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[stamper]

This is it guys....

Big spoilers...

http://www.dvdrama.c...le-mechant-.php
























It's the GARDEN OF DEATH !

PS just delete or merge this thread if posted before.

[zencat]

Hope so. The Garden of Death is one of the great unused Fleming ideas.

[stamper]

The feature is not saying it is, but it's the first thing that sprang in my mind upon seeing the first pic. All this Green agenda could certainly fit the garden idea. It is exactly as I imagined the garden to be upon reading the book, with the dome, the pool etc...

[Leon]

I don't think so, they are just regular plants, no doubt to give the place some decent oxygen. He wouldn't keep the garden of death indoors inside his lair, nor would the garden of death have any use in the middle of the desert.

A big feature of the garden in YOLT was a large array of venomous creatures, pyranha and bubbling fumeroles.

Edited by Leon, 28 March 2008 - 07:37 PM.

[Loomis]

I'm actually getting much more of a vibe of DIE ANOTHER DAY's Eden Project meeting a rather naff hotel. I think Fleming's garden of death (and, yes, it is a great unused idea) would look a bit more.... well, scary.

Nothing to see here. Move along. (Still, cheers for the link, stamper.)

[tdalton]

I'm actually getting much more of a vibe of DIE ANOTHER DAY's Eden Project meeting a rather naff hotel. I think Fleming's garden of death (and, yes, it is a great unused idea) would look a bit more.... well, scary.

Agreed. I would expect the setting for the Garden of Death to be a bit more substantial than this and a rather scary setting, which I don't think that this setting quite accomplishes. It's a nice looking setting though, but I don't think that it's what the Garden of Death should look like.

[DamnCoffee]

Lovely! Beautiful Set, I'm reminded of the Eden Project in Die Another Day... In a good way.

[MattofSteel]

Don't think it's the Garden of Death. Still an amazingly classic-looking location. QoS is setting up to have it's own fair share of nostalgia for the classic Bonds of old, much like CR did. Dan's own comments on the matter, coupled with what we're seeing from the production design, are making me anticipate a trailer even more.

[craigbegins]

I wasn't familiar with The Garden of Death before now but it's a really cool idea & I'm surprised it's never been used in a Bond movie.

[Royal Dalton]

There's some info about the filming at this location on Latino Review.

http://www.latinorev...2-in-chile-4280

[box]Info On Bond 22 In Chile

Date: March 28, 2008

By: Ryan 'The Rican with the Irish name' McLelland
Source: Hoy Cinema


Cinema Today's Movieland Blog has the big scoop on the filming of Bond's latest Quantum of Solace down in Chile. Panama....Chile....they are really going "ALL OUT" for this aren't they? Bet Craig is loving the beautiful scenery and glad he's not filming this all greenscreen in Vancouver right now.

Says Cinema Today:

The hotel residence of the ESO Paranal Observatory, 123 kilometres south of Antofagasta, is revolutionized with the shooting of the film 007 and all that this entails in terms of logistics and security.

Mexicans already filmed her scenes. Within the impressive building-won prizes in competitions in architecture were rolled at noon yesterday, scenes with the participation of Mexican actors Jesus Ochoa, Joaquin Cos

[Shrublands]

This is it guys....

Big spoilers...

http://www.dvdrama.c...le-mechant-.php


It's the GARDEN OF DEATH !

It’s just a photo of the actual interior and its not being used in the film.

The inside of Greene's establishment is being built at Pinewood and it will look quite different.

[Leon]

[quote name='Shrublands' post='854722' date='28 March 2008 - 21:37']

It

[Agent Spriggan Ominae]

[quote name='Shrublands' post='854722' date='28 March 2008 - 10:37'][quote name='stamper' post='854697' date='28 March 2008 - 19:23']This is it guys....

Big spoilers...

http://www.dvdrama.c...le-mechant-.php


It's the GARDEN OF DEATH ! [/quote]



It

[MattofSteel]

That's too damn bad, b/c that interior is so Bondian. SO Bondian.

[Qwerty]

I wasn't familiar with The Garden of Death before now but it's a really cool idea & I'm surprised it's never been used in a Bond movie.

Would be fantastic if it someday did.

[sharpshooter]

The garden of death is one of the best un-used ideas. You nearly had me convinced it was in the film for a moment...

[Shrublands]

Well it could be the Garden of Death if your idea of Fleming

[Quantumofsolace007]

[quote name='Shrublands' post='854797' date='28 March 2008 - 21:15']Well it could be the Garden of Death if your idea of Fleming

Edited by Quantumofsolace007, 29 March 2008 - 02:00 AM.

[Monkeyfoahead]

I liked the pictures. The Eden project does indeed come to mind, but the pool and balcony don't really fit, so it looks more like and arboretum than anything. Imo.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Huh. I 'spose it would work better as a cleverly disguised version of the Garden of Death; underwhelming and unassuming to the public during daylight hours, but change the lighting and retract the roof at night and you might have something there. They could even do a TMWTGG-style precredits with some poor sap (competitor of Greene?) getting trapped in and...consumed. Maybe?

Perhaps it's just me desperately clinging to the notion of having a proper adaptation of YOLT (especially after just having viewed the 120-minute mutilation of the source material, featuring a performance by Sean Connery where he looks like he'd rather be receiving fellatio from a box jellyfish).

[Jim]

The Garden of Death has sunloungers?

Hmm.

[stamper]

Thats for Greene to watch people get killed while sipping his martini.
I'm sure this pool is acid too.

[Jim]

I'm sure this pool is acid too.

...with a shallow end. Health and safety - very important. I wonder if there's a sign on the wall saying "No diving, no bombing, no petting, no dissolving".

[Mr.B]

Uhh, I don't know. I think I could deal witrh the second pic, but the first one looks like a shot from DAD.

[Skudor]

I sort of like the look of this place. At least it's a real place set where the movie is set. Not a place in Cornwall, meant to be in Iceland, which is actually the Pinewood backlot.

Whether or not it's the garde of death is moot - clearly they could use it as such (don't have to include every real corner of the place in the film, nor do they have to use it as it is). However, the way they've talked about Green I have a hard time picturing him having a garden of death as such.

[Gri007]

Is it me, or can I sense de ja vu of Die Another Day. This is somewhat quite nerve wraking

[Mr.B]

Is it me, or can I sense de ja vu of Die Another Day. This is somewhat quite nerve wraking

No, I thout it too. Maybe Graves and Greene had the same interior designer, who knows?

[DamnCoffee]

I also have a Die Another Day feeling. But only in terms of set design, which I have no problem with since most of the sets in Die Another Day are beautiful, especially the Ice Palace and MI6 HQ. Other than that, Quantum of Solace will be nothing like Die Another Day, we have a physically fit Bond, no A List Celebrities, no invisible cars, and down to earth and realistic gadgets oh yeah and an acceptable Director.

[Leon]

But it's been established that this is the actual interior of the building and not the film-set...

[Mr.B]

But it's been established that this is the actual interior of the building and not the film-set...

So you tell me, that the buildings we've seen, won't be in the film?