by John Barry. Now imagine how much more confusing it would be with a second 007 theme...
I'm surprised you've not really touched on this, but _007 In New York_ was semi adapted as the ending of _Quantum of Solace._ It's a mixed bag, but the basic premise of the short story is that Bond is on a mission to warn a fellow agent that her boyfriend is working for the Russians as a honeypot. A spy who poses as a love interest for an enemy spy who then gets secrets out of them during pillow talk. That basic premise was repurposed in the film, albeit changing Russia to Quantum and ironically enough swapping New York for Russia.
If you want to talk video games, the _Stuntman_ series had a couple fictional "Bond" films with Bond sounding titles: _Live Twice For Tomorrow_ and _Never Kill Me Again._
You know, that totally slipped my mind but you're right about 007 in New York in Quantum of Solace! Good shout!
That was a replacement for the original ending where Bond would find out Vesper and her boyfriend had a son who he'd meet in an orphanage. Craig didn't like the idea of Bond [a fellow orphan] just leaving the kid so it was changed to adapting 007 in New York [the original ending feels like planting seeds for Mathilde in hindsight]. Of course the name Solange in Casino also came from that short story.
@@calvindyson also the mentioned ex of Bond's, Solange, in 007 in New York was used for Casino Royale.
"Liberty Follows" should be the main name title with "007 in New York" being its subtitle if they want to adapt it into a film in the near future.
"Science: Fact"
No, but really, the title "Double-0 Agent" (or "00 Agent") really works for me as a reboot/fresh start title. Love the vids, btw! 😁
They may have run out of book titles, but perhaps there are still some Bond chapter titles to draw inspiration from:
- The Eye That Never Sleeps (LALD)
- Choice of Weapons (Dr. No)
- The Moguls of Death (FRWL)
- Blood and Thunder (YOLT)
I would advise against using chapter five of Live and Let Die.
what's the name of that chapter
@Alatar the Blue I'm now curious
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@Alatar the Blue oh well yikes
The Eye That Never Sleeps is a good one.
A reason for the Bond films eschewing from numbers or subtitles could be that, for a long while, film studios avoided them. IIRC it was because they believed potential audience members would be turned away, like “Part 2? I didn’t see Part 1 so I’m not going to understand what’s going on. I’ll pass.”
As such, the first film sequel to simply be called ‘[Name of the 1st film] 2’ was The Godfather Part II in 1974.
Wow, I didn’t know that about The Godfather Part II but thinking about it yeah, pretty much all sequels I can think of prior to that didn’t have a number in the title. Mainly thinking about Apes sequels, Universal horror etc but yeah, not a number in sight!
Thank god they don't title Bond films bullshit like 1 or two or 12. Just new creative titles and people automatically know that it's a Bond film.
Makes sense as all the Dirty Harry films are-like Bond- different names [Magnum Force, The Enforcer etc] and not even as subtitles [E.g. Dirty Harry 2: Magnum Force]. The Harry Palmer films were similar. Numbers seem to have gone out of fashion now [Sadly Thor: Love and Thunder is not called Thor 4!].
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Came to say the Dirty Harry movies. Great titles
@@jamesatkinsonja Creed movies still flying the flag for numbered sequels, but they have a strong tradition going back to the Rocky series which were all plain numbers except for VI.
I always thought "For Queen and Country" sounded a good title. A bit OHMSS vibe. Of course, the next film is so bloomin' miles off, Lizzy'll have probably carked it, and we'll have to go with "For King and Country"!
Haha that's a great point. The title might be outdated when the movie comes out in 2025 lol. In a way, On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best title because it could apply to all 25 Bond movies. Except maybe Licence To Kill and Quantum Of Solace but even with those two it could still work. Funny since Licence To Kill could also work as a title for any Bond movie.
@@spencerkindra8822 Ya and the name “Quantum Of Solace” doesn’t work with any bond movie 😅
@@cathrionaoshea1687 It sure doesn't haha.
I commented the same exact thing before scrolling down on your comment. Great minds think alike…this is my preferred next title for a Bond film.
That’s a fantastic title!
