Title: The Lucifer Gambit
Bond: Clive Owen
M: Patrick Stewart
Q: Richard Ayoade
Bond Girl: Zoe Saldana
Villain: Ray Wise
The Dragon: Choi Min-sik
Theme Song by: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
PLOT: Bond is sent to Las Vegas to investigate the death of an MI6 agent who had been investigating the shady dealings of a billionaire & casino magnate (Wise), teaming up with a CIA operative (Saldana) along the way. Attending the opening of his new luxury hotel & casino, Gambito Diablo, they also discover Wise's bodyguard/assassin (Min-sik), a mostly mute, blind martial arts master with heightened senses, capable of landing killing blows (designed to be a throwback to Oddjob/Thunderball-style henchmen). Eventually, Bond discovers that the resort is a actually a cover/housing for a superweapon designed to destroy Las Vegas & have all the signs point to an act of terrorism, with Wise planning to loot several casinos of their money, then destroy Las Vegas & have his construction company ties help rebuild it; in addition, the crazed man believes that this will also help the economy out & help rebuild America. Bond is about to confront Wise for the final showdown...
...But THEN, Min-sik shoots Wise in the head.
See, in a subversion, it is revealed that Min-sik is really the Big Bad, & actually a very intelligent man to boot, having played up the whole "henchman" angle all along, as he's really a high-ranking agent for a newly-reformed SPECTRE, & the superweapon is actually designed to send out a massive EMP pulse that will not only destroy cripple a major part of the United States, but also destroy any computers in the area containing evidence leading to SPECTRE. They had, in fact, been using Wise all along.
The final battle takes place as the superweapon is about to go off (as usual), as Bond & Min-sik battle. Bond stops the weapon from going off, & escapes from the crumbling casino in time; as various parts of the casino - chips, cards, slot machines, & rubble begin to fall around Min-sik, Bond utters "Mr. Min-sik, I believe it's time for you to cash out." Min-sik's body isn't found in the rubble, however, leaving the door open for a bit of a sequel.
...Admittingly, I'm not really that big of a Bond enthusiast, so I can't say I know what the best to do with him is (hell, half that plot was taken from Dead Rising 2 for the moment), but that's my shot, hope I got it in under the wire.





