Live to Love Another Day

Live to Love Another Day is an upcoming American-British spy film, a reboot and the 26th overall film of the James Bond film series produced by Eon Productions. It is being directed by Nora Fingscheidt from a screenplay by Phoebe Waller-Bridgeand Brandon Barker. Although the film is not a direct adaptation of any specific Ian Fleming novel, the plot does borrow elements and characters from the first five novels (Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia, with Love) with Casino Royale and Live and Let Die encompassing the majority of the story. The film stars Charlize Theron, Milla Jovovich, Kate Winslet, Dave Franco, Sacha Baron Cohen, Natalya Andrejchenko and Henry Cavill.

Synopsis
"When her younger brother is mysteriously killed in the jungles of Madagascar, young MI6 spy Jane Bond goes rogue and teams up with CIA Agent Felix Leiter and Soviet-defector Maya in order to track down the killer."

Plot
Jane Bond (Charlize Theron) is a hot headed spy designated for domestic espionage in Manchester and labeled as a potential threat to others. When an MI6 telegram informs her of her younger brother's death in Madagascar, she travels to the heart of London to demand a mission to find the killer. M (Kate Winslet) refuses and reminds the young spy that she is unqualified for field work and must return to her post in Manchester, otherwise she will be disbarred from espionage and designated a traitor of the Crown.

Reluctantly, Bond returns to Manchester only to be stopped by a man at the train station who  identifies himself as CIA agent Felix Leiter (Dave Franco). He informs Bond of a high stakes card game being set up at the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco with one of the players being a suspected member of the Russian mafia as well as the person who killed her brother. He gives her a manila envelope simply reading Marshall Aid; inside she finds thirty-two million francs and directions to a hotel where she is to meet up with CIA informant Maya Normusbutt, a Soviet agent defecting to the US.

Arriving at the hotel in Monte-Carlo, Bond orders a drink at the bar where she is approached by Maya and the two discuss a strategy to beat the suspect, a high rolling criminal by the name of Le Chiffre (Sacha Baron Cohen), who has ties to SMERSH, a Soviet counterintelligence agency. They finish their drinks and adjourn to a suite Maya reserved to prepare for the card game. It's here that Maya attacks Bond, revealing herself to be a double agent working for SMERSH while feigning defection. She said that SMERSH wanted her to eliminate any MI6 agent that interfered. Bond overpowers and subdues the taller agent, leaving Maya handcuffed to the bed frame as she heads to the casino floor.

The casino overlooks the famous Circuit de Monaco where practice for the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix continues. Bond takes her seat at the table, using the assumed identity of Satine Avril, a wealthy French socialite. The game commences which quickly turns to a heated confrontation between Bond and Le Chiffre, with Bond eventually winning and taking over 80 million francs from Le Chiffre that belonged to SMERSH. He attempts to escape with the money when Bond confronts him about her brother’s death, sending his bodyguards after her. She single-handedly defeats the three large Russian men as the other players rush from the room. She threatens to break one of the men’s neck if he doesn’t reveal where Le Chiffre went. Gasping for air, he tells her to check the paddock.

Jane Bond arrives at the paddock of the Circuit de Monaco just as Le Chiffre steals a Ferrari formula car belonging to the French team and peels onto the track. Bond follows suit by commandeering a nearby Maserati being prepared for track and speeding off after him. A high speed chase ensues that sees the spies eventually leave the racing surface and attempt to navigate the traffic of Monaco’s busy streets. Bond manages to shoot out Le Chiffre’s tires causing the car to spin near a scenic overlook. He jumps from the car just as it careens over the edge and Bond jumps on top of him, pinning him to the ground. She questions him again about her brother’s death and he reveals that he’s only a hitman working for someone called Mr. Big. He reveals that he runs a number of illicit businesses in the United States, including a diamond smuggling ring based around an unsuspecting jewelry store in Chinatown, San Francisco. He says to follow the blue diamond as he passes out.

While at the airport awaiting her flight to the US, Bond is approached by a disheveled and bruised Maya Normusbutt who assures Jane she’s truly changed this time and wants to help her take down SMERSH. Bond asks what Maya knows about Mr. Big and she reveals that Mr. Big runs the largest crime syndicate on the North American West coast. She claims he runs things out of an industrial warehouse yard in Oakland. They agree to make this their first stop.

During the flight, Bond decides to check inside Maya’s carry-on bag that she had refused to let Jane or the flight attendant help her with. After making sure she was still asleep, Bond carefully opens Maya’s bag and notices a large velvet sack inside tied shut with a gold ribbon. She opens it, revealing a 45 carat blue diamond along with a hand written note with directions to drop the diamond off at a warehouse in Oakland where any, and all problems will be dealt with. She quickly closes the bag and returns it to its spot as Maya starts to wake.

After arriving at the San Francisco International Airport, Bond and Maya get a rental car to get to the drop point in Oakland. It's a tense car ride when Maya reveals to Jane that she was awake and saw her look through her bag and that that causes a problem for her. Bond suddenly slams the brakes and jerks the car left causing it to spin and making Maya drop the small gun she had retrieved. The two fight for control of the wheel before Bond elbows Maya hard in the face, breaking her nose. She screams at her why she has a diamond and Maya retorts that it's simply her best friend. Bond backhands her, getting a new response: SMERSH demanded she smuggle the diamond back in exchange for being relieved from her duties. She reveals she did want to defect but that it isn’t as easy as simply moving to London. Bond starts to take pity on the agent before coming to her senses and leaving her stranded on the side of the road as she takes the diamond and races off towards Chinatown and Mr. Big.

Using Maya’s ID and clothes she picks up at a discount store, Bond enters the jewelry shop and attempts to handover the diamond saying there was an issue at the warehouse. She’s quickly figured out to be a spy and is attacked by the cashier. Bond manages to subdue him just as five more men appear from the basement. Using judo and Jeet Kune Do, she manages to defeat them all and reclaim the diamond and francs as she breaches the basement. There she comes face-to-face with Mr. Big.

We learn that the mysterious Mr. Big is an older Ukranian woman (Natalya Andrejchenko) who used her late husband’s SMERSH connections to fund her criminal empire in the States. She managed to cultivate a legend about a tough as nails Russian man single-handedly taking over the Western world. Bond asks why she killed her brother and Mr. Big reveals that James was close to unraveling her web of crime and that he had to be eliminated, just as Jane will be now. An intense mano e mano fight occurs where Mr. Big appears to have the upper hand at first. Eventually Bond manages to take control and subdues Mr. Big, placing her in handcuffs and formally arresting her on account of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Back in London, Jane Bond is initially condemned by MI6 for her rogue activities and blatant disregard for orders with her career seemingly over. However, M makes the revelation that because Bond managed to capture an international criminal with little incident she will be given the highest promotion any agent can receive. She will become a 00-level field agent, taking the designation 007 and receiving her license to kill. M then gives Bond her first official mission as a field agent and sends her to Germany where the former traitorous spy and former soldier Sir Hugo Drax is known to be hiding. Upon infiltrating Drax’s hideout, he demands to know who “the hell you think you are.” Jane coldly replies, “The name’s Bond, Jane Bond.”

Cast

 * Charlize Theron as Jane Bond
 * Milla Jovovich as Maya Normusbutt
 * Kate Winslet as M
 * Hayley Atwell as Miss Moneypenney
 * Lupita Nyong'o as Q
 * Dave Franco as Felix Leiter
 * Sacha Baron Cohen as Le Chiffre
 * Natalya Andrejchenko as Mr. Big
 * Henry Cavill as James

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