Maybe Drax was the Landlord, and he was using a secret app jamming device to slow the game down. "A entire drinking establishment in the centre of London" "And no one knows it's up here"

"I will make you sit in pubs and consume large amounts of alcohol".

"Congratulations, Mr Dyson, this was just another tes... My god, what happened?!" "Nothing! The gun you gave me was fake. I had to find another way to kill the dog!"

Thats the start of Dog Soldiers lol

Indeed. There’s a lot of options they could use with “Blank” of Spectre, but Shadow’s pretty strong without being too generic.

Would prefer Bond to move on from SPECTRE. Especially after the Craig era

I think it would work well for a streaming miniseries as a spinoff.

@@DavidJarvis01 Given they were absent from official Bond films for over 40 years, I can see them wanting to get use out of them! There also quite useful as a 'apolitical' organisation.

it could have worked as a direct sequel to NTTD. As events occur following the demise of SPECTRE.

I wonder if he's a professional actor/acting student and the hotel job is his regular means of earning a living. I've encountered actors playing parts in these kind of things and man do they commit to it! You think, hey it's just a minimum wage thing for tourists, but to an actor every role is getting to do what they love (plus you never know when you're going to get talent spotted).

I wonder if you play the game right, a motorcyclist flies through the window, and you tell the florist "You should have brought lilies".

"Who are all these people with briefcases" "They're here for the briefcase convention" "There's a convention for everything".

For the moment, I Expect You To Die is the closest thing we have.

Any kind of spy-espionage thriller in VR would be Incredible. We'll get there in the next decade or two.

I just really struggle to get excited about a 'reboot' and a 'different timeline' (a cheap storytelling device guaranteed to remove any tension if ever I saw one). Apart from the fact they completely messed up Spectre and Blofeld in the Craig films, the end of NTTD has fundamentally changed Bond forever, and not in a good way.

@@usernameinfoEach to there own but It doesn't bother me as Bond has already done a successful hard reboot with Casino Royale [which disregarded the 20 previous films] and it could be argued that 'Goldeneye' was a soft reboot [given the mostly new cast& crew and downplaying references]. By this point many franchises have done multiple time lines/continuities [to the extent 'Spiderman: No Way Home' crossed over the 3 time lines of that series]. I think it's almost certain if Craig's stint ended differently, the next Bond would still have been a hard reboot.

@@usernameinfo people had doubts during OHMSS, LTK and Die another Day. Bond has pulled through. dont worry :)

@@jamesatkinsonja to be fair there have been many soft reboots in the series. but yeah Casino Roylae was a reboot of REBOOTS

@@usernameinfo "NTTD has fundamentally changed Bond forever, and not in a good way". Its irrelevant since a reboot means the events don't run into one another, which is why James Bond rather than just 007 can come back.

"What a time.........to a kill"

And hope someone doesn't put 'Don't stop me now' on the jukebox...

"Alimentary, Dr Dyson"

oooooooo yeah Bond villian Documentary sounds great.

Has Pierce actually commented on not wanting to play Bond again?

@@davidjames579 He said a few years ago he wasn't interested as 'my time was my time'. He's also endorsed both Cillian Murphy and Aaron Taylor-Johnson for the part recently.

@@jamesatkinsonja Oh fair enough. As much as I love the idea of a Pierce Old Bond film or series, as he's still got gravitas (as older Connery did) I never believed they'd make it. And given his exit from the role, I didn't think he'd want to. But even based on that, it would be nice to have something to make up for that. I guess The November Man will do.

@@davidjames579 Interestingly, Pierce is currently filming a new spy movie, Stephen Soderberg's 'Black Bag' [with features Naomi Harris] although not sure if he's a main character as details on the film are currently thin.

There certainly the closest I think we're ever going to get to a 'faithful Fleming adaption'.

Essentially its a live chat call centre situation, so maybe they got swamped with players that day, and/or staff phoning in sick. Hope it wasn't just one person, running everyone's game, and potentially losing track of each team's progress. "Well done, you completed the mission!" "But I'm still sat in the first pub".

