I'm only familiar with that video you linked by Gaming Historian, so I'm curious about this movie. But I am "worried" about them playing up the drama, which it just doesn't need. Like you said, the story itself is wonderful - smart, inventive, if somewhat naive, developer surpressed by the horrible system of SovietRussia, contrasted with western creative ways to make money.

It's basically like Contact - almost perfect premise and build-up, but it just deflates like a leaky balloon, with stupid religious nonsense mixed in

Hey man, if we ever start visiting and invading planets, I'm sure there will be a few groups of humans who think that landing on planets with nitrogen or methane as the local atmosphere is a perfectly smart thing to do.

But they used the same actors for older Bond movies as well. Both Connery and Moore did quite a few movies, with no need for continuity between them.

So yea, I think this can definately work and is probably my preferred format for Bond. The experiment with Craig and his decades-long lusting for Vesper was... interesting? But ultimately not worth dedicating 6 (?) movies to.

It's easy. The guys are all called "Chris" and the women probably have an Instagram you can subscribe to. Shouldn't be that hard to remember.