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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9598041" data-attributes="member: 78087">No, I really don’t think it is. I’d much prefer a Bond with morals and ethics.Heck, I’ve talked so much about what I do and don’t want so I might as well put out my own pitch for Next Bond.Title: On His Majesty’s Secret Service (hey, it’s not technically the same title as the previous; I do think you need to use a Bond title to make a reboot work, but it should be where the previous version wasn’t very good).Actor: Rege-Jean Page.Act 1: Commander James Bond is a decorated naval officer who has served in several combat deployments such as Operation Shader (joint actions against ISIL in the Gulf). Most recently, he has served in the Special Boat Service, the Royal Navy’s special forces unit. After his unit is ordered to engage what he is told are terrorists on an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nave_Andromeda_incident" target="_blank">oil tanker</a> off the Isle of Wight, but who turn out to be Nigerian asylum seekers. Bond refuses to shoot and kill; after the incident is covered up, he resigns his commission in guilt and disgust.Act 2: A few years later, Bond is reluctantly recruited into the Special Intelligence Service, the UK’s external intelligence agency. “With all due respect, sir, I don’t see how my skills and experience contribute to His Majesty’s Secret Service”. His new boss, codenamed M, persuades him with arguments about duty and the need for a moral decision-maker when things go south. Bond goes undercover in Switzerland along with actual SIS intelligence officer Eve Moneypenny to investigate Teresa di Vincenzo and Balthasar Bleuville, wellness influencers who have been curing people of their allergic conditions.Act 3: After a certain amount of skiing, sneaking, and shooting, Bleuville and di Vincenzo turn out to be FSB agents planning to release biological agents that will kill crops and livestock across Europe, crippling EU economies and making EU countries more vulnerable to Russian influence and invasion. It turns out that Bond is actually quite good at subterfuge, but he’s even better at blowing things up; while he and di Vincenzo fall in love, she doesn’t betray her side and survives to Catwoman another day. Bleuville is inevitably scarred in an explosion but also survives. Moneypenny and Bond destroy the viruses and foil the plot.Epilogue: Moneypenny returns to London and recommends to M that Bond be retained as part of reactivating the Double Zero program, a select group of SIS agents to be deployed in the most dangerous situations, with her as his handler. M opens the old Double Zero files and remarks that Bond would be the seventh such agent; the file contains photos of the previous six, portrayed by Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, and Craig.Bleuville, now using the name Blofeld, reports to his superiors that a more flexible approach is needed to undermine the EU in future; he unveils a plan for an international cell-based organisation codenamed SPECTRE.</blockquote>

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