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[Vauxhall]

Wow, a first look at Mr Silva! Wonder if the character has donned a wig here, as presumably the police officer's outfit is part of a disguise.

[ggl]

Congrats, GermanLady

At last we´ve seen him... Master of disguise or blonde all the way? I think in a chamaleon...

[killkenny kid]

So, Mr. Silva appears to be a hands on, man of action. Very nice.

[marktmurphy]

Must admit I had a wander there today: what a beautiful place. I'll be visiting again; it's lovely.

Anyway; here's a house I found:



Isn't it nice? Looks like the family Bond (if it does belong to them!) haven't visited recently: the outbuilding is surrounded by loads of old rusty farm stuff and has seen better days!
But there is a secret door; handy for spies...

[marktmurphy]

Hold on; is that Q coming to 007's rescue at the chapel?

[Simon]

All does rather make a mockery of the clapperboards - which is probably why they have now stopped.

Superb pictures all.

[Royal Dalton]

Thanks, Mark. It looks absolutely excellent.

[ggl]

Must admit I had a wander there today: what a beautiful place. I'll be visiting again; it's lovely.

Anyway; here's a house I found:



Isn't it nice? Looks like the family Bond (if it does belong to them!) haven't visited recently: the outbuilding is surrounded by loads of old rusty farm stuff and has seen better days!
But there is a secret door; handy for spies...

Yes, it belonged to them. According to theforagingphotographer we´ll see (and read) some gravestones there!!!

[Vauxhall]

Good work, Mark. Pleased you were able to get nice and close to the building today.

[marktmurphy]

Wouldn't have minded seeing helicopters and machine guns, though!

I'm surprised they didn't chuck us out of there but everyone seemed quite happy to let people look. I wouldn't have gone up that close if we weren't welcome.

[univex]

Why the balloon? Not Skyfall related I bet. Cool pics though

[Luigi Ferrari]

The latest news and photos from the Skyfall set at Hankley Common. Possible massive spoilers here!

http://theforagingph....wordpress.com/

Spoiler

Almost didn’t go back to Hankley today, but I’m glad we did, as I had an interesting chat with one of the crew who told me some plot stuff. Apparently the lodge is Bond’s Scottish family home. So not a monastery at all, rather an ancestral seat. According to him, the chapel is going to have the gravestones of Bond’s grandmother and other family members, and that’s where Bond takes refuge after the lodge gets blown up.<br><br>We got talking because I was surprised to realise that the big hole in the wall that I discussed here, had completely vanished. I wondered what the point was of building a big hole and then filling it in, so I asked them. As it turns out, my daughter’s suggestion was right – they’ve covered up the hole.<br>So… they’ve built a big hole into the wall, then they’ve built a second, normal looking wall over the top. They’ve even put in window frames made of balsam, the ultra-light wood that model aeroplanes are made of. The point of this extra special fakery is so that they can blow up the second wall and be left with the original hole-in-the-wall. Clever stuff.<br><br>The hole-in-the-wall is on the far right of photo here – to the right of the big doorway. Watch that space, folks.<br><br>So then apparently Bond is going to come hurtling through the gates on the ridge in his aston martin, hotly pursued by someone with unfriendly designs on him. My very forthcoming source today seemed to think that Daniel Craig would actually be there for some of the filming, but I’m a bit doubtful, tbh.<br>Anyhow, the plot dictates that the homecoming son takes refuge in the grand family seat, which then gets blown to bits by baddies in a helicopter and simultaneously stormed by armed baddies on the ground (who’ve poured out of said helicopter), whereupon Bond flees to the chapel, presumably seeking the protection of his forefathers (and mothers).<br>My source tells me that the lodge is a replica of an actual lodge in Scotland, where they’ve already been filming, but can’t blow it up for the obvious reason that this would rather annoy the owners. So I’m guessing that any heartstring-tugging shots of Daniel reverently touching the gravestone of his granny before doing forward rolls into a bush and throttling the baddies with their own braces, have already been filmed. You never know though, I suppose. They’ve still not finished the roof, and apparently it’ll now be left as it is, since they can cover the bald bit with cgi. It’s the front that you see above that’s the important angle, apparently. Here are some nice hot air balloons floating over the undone bit of the lodge – I wonder if Surrey air balloon revenue has increased in relation to the skyfall filming. All three emergency services were certainly in evidence yesterday, and I assume the film-makers generously compensate the M.O.D. and all the services. Today I was chatting with a Surrey police officer, and he told me that lots of safety cover is provided (at a price) to ensure that the whole explosives issue is safe and covered from a fire perspective.<br>He also told me that the film set had to apply for a licence to blow stuff up, and that the licence is valid for the next few weeks. On the basis of all that I’ve been told today, it seems that filming starts on Tuesday, that there’ll be day and night shoots over the next couple of weeks, and that there’ll be some gratifying low-light explosions occurring. I’ve been a bit concerned about the fire risk inherent in blowing up stuff on heathland – one of the most flammable protected habitats you can find. I’m reassured by finding these big inflatable water bowsers, accompanied by huge reels of hose, which will presumably be on standby on the explosive night.<br>We wandered a long meandering way around Hankley today, only coming near all the film business towards the end of the walk. We ended up on the ridge overlooking the site though, and came across ‘the gatehouse’.<br>What really struck me is that the fakery looks just so damned realistic. They’ve pretty much finished the gatehouse now, and it’s fabulous; the edges of the walls are just so convincingly tumbledown and colonised with mosses and lichens. It’s only when you look very closely at the lichen that you realise that it’s just sparsely scattered yellow dots on plaster. It really does the job on first glance though. If the filming’s going to occur mainly at dusk or night, though, then you wonder whether all this detail is worth it considering the fact that most of it is unlikely to be seen. I’m drawn in by all this make believe now though, and I’m feeling rather excited at the thought of seeing some filming.

