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

Since this is a "temporary structure", perhaps this is the building they are going to use when they blow it up? Weren't there rumors of the castle exploding at the end?

dr. strangelove wrote:

Since this is a "temporary structure", perhaps this is the building they are going to use when they blow it up? Weren't there rumors of the castle exploding at the end?

With the superimposed face of Javier Bardem over the flames echoing the words 'The world shall hear from me again!'?

Blunt Instrument wrote:

So they ditch plans to film at a pre-existing castle/manor house in favour of 'building' one instead ... what was that about this film having a constrained budget again?

Not being British, I some times find your sense of humor..........difficult to follow. I think I detected sarcasm, but just in case....usually on-location shooting is more expensive, hence the reason for a film to build a studio set. The story that the castle location shooting was cancelled in favor of a set-piece lends credence to the rumors that the film is scaling back on location work and action pieces in order to save money. Hopefully Barbara Broccoli will forgo her producers fee until everyone else has been paid (and the movie has earned a nice profit), including the dungeon master who is holding Michael G. Wilson captive against his will.

I meant that I'd have thought that building something to shoot in/outside of would've cost more than shooting inside/outside something that was pre-existing.

Interesting piece of information from Club James Bond France.

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Grande nouvelle, notre président à été invité par Sony à assister au tournage de Skyfall à Pinewood. La date est pour le moment tenue secrète mais à priori Luc assistera au tournage d'une scène opposant James Bond assisté d'un Dragon du Komodo a un garde du corps. Le tout sur un casino flottant.
A suivre ...

Which roughly translates to...

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Great news. Our president was invited by Sony to attend the filming of Skyfall at Pinewood Studios. For the moment the date is being kept secret, but we can tell you Luc will attend the filming of a scene involving James Bond, a Komodo dragon, and a bodyguard. All set on a floating casino.
To be continued ...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Club-James-Bond-France/40598789261

Could we be getting a henchman with a deadly pet once again? That's certainly something out of the 1960s - Largo and his sharks spring to mind.

There you go, Sharky ... a 'deadly critter'! :)

Komodo dragon + floating casino = awesome.

Someone on IMdB (note to self: get tetanus booster shot) posted this "account" of the trailer. I say "account" in the loosest sense of the word since it's bullshit:

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Just seen a very rough cut of the Skyfall Teaser trailer. I can’t remember everything from it, but it’s due to be released late February, that’s what the guy said anyway. About 20 or so were in the screening. They were all University Students, or I assume so anyway. I myself am a media student, and I assumed everyone else was. But anyway. The trailer roughly ran for about 1minute and 45 seconds. From what I saw, Skyfall looks really really really good. A lot better than Quantum of Solace was. I think it’s more on par with Casino Royale. Well that’s the vibe I got from it anyway, which is good in my book. Roger Deakins’ camera work is just phenomenal, there was so many beautiful shots. Too many to count really. Some very nice swooping shots of what I think was Smithfield market and London in general.

The best thing about the trailer was Bonds big reveal around half way through. When it started, you don’t even realise it’s a Bond movie. If I wasn’t in a screening for it, I really wouldn’t of known. The music was really mysterious, too. From the first 30 seconds it looked like a political thriller / present day war movie.

The first shot of the trailer, besides the opening logo’s is a really dark shot of a tall office building. I think it was China but I’m not too sure. There was a voice over from Ralph Fiennes (Love that guys voice) talking about the cold war, and it’s repercussions within MI6. This was followed by what I think was a gas attack, people were running and screaming and collapsing. Then the whole friggen set just blew up! Judi Dench appeared. She looked really old and it is revealed that she and Fiennes character are talking. Fiennes says that he’s lost too many agents in the attack (Which I assumed was before), and he needs someone to overlook the case, and find it’s source. M mentions that she has an agent in mind, or something to that degree, but he’s resigned, and they’re unable to track him down. Fiennes says that he has to be found and brought back to duty. The whole conversation with Fiennes and Dench was really heated, and it sounded as if he was blaming her, which brings me to the next part where he mentions that he’s seriously doubting whether she’s fit for duty anymore. That she’s losing her touch. There’s a few dramatic shots afterwards, of a Bond walking through a very colourful building. It looked like a nightclub, very cool. He was wearing a black jacket and gloves. Like the end of Quantum of Solace. We don’t actually see Bond until he gets in a fist fight with what looked like a Sniper. Daniel Craig looks awesome! Very cold eyes, brutal. There was one shot where everyone gasped, because it felt so real and brutal. Bond is overpowered and captured, and the next shot has Bond walking into what I assumed was his apartment. M’s standing there, and she apologises for the force she used to bring him to her. Bond says that he’s pretty much finished with the service. He’s seen loads of disturbing things and he doesn’t want to relive them. He then talks about the attacks, and M says something about her life being in danger, and Bond is the only person she trusts. She then goes on to tell him that the government is starting to collapse, and its being invaded by enemy agents. We see a few shots of Helen McRorys character, walking down a crowded street. Bond mentions that out of respect for her, and for queen and country he’ll return to duty.

Now this is where it gets good. Massive Bond theme. A new variation, and not the one that was used in the GoldenEye and BloodStone trailers etc. Sounded really exciting. It followed the same lines as the Casino Royale theatrical trailer melody wise, but it was obviously a different mix.

