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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‘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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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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Here are some new ‘Quantum of Solace‘ photos, Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton and Mathieu Amalric on the set.
They’ve been to Panama and Baja California, Mexico, with plans to shift next to Italy and Austria before returning to London’s famed Pinewood Studios for more stage shooting.
Director Marc Forster says setting the climax in the wasteland of Chile’s Atacama Desert fuses the plot with the internal life of Bond.
”I chose the desert because it’s isolated, you feel lonely, and that’s what Bond is struggling with himself,” Forster says. “In the desert, it’s unforgivable. You’re out there, and you might die. “
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.
FilmoFilia.com has the second ‘Quantum of Solace‘ behind-the-scenes clip.
You’ll find a video released by Sony that offers some behind-the-scenes footage of the next James Bond movie, ‘Quantum of Solace‘. It plays like a travelogue of sorts, showing off a wide-variety of locations the film is using.
You won’t find much action here, you will see the new Bond girls, Gemma Arterton and Olga Kurylenko.
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“Quantum of Solace” producers have decided not to film at the famed Inca Citadel of Cusco in Peru because of unpredictable weather conditions.
“They aren’t going to film anymore because special film conditions, which don’t exist anymore, were required. The suspension is mainly due to climatic changes.” said Margarita Morales from Iguana Productions (Peru).
Morales added local protests or conflicts taking place in the region did not play a role in the decision to cancel the location:
‘The filmmakers are on a tight schedule and they could not risk it raining, like it’s doing so now. It wasn’t because of the strike, at least that’s not what the production team has said.”
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