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[Luigi Ferrari]

STV News' Entertainment Reporter Grant Laughlan tweets:

"A perfectly placed source tells me that 007 is heading to Scotland for filming. This week. Where? Not even MI6 knows."

I can confirm that this rumour is true. Don't ask me more because that's all I know. For now.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Possible sightings of B23 in Scotland:

landscapes365 Landscapes 365
Is the new James Bond film the 23rd? There are "23" film unit and location signs in Glen Etive & at Glencoe Ski Centre. Is Bond in Glencoe?

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@Nobby74 Yellow 23 Base, 23 Loc at the Glencoe SkI Centre & 23 Loc at Glen Etive. It's way too freezing, wet & windy for star spotting :-)

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 08 February 2012 - 07:44 PM.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Until the contrary is proven, I would suggest to take into higher consideration what Mrs Malcolm said long ago about the filming in Scotland...

http://www.guardian....scottish-castle

"It is believed the castle will be used as a location for the spy's ancestral home "
"I think it is meant to be James Bond's ancestral home – he will bring all the villains here"
"I think they are going to attack the castle from land and sea – there are going to a lot of bangs and explosions"

Didn't Bond's father come from Glencoe?

After all, something she had to know, since she was the first to say that China was among the locations in Bond 23, when none of us even suspected it.

"I believe it's mostly being filmed in China and Turkey. They want a winter scene, so they are going to bring their own snow"

[007jamesbond]

interesting if there is some ski scene or something......I guess that they are not in tuRKEY YET?

[Skudor]

I was just thinking that we're overdue a good skiing sequence. By a few decades in fact.

[Shrublands]

Until the contrary is proven, I would suggest to take into higher consideration what Mrs Malcolm said long ago about the filming in Scotland...

"I think it is meant to be James Bond's ancestral home"

The main problem with this, as I see it, is that it would be the most moronic and embarrassing idea to be included in a Bond film since Jaws met Dolly.

I refuse to believe that Sam Mendes and co would cook-up anything so crass.

[Skudor]

Until the contrary is proven, I would suggest to take into higher consideration what Mrs Malcolm said long ago about the filming in Scotland...

"I think it is meant to be James Bond's ancestral home"

The main problem with this, as I see it, is that it would be the most moronic and embarrassing idea to be included in a Bond film since Jaws met Dolly.


I refuse to believe that Sam Mendes and co would cook-up anything so crass.

Yeah. It would be a slight dent in an otherwise rather solid sounding film.

[Shrublands]

Yeah. It would be a slight dent in an otherwise rather solid sounding film.

Dent? Try a kick in the nuts.

Remember, they are talking about the climax of the film here.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Live from Glencoe:

lagganbeg lagganbegguesthouse
new james bond film being filmed @glencoe just now!

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 08 February 2012 - 08:37 PM.

[Shrublands]

They are in Glencoe because there is a ski center there, not because someone might recognize the landscape and pin point it as a place briefly mentioned as where Bond's father is from.

On TWINE they filmed in Chamonix, nothing to do with Bond's background and where his Mum and Dad were killed, they were just there for the snow. However, I remembered people on the net speculating about soapy, rubbishy possible story ideas at the time.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Confirmed : Daniel Craig is In Scotland,too.

rachelmacinnesx Rachel MacInnes
daniel craig (james bond guy) is in inverness tonight, just thought id tell you all:)

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 08 February 2012 - 08:45 PM.

[Skudor]

Well hopefully they'll stay way from soapy, sugar dripping cheese now as well. I've got faith.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Well hopefully they'll stay way from soapy, sugar dripping cheese now as well. I've got faith.

"Skyfall has an emotional meaning" Barbara Broccoli
"...the human drama at the center of this is quite affecting" Ralph Fiennes
"It's a shocking story" Peter Morgan
"...no matter how personal the cost" from the official plot synopsis

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 08 February 2012 - 09:14 PM.

[Skudor]

Well hopefully they'll stay way from soapy, sugar dripping cheese now as well. I've got faith.

"Skyfall has an emotional meaning" Barbara Broccoli
"...the human drama at the center of this is quite affecting" Ralph Fiennes
"It's a shocking story" Peter Morgan
"...no matter how personal the cost" from the official plot synopsis

I'm resigned to "personal" and over-Denching, but appending some unnecessary parentage would just be too much. I'd rather have an invisible, badly CGI'd car parasurfing a dodgy looking wave.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Take a look at the locations here:

http://www.undiscove...tive/glenetive/
http://www.skiassist...ski-centre.html

[Skudor]

Looks good. Very bleak and barren.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Looks good. Very bleak and barren.

Plus,the lake ( or loch?) is the ideal place for an action scene on the water: jet-skis vs speedboat ... We just have to wait and see.

[The Shark]

Got a feeling the rumoured jet-ski chase might take place in Fethiye, Turkey.

[Skudor]

Reminds me a little of the 'Croatian' landscape in FRWL (which, I believe, was actually Scotland).

[Shrublands]

Well hopefully they'll stay way from soapy, sugar dripping cheese now as well. I've got faith.

