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Location, location, location! MI6 wraps up all the
news on upcoming shooting from around the world on
the 22nd James Bond film...
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Production Diary (4)
16th January 2008
As MI6 first
reported back in October, the
Bond 22 production team
were planning to film some sequences at Lago di Garda (Lake
Garda) in Italy. At the time, details
were sketchy. A well
researched report by
a German news outlet confirmed new details of the
Italian shooting schedule for Daniel Craig's
second James Bond outing.
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At the end of last year, writer Paul
Haggis spent the final few days of his Bond 22 script-writing
exercise at Lake Garda, and the atmosphere must
have rubbed off as nearby locations feature in the story.
The director of tourism of the region, Marco Girardi,
confirmed that the Bond 22 film crew will visit the Lake
Garda region for ten days at the end of April. Filming
is reported to focus on the area around the shores of
the famous lake.
Action will take place along the narrow
streets and winding roads around the lake in the villages
of Torbole, Limone sul Garda, and Tremosine. MI6 understands
the scenes filmed at these locations will feature early in
the movie. |
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Above: Bond 22 action will be filmed along the shores of
Lake Garda in Italy in late April.
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The production team visited
the Stelvio pass in the Italian Alps back in August to
recce for a possible car chase, reported to feature the Aston
Martin DBS versus the new
Ford GT 40.
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Above: A church in the old quarter
("El Casco
Antiguo") of Panama City
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Tailored For Panama
Scenes for Bond 22 will be filmed
in Panama in the middle of February in a colonial district of its capital
city. The filming will take place at two sites in the old quarter ("El Casco
Antiguo") of Panama City, where the National Institute of Culture and some
private buildings will be used. The shooting will last almost one week and it
will take place mainly in the afternoon and evening, said Ariel Espino, the director
of the Office of the Casco Antiguo.
Espino met the last month with the chief
location scout from Eon Productions. "We offered full collaboration to him,
to help them to handle of the traffic, to isolate the area from automobiles and
people", said Espino. He hopes the film will attract tourists from around
the world to the area.
According to reports, it is understood
that more filming will take place in the province of Colón,
north of the capital city. 700 Panamanian extras will
be needed
for the shoot. Back
in December, MI6 reported that casting for extras in the
film would take at the Teatro la Quadra. |
Four years ago, former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan filmed
scenes for "The Tailor of Panama" in the old quarter,
which has been declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Another Aerodrome
MI6 has learned that filming
for Bond 22 is to take place at Farnborough Aerodrome in
the south of England. According to witnesses, an airport scene
is to be shot there
and a lot
of the sign posts have been removed to make it appear
that the location is that of a different country. Filming is
scheduled to start on February 8th and is to take place in the
evening
and through night shoots. Stunts are apparently
being rehearsed on location. On Daniel Craig's debut 007 movie "Casino
Royale",
the runway at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey doubled for Miami
International Airport.
“Olga and
Gemma are going to be amazing,” he said with
a grin, “they’re
both very sexy ladies, which is very good. Olga’s
the main Bond Girl in
the movie but Gemma’s no less important.”
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Daniel Craig on his new female co-stars
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Craig On Bond 22
Whilst on a rare day off from
production on the 22nd James Bond film to do PR for his small
budget project "Flashbacks
of a Fool" - which he filmed last year - Daniel
Craig spoke briefly to Rotten Tomatoes about the upcoming 007
adventure. "It
carries on from where the last one stopped," Craig told
RT, "We set up in the last one that there's this organisation
that is destabilising the world's economy because they want to
take it over, and that's his job now, to go out and stop them."
Casting news has recently
revealed a potential villain in Julian Schnabel's The Diving
Bell and the Butterfly
star, Mathieu Almaric. "I'm over the moon with his
casting," Craig told RT, "I met him very briefly
on Munich but I didn't do any scenes with him. Now I've
got to know him on Bond and I saw the Schnabel movie and
thought it was amazing."
On the suggestion that he
was the Algerian boyfriend of Vesper Lynd, Eva Green's
character in Casino Royale, RT again saw the wry smile
as Craig hinted, "there is a connection there, yes..." Is the challenge lessened this time around? "I don't
think you can say there's ever less pressure when you make
a $200 million movie," Craig told RT, "I think
the pressure is plain to see. We've got to make it as good
if not better than the last one, and that's the thing that
matters. I'm no less nervous than I was but I'm very happy
with what we've put together for this one. The fact that
Marc Forster's come in to direct it just makes my job a
lot easier. He's taken care of a lot of stuff that I just
don't have to think about and I'm just getting on with
acting." |
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Above: The new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko, who will play Camille
in Bond 22 |
And, he says, the pressure of taking on the
mantle of James Bond gets no easier the second time out of the
gate. "I
don't know if I'll ever feel comfortable with it," he said, "I
mean, it's James Bond. I don't know if I'll ever get to that
place and get Zen about it; it's not that kind of role. But I'm
enjoying what we've shot so far and I'm planning to enjoy as
much as I can of this filming process. Because, otherwise, why
do it?"
Swiss Role
According to local reports, another Swiss actor
is up for a role in Bond 22 - Philipp
von Schulthes. If confirmed
he will join fellow Swiss-born actor Anatole Taubman (playing
a villain), and director Marc Forster who grew up in the country,
in the 22nd James Bond film. Actor Philipp von Schulthes, 34, was "at
the casting" confirmed
his press agent Sohela Emami. He is "up for a nice role
in the film", but "has not signed anything yet".
Known mostly as a stage actor in his native Switzerland, last year
his film career took a boost with a role in "Valkyrie" alongside
Tom Cruise.
120 Minutes
In brief Bond 22 news, director
Marc Forster was asked if
the 22nd
James Bond film would be around the same
length as series record-breaker Casino Royale (144 minutes). Forster
said, "I
can only speak to myself, but I focus on a running time of exactly
two hours." When
asked how his movie will stack up against the previous outing helmed
by Martin
Campbell, Forster said "with Casino
Royale, the producers created a new kind of James Bond film.
Here I would like to tie."
Briefing
Produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (Eon
Productions), QUANTUM OF SOLACE was released in the
UK on October 31st 2008 and is directed by
Marc Forster. Principal photography started on January
3rd
2008 at
Pinewood Studios and around the UK, and foreign locations
including Italy, Panama, Chile, Peru and Austria.
Paul Haggis completed the script based on a first draft
screenplay developed by regular scribes Neal Purvis & Robert
Wade, with later polish by Joshua Zetumer. The story
is a direct continuation of the events of Casino
Royale. 007 faces off against
villains Mathieu Amalric (Dominic Greene), Anatole
Taubman (Elvis) and Joaquin Cosío (General Medrano).
Olga Kurylenko (Camille) and Gemma Arterton (MI6 Agent
Fields) play the Bond Girls. Dame Judi Dench (M), Jeffrey
Wright (Felix Leiter) and Giancarlo Giannini (Mathis)
reprise their roles as Bond's allies. It is British
actor Daniel Craig’s second outing as James Bond,
following his debut film Casino Royale released November
16th 2006.
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