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[univex]

That is definitely the DB5. YES!!! I´m so glad! A London car chase at night! Brilliant. Just to think the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the new offical pic was that alley in Goldfinger where Connery smashes the DB5...Brilliant I say!

Edited by univex, 10 December 2011 - 02:22 AM.

[007jamesbond]

anyone know what possible year the Aston MArtin is? because it does not look modern

[Luigi Ferrari]

Some tidbits here:

Kirsten251 Kirsten O'Donovan
@Jess_Bethany MY DAD IS WORKING WITH DANIEL CRAIG RIGHT NOW!

Kirsten251 Kirsten O'Donovan
@Jess_Bethany deptford and new cross, they are filming a scene of driving on wet ground and cause it may freeze my dad is there to grit ©

Kirsten251 Kirsten O'Donovan
@Jess_Bethany to prevent any ice, he has been working there since 5:30 till 3am tomorrow haha x

Kirsten251 Kirsten O'Donovan
@Jess_Bethany yeah! Judie dench is there (she waved at my dad) and they are giving him a full fry up and dinner cause he is there so long!

[The Dove]

Yep..that is indeed the CLASSIC DB5!! Nice to see it back in action on a dark and gloomy London street!!

[univex]

anyone know what possible year the Aston MArtin is? because it does not look modern

That´s the DB5 man, the classic. Probably the one Bond won from Dimitrious in the Ocean Club, licence plate number 56526.

[MattofSteel]

Sweet! DB5!

Good points above also - we heard about extensive filming that was to take place at very specific locations in either India or South Africa involving railroads, etc. They were confirmed in the press, lots of government officials with quotes about approvals, etc.

They've apparently been totally scrapped - without replacements named. Jumping a motorcycle onto a train (apparently) isn't the sort of thing you film indoors at Pinewood.

[univex]

Yep..that is indeed the CLASSIC DB5!! Nice to see it back in action on a dark and gloomy London street!!

Dark, gloomy and by the tweets, wet

[007jamesbond]

I would assume that is Bond personal car since he won it...I hope it the one from CR

[univex]

I mean that we could have a situation arise where Bond is being pursued by his enemies on his home turf. London and England have always been a place of sanctuary for Bond - he has always been safe in the place he calls home. But that could change, with Bond being hunted through London for whatever reason. My theory as to the box is that it is an "insurance policy"; it contains something that would be very damaging to somebody if it was ever released. Possibly related to their involvement in "Skyfall", which I suspect is an off-the-books MI6 operation that was covered up. If this is the case, then whoever Bond has dirt on will likely to everything in their power to stop the contents of that box from being released, and so Bond would have to treat London the way he would any other city where the villains have a presence.

I hope you´re right Cap. After reading your ideas, I sure hope the film lives up to your well-grounded Fleminguesque scenarios Love your ideas about the box and about London as a villainous corrupt hometown. All in all, good show old chap, good show

[007jamesbond]

anyone know what possible year the Aston MArtin is? because it does not look modern

That´s the DB5 man, the classic. Probably the one Bond won from Dimitrious in the Ocean Club, licence plate number 56526.

yep it is a 1964 ASton MArtin DB5!

[univex]

anyone know what possible year the Aston MArtin is? because it does not look modern

That´s the DB5 man, the classic. Probably the one Bond won from Dimitrious in the Ocean Club, licence plate number 56526.

yep it is a 1964 ASton MArtin DB5!

So Bond´s personal car perhaps? Maybe Q has had some gadgetry installed?

[Matt_13]

Think that's the first genuine jolt of excitement of felt. Great to see the Aston, knew it'd be in there somewhere.

[Captain Tightpants]

I hope you´re right Cap. After reading your ideas, I sure hope the film lives up to your well-grounded Fleminguesque scenarios Love your ideas about the box and about London as a villainous corrupt hometown. All in all, good show old chap, good show

I actually want to be completely wrong about all this - I'd love to walk into SKYFALL and be proven completely wrong.

But I'm thinking a midnight chase through the streets of London in a DB5 could be one of the best scenes in the entire franchise. Especially if it's scored right; one of the things I loved about David Arnold's work on QUANTUM OF SOLACE was the way he used the DBS as an instrument itself in the PTS - the music cut out and let the engine note rip through. I could see that done well here, with the sound of the DB5's engine echoing through the narrow streets with no music to accompany it. If London is indeed unfriendly at this point of the film, it would make for a really sense of isolation and loneliness as Bond drives through the night, unsure as to where the next attack will come from.