"Skyfall has an emotional meaning" Barbara Broccoli
"...the human drama at the center of this is quite affecting" Ralph Fiennes
"It's a shocking story" Peter Morgan
"...no matter how personal the cost" from the official plot synopsis

But none of that says, “it’s as if it were written by a slow-witted, twelve-year-old fan boy.” Or “It’s like something scripted by someone who was sacked off Dynasty for being too crass and stupid.”

Which this would be, if true, but I have faith.

Sam Mendes would not be part of something so mind numbingly terrible. Fruit machine playing elephants, Sheriff Pepper, Jaws and Dolly, hovercraft gondolas, invisible cars etc, etc would look like the work of Shakespeare in comparison.

They would not assemble this team of creative people to deliver a film that was even more puerile than DAD and an episode of Neighbours meshed together.

[Vauxhall]

Good sleuthing team!

[Captain Tightpants]

"It's a shocking story" Peter Morgan
"...no matter how personal the cost" from the official plot synopsis

Neither of these necessarily mean that the story will be sappy and emotional. A "shocking story" could easily be something that stuns the audience, while the statement from the plot synopsis could well be referring to Bond going on a mission that he is not expected to return from.

[Luigi Ferrari]

http://www.dailyreco...86908-23741465/

Scenes for new James Bond film Skyfall shot near Buachaille Etive Mor in Highlands A FILM crew shot scenes for the new James Bond film Skyfall in the shadow of Buachaille Etive Mor yesterday.

Staff working on the latest movie in the 007 ­franchise shot on Highland locations in Glencoe and nearby Dalness Lodge in Glen Etive.
Onlookers watched ­filmmakers drive two ­identical classic Aston Martin DB5’s along the A82 from their base at ­Glencoe’s ski centre car park.
Dalness Lodge – which once belonged to Bond creator Ian Fleming’s family – is thought to feature as a ­safehouse in the film.
Skyfall, which sees the return of Daniel Craig as James Bond, is being filmed in Scotland, Turkey and China.
It is not known whether Craig was in Scotland shooting yesterday.
Scotland has been used as a location for two previous Bond films – The Spy Who Loved Me and The World Is Not Enough.

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 09 February 2012 - 09:23 AM.

[Luigi Ferrari]

The manor house

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7107133

The derelict chapel

http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/

Can you see the resemblance? ; )

On a side note, it appears that the possibilities of #172 being the final scene are increasing now, doesn't it?

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 09 February 2012 - 10:00 AM.

[Shrublands]

Thanks Luigi, another great find.

This says to me that the climax in Scotland begins just after scene 134. M and Bond drive there in the DB5.
I now think that the black box on the Westminster roof scene (172) is indeed the end of the film, perhaps even the very last scene.

Bond and Eve looking off towards the Palace of Westminster, with Bond contemplating all that he's done for the British government. Cut to end credits.

Edit: Luigi, I see you've drawn the same conclusion.

[Luigi Ferrari]

@Shrublands: It seems so, unfortunately I'm not so quick at writing in English as I'm at thinking. And, once again, sorry for my bad English.

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 09 February 2012 - 10:15 AM.

[Col. Sun]

Thanks Luigi, another great find.

This says to me that the climax in Scotland begins just after scene 134. M and Bond drive there in the DB5.
I now think that the black box on the Westminster roof scene (172) is indeed the end of the film, perhaps even the very last scene.

Bond and Eve looking off towards the Palace of Westminster, with Bond contemplating all that he's done for the British government. Cut to end credits.

Edit: Luigi, I see you've draw the same conclusion.

That sounds very likely. Perhaps Bond and M hide-out in the Mansion/Castle and have to fend off a sea and air attack on them. Instead of Bond leading a raid on a stronghold, he has to defend it and M.

[Shrublands]

@Shrublands: It seems so, unfortunately I'm not so quick at writing in English as I'm at thinking. And, once again, sorry for my bad English.

Your English is fine, nothing to apologize for :-)

Thanks Luigi, another great find.

This says to me that the climax in Scotland begins just after scene 134. M and Bond drive there in the DB5.
I now think that the black box on the Westminster roof scene (172) is indeed the end of the film, perhaps even the very last scene.

Bond and Eve looking off towards the Palace of Westminster, with Bond contemplating all that he's done for the British government. Cut to end credits.

Edit: Luigi, I see you've drawn the same conclusion.

That sounds very likely. Perhaps Bond and M hide-out in the Mansion/Castle and have to fend off a sea and air attack on them. Instead of Bond leading a raid on a stronghold, he has to defend it and M.

My feeling is that once M and Bond get driving about the streets of late night London in the DB5, there is still a bit of investigating to do. This takes them to that back street of warehouses. Then some clue makes them realise that they must go to Scotland and find the manor house.

I think the villain must be up to something there, under the cover of it being remote and derelict. Inside things are quite different.
Once Bond and M have all the evidence they call in the forces for an assault.

Something like that, possibly?

[Vauxhall]

This says to me that the climax in Scotland begins just after scene 134. M and Bond drive there in the DB5.
I now think that the black box on the Westminster roof scene (172) is indeed the end of the film, perhaps even the very last scene.

Bond and Eve looking off towards the Palace of Westminster, with Bond contemplating all that he's done for the British government. Cut to end credits.

Very much agreed.

In other news, this is the best picture I can find of the area around Dalness Lodge:

[The Shark]

That river would make a good moat.