Synopsis:

This heavily cuts the Daniel Craig films together into a single movie with a Spectre-focused plot arc. It throws most of No Time To Die in the trash, there's a separate edit that uses the good parts of that film. It also disposes of all the Bond girls except for Vesper Lynd, Severine, and Madeleine to streamline the film for the shorter time and fit the plot arc. Action sequences were pared down as well, disposing of the airport terrorist, almost all of QOS, Moneypenny sniper scene and the following bond injury drama, Mexico city, Hoffler Klinik chase, and the C intelligence network drama. This keeps a decent balance of action and drama without feeling like there's a quota of action sequences, and without bloating the runtime with drama that doesn't fit the Spectre arc. Vesper, Mr White, and Blofeld storylines are more coherent since they're no longer fragmented across multiple films with hours of unrelated filler in between.

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Change List:

This does rework the story a bit especially in regard to M, so some of this may be controversial especially for those fans who really enjoyed Casino Royale or Skyfall in their original form. Below are the major story beats: +swap in QOS MGM logo -cut CR black/white intro sequence +move forward the Africa scenes -trim stock market stuff, leave as implied gambling addiction -cut part of overly-long bombmaker chase +swap in QOS title sequence -cut plot with airport terrorist and his wife, already have his name to find known associates -cut tracker insertion subplot, although we do see it removed later -trim a bit of Vesper/Bond conversation here and there to make the tone a bit more playful -cut the traitorous policeman subplot, implied Vesper falls into a trap from Bond's reaction -trims throughout the poker game to keep it from getting overly long without losing the poker hands +keep Bond being poisoned -cut all other intermissions and drama away from the poker table to keep it concise and timely single game -trim down Mr White interrogation a bit, removing traitor subplot -cut almost all of the rest of QOS, resume again in Russia for the wrap up of Vesper's plot -cut the opening mission of Skyfall +recut the MI5 bombing so that M dies earlier, trim her from all later scenes -cut Bond leaving for a while and being tested for duty again +move forward M funeral stuff (this introduces Moneypenny) +new M sends Bond on Shanghai mission -cut Moneypenny shaving scene -trim down very long Bond interrogation on island, a fair amount of which calls back to his leave of absence -trims so that bad guy escapes earlier, and remove the trial bomb subplot +Bond goes to skyfall alone, lots of small trims to remove M from these sections -cut everything after house explosion, implied bad guy died in it -cut Day Of The Dead -cut the cliche intelligence coup plot - the only mention of spying left in is the Blofeld lair scenes -cut wife of spectre agent, we can get to Mr White without her -trim some of the spectre meeting, goes on too long -cut the mountain clinic chase -cut train fight, that guy is only seen in the car chase after spectre, he isn't a persistent henchman +use a small scene from NTTD as an outro