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[Captain Tightpants]

...*sigh*.

PLEASE STAND BY - PLEASE STAND BY - PLEASE WAIT. . .

Okay, but you know that I'm going to do my I-told-you-so dance when no pictures emerge from filming and everyone whines about it.

[ggl]

Well, here we go again! Another weekend, another ton of pics and tweets. Let them come!

That's quite the assumption. SKYFALL has been filming since the first week of November. In that time, only a handful of weekends have actually produced "a ton" of pics. Most of the time, we get one or two photos, but it's only the past two weekends (and the first two) that we got anything significant. And I suspect it will be even harder to get photos once production moves to Turkey. So please, don't go getting your expectations up. For your own sake, at least.

Actually, I have strong faith in Turkish fans... We´ll see...

[Jim]

...*sigh*.

PLEASE STAND BY - PLEASE STAND BY - PLEASE WAIT. . .

Okay, but you know that I'm going to do my I-told-you-so dance when no pictures emerge from filming and everyone whines about it.

Let's have pictures of that instead, then.

[Whalltt]

Well, here we go again! Another weekend, another ton of pics and tweets. Let them come!

That's quite the assumption. SKYFALL has been filming since the first week of November. In that time, only a handful of weekends have actually produced "a ton" of pics. Most of the time, we get one or two photos, but it's only the past two weekends (and the first two) that we got anything significant. And I suspect it will be even harder to get photos once production moves to Turkey. So please, don't go getting your expectations up. For your own sake, at least.

I know. You're probably right. But after last weekend I can't help being optimistic. Lets wait and see.

[Luigi Ferrari]

No sign of filming in Whitehall yet ? Can anyone confirm?

According to this person it appears they are at Pinewood today:

Jonathan Wright @JonnyQuest84
James Bond 23 is filming today... Literally in next studio along. Also learnt that a mouse mat inside a cap helps head spins #GotToDance

[Vauxhall]

No filming, and traffic suspensions lifted. If they were filming around Whitehall today, it's already done. Possible that they decided to postpone filming due to the weather; raining steadily now.

[Nobby007]

Adding to the above, just back from London - no filming taking place around Whitehall today as described on the TFL website. Boo.

Parking restrictions had been lifted for Sat 18th Feb, and a member of the production team going into the Corinthia Hotel said filming had been cancelled for the day.

New signs appeared later in the morning outlining parking restrictions now in place for Sun 19th Feb (sorry no picture):
"60 metres (10 Spaces)
Whitehall Place
10 Residential Bays Outside Dept of Energy and Climate Change Building"

This is the latest on the TFL website for tomorrow:
Westminster Area (Westminster) (0.58 miles)
Event - WESTMINSTER
19 Feb 12 (08:00 to 15:00)
All Directions There will be an event on Westminster Bridge from 08:00hrs to 09:00hrs and in Whitehall Place from 1100 to 1500hrs. There are no planned road closures for this event

Can't face another 5am start tomorrow, so look forward to hearing news if you're able to make it.

[DamnCoffee]

Vauxhall bridge filming
As planned, the crew were back in London this week shooting scenes with Judi Dench and Rory Kinnear. The scene appears to be taking place in the back of a Jaguar as M and Tanner drive back to MI6 Headquarters. The car was on a tow trailer with cameras rigged to the front windscreen. The shoot followed over to Sunday where they spent over 4 hours shooting with the road closed.

{SPOILER}
The action shot on the bridge will be seen at the beginning of the film, when M's car is blocked from getting close to the famous MI6 building by police. M and Tanner watch in horror as an explosion rocks the area. The fireball will be a digital effect, unlike The World Is Not Enough when the production built a large scale replica of the front of the building in order to blow a hole in it.
{SPOILER}

Stunt at Charing Cross
A very impressive stunt took place inside Charing Cross station last week where a camera was used to film inbetween an escalator along the old Jubilee Line which has been closed from the public for a while. This scene is believed to be part of the foot chase sequence, where either Bond or Bardem's character slides down the moving stairs.



http://007bond.weebl...-update-26.html

Edited by Mharkin, 18 February 2012 - 05:33 PM.

