QUANTUM OF SOLACE
  1. opens 7-NOV-2008

shooting begins January 2008

 

 

Directed by Marc Forster

SCREENPLAY BY :

Paul Haggis AND
Neal Purvis & Robert Wade

based on short stories by Ian Fleming

Adaptation by Robert Wade

 

 

The title seems to confuse people.

Quantum means the smalest amount of energy, solace means comfort. So what's the smallest amount of comfort Bond can muster after the death of true love, Vesper Lynd. Can he avenge her death. Yes, but it's only a quantum of solace for how he feels about her. He will never be the same man again. This story continues seconds after CASINO ROYALE finished.

 

MAJOR 5:
Daniel Craig ... James Bond
Mathieu Amalric ... Maurice Green
Olga Kurylenko ... Camille
Jeffrey Wright ... Felix Leiter
Gemma Arterton ... Agent Fields

MINOR 3:
Judi Dench ... M
Giancarlo Giannini ... René Mathis
Jesper Christensen ... Mr. White

Produced by
Barbara Broccoli & Michael G. Wilson

Original Music by David Arnold

Production Design by Peter Lamont

PLOT:

What has to be resolved in part 2?
Who is Vesper's boyfriend? Is Mr. White still alive? Bond must let him go to follow the money. Obviously, it's used to fund terrorism in Montenegro (in the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Crotia region).

Dominic Greene, inside Green Planet, an environmental movement, actually intends to stage a coup d'etat in Bolivia for their huge natural gas reserves (the seond largest in the world). Greene is helping ex-General Medrano get back into power. Bond must stop them and deal with whoever killed Vesper.

PLOT:

A1. White is shot and taken into custody.

A2. Car chase in Siena, Italy.

C1. Stairway. Austria. M and Bond interrogate White.

A2. Forensics has fingerprint at bank account in Haiti.

C3. Haiti (shot in Panana). Meets Camille. She's a quantum of solace. Misses Vesper.

A3. ??

A4. Jet boats chase.

C4.
Meets Agent Field. Camille is a quantum of solace. She's a Russian agent working with the terrorists in Africa.

Hence the poster indicates Africa and points towards Russia.

Misses Vesper.

 

A5. Plane to Bolivia (actually shot Peru).

A6. Airplane fight. Agent Fields killed. General Medrano killed.

A7. Bond tackles Greene dangling inside the skyscraper.

 


PURE SPECULATION by Kevin Hainsworth
(trying to cobble together a story from the
Ian Fleming book of five short
stories including RISICO).

QUANTUM OF SOLACE is a short story taken from an Ian Fleming collection of five short stories. Bond is told a story by a man about his own marriage. When Bond walks back to his Nassau, Bahamas hotel he reflects on his own life has been too rushed and violent to smell the roses. So, in BOND 22, presumably, Bond will reflect on the recent loss of Vespar Lynd. It's an authentic repackaging of a Fleming piece, since they've used up most of his stuff.

But a Bond film must have extreme action, not two guys talking, so let's look at what could be in store:

Dispatch rider is ambushed and important documents are stolen. M dispatches Bond to find out who's behind it. Mr. White? The organization behind him? Who is funding the terrorists and why?
M wants Bond to kill Kristatos for purely personal reasons. He owes her one for staying with him after his disaster in Africa. Kristatos is tied in with Montenegro rebels. He has to sneak into Serbia from Montenegro.
Bond is board a ship where he meets a wife who has lost her husband. She's very pretty and he begins to suspect she killed him. Bond stops arms shipments to Montenegro by planting grenades on the ship. She dies too as he jumps ship.

Kristatos is supposed to be a CIA agent, but M no doubt knows he's dirty, hence the killing assignment for Bond. Kristatos is the double agent Rene Mathis. So, who is Columbo? Mr. White. Did he die? Before he dies, Kristatos/ Mathis reveals the real bad guy is Columbo. He meets Columbo at Skadarsko Lake (IT'S A GREAT LOCATION!). Columbo is running heroin from Rome (or Venice) into England. I prefer they're trying to write off the London Club commercial debt.

 

 

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