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[Vauxhall]

Several of the on-set reports have described a large set at Pinewood which we'd previously heard nothing about.

"an abandoned Japanese island town"

"abandoned Japanese city, complete with tattered statue of a forgotten hero"

"remnants of an impressive deserted town meant to be on an island off the coast of Japan"

Anyone got any guesses about how this factors into SKYFALL?

[thecasinoroyale]

Good question Vauxhall...all I can think of at the moment is if this is a 'classic' Bond villain rendezvous location in a ghost town, or a place to meet a contact of Bonds?

[007jamesbond]

maybe this is where Silva disappears to at the end of the film and bond is sent to elimination him....by strangling him YOLT novel style

[Vauxhall]

Discovered this further addition of the set:

"a ghost town on Hashima Island in Japan"

Interesting if the bit about Hashima Island proves correct. Coincidentally, I learnt about Hashima earlier this week when I saw some photos of the abandoned city published by urban explorers. The island itself is in the Nagasaki prefecture and was abandoned in 1974 when the coal mines closed. Photos here: http://www.dailymail...oast-Japan.html

[Royal Dalton]

Possibly somewhere the villains leave Bond, thinking he'd be trapped there and die, before they head off to Turkey?

I've got a feeling that the China and Japan segments are going to have something of a supernatural or mystical vibe to them, which would make them quite interesting and different.

[ggl]

Absolutely amazing and creepy place! Pure Fleming.

Thanks Bond for discover Hashima for me.

It´s on wikipedia already: http://en.wikipedia..../Hashima_Island

[chriso]

Could be only used as secret location for a mission briefing or SIlva's attempt to kill Bond or Bond catches Silva and interrogates him there...

[sharpshooter]

Absolutely amazing and creepy place! Pure Fleming.

Indeed. It sounds haunting and mysterious, imagining people looking at you from the windows. Are you truly alone? A grand scale Statue Park, with a reason to be abandoned other than it being night.

[Ace Roberts]

mmmm...Blofeld's hideout in YOLT was in a inactive volcano in Japan - could his hideout in this movie be in an abandoned coal mine on an inactive island in Japan as well? Just saying...

[ggl]

Curious how all the Blofeld rumours are appearing again...

[DamnCoffee]

Yesterday was the first we've heard of this. So I've been thinking, could this be a more low key final set piece? The post London rooftop stuff? Eve tells Bond that after...

Spoiler

The death of M, they managed to get a lead on Silva, leading him there.

Like Sharpshooter said, it could prove a very visual and creepy place. A darker version of Scaramangas fun house perhaps? One on one? Fighting it out, untill one of them dies? It just seems a bit strange that there's suddenly confirmation of Japan, where pretty much all of the locations have been confirmed. Yeah, I'm willing to bet this is the final action piece.

[Royal Dalton]

I'm sure it'll end with Bond standing on the roof alone. We've got the symbolism of the Union Flag there, too. Move past that to see the London skyline, then up to the sky itself. End titles.

[DamnCoffee]

Hmmm. I could live with that. Would be nice to have a lovely rendition of the Bond theme over that as well.

[Matt_13]

Yeah this film will likely end on an emotional beat, I can't imagine Bond having to finish off Silva after what appears to happen at the lodge. If it doesn't end on the roof, it'll end with Bond in bed with Severine immediately after the scene on the roof. Perhaps on that yacht we heard about.

[Vauxhall]

I'd love the final shot to be Bond on the roof with the camera pulling out to show the London skyline behind him, but I can't really figure out where else the Japanese scenes could fit in if there's an extended sequence set there.

[Shrublands]

I'd love the final shot to be Bond on the roof with the camera pulling out to show the London skyline behind him, but I can't really figure out where else the Japanese scenes could fit in if there's an extended sequence set there.

I’m starting to think that the first 15 minutes are in Turkey and that’s it - Bond does not go back in the second half of act 2 – that’s where this Japanese island goes.

Turkey goes either side of the main title sequence (scenes 1 to 18)
China and the Japanese island goes between scenes 54 and 120

The end is Bond on the London roof.

[Royal Dalton]

I don't know. I thought we'd worked out before that the Turkish train sequence takes place somewhere between scenes 68 and 95, based on the co-ordinates in the scene 97 clapperboard still?

I'm wondering if the Japanese island is where Silva's prison is located and we see it in the PTS.

[Matt_13]

Hadn't thought of it being a prison. A very real possibility. It's also not a stretch to image that Silva only arrives in the UK for the last 2 acts. Afterall, we have no evidence that he was present for any of the events that occur early on.

[Shrublands]

The actor cast as the isolation guard looks very English and the journalists have been very specific that this place is intended to be Japan.. I don’t know if they’d build a vast outdoor set for something like that – perhaps if the escape was an elaborately staged one, I don’t know.
The more I think about it, I don’t think we have any real evidence that anything other than the first 15 minutes or so takes place in Turkey. And it’s looking like motorbikes are involved in the Istanbul sequence and leading into the train stuff.

