These new ‘Quantum of Solace‘ pictures are from April 25 to 27 in the region of Tuscany in Italy.
James Bond (Daniel Craig) and Camille (Olga Kurylenko), with their stunts.
‘Quantum of Solace’ trailer will be attached to ‘Hancock.’
‘Hancock’ – and the Quantum of Solace trailer – is set to open on July 2nd in the USA and UK.
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During Sunday’s press conference in Tremosine, Dan Bradley – who’s the second unit director – said that the scenes at Garda Lake will be 11 minutes long in the final film, but it depends from the weather: they hope the next days it will be sunny, so they’ll film more scenes and the final result will be longer, otherwise they’ll cut some scenes.
The scene is described as the ‘first sequence’ of the movie – 15 minutes or so where we see a spectacular car chase and then a gunfight. This scene is being done by a Second Unit, directed by Dan Bradley.
It’s a car chase along the Gardesana, a famous and beautiful road around the lake (which is the biggest lake in Italy), between Malcesine, Limone and Tremosine: they closed the road and mounted some cameras on some Aston Martins DBS.
The scenes involves 40 stuntmen (half italian and half european), six doubles of Daniel Craig, many Aston Martin DBS’s and a Black Alfa Romeo 159, famous Italian Car, which was the Bad Guy’s Car.
They’re going to shoot in Gargnano and Limone until April 25.
Daniel Craig is resting in London after filming in Siena and Chile, but he’ll be available to shoot some reverse shots if the weather is good.
It’s almost sure he’ll be in Carrara between April 25 and May 13, where they’ll film some important scenes in the very famous quarries of marble, with a flying camera.
Daniel Craig is seen in bed with two women in the opening scene of his new movie, ‘Flashbacks of a Fool.’
Female fans will get to see plenty of the muscle Daniel has put on for his 007 role.
“Getting naked on screen has never bothered me,” he laughed. “I’ve kind of made a career out of it.
“I work out, because that’s what I do now. It’s part of my job. I’ve always worked out to keep fit.
I keep myself as physically fit as possible because of what I’ve got to do in the movies, but I still end up as the walking wounded for the best part of six months when I’m making the Bond movies.”
‘Flashbacks of a Fool’ stars the 40-year-old actor as Joe Scott, a fading movie star, whose addiction to drink, drugs and women has sent his career into a downward spiral.
“The fact that Joe’s a movie star is really secondary,” he said.
“He’s a lonely man in a big house and he’s got everything he wants, or could have. He could have a career but he’s pushed it away. What he needs is friendship, and the support of people who genuinely love him rather than those who don’t.”
“It’s staring him in the face but he can’t see it. He’s got a great family, if a bit dysfunctional, and he has a housekeeper, Ophelia, who could be the love of his life.”
“It’s all there for him, and he’s f***ing it up. I liked that idea.”
After interview it was straight back to work for Daniel, on the set of his second Bond movie, ‘Quantum of Solace.’
And, despite praise for his first 007 outing, ‘Casino Royale‘, he reckons the pressure is still on.
“I’m no less nervous than I was,” he said.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever feel comfortable with it. You can’t say there’s less pressure when you make a $200 million dollar movie. The pressure is plain to see.
We’ve got to make it as good as if not better than the last one and that’s all that matters.”
“Olga and Gemma are going to be amazing,” he said.
“They’re both very sexy girls which is very good. Olga’s the main ‘Bond girl’ in the movie but Gemma’s no less important.”
When asked about nude scenes in ‘Quantum Of Solace’, Barbara Broccoli cuts in: “I’m trying to get him to take his clothes off every day.”
And Daniel retorts: “It’s not helped by her leaking to the Press every day, ‘He might do, he might do’.”
Then he confirms: “There is a little nudity. It might not be full.”
‘Quantum of Solace‘ filming began in January and has taken the crew from Britain to Panama to this moonlike landscape in northern Chile, which is standing in for Bolivia.
It’s a place that director Marc Forster said evokes Bond’s “isolation and loneliness.”
“He is an assassin, he is a secret agent, and that reflects a certain lifestyle, which is lonely,” said Forster.
Indeed, the big news on the set is that one of the two Bond girls, Olga Kurylenko, doesn’t get in even a single kiss with star Daniel Craig. “Why would I be disappointed?” Kurylenko insisted. “I’m just doing my work.”
Forster, the youngest-ever Bond director at 39, was hired on by longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson because of his emotionally intense films like “Monster’s Ball” and “The Kite Runner.”
Despite the heightened realism of the last Bond film, not to mention its commercial success (over $500 million worldwide), the German-born Swiss director was wary of joining the bombastic franchise. Forster negotiated with producers to ensure he had as much creative control as possible on the $200 million-plus production. Nevertheless, he’s still squeezed into the “framework of Bond.”
Filming is about halfway done on “Quantum,” which is the name of the organization Bond is going up against. Craig said the emotional tone is lighter than “Casino Royale,” in which Bond’s lover Vesper Lynd betrayed him and then died, but only a smidgen so.
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Here he is performing a stunt sequence for the new Bond film, ‘Quantum of Solace‘, currently shooting in Siena, Italy.
Film bosses want Daniel Craig to appear nude in the next James Bond movie, ‘Quantum of Solace‘ say reports.
Producer Barbara Broccoli admitted that she regularly asked Craig whether he would strip off for the role, but confessed that the actor hadn’t complied with her requests so far.
