When a rogue MI6 agent is assassinated after stealing an encrypted drive of deep-cover asset identities, James Bond is left with nothing but a dying warning: MI6 is corrupt. Ordered to track down the buyer, Bond’s mission takes him to Rome, where he teams up with the agent’s sister, Dr. Evangeline Marks – the only person holding the key to the decryption.
The mission quickly turns personal, and Bond is forced to face a shadowy syndicate and a mastermind who knows his every move.
The Pre-Production Phase, Title & Cast Reveal
Official Announcements
The director, screenwriter, and the target production start date are officially announced. The new 007 is introduced (rumors about the core supporting cast get leaked).
The Launch Event - London, June 22nd
A dedicated, globally broadcast press event. They reveal the movie's official title – The Price of Loyalty – the core supporting cast (aka confirm the rumors), and the primary filming locations.
Cast
Eric Sanders : James Bond
Aspen Reynolds : Dr Evangeline Marks @aspenreynolds
M.ason G.ooding : Miles Vance
M.ads M.ikkelsen : Damian Drake
J.odie T.urner-S.mith : Moneypenny
D.ev P.atel : Q
C.harles D.ance : M
Locations
IT, Rome
UK, London and Blackpool
USA, Los Angeles
The Teaser & Core Details
First Footage
The first teaser trailer drops, followed shortly by the first official poster. Details about the Bond car, the primary Bond girl, and the main villain are formally unveiled.
The Marketing
Main Trailer & Music
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Product Tie-Ins & Press Junkets
Brand partnerships launch their cross-promotions. Detailed interviews and set-visit articles are published in magazines.
Full Plot ↓
The Hook (Pre-Title Sequence)
The film opens with a high-stakes, breathless foot chase through the rain-slicked, neon-lit streets of Blackpool. Bond is tracking a rogue MI6 agent, Miles Vance, who has stolen an encrypted drive containing the identities of deep-cover assets. The chase culminates on the iconic Blackpool Pleasure Beach. In a tense confrontation atop the Big One roller coaster, Vance drops a cryptic warning: "Loyalty is a luxury MI6 can no longer afford."
Before Bond can secure him, Vance is assassinated by a long-range sniper, leaving Bond with only a shattered burner phone pointing to Italy.
The Investigation (London & Rome)
Back in London, M is facing intense political pressure over the security breach. Bond is ordered to find the buyer of the drive. The trail leads to Rome, where the transaction is being brokered by a shadowy syndicate known as The Janus Council. In Rome, Bond crosses paths with Miles' sister, Dr. Evangeline Marks – a brilliant marine biologist who refuses to believe her brother was a traitor. The mandatory romance sparks here, built on shared grief and mutual suspicion. Evangeline possesses the decryption key, making her a target for both MI6 and the villains.
Key Set-Pieces
The Italian Restaurant Fight
While dining at a secluded, upscale trattoria in the heart of Rome to extract information from Evangeline, the duo is ambushed by the syndicate’s cleanup crew.
The Action
What begins as a tense, quiet confrontation quickly erupts into a brutal, claustrophobic brawl. Bond utilizes the environment with classic 007 improvisation — shattering wine bottles, using a heavy copper pasta pot as a shield against gunfire, and flipping a massive wooden dining table to pin an assassin. He and Evangeline escape through the chaotic kitchen into the narrow Roman alleys just as local authorities arrive.
The Vatican Bank Heist & Confrontation
The climax of the second act takes place inside a private, highly secure Swiss-Italian offshore bank bordering Vatican City. The syndicate’s mastermind, a cynical ex-double agent named Damian Drake, is finalizing the wire transfer to buy the MI6 data.
The Scene
Bond, disguised as a high-net-worth philanthropist, infiltrates the bank's subterranean vault. Just as the transfer goes live, Bond overrides the security system. A sleek, high-stakes standoff ensues in the minimalist, marble-and-glass vault. Drake taunts Bond about his blind allegiance to a country that would replace him in a heartbeat — forcing Bond to choose between securing the stolen data or saving Evangeline, who has been captured and rigged to an explosive device.
The Climax
Return to Blackpool
Bond chooses Evangeline, allowing Drake to escape with a partial download of the files. The final act tracks Drake back to his unexpected staging ground: an abandoned, Cold War-era listening post hidden beneath the Blackpool Tower. In a foggy, atmospheric finale on the windswept Irish Sea coast, Bond must use old-school espionage tactics to eliminate Drake’s mercenaries, sabotage the transmitter broadcasting the stolen data, and settle the score.
The Twist & Ending
Bond discovers that "The Price of Loyalty" wasn't just a phrase; M16 had originally authorized the sacrifice of Miles Vance's unit years ago to protect a larger secret. Bond ultimately destroys the data entirely rather than returning it to London, proving his loyalty is to the mission and his principles, not the bureaucracy.
