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[Qwerty]

Now on the CBn main page...

'Quantum of Solace' Shooting At Chilean Paranel Observatory

Action will also take place at the Paranel airstrip in the Atacama Desert

[zencat]

Oh I like the sound of this.

[sharpshooter]

Sounds cool. I like the desert aspect of the film a lot.

[Arbogast777]

Interesting...

Edited by Arbogast777, 25 March 2008 - 04:30 AM.

[Marketto007]

Loved this place. And actually, is really near from here.

But I wouldn't be able to check there.

xxx

[Scaramanga'74]

Absolutely mind-blowing! Brings to mind the fond memory of the late Mr. Blofeld

[dinovelvet]

Wow, this could be the return of the classic Bond Villain Exotic Lair ™

[medrecess]

wat a joke.this movie sucks.hw realistic can this movie possibly get.Going back to hide outs n all.where is the new age villian?

[MarcAngeDraco]

Interesting... Will Greene be using these giant telescopes for something?...

Unfortunately this 'Residencia' reminds me of DAD...

[Shrublands]

Nothing new, we have known about all of this for weeks.

[Jack Spang]

Great location! Glad they are going back to the stylish, retro sets. I just hope that they put it to good use and we see a decent amount of it and not just a few fleeting glimpses because of a too tightly edited film. I hope they won't be against having the running time over 120 minutes if it is called for. Most of the Bond films have run in at around 130 minutes. Nothing wrong with that.

[GOLDFINGERGIRL]

Nothing new, we have known about all of this for weeks.

YEAH ALL THE OTHER SITES HAD THIS AND MORE MONTHS AGO ,ANY NEW NEWS?

[Quantumofsolace007]

I like It:)

[HildebrandRarity]

The inside of the resedencia has the look of the biodomes of Die Another Day...an oasis in the arctic v an oasis in the desert.

I like it...classic Bond villian hideout feel.

I echo the ideas above that we see some reasonable footage of the Atacama desert and the Paranal locations and we get a run time of more than 120 minutes. [Obviously if we get a tightly knit, taut thriller which gives us a top quartile Bond film, then 120m is fine...If, however, they end up delivering a reasonably good film but not a top notch one, then i'd like to see a bit more than 120m - instead of having to wait for the quadruple-disk-extra-special-
deleated-scenes DVD at the second money grab disk launch three years from now.]

[Judo chop]

Looks like Jabba's palace got an upgrade. Have to say, it sounded better in the article than it looks in that picture. Still, I like the fact that Bond is getting out there, visiting unusual locales of the record-setting type.

Need a telescope in the film? Bond gets the biggest one ever.

[Shrublands]

Need a telescope in the film? Bond gets the biggest one ever.

Neither the telescope nor the telescope buildings are being used.

[Judo chop]

Need a telescope in the film? Bond gets the biggest one ever.

Neither the telescope nor the telescope buildings are being used.

The article reads:

"It is this unique building that serves as the backdrop for the James Bond filming."

So the building referenced there is not a telescope building?
Did I not read the article carefully enough? That'd be a first.

I swear it would!

[Shrublands]

Need a telescope in the film? Bond gets the biggest one ever.

Neither the telescope nor the telescope buildings are being used.

The article reads:

"It is this unique building that serves as the backdrop for the James Bond filming."

So the building referenced there is not a telescope building?
Did I not read the article carefully enough? That'd be a first.

I swear it would!

The building they are talking about is the Residencia, a sort of hotel and leisure complex for people working at, or visiting, this inhospitably located telescope complex.

It

[Shrublands]

I echo the ideas above that we see some reasonable footage of the Atacama desert

It

[Qwerty]

Nothing new, we have known about all of this for weeks.

YEAH ALL THE OTHER SITES HAD THIS AND MORE MONTHS AGO ,ANY NEW NEWS?

Yes, and so were we. However, the above press release summing up this information is new news considering it made it's way online just 10 minutes before this CBn article was posted.

But thank you for your valuable input.

[zencat]

Nothing new, we have known about all of this for weeks.

YEAH ALL THE OTHER SITES HAD THIS AND MORE MONTHS AGO ,ANY NEW NEWS?

Yes, and so were we. However, the above press release summing up this information is new news considering it made it's way online just 10 minutes before this CBn article was posted.

But thank you for your valuable input.

I didn't know about any of this.

[Binyamin]

I like it.

The concept reminds me of a Shrublands in the desert. And far from just another "volcano" hideout, it actually has a purpose for being there

[Bryce (003)]

Rather cool and the pics are great.

The locale here reminds me of the solar engery power station they used in Sahara.

Once again, the Bond location scouts find something really cool that REALLY exists.

[Robinson]

Darkhorizons.com has got more on this location:

http://www.darkhoriz...s08/080326i.php

The interior looks very Ken Adam'ish! A few dozen South American beauties (preferably from Brazil or Colombia) lounging by the pool & you'll know this is a Bond flick.

[killkenny kid]

Thanks for the heads up, Robinson. Just took a look see, visions of DAF and DAD comes to mind.

[MarcAngeDraco]

Well, I wasn't very impressed with the exterior, but I really do like the interior (and I wasn't expecting to based on the DAD references).

[zencat]

Very Ken Adamish. I love it.

So they'll be back at Pinewood in May, eh? And I'll be in the UK in May. Hmmm...

[Daddy Bond]

Very Ken Adamish. I love it.

So they'll be back at Pinewood in May, eh? And I'll be in the UK in May. Hmmm...

Oh, yes, completely agree. Way cool!

[frankwalker]

Here you can see the Paranel dirt airstrip on a Google map, it runs parallel to the north-south road. The paved road running diagonally to the left leads into the mountains to the residencia village and observatory.

Airstrip runway has "01" and "19" numbers on the ends to indicate 10 degrees and 190 degrees map direction angles to pilots.

http://maps.google.c...4...mp;t=h&z=17

[frankwalker]

They have an online version of the "El Mercurio de Antofagasta" local newspaper that seems to have an article with pictures every day this week on Quantum of Solace.

They have a page viewer that lets you select any recent day and page and blow up the article. Works very well, maybe it uses Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

Text is Spanish but they have some pictures every day, such as the cargo airliner used to bring in equipment, and a DC3 type plane and a helicopter (I wonder if the pic is from California or Chile?).

http://www.mercurioantofagasta.cl/

When you click on one of the articles it pops up the page viewer and on the top left you select the page number, and on top right select the date. El Mercurio, si!

Edited by frankwalker, 28 March 2008 - 09:28 PM.