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Location Guide - The World Is Not Enough
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Bilbao, Spain
James Bond shows
up in the bustling city of Bilbao to collect a payload
of £3m from a Swiss banker on behalf of Sir Robert
King - somewhere in the vicinity of the Guggenheim
Museum. In the office of the dodgy banker, Bond reveals
his motives, but before he presses his line of questioning
home, Mr Lachaise is knifed by an
alluring
and mysterious assassin.
Bond blockades himself in the office and when the Spanish
police conveniently show up to investigate, 007 takes
an alternate escape route. |
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London, UK
Back on home turf, Bond delivers the money to King at MI6 HQ.
When the cash is rigged with a chemical explosive triggered
by King's lapel pin, Bond spies the same assassin watching
on a boat on the Thames.
A chase ensues with 007 onboard Q's "Fishing" Boat from
Lambeth to North Greenwich where the assassin ad-lib's
an escape aboard a hot-air balloon
waiting at the Millennium Dome. Bond returns to MI6 after
the assassin, with nowhere to turn, commits suicide.
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Eileen Donan, UK
M and the MI6
team journey to Eileen Castle, Scotland, to set up temporary
HQ and attend King's funeral where Bond spies the beautiful
but devastated Elektra
King. At the Loch Duich MI6 outpost, Bond is given
a full bill of health by the gracious Dr. Warmflash and
briefed on Renard,
whom M believes to be the biggest threat to King's
daughter. |
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Baku, Azerbaijan
Bond takes the BMW Z8 to
Azerbaijan to rendezvous with Elektra, who is overseeing
the final stages of the King pipeline. At the temple
on a Baku cliff face, Elektra is given condolences by
the locals before inspecting the pipeline in a high-octane
ski scene, with Bond hotly on her tail. After a close
shave with the parahawks in the Caucasus alps, Bond returns
with Elektra to her Baku estate to pump her for a little
extra information. Later, back at the pipeline, Bond
and Christmas
Jones race against the terrorists to defuse a bomb
in the depths of the pipe. |
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Nuclear Decommissioning Facility, Kazakhstan
Bond assumes Arkov's identity and joins a private flight
to the remote ex-Soviet nuclear bunker in Kazakhstan,
where
some
of Renard's
heavies are orchestrating a robbery of live nuclear
warheads. Bond teams up with the delightful Dr. Jones
as the villains wreak havoc at the plant. Bond and
Jones escape amid explosions, but they cannot prevent
the goons escaping with a warhead. |
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Istanbul, Turkey
Bond, realising Elektra was behind the pipeline bombing,
pursues the villains to Turkey where he meets Zukovsky at
his caviar factory on the Caspian Sea. 007 is
once again the target of an assassination attempt by
Renard's goons, this time double-crossed by Mr Bullion.
Bond escapes relatively unharmed although the
Z8 and the factory
are completely destroyed. At Maiden's Tower, in the Bosphorus
Strait, Elektra has made her headquarters. Bond
boards a submarine and does battle with Renard in the
sub's nuclear reactor room. |
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Shooting The World Is Not Enough
Production on "The World In Not
Enough" charted six countries and true to the plot,
visited Spain, Scotland, Turkey as well as France and Wales
to film the 19th James Bond film. With acclaimed drama
director Michael
Apted at the helm, production began in January 1999 and
by February the team were on location in Spain. The opening
sequence was canned almost entirely on location in Bilbao
near the impressive architecture of the Guggenheim Museum
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first opened
in 1997. The crew shot on the streets for just two days
and when Pierce Brosnan appeared on-set a host of Spanish
Bond
fans showed out to observe on a truly massive scale.
The Spanish countryside also served as a double for the Caucasus-set Azerbaijan. Bond speeds the Z8 through Los Callejones, La Mancha on his way to meet Elektra at the pipeline. The crew then moved on to the Bardenas Reales in Navarre semi-desert - in the south east of Spain. Here Apted captured the exteriors of the Kazakhstani nuclear decommissioning plant where 007 catches up with Renard and Christmas Jones.
Right (above): Bond is tasked with reclaiming
funds from a crooked Swiss banker in Bilbao before delivering his payload
to MI6 in London. (below): Bond, M, Robinson and Moneypenny all attend Sir
Robert
King's funeral after his assassination in London. |
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The production returned to the UK where scenes
were shot in England, Scotland and Wales. Sir Robert King's funeral
was captured in Stowe Park, Buckinghamshire - not in Scotland
as the plot leads us to believe. The crew did journey north to
shoot exteriors for the MI6 safe house in Eilean Donan which
features the impressive 13th Century castle built by Alexander
II. Zukovsky's casino interiors as well as Elektra's grand home
were both captured at Luton Hoo, a stately home in Bedfordshire,
which hosts a staggering array of Spanish artifacts and rare
Rubens paintings.
In March 1999, sections of the Thames were cordoned
off for a day at a time over a six-week period as Brosnan worked
closely with the action unit to create one of the most ambitious
pre-title sequences ever committed to film. Vic Armstrong and
his team had to contend with fairly strict government regulations
and how and when their filming could take place. By the end of
the intense location shoot, the crew had used 35 different boats
for the Thames chase.
Above: From the Eileen safe house
to Baku; on a private flight to hostile Kazakhstan and
back to Baku, before tracing Elektra and Renard to Istanbul... |
At Pinewood Studios a number of impressive interiors
were captured and on the back-lot Brosnan and Richards jumped
in the deep end to capture the high-octane action
set in and around Zukovsky's caviar factory on the shores of
the Caspian. The gigantic water-tank on the Pinewood back lot
served the crew on a series of cool night-shoots.
The second unit took a detour to the French alps, near Chamonix-Mont-Blanc on the border of France and Switzerland. Here Bond and Elektra survey the pipeline whilst a skeleton crew captured the atmosphere on the fringe of Baku, Azerbaijan where Bond drives along the coast littered with oil pumps.
The crew left home once more to shoot scenes
on location in and around Istanbul, Turkey. The striking Maidens
Tower was used by the crew in the film's finale whilst the exterior
underwater sequences were canned in the sunny Bahamas with the
Russian nuclear
submarine built in miniature.
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