Following the smash-hit Skyfall, Daniel Craig is back for his fourth outing as 007.
I'm Jan and this is 25 things you probably didn't know about SPECTRE.
Spectre is the first time Aston Martin has built a car specifically for a Bond movie.
The previous Aston Martins that have appeared in the franchise were available for public
purchase.
The car Aston Martin built for Spectre is the DB10, which is a concept car with a chassis
based on a modified V8 Vantage, and has a top speed of 190mph.
A total of ten were built, eight of which were used for filming, while the other two
were used for promotion.
As for the Jaguar C-X75 chasing Bond in Rome, the car was so powerful that the stunt team
had to tone down its engine so the throttle response was less aggressive.
It took 3 weeks to film the car chase through the streets of Rome, which involved shutting
down key parts of the city while stunt performers drove up to 100mph.
Although the chase involves only two cars on screen, the filmmakers actually used 8
Aston Martins and 7 Jaguars to shoot the scene.
The filmmakers also shot for four days at Rome's Museum of Roman Civilization, which
doubled as a cemetery.
The SPECTRE meeting in Rome was actually filmed at Pinewood Studios on a set inspired by the
Royal Palace of Caserta, north of Naples.
And Oxfordshire's Blenheim Palace doubled for the exterior of the building where that
meeting takes place.
The centrepiece of the movie's Day Of The Dead parade is the Calavera Catrina skeleton,
which has a 10-metre wide hat and was inspired by an etching by Mexican illustrator José
Guadalupe Posada.
It took 107 make-up artists three and a half hours each day to get over 1,500 extras ready
for filming.
75 costumers designed 1,500 different outfits, including 6 paper dresses which took 3 weeks
each to make, and a team of 20 people was needed to clean and repair costumes overnight
for the next day's shoot.
Filming took place in three locations in Mexico City: The Gran Hotel, the Plaza Tolsá, and
the city's main square, the Zócalo, where Red Bull aerobatic pilot Chuck Aaron performed
a helicopter stunt, flying only 30 feet above the movie's extras.
The toughest challenge of filming in Austria was the lack of ice and snow due to the unseasonal
weather, which delayed preparations.
In fact, to cover the hillside, the production had to make 400 tonnes of fake snow.
The exterior of the Hoffler Klinik was filmed at the ICE-Q, a restaurant at the top of a
3000-metre mountain in Sölden, Austria.
However, scenes inside the Klinik were filmed on a set built at Pinewood Studios.
The Austrian action sequence featuring an aeroplane and Range Rovers, was especially
complex.
While only one airplane is seen on screen, in reality special effects supervisor Chris
Corbould needed eight different planes to pull off the stunt.
Two of the planes could fly, another two were fitted to a wire rig, and four others were
just carcasses with skidoos inside them which the stunt team used to control the planes.
For this action scene, the crew also built 10 sheds and a barn.
Eight of the sheds were bought in the local mountains and rebuilt on set, while the remaining
sheds and barn were built from scratch using 20 miles of reclaimed wood.
The toughest location for Spectre's filmmakers was Morocco.
As well as filming in the cities of Tangier and Oujda, Spectre also shot outside Erfoud
in the Sahara desert, which meant that the movie's locations department had to drive
out to let everyone within a 20-mile radius know there were going to be loud explosions
during filming.
On the first day of the shoot in Erfoud, a big sand storm, with winds up to 50 miles
an hour, meant there was no visibility so the filmmakers had to halt production for
the whole afternoon.
As for the temperature during filming, the average in Erfoud was over 110 degrees Fahrenheit,
and, on the hottest day, it was 122 degrees.
And as if it wasn't already hot enough in the desert, the movie's special effects team
used more than 2,100 gallons of kerosene to create what special effects supervisor Chris
Corbould, who's worked on 14 Bond movies, says is the biggest explosion of his career.
According to producer Barbara Broccoli and production designer Dennis Gassner, one of
the most difficult sets to get right was Bond's London apartment because everyone has their
own idea of the kind of place 007 would live.
And because it says so much about Bond's character, Daniel Craig was especially involved in the
design of that set.
The scheduling of the high-speed boat chase was particularly complicated because of all
the events in London at the time, including the General Election and Trooping the Colour.
The scene involved six night-time shoots and low-flying helicopters, which meant the filmmakers
had to send 11,000 letters to notify residents and businesses in the area.
But the biggest challenge was lighting the River Thames, which involved lighting 17 arches
on 3 different bridges as well as 10 rooftops along the banks of the river.
The filmmakers also worked with the House of Commons, County Hall and The London Eye
to either change the colour of their lights or make sure they had their lights on or off,
as needed.
Each night-time shoot involved a location team of nearly 200 people, from security to
traffic management.
Now, let me know in the comments below, which actor do YOU think is the best Bond and why?
And who would you like to be the next Bond after Daniel Craig?
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