4/28/2023 0 Comments Spectre james bond“The good thing we have shooting here on the river,” adds DeWitt, “Is that we have no restrictions time wise apart from the light, the sun coming up. Permits for shooting in a built up city like this can take months to process, and second unit director Alex DeWitt says they were even denied access to certain streets for fear of them causing permanent damage to priceless statues. The chase will see the two bespoke cars hurtling through the streets of the Italian capital, down stairs, along the river, even venturing into the hallowed grounds of the Vatican City, a moment that sees the cars reach an incredible 110mph. Bond is being chased by Hinx after he gatecrashes a secret meeting attended by Christoph Waltz’s Franz Oberhauser, the mysterious villain at the centre of ‘Spectre’ who may or may not turn out to be Blofeld, Bond’s long time nemesis. The final sequence, some of which has already been glimpsed in trailer (above), will take up just five minutes of screen time. On some days, we have as many as 250 blockers whose job it is to just make sure that no-one comes out of any doorways when we’re racing these cars through.” “You have to get permission and all of that, but also just making sure that we have enough people to adequately lock off the locations. It’s definitely a hard one for the locations department they’ve had their hands full. “I think we first scouted this location a year ago. It’s a thrilling moment that’ll take all night to shoot from every angle, but it’s a moment that’s been years in the planning as Gregg Wilson, associate producer on ‘Spectre’ explains. Bond yanks the wheel to the right, mounting the wall at an impossible angle narrowly avoiding a collision, but Hinx reacts just as quickly matching Bond’s driving line inch for inch. There’s debris on the path, blocking the way. The Jag tails closely behind the Aston zooming along at around 80mph, but out of nowhere, there’s a problem. The cars accelerate off perilously close to the river (both stunt cars are fitted with oxygen tanks and masks, should anything go wrong) careening towards us at breakneck speed. There’s some brief radio chatter and then we’re waiting for Bond no more. This car, dubbed “The Beast” by ‘Spectre’ stunt coordinator Gary Powell and custom built for the movie, features a huge Range Rover Sport engine that allows it to go “really flipping fast” (Powell’s words, not ours), something that we’re about to see for ourselves. This is Hinx’s car, a monster of a car for a monster of a henchman, played by former WWE star and professional man mountain Dave Bautista. We can hear him before we see him as the engine under the hood of his custom built Aston Martin DB10 growls to life on the riverside path somewhere in the distance, but amazingly another sound quickly drowns out the Aston.Ī guttural roar that makes the DB10 sound like a pussy cat explodes into life from beneath the bonnet of a bright orange Jaguar C-X75, which sits idling alongside Bond’s sleek grey motor. No, we’re waiting for 3-times British Rally Champ Mark Higgins, Bond’s driving double for the last 3 Bond films, and primary stunt driver on ‘Spectre’. He’s off with the ‘Spectre’ first unit shooting interiors for the 24 th 007 film at Pinewood. Well, not the actual James Bond - Ian Fleming’s fictional super spy - or even Daniel Craig. It’s the middle of a bitterly cold March night in Rome and Yahoo Movies is stood overlooking the river Tiber waiting for James Bond.
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