Bond 24 - What Should The Next Title Be

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Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Well, none of the proposed titles in this poll really do much for me.

Death Is So Permanent states the obvious way too much. Besides, we can't prove this title yet. A ghost could always pop up somewhere in the Bond universe...

Doomslayer sounds like a dark evil fantasy movie. They should give that one to Peter Jackson or something.

The Hildebrand Rarity: huh?

My Enemy's Enemy sounds like next year's award-winning drama.

The Property of A Lady: I know this comes from one of the short stories, but does that mean we'll be getting a remake of Octopussy? Meh.

Risico: what is that, a name?

Shamelady: compound words worked for Skyfall, but this is just stupid, come on!

Shatterhand:

The Undertaker's Wind:

The Writing On My Heart: sounds like a sweeping epic romance. Unless Bond actually pulls out a man's heart and writes on it; that could be awesome.

I do like the title for Devil May Care. If this is based on the novel I read, which was like some kind of semi-canon Bond book written in Ian Fleming's writing style, I remember the story being pretty so-so; I'd rather the filmmakers keep the title and come up with their own plot.

Other than that, I don't know. Just surprise us. It can't be any worse than freaking Octopussy.



I like it!

Some of these are references to Fleming's work. The Hildebrand Rarity is a short story he wrote. Same for Risico, the story of which was already used as a subplot in For Your Eyes Only (Greek drug smuggling).

The Undertaker's Wind is a reference from the novel Live and Let Die (the undertakers wind is the breeze blowing out from shore in Jamaica, taking the bad air with it).

Shatterhand is the alias adopted by Blofeld in the novel You Only Live Twice.

As you stated, Property of a Lady was a short story as well, used as subplot in Octopussy.