Quantum Of Solace
Synopsis
Quantum Of Solace starts 10 minutes after the end of Casino Royale. Bond’s search for answers behind Vesper’s betrayal leads him to uncover QUANTUM, a sinister organisation whose tentacles spread across the globe, with double agents buried within the British government, MI6 and the CIA. Evidence takes him to Haiti, where he meets Camille. She is an agent who has her own vengeance-fuelled agenda, to avenge her family’s deaths at the hands of former Bolivian dictator General Medrano. Posing as the girlfriend of faux-environmentalist Dominic Greene, she becomes suspicious of his land acquisition and business relationship with Medrano. With Bond by her side, they discover Greene is part of QUANTUM, an organisation that is secretly appropriating all of Bolivia’s water supply and replacing its left-of-centre president with a more pliable leader.
Cast
Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman, Rory Kinnear, Tim Pigott-Smith, Joaquín Cosio
Producers
Michael G. Wilson
Barbara Broccoli
Director
Marc Forster
Release Date
31 October 2008 (UK)
14 November 2008 (USA)
World Premiere
29 October 2008, Odeon Leicester Square, London
Locations
Bruneval Barracks, Montgomary Lines in Aldershot, Farnborough Airport, Bodyflight, Bedford, Virgin’s ‘The Base’ Crawley. The Reform Club, London, Pinewood Studios, England; Howard Airport, Casa Vejo, Panama City, Coco Solo, Cabra Island, Colon, Panama; The ESO Paranal, Atacama desert, Chile; Torre di Talamonaccio, Siena, Lake Garda, Carrera, Italy; Bregenz, Austria; Baja California, Mexico
Music
“Another Way To Die” – performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys, composed by David Arnold
Vehicles
Aston Martin DBS, Alfa Romeos (156, 159), Bell UH-1H Huey helicopter, Douglas DC-3, Sunseeker Superhawk 43, Ford Ka, Indigenious boat, Montesa motorbike, Ford Edge, Volkswagen Beetle, Range Rover Sport
Gadgets/Weapons/Technology
- Walther PPK 7.65mm
- Sony Ericsson mobile phone identification imager
- QUANTUM earpiece
- Smart table
- Heckler & Koch UMP9 submachine gun
- Heckler & Koch G36C assault rifles
- Nail scissors
- Shard of glass
- Oil
- Fire Axe
Trivia
For the stunt where Bond and Camille freefall out of the DC3 aircraft, Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko performed it at a wind tunnel facility called Bodyflight. ‘Flying’ in the wind tunnel is the closest you can come to freefalling 10,000 feet without actually jumping out of a plane
In order to film the high-octane foot chase across the rooftops of Siena, the production team had to remove the existing tiles from the houses and reinforce the roofs so the actors’ feet did not break through the tiles during the stunt
Over 200,000 rounds of blank ammunition were purchased for testing, training and filming
Quantum Of Solace filmed in more locations than any other Bond movie covering six different countries including; UK, Panama, Chile, Mexico, Italy and Austria.
Over a period of just 12 days, the special effects team set off 54 controlled explosions whilst filming the climax of the movie on the world famous 007 Stage
Producer Michael G. Wilson has a cameo as a man reading newspaper in a Haitian hotel lobby