The film closes with Bond and Evangeline on a sleek yacht off the Amalfi Coast, finally off the grid.
I. when they were little, Zach went through a "Don't touch me, Eric" phase, and would freak out whenever Eric got too close to him. lots of screaming, wailing, and pushing Eric away. it started when he learned they were basically glued to each other's side when their Mom was pregnant, and Zach absolutely hated the idea of someone touching him 24/7, 9 months nonstop. he finally accepted their parents' explanations and this phase didn't last long, but it certainly wasn't Eric's favorite time either.
II. Zach's stims include listening to music, humming, and playing with butterfly knives.
III. Zach doesn’t like having two ingredients of the same texture on toast, and hates it when his food touches on the plate. he also tends to be picky with his dishware.
IV. neither Zach nor Eric has ever smoked or vaped or anything like that, but they wouldn’t mind smoking pot because, unlike cigarettes, it smells nice.
V. this one is dumb and it's the first time my OC has this kind of headcanon, but it's become very on brand for Zach to make "my tiny dick" jokes, so... they're all a lie, okay? his sense of humor is no better than some random 12-year-old's, he likes making dick jokes, drawing inappropriate things in places like the Wexley's bulletin board (the building where he lives, hence the dick-doodling anonymous resident's alias - Wanxy), but this guy is well endowed.
VI. apart from drawing some eggplants from time to time and having the same genes, Eric's sense of humor is different. it's far more 80s/90s action comedy movie than Zach's.
VII. Zach and Eric are fluent in Korean and Japanese; their parents travel to South Korea and Japan a lot, so the brothers spent a large amount of their childhood falling in love with that culture as well. Having befriended a boy their age who only communicated in sign language, Eric decided to learn this language as well.
spoken languages: Zach — English, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese (fluent) German and French (conversational) ; Eric — English, Korean, Japanese, and Italian (fluent), German, Swahili, and Bambara (conversational) + ASL.
VIII. masculine, but in a peacock way describes Zach so well it should be his whole bio, aesthetic, and style tag.
IX. Eric used to think that people deserve a second chance, that it’s okay to make mistakes, and we shouldn’t judge another person because we never know what they're going through, blah blah blah… Right now, his life experience proves it's bullshit; he’s not willing to sacrifice himself and/or his own feelings for nothing anymore, and he doesn’t think he owes anyone anything. In verses where Eric divorced Veronica it makes Zach even happier - at least he won't have to dress as his brother and do that himself, thank goodness!
X. if you wanna piss off Zach with a single word, call him Zachary. you're welcome.
when they were little, Zach went through a "Don't touch me, Eric" phase, and would freak out whenever Eric got too close to him. it started when he learned they had spent 9 months basically glued to each other in their Mom's belly, and Zach absolutely hated the idea of someone touching him 24/7 for 9 consecutive months. he accepted their parents explanations and this phase didn't last long, but it certainly wasn't Eric's favorite time either.
their first toys were two matching plush dogs in slightly different shades of blue. they both still have them, but Eric's looks like it had been passed down through two generations.
He couldn't believe what he was looking at. All these months, years, of trying to convince Veronica that they could build a family together. That he had wanted it. That she wouldn't be alone with whatever scared her, and he had thought through all the logistics a thousand times, because it had always been like that in his dreams: movie world, wife, kids. He had always wanted to have exactly what his parents had and relive the reality he had grown up in, adopting the opposite role this time.
Whatever seemed merciful enough to finally bring this wish to him, it clearly had the strangest sense of humor. And not just because after years of Veronica changing her mind back and forth, it was nearly impossible to tell if she still wanted children or not. One day she would agree with him, only to say the opposite on another... And then she showed Eric a piece of plastic with two pink lines sticking out like a sore thumb. A positive pregnancy test. It should be an explosion of happiness, a moment of celebration for the tiniest-biggest dream he had ever wished to come true, yet, all Eric could think about was how the last time the two got close, it was make-up sex for the affair her merciful heart could no longer afford to keep secret.
His job made it so damn easy to track time, to check when he was home and when he left, and Eric couldn't help the feeling that this child wasn't the fruit of their perfect timing. The baby was going to look like his wife and the man who kept his side of the bed warm while Eric was away, on another set, so all he could feel was grief and disgust.
Who cared how Veronica felt when she spat out a hurt "How dare you" after Eric asked her if she thought there even was the thinnest chance the baby was his? This kind of pain hadn't crossed her mind when she invited someone else to their bedroom, so why should he regret any of the ugly aftermath of her infidelity?
"I can't stand being in the same room as you right now," closed the conversation, and he stormed out of the house, replaying every word that had been said.
Should I congratulate you, or are you trying to say I'm gonna be a father?
What?
I'm asking if the baby is mine. I wasn't home, you fucked another guy, I'm asking: is there a chance I should give a fuck about this test?
How dare you? I would never risk getting—
Oh, don't make me laugh...