[007jamesbond]

a night chase through the streets of London should be awesome considering no one is around....could be intense and very dangerous for Bond because he cant see anything. Could be something similar to GOldfinger

[univex]

I hope you´re right Cap. After reading your ideas, I sure hope the film lives up to your well-grounded Fleminguesque scenarios Love your ideas about the box and about London as a villainous corrupt hometown. All in all, good show old chap, good show

I actually want to be completely wrong about all this - I'd love to walk into SKYFALL and be proven completely wrong.

But I'm thinking a midnight chase through the streets of London in a DB5 could be one of the best scenes in the entire franchise. Especially if it's scored right; one of the things I loved about David Arnold's work on QUANTUM OF SOLACE was the way he used the DBS as an instrument itself in the PTS - the music cut out and let the engine note rip through. I could see that done well here, with the sound of the DB5's engine echoing through the narrow streets with no music to accompany it. If London is indeed unfriendly at this point of the film, it would make for a really sense of isolation and loneliness as Bond drives through the night, unsure as to where the next attack will come from.

I´d love for everything you said here to be true, except for David Arnold returning, but that´s just a sidenote cause I really do like that roaring engine in QOS. And I agree, a midnight chase through the streets of London in a DB5 could very well be an epic entry in the canon. And Matt, you´re quite right as well, best news in a while Probably since the cast was revealed, which was no surprise by then.

[univex]

Next step, Bond´s Chelsea flat, where he goes to fetch his only hobby, his car. What? One can only hope. So far so good.

[Captain Tightpants]

The first thing I thought of when I saw this picture was Michael Mann's HEAT - namely the scene where Hanna commandeers an unmarked police cruiser and starts following McCauley down the highway. He has no idea why it is so important that he finds McCauley, only that it is important. I could see something like that working well for Bond.

[univex]

The first thing I thought of when I saw this picture was Michael Mann's HEAT - namely the scene where Hanna commandeers an unmarked police cruiser and starts following McCauley down the highway. He has no idea why it is so important that he finds McCauley, only that it is important. I could see something like that working well for Bond.

Love that scene Not the first thing that springs to mind, but it is a cool cult scene.

[Marketto007]

Can't wait to see it on screen.

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[The Shark]

The first thing I thought of when I saw this picture was Michael Mann's HEAT - namely the scene where Hanna commandeers an unmarked police cruiser and starts following McCauley down the highway. He has no idea why it is so important that he finds McCauley, only that it is important. I could see something like that working well for Bond.

It works mainly thanks to this:

[Marketto007]

These photos are all from the same sequence, filmed in the same place (or nearby)?





xxx

[univex]

Bem, dá pra ver os arcos nas duas primeiras . We can see those arches or an old aqueduct in the first two. Also, don´t forget the new official pic, seems to have been taken in the same place, or near it.

[Marketto007]

Analysing the last photo posted on @007, I think I've found the place on Google Maps. They're filming exactly in one adjacent street to Childers Street. Take a look...



In this photo we can see the archs and this tiny street with those numbered "garages"...



In the "official" twitter picture, we can see the numbers 14, 15, 16...



So, this is the place.





xxx

[univex]

You´re quite the spy Marketto Never before has EON donne so much to turn us all into spies, right? Some good candidates for MI6 right here in the forums.

That area really reminds me of GF.

[Captain Tightpants]

Going by marketto's pictures, I've narrowed the actual place down to Deptford (a part of Lewisham) in south London. Going by the Wikipedia article, it's very a blue-collar area:

There was a start of a demographic shift downwards when the Royal Navy pulled out of Deptford, and the docks moved into storage and freight. The downward shift continued into the 20th century as the local population's dependency on the docks continued: as the docks themselves declined, so did the economic fortune of the inhabitants until the last dock, Convoys Wharf, closed in 2000. Deptford's northern section nearest the old docks contains areas of desolate council housing and deprivation typical of inner city poverty.

Which I find interesting, because this is the third "zone" of London that we've seen so far - we've got scenes in central London, around Trafalgar Square, and we've got scenes in the upmarket part of Canary Wharf. Now we've got scenes taking place in an area of London that, while not as bad as the likes of Hackney and Croydon, is certainly a low-income area, and certainly not a tourist-y travelogue place.

[007jamesbond]

I could see the car chase that we are assuming to be similar to the one of Moonraker? When Bond is tailing Drax at the Blade club and goes from there. Bond go after Drax but fail and gets capture...Maybe Bond is chasing after a suspect or he is being chased by dangerous people who wants to stop him.
thoughts?

I was hoping that this alley scene would connect to the scene on the DCEC buidling scene....I guess not

Edited by 007jamesbond, 10 December 2011 - 06:05 AM.

[Captain Tightpants]

I certainly don't think you can assume that.

[007jamesbond]

you are right...I am just guessing like everyone esle

[Jim]

An obscenely budgeted episode of Spooks.

Frickin' hell.

[Pussfeller]

London is exotic. I ain't never been to London.