A film called '007 in New York' might not be as limited as you think (though Eon still wouldn't use it). One Friday The 13th instalment was prominently billed as 'Jason Takes Manhattan'; yet most of the film takes place on a ship, with about twenty minutes of screentime actually in New York.
Or maybe call it as "Liberty Follows" with "007 in New York" being its subtitle.
I thought the thing about Dalton’s 3rd film being called ‘The Property of a Lady’ was an urban myth, and that no drafts of the script were called anything more than Bond 17.
Yeah I think it’s only ever been rumoured and never confirmed. One of the contributors to Mark Edlitz’s book dispels the idea but fun to speculate all the same
@@calvindyson Another potential episode for The Myths of James Bond perhaps?
I've heard Bond 17 was always going to be called Goldeneye regardless of what the movie was like [much like that prequel idea for Bond 15 would still be called 'The Living Daylights'].
@@BenCol He kind of did that with the "Bond Urban Legends" videos. I think he should do a video covering the James Bond what ifs. For example what if Sean Connery had done OHMSS? Stuff like that.
@@jamesatkinsonja not really the unused bond 17 scripts have nothing to do with goldeneye
Surprised no mention of "Shatterhand." It has always leapt out at me as a possible,title.
That should have been the title of SPECTRE.
@@ricardocantoral7672 I think Spectre was a great title, both in itself and to signal the return of the organisation. (One of only a few things I like about it!) Obviously NTTD uses enough from YOLT that it could easily have been Shatterhand with a few changes.
@@sterow SPECTRE sounds so flat as a title. Just something thrown out there. Shatterhand sounds like something sinister, exotic.
My top 3 potential names for future Bond films based off other media in the Bond franchise would be...
1. Everything or Nothing
2. Risico
3. For Special Services
I also think you could potentially turn to some of the working titles for previous Bond films for inspiration, as many of them are rather good, for example:
-- A Whisper of Love, a Whisper of Hate; Death Waits for No Man; Fire and Ice; Pressure Point; Dangerously Yours (all for The World Is Not Enough)
-- Darker Than the Sun (for Die Another Day)
-- Silver Bullet; A Killing Moon; Nothing Is Forever (for Skyfall)
-- The Death Collector (for Spectre and again for No Time to Die)
-- Shatterhand (for No Time to Die)
Dangerously Yours would be a great title. Of all the suggestions in the comments, that's my favorite.
I actually always liked the idea of “The Hildebrand Rarity” being a usable title for a Bond film.
A lot of Bond film titles can sound pretentious out of context, but if they made it synonymous with a good spy thriller, I think it could be just as household a name as “Diamonds are Forever,” or nearly any other film in the series.
What about just Hildebrand and set part of the action in the safe house.
@@jamesbd45 There are plenty of Bond theme songs which don't match the film title [Octopussy-All Time High, Casino Royale-You Know my name, Quantum-Another Way to Die, Spectre-Writings on the Wall] so I doubt it's too much of an issue.
@@jamesbd45 True I missed that one. I guess now they'd just use another song but back then they got around the title not being suitable for a song by using an instrumental of the Bond theme for the titles and 'We have all the time in the world' in the film [I do wonder if having a song in the film was actually inspired by Dusty Springfield's Look of love' in Casino Royale 67 getting oscar nominated as that played over a romance scene?].
@@jamesbd45 The other two are fine but no to 'Till Death do us part' as that was the name of a notorious UK sitcom [where Alf Garnett who inspired the USA's Archie Bunker came from if you don't know]!
Whenever I hear about a new Bond film title, I always had the idea of it being called 'Words Mean Nothing'. Something about that makes it feel Bondian!
007 could work well for the next film. Especially so since the next actor would be EON’s 007th!
In Norway, "You Only Live Twice" was called "James Bond in Japan" upon the original 1967 release, so I guess using "007 in New York" isn't that far fetched. (In modern times, the films are just using their original english titles.)
Personally, i would call the "007 in New York" as "A Warning from the Skyscrapper" or "Liberty Follows".