She told: “I’m always after him to take his clothes off, everyFilm bosses want Daniel Craig to appear nude in the next James Bond movie, ‘Quantum of Solace‘ say reports.
Producer Barbara Broccoli admitted that she regularly asked Craig whether he would strip off for the role, but confessed that the actor hadn’t complied with her requests so far.
She told: “I’m always after him to take his clothes off, every day.
“I have to fight on behalf of all the women, and some of the men, too. I’m doing my best.”
Craig famously appeared wearing just his swimming shorts in the last 007 film Casino Royale.
“What Marc wanted and the producers and what I wanted is to bring back a visual flair to the movie, so that every frame in every shot that we see is beautiful.” said Daniel Craig recently.
Maybe Craig will do it, one short scene of his sweat naked back and down… 
New four videos just to completely convince us that this film has a great chance to be better than ‘Casino Royale‘.They are talking about how it feels to reach the halfway point of filming, the Chile location and the Latin actors in the film.
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The mayor of a remote Chilean town has become the latest Bond villain after driving a vehicle at the cast on the set of the new James Bond (Quantum of Solace) film.Carlos Lopez made his unscripted appearance on the set of Quantum of Solace in a small saloon car, which he reportedly drove between Daniel Craig, the James Bond star, and the cameras before braking. Mr Lopez was protesting over his small town, Baquedano, being used for the filming.
Mr Lopez was arrested and briefly detained for what police called “causing public disorder”. It was claimed that he almost ran over two people at the town’s railway station as he sped onto the set.
He had been protesting at what he called an excessive police presence in Baquedano and objecting to Chilean soil being used as a stand in for neighbouring Bolivia.
Baquedano lies in a mining region around the city of Antofagasta in the far north of the country. It was forcibly annexed by Chile from Bolivia in the late 19th century – an issue that continues to divide the two countries.
In the film Bond only briefly visits Bolivia, but the decision by the producers to use locations in Chile to represent Bolivia has inflamed local tensions.
Chileans traditionally look down on the poorer Bolivians and there have been protests about the Bond crew using Bolivian flags and uniforms while filming on the streets of Antofagasta.
Bolivian militants clashed with Chilean border guards when filming began and a protest in a Chilean newspaper read: “Chile is Chile. We’re not Bolivian Indians. Imperialist British out.”
Mr Lopez said yesterday: “For a town that has just 1,000 residents, sending in special forces and water cannon, preventing people from walking in the street, reminded me of the worst of the Pinochet years.
I disagree with national territory being used as locations [to represent] other countries. Even in a fictional film, unfortunately, friendly, neighbouring countries use decisions like this to make unjustified claims.
A police official said the local prosecutor was considering whether to charge the mayor. “He got angry, entered into a private enclosure… caused public disorder and was detained,” he said.
A spokesman for Eon Productions, the London-based company making the film, said that Mr Lopez pulled up in his car between the camera and a vehicle in which Craig and his co-star, Olga Kurylenko, were sitting.
She said Mr Lopez almost ran over a policeman when he drove through the cordon that had been set up around the railway station, which is being used for filming. But she described the protest as “a small incident that took no more than five minutes to clear up”.
The spokesman, who claimed Mr Lopez was suspended from his post as mayor five months ago, denied that the producers had offered him compensation after he complained about not being consulted about filming. She insisted that permission was received before filming began.
“Quantum of Solace“, the 22nd film in the James Bond franchise will feature a complex visual effects shot captured digitally in 4K resolution, which offers four times the amount of picture information typically captured by most digital cinematography cameras.
The shot for the Marc Forster-helmed title is being lensed using eight shutter synchronized 4K Origin cameras from Dalsa, one of only two companies now shipping 4K digital cinematography cameras. Specifics are being kept under wraps, but the shot will feature Daniel Craig in his role as James Bond and Olga Kurylenko as the film’s lead Bond girl, Camille.
Director of photography Roberto Schaefer and consulting visual effects cinematographer David Stump collaborated on the shot.
The Dalsa Origin was the only uncompressed, high-resolution, low-noise camera system we could count on to do what we needed to do,
visual effects designer Kevin Tod Haug said.
Added Stump:
Working with uncompressed 4K gave us the ability to mine the maximum amount of detail from the scene.
Dalsa shipped the camera packages from Los Angeles to Movietech Camera Rentals at Pinewood Studios in the U.K., where both companies prepped the cameras, which recorded 4K data to eight Codex digital disk recorders. In total, more than 3.8GB of image data were recorded every second, Dalsa Digital Cinema president Rob Hummel said. The Codex disk packs were delivered to Sohonet in London for backup, after which the files were delivered to London-based visual effects house Double Negative.
Stump said:
For the effects to keep pace with audience expectations, we need to keep upping the ante
“Solace” is scheduled for release Oct. 31 in the U.K. and Nov. 7 in the U.S.
Daniel Craig has promised Bond fans that they will be impressed by the latest movie instalment.The actor, who plays the iconic superspy, claimed that the injuries he has suffered during filming act as perfect proof that the film will be worth watching.
”I can only gauge it by how much pain I’m in, and I think we’re doing pretty good,”
Craig revealed. “They’ve [the stunts] started to hurt.”
Craig also warned fans that they should not be put off by the movie’s unusual title, Quantum of Solace.
”I’m very happy with it. It encapsulates what the movie is at heart and a lot more which I can’t give away.”
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