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It won't be Lubezki. Hoyte Van Hoytema is the cinematographer of Bond 24.
I thought we all knew what happens when rumors and hearsay is stated as fact? I like to trust my friends, too, but I don't count on them to always be right.
That almost looks.. commissioned...
Yeah, if Bond is rescuing children in an elementary school that have been taken hostage!
He basicaly talks about his career in the Bond franchise and other movies. But the main part of the interview begins in 23m25s, where he talks about Bond 24.
"The outline is gonna be freaking fantastic"
"If Skyfall was Sam Mendes's way of getting his feet wet into the Bond franchise, this one his jumping into deep end"
:D
I'm sure many people will take this in many different ways, but it's the first time I've heard anyone involved with production showing even an ounce of enthusiasm, so that bodes well.
Me too and some great location work. They should have the budget on this, so no excuses.
I'm with you on this, @Getafix.
I want to gasp like I did in CR. Real stunts is one of the major selling points of the Bonds.
I am 98% sure the only CGI used was when Craig himself was on the crane. They had it lowered to just above the ground and keyed everything out with blue screen technology. It was still on location, even. Other than that I don't believe there was anything major done.
I was surprised to learn the scene where Bond almost hits the freerunner with the tractor was NOT CGI, just excellently timed. Also, one take!
It's real. It's wire-work from a higher crane.
Nope, real. 100%. At least on Foucan's part for sure. The heaviest visual effects (the CGI stuff, as opposed to stunt work which is special effects) are of course the sinking house, parts of the airport chase (where the police car goes flying in the air, which they did for real but recreated using CGI), and not much else.
Edit: The commentary on the film reveals that the jump was indeed 100%. Here's link, #14 confirms it. http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/48-things-we-learned-from-the-casino-royale-commentary-kcarr.php
The crane jump won 'James Bond's Best Stunt' in a Radio Times poll.
Producers stil searching to right way of filming thins since it go wrong with DAD.
Hoyte van Hoytema is great! He is one of the most talented DP's working and he's Dutch ;-)
I want big stunts like we used to get in the 70s and 80s and for me SF just didn't deliver. The bike jump off the bridge and driving the JCB along the train were the only really decent stunts IMO.
After the PTS there was nothing really jaw dropping. A tube train crashing (actually done for real but looked like a miniature) and some shoot outs. That's nowhere near enough for a modern Bond film. I don't want another QOS with pointless action scenes one after the other but when there is action Bond has to lead the way with epic real stunts.
Agreed, something massive and entertaining that you only see in Bond films: real falling out of helicopters without a parachute (no CGI), bungee jumping off a dam, ridiculous car stunts, etc.
Dan fighting on top of a speeding train certainly did that for me.
That was impressive. I think the CGI aspects of the faces of Rapace and Craig being placed atop the stuntman and the CGI fall take me out of the experience a little bit.
Was it speeding? Looked like about 25mph to me and I'm sorry but half most of that fight was just two blokes standing on top of a train. After the JCB it wasn't anywhere as good as OP's train sequence. Dan standing on top of a train with safety a wire or Martin Grace literally risking life and limb just hanging on for dear life in OP - I know which I would choose.
And two men slugging it on the back of a slow moving train is that the best we can expect from Bond? Hardly MR's parachute fight or TLD's cargo net is it?
This is a key mistake of the Craig era for me - Dan is keen to do hîs own stunts but the only ones he can do safely can't be, by definition, that spectacular. I like having the actor visibly getting stuck in (Christ no one wants a return to the days of AVTAK) but they should not design action sequences with keeping DC in view as much as possible the key criteria. There should always be a moment in a Bond film where the only person able to do a stunt is the world leader in his field be it skiing, parachuting, driving whatever.