Couldn’t really get all of the shots because they were so fast (although brilliantly shot) but the ones I remember are Bond overpowering a guy driving a jeep, and nearly crashing the car. Tanner and Bond running down a London street with guns, in the rain. Protecting M. A train being derailed, and the carriage slowly missing Bond. Javier Bardem running through a busy street, Bond jumping over a wall. Lovely shot of Bond getting off a plane, reminded me a lot of Casino Royale. Car chase, a shot of Bond getting thrown against a dirty bathroom mirror, Bond head butting someone. Naomi Harris’shooting in the back of a jeep, in what looked like a desert, A car exploding. Bond on a motorbike, firing a machine gun. Bond jumping off a roof, and landing screaming on the floor. We have a break from the music here, and have Bond and Harris on a rooftop, Bond tells her that he’s totally lost faith, he didn’t say what in, just that he has no faith. This is followed by shots of a horse and carriage and loads of coffins. It goes back to Harris who tells Bond that he needs to continue to fight, for the good of the country. Bond mentions that he always is fighting, even though he has nothing worth living for. The music builds and we enter the climax of the trailer. Loads of shots, but I cant remember them all. Seem to remember Bond on a Jet Ski, Berinice Merhole walking down villa steps, Bond removing glasses, performing a 360 turn in the DB5. M getting thrown around in the DB5, Bond pressing a button in his car and… this leads into the big money shot, blowing up an obstacle and driving through it.. BUT the car kinda goes out of control, and it starts to overturn in mid air. Then the title and release date came up. Had a CGI shot of Bond walking in the rain, in slow motion, in an open necked tuxedo holding a silenced gun.

The whole thing reads like someone just stitched every photo and rumour together and wrote a description of the trailer based on it. I know I regularly do that, but I've never claimed it to be anything more than my own ideas that have been loosely assembled.

It's particularly telling that this "rough cut" of the teaser was posted six hours ago, but it contains footage that was only shot yesterday.

Would love it to be right, though ... especially the bit about the DB5 doing something 'gadgety' again.

Gotta give credit to the fellow who came up with that... they certainly squeezed every available clue. Your turn, EON.

I'd be very happy with a trailer of that kind, although I do fear that putting Bond with Dench's M for long periods offers dangerous potential for extended psycho and emo babble, that and the idea that Bond is already resigned and has lost faith could all implode rather messily on previous experience - if so you have to pray that Logan has got the balance right.

There's no mention of Bond showing up in drag in that teaser, so it must be fake.

A funny little coincidence I've noticed: The Daily Mirror was reporting that all international shooting locations have been cut, and they named Bali as one of the places the beaches of Bognor Regis would double for. This was obviously fake for a variety of reasons, one of which was the way there was no evidence that filming was ever going to take place in Bali. The funny little coincidence is this: we're now getting reports that a komodo dragon will be featured in the film, and the dragon is native to Komodo Island, which is just 500km east of Bali.

Never thought I'd see Bognor doubling for Bali. Portsmouth as Nice next or some such silliness.

Hilly wrote:

Never thought I'd see Bognor doubling for Bali. Portsmouth as Nice next or some such silliness.

So is that confirmed then?

Sounds like Mendes is doing his own version of PHONE BOOTH or MAN ON A LEDGE. Then again, there was a 1988 movie that took place entirely in one skyscraper; called DIE HARD. It didn't make much money and wasn't very successful, but it was a great film and has become sort of a cult classic. So, who knows? Maybe SKYFALL will take place entirely in Whitehall and will be a tense, taut action thriller.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Hilly wrote:

Never thought I'd see Bognor doubling for Bali. Portsmouth as Nice next or some such silliness.

So is that confirmed then?

Sounds like Mendes is doing his own version of PHONE BOOTH or MAN ON A LEDGE. Then again, there was a 1988 movie that took place entirely in one skyscraper; called DIE HARD. It didn't make much money and wasn't very successful, but it was a great film and has become sort of a cult classic. So, who knows? Maybe SKYFALL will take place entirely in Whitehall and will be a tense, taut action thriller.

I can't say it's confirmed or not just taking a cue from PM's post.

Then again it's the Daily Mirror and I believe them about as much as I would Santa Claus.

Santas are not to be trusted.

Some footage caught today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tuEaG-buvo

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

So is that confirmed then?

No, it's not. It never was. The reports claim that filming will take place on the beaches in Bognor, but the local government has said they have not reveiced any applications for filming permits. It's just the tabloids winding people up because there hasn't been any international shooting yet (aside from the second unit in Shanghai).

I was simply pointing out that the tabloids claim Bali has been axed, and we're getting other reports suggesting that the film will feature a komodo dragon - which is only found on a nearby island in Indonesia.

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Helicopter filming around Vauxhall Bridge

Sunday, 5th Feb 2012 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm

On the 5th February 2012 Helicopter filming operations will take place in the vicinity of Vauxhall Bridge. A contingency date of the 12th February has been allocated in the event of bad weather disrupting operations on the 5th February.

Filming will take place between 17.00hrs and 22.00hrs, during which navigation will be controlled by a PLA Harbour Service Launch.

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/detail.php?uid=15872

Nine months and COUN-ting!

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Scene 137. Looks like this is the finale.

Pretty bland location for a finale.