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[blueman]

Must not be an integral location if they can cancel it like this. I suspect they had a backup plan all along.

[Qwerty]

So what are they doing now, resting ?

Even though we're not positive as to what exactly is filling in this filming time, I think we can be assured that they're doing something.

Resting was not a word that came to mind too often when we saw Martin Campbell with the Casino Royale production.

[Leon]

I'm going to be realistic here..

This would have been a big and important scene using such an amazing place. I doubt it was an easy thing to cancel filming there and they will be having some real emergancy work going on to substitute it.

This is worrying and could affect the quality of the film...

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

It's cloudy in Argentina... so maybe all the South American zone has bad weather too.

[Professor Dent]

Disappointing but I'm sure they have a "Plan B."

[Zorin Industries]

I'm going to be realistic here..

This would have been a big and important scene using such an amazing place. I doubt it was an easy thing to cancel filming there and they will be having some real emergancy work going on to substitute it.

This is worrying and could affect the quality of the film...

Oh please. Let's get some context here folks. The "quality" of the film will not be affected. Every film production no matter how big or small has to ditch plans, rearrange others and start new ones. Its part of the organic business we call film making. If anything, this 11th hour cancellation could signal a better, more economical substitute as in film-making the best artistic decisions emerge from the most limiting of conditions.

And it is just ONE location in a film of MANY locations. If the Bond film wagon can survive protesting Greek monks, melting ice, impossible altitudes, Russian bureaucracy and local hoods it can certainly cope with the loss of one MINOR location. Ten days is not a major locale for Bond.

No film - ESPECIALLY A BOND FILM - operates without a contingency plan.

[Jim]

I'm going to be realistic here..

This would have been a big and important scene using such an amazing place. I doubt it was an easy thing to cancel filming there and they will be having some real emergancy work going on to substitute it.

This is worrying and could affect the quality of the film...

If that's realism, I await fantasy with interest.

[Lounge Lizard]

You're all missing the point. They're not filming in Cusco because the locals want to sacrifice Daniel Craig in honor of Inti the Sun God.

[AngryPolarBear]

Macchu Picchu is a great place, but sounds to spectacular for me. I want the locations be a part of the story, not just having Bond fight in amazing place's just for the wow-factor. Not that I know anything about why he's supposed to be there, just flagging my opinions.

[Bueno]

Sorry to drag up an old topic but does anyone have any idea what they replaced filming in Peru with. I think I read in a English tabloid that they were going to film in a warehouse in East London instead but it was in a tabloid which means that it isn't true...

It sounds like it would have been a pretty important scene. Macchu Picchu is very well-known and the original details said that it would have a 250 production crew and they would be filming for 10 days. I know some people weren't too keen on using Macchu Picchu as a locale but I think it could have been amazing.

[dinovelvet]

Sorry to drag up an old topic but does anyone have any idea what they replaced filming in Peru with. I think I read in a English tabloid that they were going to film in a warehouse in East London instead but it was in a tabloid which means that it isn't true...

It sounds like it would have been a pretty important scene. Macchu Picchu is very well-known and the original details said that it would have a 250 production crew and they would be filming for 10 days. I know some people weren't too keen on using Macchu Picchu as a locale but I think it could have been amazing.

Was it replaced with the Chile observatory/desert location? It seems like we only started hearing about Chile as a filming location after the Machu Picchu story came and went.

[Vauxhall]

We had heard reports about filming in Antofagasta and the Atacama Desert in Chile before Machu Picchu was cancelled so I don't think that was entirely the replacement. It is possible however that more scenes were shot in Chile and Panama than had previously been planned to cater for the cancelled shots. I'm very interested about what scene was intended to shoot in Cuzco though - it's a fairly unique location unable to be realistically recreated elsewhere.

[Monkeyfoahead]

I think it was more eye candy, but as long as they don't have a overtly CGI tidal wave, or someone being able to hide behind an invisible car.... I think I'll be happy

[Matt_13]

Sorry to drag this thread up, but did we ever find out what the location was going to be used for? If not I wonder if we'll get it in the next one.

[dinovelvet]

A ten day shoot, with 250 people involved? The only scene I can think of that needs that many people is Dominic Greene's party...though it might have been filmed already. Maybe it was a scene that was either dropped entirely or worked into something different. Could have been, say, Bond meeting Felix at the bar, with the CIA hit squad in a cat and mouse chase with Bond in and around the ruins.

[DamnCoffee]

Maybe yes.

I probably would go for Greene's party though.

What I really wanted to see, was the massive truck explosion in the PTS, that wasn't filmed.

[Captain Tightpants]

Sorry to drag this thread up, but did we ever find out what the location was going to be used for? If not I wonder if we'll get it in the next one.

I'm guessing it may have been when Bond and Camille walk out of the desert.

[Matt_13]

That's the only thing I could think of too. Still, I'd like to think that there was more to it than that. Unfortunately I think you're right Capt.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Sorry to drag this thread up, but did we ever find out what the location was going to be used for? If not I wonder if we'll get it in the next one.

I'm guessing it may have been when Bond and Camille walk out of the desert.

I doubt that would take ten days of shooting schedule involving 250 people.