[Vauxhall]

I think all that information has been obtained from posts on this site, apart from the bit about the Charing Cross stunt escalator slide being shot last week; it was shot a while ago - that was another fact that the MI6 site got wrong!

[Nobby007]

Andrew Cairns@AICairns
It would appear they are filming the new James Bond film around the corner from me in Cadogan Square.#watchoutladies

Twitter report - reliability unknown

Emily Archer@ArcherEmily


This rain-makers about to create a torrential downpour 007 style on Cadogan Square http://pic.twitter.com/VDsZdSJQ










Maybe then?

[Vauxhall]

Interesting. Seen three reports suggesting this now. Apparently there's also a rain machine in place.

For those who aren't familiar with London, Cadogan Square could conceivably be described as a tree-lined square off the King's Road...

[Skudor]

Was there rain in any of the other scenes so far?
Or perhaps they don't always need a rain maker to make it seem like it's raining...

[Matt_13]

So presumably, this could be when Bond is either arriving or leaving his flat with M.

[007jamesbond]

Interesting.........it is possible that we could see Bond flat again since LALD........

[The Shark]

So presumably, this could be when Bond is either arriving or leaving his flat with M.

Why with M?

[Vauxhall]

So presumably, this could be when Bond is either arriving or leaving his flat with M.

Why with M?

There was speculation that Bond rushed M away after a threat was posted to her, and they went to collect his Aston Martin from his flat before heading up to Scotland. All pure speculation though; they might be filming Bond popping out of his flat during the break in The X Factor to get milk from the corner shop.

I was about to post that if the Aston Martin is on set we'd probably read about it online, but a classic car probably doesn't seem quite as out of place in Chelsea.

EDIT: New tweet - "New James Bond film "Skyfall" shooting in Cadogan Square! Alas, Mr Bond not on set; just some Jaguars being driven around."

[Luigi Ferrari]

My Yacht Group @MyYachtGroup
New James Bond film "Skyfall" shooting in Cadogan Square! Alas, Mr Bond not on set; just some Jaguars being driven around.

Punk Cinema @punkcinema1
SKYFALL (Bond 23) filming in Cadogan Sq in Chelsea tonight - where John Barry used to live, and Daniel Radcliffe went to prep school.

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 18 February 2012 - 08:24 PM.

[Matt_13]

Just for the record, Bond exits the scene of that Whitehall sequence in a Jag....

[Vauxhall]

Parking restrictions for filming (presumably SKYFALL but I can't confirm) were in place on the western side of Cadogan Square from 8am-10pm. All clear now.

[Captain Tightpants]

Once again, we get more guerilla filmming - in and out with a minimum of fuss, and no-one seems to have noticed much. I love it.

[Major Tallon]

They appear not to recall that Bond's flat is in Wellington Square.

[Captain Tightpants]

They appear not to recall that Bond's flat is in Wellington Square.

1) Where has it been confirmed that Bond's flat will feature in the film?
2a) Is it really so critical that the film depicts the flat as being in Wellington Square as opposed to Cadogan Square?
2b) How does having Bond's flat in Cadogan Square instead of Wellington affect the quality of the film?
3) Cadogan Square is just 470 metres from Wellington, so do you really think anyone - outside Fleming purists with an intimate knowledge of London geography within a quarter-mile radius of Knightsbridge - is going to notice the difference if Cadogan Square is presented as Wellington?

[DamnCoffee]

Oh for god sake. He's just speculating. It's alright when you do it. You do exactly the same, write lengthy posts on what Bond could be up to in Skyfall, Some of which you have no evidence to back it up. But when someone else makes the smallest bit of speculation, you just jump straight down their throats.

Edited by Mharkin, 19 February 2012 - 03:15 AM.

[univex]

They appear not to recall that Bond's flat is in Wellington Square.

