On
5th March 1999 the cast and crew of The World Is Not Enough descended
on Swindon, in Wiltshire, to do a spot of filming. The location used by
the production was Motorola's Factory, just on the outskirts of the town.
Details of what was filmed are sketchy, but it is known the futuristic
mobile phone factory doubled as a Turkish oil pumping station and there
were some "action scenes" that involved helicopters dropping people off.
Both
Judi
Dench (M) and Pierce Brosnan
(Bond) were on set as well as new Bond girl Sophie
Marceau (Elektra King). |
This
proves that M is indeed much more implicated
this time round. Not only does she travel to Turkey in a Universal Exports
helicopter, but she also gets some of the action, the precise details of
which are a closely guarded secret.
The
pictures below, courtesy of Motorola and The
Ian Fleming Foundation, show the enormous effort that went into
just one day's filming. For the shoot, cameras had to be mounted onto rails,
which can be seen in the shot below. The second pic shows just suitable
to futuristic Motorola building is for a Bond film. |
(Note
the enormous tube-like structure on the picture to the right. Could this
feature be used by the filmmakers as the pipeline itself?)
The
futuristic building was spotted because of it's striking looks, and will
form the backdrop for much of the action of the film, if current reports
are to be believed.
Images
courtesy Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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see the rest of the pictures from the day, and to read more about this
location shoot, we encourage you to visit Mr
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. |
Pierce
Brosnan seemed in high spirits during the visit. Pictures show Pierce Brosnan
both in character and casually strolling around,and other pictures show
actual scenes from the film, complete with army trucks and Colonel
Akakievich (Claude-Oliver Rudolph) standing, gun-in-hand, in the
background.
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It transpired
that that highlights of the day's filming included Judi Dench getting out
of a helicopter, and later on, Sophia Marceau getting out of a different
helicopter. The sequences were shot whilst police held back crowds of fans
and reporters eager to catch a view of what was going on.
In
the crowd were representatives of Popcorn.co.uk,
an entertainment site, who submitted a suitably amusing report, which you
can read here.
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