USA Today was on the set of the forthcoming James Bond actioner "Quantum of Solace," in Chile's Atacama desert and recently published a beautiful and extensive report of the goings on.
The 22nd Bond flick is halfway through shooting - Panama and Baja scenes are complete, Chile is about to wrap, with Italy, Austria and finally London's famed Pinewood Studios left to be shot.
The action sequence filmed current Bond Daniel Craig hightailing it at full speed along the rooftop of a long, narrow building firing a prop gun into mirrored skylights below. Bond will shatter the skylights and plunge down atop the fleeing villain - tycoon Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric). Not helping is an impending explosion that will kill various innocent lives.
Craig says about the new spy pic: "He [Bond] has his heart broken. The love of his life is killed, and he finds out she's not who she said she was. … He's out for revenge. But he's also out to find — and this is what the title is about — a 'quantum of solace.' Something has been taken away from him, and he's out to get that back."
Though largely separate from one another, Bond films have had some continuity in the past - most notably during Sean Connery's six film run. This however is a true sequel to 2006's "Casino Royale" with Bond working his way up the chain of command of the terrorists who blackmailed Vesper. It's been revealed that the organisation mentioned in 'Casino' now has a name - Quantum - hence that dopey title
Producer Michael G. Wilson admits that they plan to keep the continuity going for now with an evolving Bond but sometime in the future filmmakers might go back to stand-alone plots. He also admits that there's no romance angle in the movie (the horror!) with Bond only having a one-night fling with another MI6 agent (Gemma Arterton).
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