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‘Quantum of Solace’ – News from Italy
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.
Daniel Craig has no problem with naked scenes – Interview
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.
Daniel Craig in FLASHBACK OF A FOOL
“Flashbacks of a Fool” is a return to small-scale, personal projects for Craig, playing an aging, miserable actor in the low-budget British film.
It was written and directed by his longtime friend Baillie Walsh, best known as a director of videos and documentaries for bands including INXS, Massive Attack and Oasis.
A coming-of-age drama centered on Joe’s teenage years in the 1970s, the film veers – at times erratically – between wistfulness, tragedy and spiky humor.
Barbara Broccoli wants ‘naked’ Craig in ‘Solace’
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, 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.
Daniel Craig on the set in Siena, Italy
Here he is performing a stunt sequence for the new Bond film, ‘Quantum of Solace’, currently shooting in Siena, Italy.
On the James Bond set
‘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.
‘Quantum of Solace’ New Photos! (Update)
New photos have been added to the Filmofilia’s gallery!
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‘Quantum of Solace’ – Second behind-the-scenes clip
Reelzchannel.com has the second ‘Quantum of Solace‘ behind-the-scenes clip.
Watch it and enjoy.
‘Quantum of Solace’ on October 31, 2008
The UK release date for the 22nd James Bond adventure ‘Quantum Of Solace‘ will be October 31, five days earlier than previously expected.
Solace continues from the end of Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal.
From April 2nd, 2008, the team of next James Bond will shoot in Sienne, Italy during two weeks.