Maybe someday we'll see The Duel as a 007 film! And it would be lauded as the most high concept Bond film of them all, if it sticks to the game's story. 😂
They just have to keep every villain’s incorrect name, that’s essential
I have a neat suggestion for a future Bond movie: Weapon of Choice. It's the name the sci-fi series "Timeless" gave to a Bond novel and film Fleming wrote after getting mixed up in a plot by the show's time-travelling villains to give the Nazis access to modern nuclear weaponry.
Of course that was also the title of the Fat Boy Slim song with Christopher Walken dancing!
I think "The World Is Not Enough" and "The Living Daylights" are two of the coolest titles among Bond films. Makes you wanna watch them so badly. It would be great if the next film had a cool sounding title like that.
Such a shame The World is Not Enough was used for such a piss poor film. As for The Living Daylights, unfortunately that title only had a meaning for one section of the film.
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The world is not enough is great
@@harryherman5371 It's FINE. Not great not terrible. A perfectly watchable Bond movie haha.
@@spencerkindra8822
Not great fine. However the boat chase pre credits is GREAT.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Calvin and David from The Bond Experience should debate TWINE next because that movie seems to really divide fans. A lot of people think it's Brosnan's best movie while others say it's one of the worst Bond movies period.
I agree with you that "The Hildebrand Rarity" sounds too stuffy for modern mainstream audiences, but what about just "Hildebrand"? I actually really like the ring that has to it.
I thought about other Bond titles before my friend, I came up with "Only For You", from the song "For Your Eyes Only". Or Elton John's "Sacrifice", that song has always made me think of James Bond.
Considering that EON likes to have either "Gold" or "Death / die" in every second title I guess we will have "The Golden Death" sometime in the future.
"007" would be great but I wonder if the new game will get there first. "Risico" would be great too, I like the one word Bond titles they are intruiging. So having said that:
Do you think "Quantum" would have been a better title for Bond 22? You get the Fleming reference and some intrigue, and leave out the floweriness and pretension.
I think that one-word titles are overly-done as it is. "Quantum of Solace" wouldn't have been pretentious if the story and advertising made the most of it. Instead, we got entirely different forms of pretension. What's the point of having the film's action scenes being based around the four elements? What does that have to do with anything? Did Forster think people are likely to notice that on their own, or did he just want to feel clever when he points that out? Also, the florid location text. Why? It's clearly just there to draw attention to itself, not the story.
I think the phrase 'Quantum of Solace' fits in with other 'phrase' titles like 'A View to a Kill' and the idea Bond is looking for 'solace' [as shown by the coda] so is fine to me.
But on that theme, If they were ever going to use 'The Hildebrand Rarity' I could see that being reduced to just 'Hildebrand' and used as the name of a McGuffin or location [as it was for the safe house in Spectre] in the plot.
Honestly, if the next Bond title actually was "Everything or Nothing", I think it would be quite appropriate considering that likely by that point, it might be 4 to 5 years from No Time to Die and would be a Union Jack into the abyss moment from The Spy Who Loved Me to establish the new Bond going forward into the future.
Also, Risico really does scream out to be made into a film. I mean, they could take from Diamonds are Forever novel and bring in the Sprang Brothers and tweak Specteville and go from there lol. But in all seriousness, I'd love if Risico had its own movie of sorts.
Among the list of Albert Broccoli produced films, the ones that might work I'd list as follows: "Hell Down Below", "A Prize of Gold", "High Flight", "The Red Beret" and "Fire Down Below". I'd add that the US title of "Trials of Oscar Wilde" was "Man with a Green Carnation", and I feel "Green Carnation" sounds vague enough to work.. "When the Snow Melts" was his biography (published after his death), which sounds like Bond (I could easily see "Melting Snow" or something along those lines as a Bond title). As for non-Fleming books, "Licensed renewed" would fit a reboot, "Nobody Lives forever" and "Death is forever" are ironic (and just sound like Bond), "Scorpius", "Seafire" and "Brokenclaw" just sound cool, "Never Dream of Dying" and "High time to kill" both fit the death theme, "Trigger Mortis" sounds cool, "Forever and a Day" and "With a Mind to Kill" could also work. Beyond original titles, that is all I got (unless you want to go the Young Bond route, but I disagree there).