There were no vases shattered into a million pieces, no glasses smashed against the wall, no bruised knuckles, and no tiny red dots left behind on the light wall.
I can't stand being in the same room as you right now.
And then there was silence.
It filled the luxurious detached house in New Jersey for a couple more days. Awfully long, bitter days when neither reached out. Cathartic silence. Eric had been staying at Zach's until it was time to return to work, and he had to do something about the news. Now the perspective was different, though. Everything was black and white, and there were no greys anymore.
If he wasn't the father he was going to leave Veronica.
**
"You want to do what?!"
Veronica chugged the glass of water she had poured herself to cool her nerves down, hoping she hadn't heard him right. A prenatal paternity test. That's how he perceived her. That's how determined he was to humiliate her and himself, seemingly taking the strangest revenge possible. She should have kept the affair to herself, and he wouldn't have noticed anything, but every time he left the house for long, his presence was like a truth serum. She couldn't stand lying to him when he was so caring, told her that he had missed her all that time. "You're being ridiculous. You're insane! I'm not doing that, you're embarrassing yourself." She snickered, holding onto the empty glass as if it anchored her right then and there. "If someone somehow finds out... What will they think about me? What will they think about you?" She waved her hand dismissively, leaving no room for any protests, but Eric wasn't backing off.
"No, you owe me a fucking paternity test. I deserve to know if the baby is mine, now."
"It is-"
"It is no one's now! If the test proves I'm the father, I will pretend I'd never heard about someone shoving his cock up where it doesn't belong. I will never say a word about how shit a wife you have been; not to you, nor myself, or any-fucking-body." He clenched his jaw in physical pain that looking at her in this uncertainty brought him. "But as soon as I learn those two lines have nothing to do with me, you're leaving my life." With his lips trembling and brows coming together as he focused on not breaking into angry tears, Eric shook his head a little. The sight of Veronica's eyes glistening with his own helplessness and pain nearly broke him.
"That's cruel," she whispered, voice breaking as she swallowed the tears she had been blocking from running down her cheeks. "You're cruel. The baby is yours."
Because you say so? asked his eyes. He had been drowning in the sea of lies he once thought was a life-giving spring. Her words and promises were empty, and so proved the list of things she once claimed were true. Eric had to bite down on his lip and escape her gaze, look away so he didn't succumb to the same kind of mercy he had been falling for for years.
"No one wants this test to support your words more than I do."
Why would you want a stalker? You don't want that. Unlike the character I play, I don't stalk women; don't make this some new misconception about me. I would be a really shitty stalker too, trust me.
Wow... I love seeing women in male-dominated fields! I don't know Morse code, I can't reply, sorry.
Hm. Poetic. Hope it was a tear of joy.
To quote a classic: "I'm a meat popsicle." — No, don't lick your screen, it's dirtier than this tweet! Don't lick your screen.
Man, do I make a lot of women cry! It's never my intention unless they're tears of joy. Wherever they come from. The only kind of tears a woman should cry because of a man. Joy.
Yeah, right! You're clearly not trying hard enough, goddammit?! Try harder!
Twinkie! God, I love twinkies. ——— Oh, I've been on a diet for way too long, so y'all can thirst over a fit version of me! A kind soul told me it's not about my pastry preference... Fuck... ——— Still twinkie. @autumnonheels
And thank god mine didn't! That would be embarrassing. Something to think about on a lonely evening, hm?
That wasn't our intention; you've seen the show, you know that's not hot at all. I'm stopping it.
🤪what’s the wildest place they’ve ever done something sexual? ❤️🔥what’s their most erogenous zone? 💋do they like to kiss while having sex? do they cuddle afterward? 💦what’s their immediate post-orgasm reaction? 🫶what does after care look like for them?
𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒
what’s the wildest place they’ve ever done something sexual?
He had left the bathroom at some gala a little more relaxed, and his trailer's walls had seen some spicy moments. He and Auttie also made her fantasy come true during the hurricane, when they visited the Carroll High School's Principals Office and tested the very (un)comfortable desk it offered.
what’s their most erogenous zone?
Neck, chest, and palms. The last one is not so obvious, but he melts.
do they like to kiss while having sex? do they cuddle afterward?
ABSOLUTELY to both. He's incredibly kissy-cuddly in general, but there's no better moment to kiss until their lips are swollen and coming down from the dopamine high is more relaxing with his partner in his arms. Besides, Eric and Autumn need to feel the other all the time, even if it's just them holding their pinkies.
what’s their immediate post-orgasm reaction?
More often than not, he'll greedily try to make another round happen, but if that doesn't work, he'll take care of the mess and then cuddle while he's catching his breath.
what does after care look like for them?
He'll help his partner clean up and keep her in an embrace for as long as her hormones work that cuddly magic. It happens quite often that Eric and Autumn fall asleep together and take a nap, and he loves being her pillow.