1) Where has it been confirmed that Bond's flat will feature in the film?
2a) Is it really so critical that the film depicts the flat as being in Wellington Square as opposed to Cadogan Square?
2b) How does having Bond's flat in Cadogan Square instead of Wellington affect the quality of the film?
3) Cadogan Square is just 470 metres from Wellington, so do you really think anyone - outside Fleming purists with an intimate knowledge of London geography within a quarter-mile radius of Knightsbridge - is going to notice the difference if Cadogan Square is presented as Wellington?

Anal. And before you reply "no thanks", let me just ad that those 2bs or not 2bs make all the difference there in that, again, anal, list.

More to the point, I´d love it if they filmed Bond´s flat, wherever it is. If that´s the case, maybe he´s stopping by to get the DB5? Oops...maybe I´m speculating there , I suppose one can´t do this sort of thing in a Forum...right?

[Captain Tightpants]

Oh for god sake. He's just speculating. It's alright when you do it. You do exactly the same, write lengthy posts on what Bond could be up to in Skyfall, Some of which you have no evidence to back it up. But when someone else makes the smallest bit of speculation, you just jump straight down their throats.

It doesn't read like speculation. It reads like "EON have forgotten that Bond lives at Wellington Square - which every Bond fan knows - and this is a key detail that is necessary to keep the integrity of the character intact". All I'm doing is reading his post, and looking at the language used. He said "they appear not to recall", which is the kind of phrase I would expect someone pointing out an error in continuity rather than speculating about the nature of the scene being filmed. If it was speculation, then I would expect it to read "Maybe they're filming Bond's flat at Cadogan Square" rather than accusing EON of forgetting minor details about the character.

More to the point, I´d love it if they filmed Bond´s flat, wherever it is. If that´s the case, maybe he´s stopping by to get the DB5? Oops...maybe I´m speculating there , I suppose one can´t do this sort of thing in a Forum...right?

I have no objection to Bond's flat appearing in the film. None whatsoever. I just asked if it had been confirmed that Bond's flat would appear, or if it was speculation. And then I asked if it was really so important that the scenes be filmed at Wellington Square rather than Cadogan Square. I mean ... what difference does it make? Sure, it might be nice for the Fleming purists, but the difference is probably going to be lost on most audiences. Some of them probably wouldn't know the difference between Wellington Square and Trafalgar Square.

[Jim]

Oh for god sake. He's just speculating. It's alright when you do it. You do exactly the same, write lengthy posts on what Bond could be up to in Skyfall, Some of which you have no evidence to back it up. But when someone else makes the smallest bit of speculation, you just jump straight down their throats.

It doesn't read like speculation. It reads like "EON have forgotten that Bond lives at Wellington Square - which every Bond fan knows - and this is a key detail that is necessary to keep the integrity of the character intact". All I'm doing is reading his post, and looking at the language used. He said "they appear not to recall", which is the kind of phrase I would expect someone pointing out an error in continuity rather than speculating about the nature of the scene being filmed. If it was speculation, then I would expect it to read "Maybe they're filming Bond's flat at Cadogan Square" rather than accusing EON of forgetting minor details about the character.

More to the point, I´d love it if they filmed Bond´s flat, wherever it is. If that´s the case, maybe he´s stopping by to get the DB5? Oops...maybe I´m speculating there , I suppose one can´t do this sort of thing in a Forum...right?

I have no objection to Bond's flat appearing in the film. None whatsoever. I just asked if it had been confirmed that Bond's flat would appear, or if it was speculation. And then I asked if it was really so important that the scenes be filmed at Wellington Square rather than Cadogan Square. I mean ... what difference does it make? Sure, it might be nice for the Fleming purists, but the difference is probably going to be lost on most audiences. Some of them probably wouldn't know the difference between Wellington Square and Trafalgar Square.

And most people aren't coming here expecting their stuff to be marked, Teach.

Please, as already and repeatedly requested, stop this instant rebuttal approach. It's pissing others off. Regularly.

[Captain Tightpants]

Please, as already and repeatedly requested, stop this instant rebuttal approach. It's pissing others off. Regularly.