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 12 March 2012 - 01:59 AM.

[univex]

Yes, and then there is the deer pillar on the gateway with the Skyfall stone sign. Very cool. The pic was somewhere on twitter but it got taken down.

Very nice details there Luigi.

[007jamesbond]

interesting stuff.....it seems Bond is alone against a team of bad guys! No support or anything

[univex]

interesting stuff.....it seems Bond is alone against a team of bad guys! No support or anything

Suppose he has M. Give her a piece, she´ll handle it. Oh wait, that came up wrong. Oh wait, so did that...

[Pussfeller]

Yeah, I have a feeling we'll see M wielding a weapon of some kind.

[DamnCoffee]

Would be very interesting to see M in an action sequence. I'm looking forward to it. But, I have a feeling that due to Judi's condition it wouldn't be wise to have her running and stuff, could prove very complicated and dangerous. Hope I'm wrong though. Judi is badass.


Also, I'm so sorry, but I've just got an image of M appearing from the back of a jeep with a massive rocket launcher going "Better cover my ears, if I were you."

Edited by Mharkin, 12 March 2012 - 02:45 AM.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Ok guys the big secret has just been unveiled. What is Skyfall?
Here is the answer:

Spoiler

The entrance of #Skyfall at Hankley Common? http://pic.twitter.com/qCEEePJX

This is just half the mystery though, as it gives an answer only to the geographical meaning of Skyfall.
We have yet to discover its emotional content.

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 12 March 2012 - 02:42 AM.

[007jamesbond]

Ok guys the big secret has just been unveiled. What is Skyfall?
Here is the answer:

Spoiler

The entrance of #Skyfall at Hankley Common? http://pic.twitter.com/qCEEePJX

This is just half the mystery, but it gives an answer to the geographical meaning of Skyfall.
We have yet to discover its emotional content.

I don't understand the geological meaning.....care to explain more?

[Luigi Ferrari]

Ok guys the big secret has just been unveiled. What is Skyfall?
Here is the answer:

Spoiler

The entrance of #Skyfall at Hankley Common? http://pic.twitter.com/qCEEePJX

This is just half the mystery, but it gives an answer to the geographical meaning of Skyfall.
We have yet to discover its emotional content.

I don't understand the geological meaning.....care to explain more?

Spoiler

The name's Lodge. Skyfall Lodge. ;-)

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 12 March 2012 - 02:47 AM.

[007jamesbond]

Ok guys the big secret has just been unveiled. What is Skyfall?
Here is the answer:

Spoiler

The entrance of #Skyfall at Hankley Common? http://pic.twitter.com/qCEEePJX

This is just half the mystery, but it gives an answer to the geographical meaning of Skyfall.
We have yet to discover its emotional content.

I don't understand the geological meaning.....care to explain more?

Spoiler

The name's Lodge. Skyfall Lodge. ;-)

I see......I am thinking the emotional context is something to do with Bond past or something significantly about it that is very emotional

[The Shark]

Ok guys the big secret has just been unveiled. What is Skyfall?
Here is the answer:

Spoiler

The entrance of #Skyfall at Hankley Common? http://pic.twitter.com/qCEEePJX

This is just half the mystery though, as it gives an answer only to the geographical meaning of Skyfall.
We have yet to discover its emotional content.

Explains this:



Didn't want one of local residents at Glencoe let slip that it was Andrew Bond's house?

[Pussfeller]

Why does a deer imply Andrew Bond?

[The Shark]

James Bond's a horny bastard, and he's good at running and jumping. Therefore, Andrew Bond = male deer.

His nickname was "Skyfall."

[007jamesbond]

where in Scotland is it supposely to be in?

[The Shark]

Glencoe.

[MattofSteel]

I'm still not sold this house belongs to a Bond.

Given the confirmed Brazilian title of 'Operation Skyfall", and knowing what we know about that terminology on past Bond films, Skyfall most likely represents some sort of official operational codename in the film, either for a military or intelligence operation (or, a coded alert: IE, MI6 under attack, the sky is falling, etc).

But, now that we've seen some proof of the geographical significance...

..wouldn't it be a wonderfully meta-twist on Fleming's "GoldenEye in Jamaica" if Skyfall was in fact both? The name of an operation in the film, perhaps derived from the creator's residence in Scotland? Sort of an inverse of Fleming, how he named his house after the GoldenEye operation during the war.

I'd put money on that.

[Royal Dalton]

I'm sure it's Albert Finney's place.

I think Skyfall was Bond's ancestral home, and Finney's character (possibly called Kincade) was a friend of Bond's father, and became something of a surrogate father figure to Bond after Andrew Bond's death (remember the story blurb: "007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost."), and he bought the house after Bond's parents died.

[MattofSteel]

Ha, maybe. That's quite the specific plot extrapolation you have there! Could make some sense, though I don't particularly like the idea of a surrogate father or 'mentor' figure in Bond's life - I've always felt his knack for survival and underlying badassedness came from having to fight his own battles alone for so many years.

[univex]

Interesting...

"which means you were at that school by the grace of someone else’s charity"

And would explain the slack M gives him all the time. Time to pay back I guess.