[007jamesbond]

here is another thought maybe Silva been exile to this island.......and he escapes somehow to the UK...Since Japan was not mention in the press conference I am guessing that Japan will only be feature in a very small part that Bond maybe wont even go too! I am thinking that Silva will be the only one that will be on this island

[S K Y F A L L]

Yesterday was the first we've heard of this. So I've been thinking, could this be a more low key final set piece? The post London rooftop stuff? Eve tells Bond that after...

Spoiler

The death of M, they managed to get a lead on Silva, leading him there.

Like Sharpshooter said, it could prove a very visual and creepy place. A darker version of Scaramangas fun house perhaps? One on one? Fighting it out, untill one of them dies? It just seems a bit strange that there's suddenly confirmation of Japan, where pretty much all of the locations have been confirmed. Yeah, I'm willing to bet this is the final action piece.

I know they wouldn't nuke the fridge.

[DamnCoffee]

^ I'm positive you used the exact same reply to me in another thread.

here is another thought maybe Silva been exile to this island.......and he escapes somehow to the UK...Since Japan was not mention in the press conference I am guessing that Japan will only be feature in a very small part that Bond maybe wont even go too! I am thinking that Silva will be the only one that will be on this island

That seems an interesting idea. I wonder if we might get a more lengthy PTS this time around. Gunbarrel opens on the Island. Silva escapes. MI6 learn of it (Cue the scene of M in her office, with the ear piece), then she demands Bond to be tracked down. Cut to Bond mid adventure and a little action piece to kick off the movie. Then the main title sequence. Then we go to M in Whitehall, due to Silvas escape.

Edited by Mharkin, 12 April 2012 - 09:38 PM.

[Royal Dalton]

The actor cast as the isolation guard looks very English and the journalists have been very specific that this place is intended to be Japan.

Ah, yes, I remember that now. Probably not, then.

[S K Y F A L L]

Possibly somewhere the villains leave Bond, thinking he'd be trapped there and die, before they head off to Turkey?
I've got a feeling that the China and Japan segments are going to have something of a supernatural or mystical vibe to them, which would make them quite interesting and different.

I always got a kind of supernatural type feeling from the scene in Dr.No regarding the dragon.

^ I'm positive you used the exact same reply to me in another thread.

It was in reference to something you said about Indy 4.

Edited by S K Y F A L L, 12 April 2012 - 09:50 PM.

[Matt_13]

Next, we walked through the Pinewood backlot where they had built an abandoned ghost town, which is meant to be a part of Hashima Island in Japan, the location where Bond first meets Silva in the movie, though we weren't told what the context of that meeting was. Again, mysteries, mysteries… The entire complex was made to look like it was concrete, mostly crumbling with rubble everywhere and the multi-paneled glass windows had many of their panes smashed in. As we walked through the empty streets, we came upon a town square in a similar state of destruction with a giant statue of some Japanese emperor or other guarding over it, though its head and torso had already been pulled down, either by the townspeople or by whatever drove them out of town. They were ready to tear this set down and they had already pulled out all of the set dressing and props that littered the streets behind the set - rusted shopping carts and bicycles, signs that used to adorn the doorways. Presumably, this stuff would be used again down the road for other productions.

http://www.superhero...-set-of-skyfall

[Royal Dalton]

Hashima Island in Japan, the location where Bond first meets Silva in the movie

Thanks, Matt.

Interesting...

[Vauxhall]

Good bit of information there. Suggests to me that it takes place after the Shanghai and Macau scenes, and before the action returns to London for the underground sequence. It would make sense that this is where Silva is kept in prison, and then he somehow escapes.

The alternative would probably be that this is the pre-title sequence, and the Turkey scenes are in the middle of the movie. I think that's unlikely though.

[DamnCoffee]

^ I'm positive you used the exact same reply to me in another thread.

It was in reference to something you said about Indy 4.

Well obviously, yeah. I'm just a bit confused as to why you said it in this thread, too?

[Royal Dalton]

Good bit of information there. Suggests to me that it takes place after the Shanghai and Macau scenes, and before the action returns to London for the underground sequence. It would make sense that this is where Silva is kept in prison, and then he somehow escapes.

The alternative would probably be that this is the pre-title sequence, and the Turkey scenes are in the middle of the movie. I think that's unlikely though.

I'm thinking Bond is taken there by force to meet Silva after the casino sequence. Then he's left on the island to die when Silva departs for London.

It seems quite a long time into the film before Bond and the main villain meet, though.

[Shrublands]

It seems quite a long time into the film before Bond and the main villain meet, though.

That was my first thought, but on second thoughts, it was a long time into FRWL before Bond meets Grant and similarly TMWTGG, TSWLM, others too.
We may well see Silva at large long before Bond does.