One of those titles is slightly off - I think you meant Hell Below Zero, which is a pretty good Alan Ladd movie.
Unfortunately 'Fire Down Bellow' was also the title of a 1997 Steven Seagal film so probably would be avoided-shame as of Cubby's filmography that would have been a cool title to reference.
Young Bond author Charlie Higson said in an interview with us years ago that choice of a title is often an over-egged debate. Paraphrasing, ‘The Beatles’ is a shit name for a band, until it’s in the public consciousness. Similarly, fan reaction to ‘No Time To Die’ as a title was mixed until it just became ingrained on our consciousness as a James Bond title and now we just accept it.
The Beatles was a pun though on Beat Music.
I like Property of a Lady. If you need Justification then it's as simple as a Macguffin belonging to a female character.
If they do want to stick with Fleming then there's a handful of chapter headings that could work as film titles. Personally I could see The Beautiful Lure (From Russia With Love), The Gambit of Shame (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) or Whisper of Love, Whisper of Hate (Casino Royale) working.
I quite like Chapter 12 of Dr No: ‘The Thing’. That could work.
On second thought, that one might already be taken.
@@BenCol Bond is dispatched to Antarctica to investigate the disappearance of a research team...
I get Lifetime Movie vibes from that.
I was thinking it could be used if Bond went after human traffickers.
@@HillValley85Bond stopping Spectre's human trafficking plot mixing it with the short story's premise of getting the bottom on the fabrege egg mcguffin can be an interesting plot imo.
I never thought of it before, but I am willing to bet that the next film will simply be called "007". It will be a new era for the franchise and that would really send the message home. Besides, the poster itself would be worth it. "(Actor's Name Here) is...007"!
EON could also turn to some of the comic book titles like “Permission to Die,” “Shattered Helix,” “A Silent Armageddon,” or “Minute of Midnight.”
As Bond 26 is likely to be a full reboot of the character, 007 might be the most obvious choice. Calvin's suggestion makes sense. I'm not sure Ian Fleming would have used it as a book title. Perhaps too obvious and direct, but I reckon it can work as a film title. After 60 years of the franchise, 007 seems a nice self indulgent title.
Definitely agree with your choices, especially 007 for the reboot, but agree with Risico and Everything Or Nothing 👍🏻
It would be perfect if the next Bond just does three films. And they're titled Risico, 007 and Everything Or Nothing. Then we'll have Bond actors who have done all number of films from 1 to 7. With George Lazenby doing just one all the way to Rogere Moore having done 7.
1:31 Similar to how 'Shatterhand' was speculated as the title for Bond 25 but was officially denied, I seem to recall 'Risico' talked about in the tabloids for Bond 22 [which became Quantum] but it was ruled out as 'Risico was already adapted for For Your Eyes Only'. I can't find that story online so maybe it wasn't true but it would fit why Quantum got the nod instead and why 'Risico' and 'Property of a Lady' [Octopussy] haven't been used]. Property of a Lady came up again for the 3rd Craig film in the tabloids which of course was actually called Skyfall.
8:15 Apparently they can't do this as Eon only have rights to Flemings work [in a deal done when he was still alive] and nothing else, so they'd have to buy the rights to use those titles so it's cheaper to come up with there own! I know they did that for 'Bourne Legacy' [which was a continuation book but they ditched the story].
8:49 They did use the title for the 2012 documentary on the series but that wouldn't stop them reusing it for an actual Bond film.
8:55 At least the meaning behind sister company 'Danjaq'-which hold the movie copyright and trademark for Bond is clear as it was named after the producers wives [Dana Broccoli and Jacqueline Saltzman]. Dana also of course being Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli's mother.
I would love to see the title Licence Renewed be used for the next reboot film
Yeah that one ☝🏼
I was actually thinking that myself, it'd be a delightfully meta choice when you consider how No Time to Die ended and would really convey the sense of it being a 'rebirth' of the character
Yeah this is good for a new bond.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the title of the film Thunderball in another country is known as Calm Down, Mr Bond.