In a way the concept of the game is not that modern. When I was young my family took part in 'Car Treasure Hunts' where you'd drive around a designated area, from clues on a quiz sheet, and at each location there would be a thing stick to a lamppost or in someone's window. This is just someone sending texts for this, but is dependent on the system working properly and someone actually typing responses on time. In a weird way, the 'analog' version worked more efficiently because it didn''t require people and tech to run the game.

Pierce "You were expecting someone else?"

Yes, that would be fabulous, if he arrived there & said that.@@davidjames579. :)

@@DabionFreedom After Calvin swam near him at an Icelandic Hot Springs, it'd be incredible if he then encountered him in a London pub.

I doubt it given the novels and films are owned by different people [and the novel was to tie in with the 2023 coronation]. Eon had just got the rights back to 'Casino' in the early 2000's [when MGM swapped Spiderman with Sony] so it was more 'good timing' when they were looking to reboot.

I read that the other day. Shame really. But it goes to show that Lana had fantatsic potnetial for someone who became a star because of youtube

Despite what David Arnold has said, I can't believe that NGAG wasn't a QoS theme. The lyrics fit the film so well.

​@@davidjames579 I certainly can believe it came out of QoS composing sessions and he polished it off for the Bassey album soon after. Given we don't know much about the Amy Winehouse song, I could believe Arnold had it out of ideas for her song before she and her team did a polish on it [which sadly never happened]. I'd be surprised if Bassey would have sung it if it was used for the film instead of someone more contemporary though for commercial reasons.

@@jamesatkinsonja I was under the impression that EON wanted to do one more song with Bassey. Maybe to make up for Moonraker's lackluster legacy, while they still can. I know they asked Paul McCartney back, to do Skyfall. He said they should use a new talent, and his suggestion was Adele, who he'd just heard.

@@davidjames579 Skyfall as the anniversary film would have been the ideal opportunity to have a 'legacy' artist return but while a nice idea, I think McCartney was right to direct them to a big contemporary artist like Adele.

What was the wrinkle there?

@@davidjames579 There were only two books available with about five to six groups stacked up waiting for them. So you lost the challenge of finding the book, had to sit around for 20+ minutes waiting for one to come free and then, for expediency, ended up sitting with a second group to go through the clues rather than do it yourself. Was the one negative out of what was a great event

@@Ukcavhead1 Ah fair enough.

Mate, Id love to go back to the country side :)

i'll send you all my bond links tomorrow. sorry for the delay and liked what you said in the posts in the last week on those pages :)

@@DafyddBrooks No worries!

Apparently Q plugged an unchecked USB into the whole network again.

If Brian Cox turned up in the pub and started telling stories I'd call it a win.

"Think on your sins"

I'm sure he'll do it eventually but I'm sure he said he wants to do all the Bond novels first then do the spin offs so it'll be a long wait.

In Space? Underwater?

Nice to see you here mate. aww thats a shame, but it sounds like its not worth it ha

I catched it when it uploaded 28 minutes ago

I've heard a rumour that IO has chucked the game in.

There will be a lot of gaming showcase next month maybe it will be there

​@@bouncingbluesoul5270 IO hired a 'mission's director' for the game in April this year so it's clearly a going concern but one that's still a while from materialising.

I said to a friend on the opening weekend for NTTD that I wouldn't expect the next Bond until 2025 at the earliest [as they were probably burnt out after the last two productions have been pretty troubled and they needed to have some distance from Craig's series before re-launching] so I always thought we were in for a long haul. It's not helping maters that were getting constant 'stories' about the film hiring actors etc so people think it's in production when it isn't [like the 'Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been offered the role' story which was clearly nonsense] and even if they wanted to get going, the 2023 strikes would have prevent it. It will happen eventually [even if Eon isn't doing it, someone else will]

@@bouncingbluesoul5270 IO hired new staff for it in April so it's clearly a 'going concern' but one that's still a long way from materialising.

I wonder if Hidden City run Escape Rooms? "You can't leave the Escape Room until you've drank eight pints"