Skyfall (2012) - UK Oct 26th , US Nov 9th [SPOILERS]

The range rover's a 4X4, so it'd be fine with that. Maybe the DBS has been fitted with some traction or 4 wheel drive?

There is a road about a kilometre from the rocks. I couldn't see it on the standard map view because it's a very minor road, but it appears to be mostly sealed:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5254056

And I suppose that with a bit of camera trickery and fancy editing (no CGI, of course), Mendes and Deakins could probably make it look like that road passes considerably closer to Cow and Calf Rocks than it actually does. After all, if this is the same Aston chase that was shot in Deptford, they're going to make inner London look like a town in the Scottish countryside. If they can do that, then they can certainly make Ilkley Road appear closer to Cow and Calf Rocks than it actually is.

Of course, all of this assumes that I've accurately pin-pointed the roack to begin with ...

Sharky wrote:

The range rover's a 4X4, so it'd be fine with that. Maybe the DBS has been fitted with some traction or 4 wheel drive?

It's a moor, a kind of drained wetland. The soils are very silty, making it difficult to traverse even in a four-by-four. The Aston wouldn't be able to cope with going overland.

Maybe they're using hovercraft Land Rovers.

Jack Wade wrote:

Maybe they aren't using roads?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BPxF1mLYFM#t=10s

The White Tuxedo wrote:

Jack Wade wrote:

Maybe they aren't using roads?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BPxF1mLYFM#t=10s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-drh88vqY#t=0m22s

P.S. I want to do Lea Thompson.

This thread needs Lea Thompson's tits. j7, make yourself useful for once.

Ah, but Claudia Wells or Elisabeth Shue?

Shue everyday.

Great news everyone. CJ Carpenter's starring in SKYFALL under his professional pseudonym - Damien Walters.

Quote :

World's Greatest Daredevils
Season 1 Episode 3 of 4
A collection of spectacular and death-defying stunts with the thrill-seekers who cheat death every day. Daredevils featured include Matthias Giraud, who combines skiing and Base jumping, launching himself off cliffs after speeding down hostile terrain, British free-runner Damien Walters, presently employed as a stuntman on the set of new James Bond film Skyfall, and Chris Birch, one of the leading freestyle motorcyclists in the UK. Other adrenaline junkies include kite surfers, white-water kayakers and unroped climbers

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Chance-Damien-s-death-defying-stunts-daredevil/story-15029038-detail/story.html

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"I had a phone call from Channel Five asking if they could use some of my footage from my new showreel," said Damien.
This week he is in London filming scenes for the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, expected to be released later this year.
"I'm playing the bad guy's double. I can't reveal anything but all I can say is that it has been really good so far," said Damien. "The expectation is really high and it has been quite intense. "Everything you do, they want to be bigger, better, stronger, faster and to be as high a level as it can."

Sharky wrote:

Great news everyone. CJ Carpenter's starring in SKYFALL under his professional pseudonym - Damien Walters.

Notice that he's white....and bald. What villain could he possibly be doubling? I just can't imagine who. Could it beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....BLOFELD???

Perilagu Khan wrote:

So what Damien Walters was really saying was that the studio found him believable as an evil, satanic, demonic villain from hell. He must be so proud. I'm sure it was quite a streeeeeeeeeeeeeetch.

Some more stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zQgFxDSqft4

For some reason the [youtube][/youtube] tags won't work with this one.

Anyhow, it looks like they're planning to outdo the opening Parkour chase in CASINO ROYALE, which is no small feat. I say that because Damien Walters is a practitioner of Freerunning, not Parkour like Sebastian Foucan. The difference between the two, is that Parkour is about getting from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible. Freerunning's more about performing acrobatic tricks and generally showing off, which would probably look more impressive on screen.

Sharky wrote:

Freerunning's more about performing acrobatic tricks and generally showing off, which would probably look more impressive on screen.

Though in the context of a tense scenario surely even more ridiculous?

lachesis wrote:

Sharky wrote:

Freerunning's more about performing acrobatic tricks and generally showing off, which would probably look more impressive on screen.

Though in the context of a tense scenario surely even more ridiculous?

As long as Bond isn't running through walls and imitating Donkey Kong, I'm fine. Ridiculousness is synonymous with Bond.

Outrageousness more than ridiculousness, I think. When the latter gains the upper hand, the Bond film suffers.

Well, it's a thin line.

lachesis wrote:

Though in the context of a tense scenario surely even more ridiculous?

The guy appears to be more than just a free-runner. I'm guessing he's also a gymnast - in which case, the actor he's doubling for (possibly Ola Rapace) could also have gymanstics training. We believe the man with the gun in the introductory video posted on 007.com is Ola Rapace. In that case, I could see Walters performing some kind of improvised parallel bars routine as Rapace's character in order to get to an otherwise-inaccessible sniper's perch.

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

I could see Bond chasing M across the countryside

Christ, just when I thought the M character couldn't be shat upon from any higher. Bond chasing a decrepit 100 year old woman across rocky Scottish hills? Even Purvis & Wade aren't stupid enough to pitch that idea, surely? That said, M's had every other attention-seeking atrocity written for her, may as well give her her very own fucking car chase just to bring the insufferable old bag full circle.
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Just give M her own TV show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSR7mfrjvWs

Lazenby. wrote:

Prisoner Monkeys wrote:

I could see Bond chasing M across the countryside

Christ, just when I thought the M character couldn't be shat upon from any higher. Bond chasing a decrepit 100 year old woman across rocky Scottish hills? Even Purvis & Wade aren't stupid enough to pitch that idea, surely? That said, M's had every other attention-seeking atrocity written for her, may as well give her her very own fucking car chase just to bring the insufferable old bag full circle.
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unfortunately I can all too easily picture Craig's Bond stumbling over barren highland after Dench. If it were David Arnold scoring I could well imagine the soundtrack.

All rather depressing.