It might not be traditional, but I still like that as a title. It would have really suited a film like License To Kill or Quantum Of Solace.
I'm hoping they'll use, "The Hildebrand Rarity," "007 in New York," and "Risico," for future James Bond movies.
Given, for obvious reasons, that this will be another reboot, I can see the producers going for something a la '007' but perhaps just 'Double-O', following Bond as he acquires said status.
Interestingly enough, I emailed EON productions last month with an idea for a 007 film title. I got a reply saying that they wouldn't even open the email due to potential copyright reasons. Any ideas sent in by fans are treated like this and I'm told that they get tons of similar correspondence! Even a title would have to come from an industry insider. I was disappointed but I guess it's understandable. It was also very nice of them to reply so promptly.
Dear Calvin,
I'm very looking forward to your Licence to Kill review! We watched TLD and LTK back to back and we all thought that it was a magnificent film. The overall Miami Vice vibe and the late "Eightieness" has much in common with todays aesthetics and makes the movie surprisingly modern looking. Sancez' Suits are Amazing! The montage and the overall pacing feels very modern and we alle loved the harder edged vibe! By far John Glens best direction, very stylish cinematography, near perfect montage. Michael Kames score is Top 5 Bond. If you turn up the contrast on your TV and bring down the brightnesss a bit you can get rid of that "unfinished look". After that you can really enjoy all the colours and deapth of the frame created by Alec Mills. Maybe an advice for your review to get it better looking.
Greethings from germany!
I've always had the word 'TRANQUILITY' for a Bond film. I think it sounds cool & mysterious and little different to the others. I can imagine the villain of the film saying it to Bond🤷🏻♂️😂
7:32 “For Queen and Country” probably fits into that category as well of things said in Bond that would translate to a great title
Since we're open to mining titles from elsewhere (my suggestion is nothing lasts forever)in the Bond publication canon then We Might as Well Go the Extra Mile and Go For some James Bond Jr. Titles.
Here are the ones that can be used as Legitimate Titles
Absolute Zero
Sandblast
Cruise to Oblivion
MindField
Deadly Recall
Deadly recall sounds amazing
@@randywhite3947 sounds very late 90s early 90s spy thriller type of title
@@heartbeatcity23 agree sounds like something Arnold Schwarzenegger would do
@@randywhite3947 or Van damme
@@randywhite3947 Bond going "You blew my cover, nah nah nah!!!"
We should remember that bond isn’t just about action it’s also about elegance and class. I personally think that property of a lady would be an excellent title. Also a good opportunity for a female antagonist.
Everything or Nothing should 100% be one of the next movie titles.
For Queen And Country .... i always wanted them to use this. i even made a logo for it! :D
I have two ideas from Bond history: Undertaker's Wind (from Live and Let Die book) and Living on the Edge (from The Living Daylights poster).
Living on the Edge is the better title in my opinion
Yeah that just makes me think of the legendary WWE wrestler having flatulence.
Bond titles are something I enjoy coming up with, there's a definite style to them! I've always expected "The Hildebrandt Rarity" to crop up eventually. Not sure why, it's hardly the vaguest of titles! And if we're going for other, non-Fleming, sources, the Young Bond novel "By Royal Command" has a bloody great title! I also personally would quite like "The Value of a Life", I think that would make a good title.
And on your comments on flamboyant titles, I bring up "Quantum of Solace". Barely anyone in the audience knew what that MEANT and it still got to be the title!
You should do a follow up exploring the chapter titles of Fleming's novels.
Title Bloody Sweat! A story about a veteran turned clothes designer who works with an MIT lab creating military uniforms that kill you when you start to sweat in a combat setting. The villain in his own way wants to end world wars. Set in summer time Boston, Cape Cod and Islands. Plus Encore Casino in Everett MA.
Risico IMO deserves to be the title for the next Bond film. It sounds so cool & can be applied any type of Bond story even a much darker one.
Anthony Horowitzes forever and a day should be adapted as a bond film for those who haven’t read it it’s amazing
I agree, it's a brilliant prequel to Casino Royale and could jet-start the new era in style much like Casino Royale (2006). Trigger Moris would also be a great one to adapt (especially as it takes a Fleming short story and expands on it much like some of the 80s films did). Not read With A Mind To Kill yet but I expect that's be another good one to adapt/take the title from.
