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This is a well known myth but I have yet to hear of anybody ever being able to identify Maud. The closest I've heard is that she's sitting on the cable car when Rog gets off but I cant spot her.
Theres plenty of behind the scenes photos on set that prove she was there but I'm yet see proof she made the final cut.
Yes if I remember correctly they're at a harbor of some sort and there are boats to the right of the shot. Roger and cast up front with a crowd including Maud in the back.
FYI, a TV documentary about French actor Jean Rochefort has just been broadcast here on one of our big channels (the guy is a bit one of the last living legends of French cinema), with him on interview at the end of it. That allows us to have yet another version of what happened on the production of Terry Gilliams' The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (for Matt Helm : this is thought to be the biggest amount that insurances ever paid to movie producers to compensate for the fact the shooting did not finish, so it does happen sometimes !).
It won't be translated into English ever so it won't reach something else than a French audience alas, but it gives yet another proof IMO that very few people actually know what happens on these productions. Even amongst those who work on them on set.
The on-set problems of the movie were thought to be well known IMO, there is even a "Lost in la Mancha" movie about it, but yet again with this brand new interview, we have something that changes radically the story : Rochefort said things totally changed in his relationship with Gilliams as soon as he realized the director did not see any problem in, as he said, torturing a horse so that she could be incredibly skinny to play Rocinante.
Rochefort owns several horses, he's passionate about them. He said that to make the horse go in such and such direction on the set, assistants would show apples to her, so that she would go and try to eat the apples, since she was starving. Rochefort said he was contracted to do the movie when he saw for the first time the horse that had been on starvation for months, so it was too late (it was seven months after the contract was signed, already much pre-production had been done, including him working his English dialog every day, and saying no to every French directors for almost a year to focus on Don Quixote). He could not sign off even though he had became very reluctant to continue working with Gilliams, his friend said in the documentary. In the end, his body somehow "spoke" for him, and he had hernias that ended the shooting very soon. The horse died very shortly after. Rochefort said he thought the movie would have been a bad one anyway, and had quite strong words about Gilliams.
http://pluzz.francetv.fr/videos/un_jour_un_destin.html
It's more than 2 hours long, and the part where we hear his version of the Rocinante story starts at 1h59.
Since we're talking about behind the scenes documentary that tell a bit more than the usual DVD commentary done with pink glasses, there's another French documentary about a movie that went bad (Babylon AD). If you want to hear about ghost writers brought in by producers to rewrite something in the back of the director, if you want to hear Vin Diesel reading the script on set to make others realize it can't be shot as it is, if you want to hear the fight choregrapher up and downs, etc... it's :
It's in French alas for most of the interviews, but there are many on-set excerpts, and they were speaking English there.
when Terry Gilliam shows him this for the first time..
.. almost a year after signing the contract, and one month before shooting.
They will never discuss such things on BluRay commentaries ! On DVD we had sometimes the first commentaries that were a bit too "frank" - even for Bond movies ! some have been "censored" -, but now it's part of the PR...
In the "what if.." category currenty discussed here, he said another anecdote. He said he also wanted to leave quite a few years before the set of a French comedy that was Patrice Leconte's first movie, because the director was not up to the task in his opinion. The the producer told him : "I'll ruin you". So he finished it :)
Why is David Arnold still listed as expected composer of Bond 24 on MI6-HQ?
Just want to say, on the topic of that tangent, that that really disappoints me about Terry Gilliam and is incredibly sad. No animal should ever be starved or abused under any circumstances.
Now, back on Bond, regarding David Arnold, maybe it's just optimistic thinking. ;)
Mendes will likely choose Newman again, but if he doesn't, Arnold of course is the natural choice. I wouldn't rule David Arnold out for Bond 24 just yet.
Arnold is listed because he is a viable candidate except for the obvious elephant in the room named Newman (due to his association with Mendes only) and it is just a hopeful thing to have listed (for me, anyway). As Arnold has confirmed so far it is not him, it is probably wishful thinking. But I hope he returns; if not 24 then 25.
Really hope we learn the composer during the next month.
So, if some people think we'll know one day "for sure" what EON think of Newman's job.... :)
I( don't think, something like this can ever be viewed as tangent or off topic.
A disappointing blow to me - was hoping for someone with a more imaginative palled.
I'm already pictruing the key note speech to introduce the Bond 24 personel.
"Ladies and gentlemen introducing... Hoyte van Hoytem"
"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Daniel Craig..."
I would, since Arnold himself confirmed that he won't score Bond 24.
Disappointing? Hoytema is an amazing cinematographer, there is nothing to be disappointed about.
I know he was on Mendes radar apparently.
What a vivid imagination, painting such a vibrant scene I can almost feel it.
Any chance you can continue down the entire cast and crew as I'm struggling to create an image in my mind of such an outlandish spectacle as a press conference?
He tweeted again just a few hours ago that sadly, he was not back for Bond 24. The tweet months ago could have been diplomatic - hey, this is Hollywood, you almost never confirm these things -, but now as it's getting closer, it's less and less likely as time goes by.
As for Hoytema, do we have something else than a loop of self-reference for info here ? :) The guy said he's reading scripts and making commercials while his next project had been delayed again, and wouldn't start this year. So he has room for making Bond24 now, but old sources claiming so were probably really optimistic, if I want to stay diplomatic :)
I think @JamesPage should run a feature on the MI6 front page as an exclusive and get the news out first. I'm surprised he hasn't already.
Source?
So he has room for making Bond 24 now? It doesn't work that way. The cinematographer of Bond 24 has signed up to do the movie months ago. Did you seriously think they would start looking for a cinematographer at the end of pre-production?
I mean, the David Arnold tweet is as explicit as Logan's interview about being not interested any more in writing for Bond. OOps, the experts didn't believe it at that time :)