“This never happened to the other fellow.” The opening scene of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) has Bond rescuing Tracy (Diana Rigg) from Draco’s men on Guincho Beach in Portugal. George Lazenby’s line came from an in-joke from the set that made it into the final film. “When I’d have to work at the weekends, the stuntmen would tell me, ‘Connery never did weekends’. I’d say, ‘That never happened to the other fellow eh?’”
Tomorrow Never Dies Jet Escape
007 commandeers a jet to escape the arms bazaar in the pre-credits sequence for Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). This scene was filmed at Balcons de Peyresourde in the French Pyrenees.
Aston Martin DB5 Production Resumes
55 years after the last DB5 rolled off the production line at Aston Martin’s then global manufacturing base in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, work is once again under way on a strictly limited number of new DB5 models. Created in association with EON Productions, the Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation cars will feature a broad suite of working gadgets first seen on screen in the 1964 film.
Each of the 25 new cars is being built to the highest possible quality using a blend of old world craftsmanship, with the application of modern engineering advancements and performance enhancements, alongside the integration of cutting-edge gadgets developed in association with Bond special effects supervisor Chris Corbould OBE.
The list of Bond-inspired gadgets includes the following features.
Exterior:
• Rear smoke screen delivery system
• Rear simulated oil slick delivery system
• Revolving number plates front and rear (triple plates)
• Simulated twin front machine guns
• Bullet resistant rear shield
• Battering rams front and rear
• Simulated tyre slasher
• Removable passenger seat roof panel (optional equipment)
Interior:
• Simulated radar screen tracker map
• Telephone in driver’s door
• Gear knob actuator button
• Armrest and centre console-mounted switchgear
• Under-seat hidden weapons/storage tray
• Remote control for gadget activation
First deliveries of the DB5 Goldfinger Continuation to customers will commence in the second half of 2020.
Skyfall Grand Bazaar Chase
007 (Daniel Craig) chases assassin Patrice (Ola Rapace) through the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. “Having a car chase in a street with nothing in it is boring”, said special effects supervisor Chris Corbould. “But as soon as you have a background for the chase it comes to life. Istanbul has a real character to it.”
Licence To Kill’s Barrelhead Bar Fight
Bond (Timothy Dalton) and Pam Bouvier (Carrie Lowell) square up to Sanchez’s men in the Barrelhead bar in Licence To Kill (1989). “I portrayed Pam as gritty and tough,” said Lowell. “When Bond meets her at the bar, she’s wearing a black leather vest and carrying a sawn-off shotgun. She’s flinging men over her shoulder and smashing bottles on their heads.”
A View To A Kill Colouring In
What a view… The US poster artwork for A View To A Kill was designed by Daniel J. Goozee. Try your hand at bringing it to life by colouring it in.
007 At Home Competition
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A View To A Kill Firetruck Chase
A View To A Kill premiered in San Francisco on this day in 1985. In today’s clip 007 takes control of a fire truck to evade the police. Roger Moore said: “San Francisco was a wonderful place to film. Mayor Dianne Feinstein was very helpful. It was lucky as she was one of the rare people that preferred me as Bond instead of Sean, so we got all sorts of permits.”
The Living Daylights Pre-Credits Scene
A training scene goes wrong in the pre-credits sequence for The Living Daylights (1987).Timothy Dalton was keen to do as many of his own stunts as possible. Stunt supervisor Paul Weston said: “I knew Timothy was strong enough to do the stunts, but it’s still a 1,300-foot drop down the side of the mountain if anything went wrong. It took great courage.”
The James Bond Quiz
Consider yourself a Bond buff? Have a friend that thinks they have Q level knowledge? Looking for some fresh questions for your weekly quiz night? Here is The James Bond Quiz. Share with friends and family over a video call or simply print and see how you get on.
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Q Meets Bond In GoldenEye
Bond gets briefed by Q in GoldenEye (1995). Desmond Llewellyn, who played Q, got a surprise he wasn’t expecting when they started filming this scene: “A girl is sitting at the desk and suddenly she is ejected. Nobody had told me anything about this beforehand and I had a hell of a shock. I was trying to remember my lines and suddenly there was a whoosh and this girl disappeared from the scene.”
Bambi And Thumper Meet Bond
On this day in 1971 shooting began on Bambi (Lola Larson) and Thumper’s (Trina Parks) fight with Bond (Sean Connery) in Diamonds Are Forever. The assassins were originally conceived as men, however director Guy Hamilton changed his mind after watching the US tumbling team. He said: “I thought ‘I bet one of these girls flip-flopping would kick Bond before he knew what had hit him, and being a gentleman he’d be rather surprised’.”