I always liked Forever and a Day as a title. Although I’ve never read it, it just makes me think of Bond.
"007" would be a really good title for the new bond series, and I'm not just talking about for one movie. Have it for the whole series, with each successive movie having one of the suggested titles as a sub-title. For example, the first in the new series could simply be called "007" then it's sequel could be "007: Risico" then "007: Everything Or Nothing" ( I am aware that last one could cause some clashes with the original Brosnan PS2 title, but it's been a fair chunk of time since that so I don't think it would be too much of an issue.)
7:26 That spacing makes it look like "00 - A Gent" which sounds awesome if you ask me xD
My choices for future names would be … 1. Risico 2. everything or nothing 3. Hammerhead (from comics) 4. Forever and a day 5. Reunions with death 6. Permission to die 7. By Royal command 8. Agents of Spectre
Who knows what they’ll do . I want Cavill and bring it back to tomorrow never dies type vibes .
Great video Calvin
Shame we didn’t get that ‘A Property Of A Lady’ with Timothy Dalton. ‘Risico’ is a wicked title!!
I'd highly recommend reading the plot description in the book. In short it wasn't going to be a 'Licence to Kill part 2' or anything but far more lighter and outlandish that the other Dalton films [which would have made it closer to the Brosnan films].
@@jamesatkinsonja interesting!
"The Property of a Lady" would have been a thematically appropriate title for Skyfall, with the key theme of that movie being the relationship between Bond and Silva with M and the sense of ownership that comes from working for your country. I.e. both Bond and Silva are the "Property" of a Lady (M)
I would really like some of the non Fleming titles like Carte Blanche, Forever and a Day, Double or Die, or High Time to Kill as potential future film titles even if they’re not direct adaptations of those stories
Risico would be my top choice but if they went with any non Fleming book titles, I’m quite fond of Role of Honour and Scorpius.
Looking through these titles, Cold made me chuckle. I just picture the movie as Bond shivering in Antarctica for two hours.
Ha! Yeah some of the Gardner titles are a little iffy… ‘No Deals, Mr Bond’ is probably the clunkiest I’ve come across so far
And then Bond surfs over a bit of water. That would be a great idea oh..
Forgot about Scorpius. I like it.
Great video as always Calvin. If it was called "Vengeance of the Phoenix" - not that, but something like that - it would have people wondering, "Is *that* how they're going to play the transition from the previous film to the new one..?!" i.e a title that hints not so much at rebirth, but at furious resurrection. In other words, I realise now, I will *never* come to terms with the ending of No Time To Die: I profoundly hate it.
I would love The Property of a Lady as the next bond film with Tom Ellis as James Bond I think he would be a great bond
Next Bond's gotta be Aidan Turner he's perfect.
To me, here in the UK, the idea of Tom Ellis as Bond implies the idea of Miranda Hart as a Bond girl or villainess. 🙂
Marina V, a great singer songwriter, wrote a song as a possible James Bond theme. It's great, and called LKD, for the movie title Live, Kill, Die.
I don’t think Fleming gets enough credit for his inventive story titles. I mean how cool is “Moonraker” or “Dr. No?” Many of the original Bond titles seem to be extremely bland and forgettable.
I remember thinking after Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale that Property of a Lady had to be next because so far the convention in the Craig era had been Fleming titles with two 'O's in them so that they could work the 007 motif into the film's logo.
Turns out I was wrong and they never did either of those things again!
'The Secret Agent' is a title I could realistically see being used for Bond 26 actually. It sounds very "first movie"-ish and also calls back to Casino Royale and Bond's origin without just being, well, Casino Royale. Plus it's not too far off from 'The Batman' in speaking of franchise reboots
007 in New York was kind of adapted as the ending to the film Quantum of Solace. While I think it could still be a good springboard to a larger story, I completely agree on the title!