Hey, like I've said, I'm in Australia, so I'm eleven hours ahead of the UK. When I made those posts, it was 2 and 3 in the morning UK time. There weren't many other forum members on then; hasn't anyone noticed that the forum experiences less activity during the early hours of the morning in the UK? Most of the highly-active forum members are European, so the trafic tapers off. How am I supposed to be able to post if I don't post during the hours when I'm actually awake? My posting habits are in line with my natural sleeping habits. And this will be backed up by the time-stamps on my posts: you will notice extended periods when I do not post, which coincide with daylight hours in the UK, and the hours when the forums are most active.

And I'm not disagreeing with people for the sake of disagreeing with them. Reading Major Tallon's post, how am I supposed to read anything into what he says other than what he says. This is what he said:

They appear not to recall that Bond's flat is in Wellington Square.

That, to me, is a criticism of the production. What other meaning is there? Please, someone tell me, because I'm drawing a serious blank here. He's calling attention to the filming taking place in Cadogan Square by pointing out that Fleming wrote Bond as living in Wellington Square and that EON seems to have forgotten this. The implication is that EON should have remembered Bond's flat is in Wellington Square, and filmed there accordingly. Now I'm not disagreeing with this because it has been posted. I'm disagreeing with this because I think it's a minor detail. Will SKYFALL be any better if Bond's flat is located in Wellington? Will it be any worse if the film is located in Cadogan? If so, how? I don't think it makes any difference at all, and is so minor a detail that it will be lost on 99.95% of audiences. It's a bit like saying "when Fleming commissioned a portrait of Bond, the lock of his hair curled to his right, but Daniel Craig's lock curls to his left, which is a massive oversight by EON".

The difference between what Major Tallon posted and what I posted is that I stated my belief, and I stated why I felt that way. He offered up his belief that it was an oversight on EON's part to film Bond's flat at Cadogan rather than Wellington, and left it at that. I stated that I thought that this was too minor a detail to affect the quality of the film, and made the argument that it will not be noticed by audiences unless they are keenly aware of the geography of London within a quarter-mile of Knightsbridge. Now, if Major Tallon wants to offer up a counter-argument to that - like, say, "Bond would not live at Cadogan Square, because he would not be able to afford anything east of Sloane Avenue on a civil servant's salary" - then I would be more than willing to hear it, and have a discussion about it. But Major Tallon never got the chance, because half an hour later, Mharkin came by and told me off for misinterpreting his post. Perhaps, in future, you could let the discussion run its course? Major Tallon thinks it's a mistake by EON to change the location of Bond's flat. I think this is a case of putting undue weight on minor details. The natural extension of that (in the absence of any other information on what filming took place) is a discussion on why it is important for EON to get all the details - especially the tiny ones - right as a means of celebrating the 50th anniversay. We could have had a very interesting discussion on that, and why it would be a better celebration of fifty years of Bond films than shout-outs to previous films, but instead, I'm sitting here defending what I posted in the first place because someone took issue with me, rather than the content of my post. Which, ironically enough, is exactly the opposite of what I did: I formed an argument based on the content of Major Tallon's post, not based on the person posting it.

[Jim]

Do you need to react at all, though? Whether you can is a different issue to whether you must.

[MattofSteel]

I'm with Jim - are we so starved for 007 news that we're turning on each other this quickly? Are we perhaps so desperate to see the finish film that our frustration at not being able to do so manifests itself as short-tempered responses to well-meaning posts in which we detect some minor objectionable? Is our anger toward MGM/EON re: the Bond 23 delay so misplaced that we're focused on one another as destinations for the vented emotion??

Or - oh, God - am I just growing up, and realizing how pointless this all is???

Phew. Sorry. Late night, copious alcohol, various existential themes in the ol' head. I may have just survived a personal crisis.

[Captain Tightpants]

Do you need to react at all, though?

If one forum member has the right to express an opinion, then every forum member has the right to agree, disagree or abstain as they see fit.