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i believe it's meant to be a few months to a year after the events of Skyfall.
25/04/2015 is the date on Dr. Swann's prescription pad (2nd paragraph from the bottom - regarding the actual prescription, I assume it a on-set joke from the film crew!)
It takes place in 2015 for sure.
No Bond movie ever takes place in the past.
The only thing is, that Skyfall in Spectres timeline could have taken place in 2014, and not in 2012.
Everything else around a new Bond film is re-arranged.
I am sure we established that. But I am hazy on the details.
However,I think we agreed that Bond has been working with the info that M gave him from the grave for some time, and when we catch up with Bond in Mexico, at the beginning of SP, he is making his move on Sciarra.
So I think that Swann's prescription is potentially quite accurate :)
There is no significance with that date, is there April 25, 2015?
SF ends with a new assignment for Bond from M, no signs of this assignment in SP.
More than that, there are some signs of an year at least passing between the two movies.
I just zoomed in on the "007 has a terrible secret" article :))
That is funny. OK I get it now. It's not the date you are drawing attention to as having significance but rather the content of the prescription itself.
If any of you haven't zoomed on that article yet, it's got some great spoilers regarding Swann and the Klinik and Pinewood behind-the-scenes set-building.
But the prescription contains a joke at 007's expense. Funny!
Wonder if the actual film, will include the prescription zoom?
I mentioned the Empire magazine previously on another thread as Lio007 posted a recent French article which also mentioned the contents of the prescription pad and someone said it must be a joke. I wonder if it was one of the new dialogue changes Léa suggested to Sam :)) (I jest of course but she did mention that she suggest some small dialogue changes in the French article)
Do you think the Q computer in the extended TV spot is related to the CNS blackout? We can see on the HQ picture: >System Firewall [Alert code CNS 783V]
@Lio007 I think it is to do with that and Q is wearing the same jacket as when they were filming at Trafalgar Square a couple of weeks ago. - London finale
And QUANTUM had over 900 VFX shots. I don't know the numbers for SKYFALL, but they can certainly be misleading, depending on how many are just driving greenscreen shots or the like. But the real problem on most of the Bond films is that their post schedules are very compressed, so the quality often suffers as a result, not getting to finesse the work plus having it spread to a huge number of different vendors (which isn't the issue it once was, but aesthetically it isn't always ideal.) QUANTUM had been intended to be an anamorphic shoot, but the extra time dealing with that in post for the effects houses would have been enough of a delay to screw up the release.
I just read that ILM and Cinesite are the main visual effects companies on the film. Is this a first for a Bond production - to have two large companies doing the effects, including ILM, that to my knowledge has not worked on a Bond movie before? Or maybe I read it wrong.
I have every confidence that the effects will be great and hopefully seamless. There is certainly a huge leap in the incredible level of realism and details that visual effects have come in general in just 10 - 15 years. To be honest, I didn't notice a majority in Skyfall. Maybe the reason is that they are being used more in areas where I don't even expect them to be in the first place.
Yes, this is a first for ILM and Bond. MPC and Double Negative will be working on it too.
sohocreate.co.uk/centre-of-the-universe-industrial-light-magic/
Thanks for the link! The visual effects were one of the few elements that I've not thought a lot about in regards to SPECTRE'S production. Hopefully it turns out to be a case of " what effects?" in the end.
What, you never saw the last reel of the second MUMMY movie? Or the second GHOSTBUSTERS? Or any of BATTLESHIP?
Enormous postproduction time crunch on second MUMMY resulted in a major villain looking about as bad as their Edgar bug in MEN IN BLACK looked great. I don't know what happened on BATTLESHIP, but the visual credibility wasn't there either.
Thought I had read that ILM visual effects supervisor on Ghostbusters 2, Dennis Muren, was also under a time crunch that year because of Cameron's, The Abyss, later that summer which probably took a majority of the time and resources. I was actually shocked years later to find out that GB 2 was Muren, who then went on to win an Oscar (with 3 others effects supervisors) that year for The Abyss. Since then I think he has done all stellar work - at least on the films I know of. But not too active these days.
Hopefully in the case of SP, the multiple effects companies will have enough personnel that issues such as these are not likely to happen. But it does have a rather tight post production schedule.
I agree. I think with all the practical shooting they have been doing and all the on location filming, I think the visual effects stuff with be more there to augment pre existing stuff like turning the 1,500 extras in Mexico City to 10,000 or adding some rain in London. Things like that.
I'm 80% kidding. But I'm not kidding on the fact that Chris Corbould said to someone's friend here that there would be "lots" of effects. CG rain ok, CG crowd hm ok, CG cars hmmm cough, CG locations oh please no.. and CG scar is a hit or miss...
I'm not worried... really. Still don't get the practice of short post production though.
This from the guy that crammed before each exam in college lol.