Coming up with Bond titles is one of my favorite pastimes! Here's a few I had on my phone:
Shoot to Kill
Yesterday or Forever
Forever and a Day
Win, Lose, or Die
Cold Blood
Diamond Head
Afterglow
And that's just the ones on my phone today!
Absolutely wonderful titles. Especially win, lose or die. Where you can choose a middle option
All jokes, right?
Right?.....
"Property of a Lady" is a dope title. It sounds a bit generic but at least audience members can go into the film already asking "what's the property and who's the lady?"
I still remember the ones I came up with when I was a teenager (late 90's):
"How to Kill a Spy"
"The Hearts of Egypt"
"Death From Above"
"Spygame"
"Skyfall" (hand on the Bible! if only I could find the notebook I wrote that one in!)
In fairness, there was also "Skybreaker," "Skyfire," "Skytracer," etc. Lol. Don't know which I would have settled on if they commissioned me (at 14) to make the movie. But I remember it was something of an obsession to imagine what my own Bond movie would be, but I never got much further than coming up with the title and trying to design the logos.
How to Kill a Spy and Spygame are rad!
I originally thought of one called 'From death till dawn' a couple of years ago after listening to 'No time to die' by Billie Eillish. But maybe 'Red Blossoms in Autumn' might be a literally 'flowery' change of pace with sinister undertones. It would have a pretty high kill count for a Bond film and the main villain goes by the name of Red. Red would be an assassin type character who is similar to Scaramanga but is a lot more cunning and less arrogant. He would train a bunch of wannabe assassins to kill bond and eventually would reveal himself to be 'Red Grant' who is now the main villain as opposed to a henchman. There would also be a fight scene in an autumnal park setting in the early morning with his lackeys trying to ambush Bond (where Grant loosely (but not exclusively) kills whenever there is a full moon as part of an execution ceremony but breaks it whenever he feels threatened) which turns into a massive bloodbath where some characters get shot in poppy fields, hiding among piles of fallen autumnal leaves and the early morning ambience to show a lot of bloodshed.
The film would also alternate between the perspective of Bond and Grant, culminating them in fighting on a old rogue orient express cabin (that is violently moving fast and is about to cause a catastrophe by either colliding with an orient express engine from a newer model train, etc) where Grant is ultimately killed by bond from within that cabin by strangulation followed by a shot.
Risico would probably be my personal pick. I agree with you, Calvin. There's just something so cool about saying Risico, and I think it would be a good title
”The Property of a Lady” sounds like a Sherlock Holmes story.
I feel this is too backwards in creative thinking with good writing in the sense that all energy right now should just be put on the next story to make the best screenplay possible. Once you finish the story that ultimately ends with the last cut in post production editing, the title will find itself.
Can't wait for the next bond film "007 in New York" coming out in 2035!
I always loved "Death In The Face" from the YOLT haiku. Great content - really loving your videos.
Something I think is possible is the next movie title coming from the dynamite comics, like Vargr or Eidolon. We live in an era of comic book movies so it's possible. I think it does come from the books it'll prolly be Risico but there's alot of really kick-ass titles that would be cool to see. Ones I'd especially like to see used are Trigger Mortis, Forever and a Day, Win Lose or Die, The Facts of Death, Death is Forever and High Time to Kill
There’s also The Simpsons’ McBain movie title “You have the right to remain dead”. Now THATS a title. 😳
Or just "Right to Remain Dead" maybe?
I love the John Gardiner novel title 'Brokenclaw' also-Forever and a Day
Content aside, I'm a big fan of "James Bond-esque" phrases, such as Devil May Care, that I wouldn't mind something like that. "Nobody Lives Forever" and "All or Nothing" are similar phrases that could fit a Bond film.
Risico is definitely the best option. Property of a Lady could work too, particularly as it has two 'o' letters which could be turned into '007' on the movie's logo - it would probably need to be used with an already-established Bond actor though (not on their first outing).
Great video Calvin, as always. 'Everything or Nothing' hadn't occurred to me and would work well I think. Risico is nice but would confuse people, and a title needs to sound 'Bondian' in a more obvious way. But the obvious choice given the re-boot would be 'Licence Renewned'