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I heard though, that an Austrian village near Italy has been "booked" for about three days to film scenes there. But does anyone know if real pistes have been booked already to film the actual, way more difficult, ski chases? I mean for that you need to film for a much longer period of time. Not to mention a certain huge villa in the Alps where the leading villain actually stays.
Let's have a shiny Aston Martin with ski's on the roof, please :>
Also, I'm afraid CG face replacement with skiing is still problematic. Ski-doo, less so.
Wouldn't Cubby have jumped on these guys and made sure we saw this first in a Bond movie. Stunning.
Although having said that I'm almost hoping that any ski chase is a bit old-school. Just straight down line incredible skiing through stunning landscapes.
I heard that they will not only film in one particular part of Austria (like Bregenz in QOS).
Both giant ski slopes will be used for filming (in the more touristic wintersports city of Sölden, which has like 140 km of ski slopes) as well as a three day-shooting schedule by the production team inside a small, cosy town, located at 5,000 ft, and that is usually full of snow in winter (the Austrian village of Obertilliach)
I reckon Sölden will be used extensively for action sequences and ski sequences. While Obertilliach will be used for a few days to shoot the actual cosiness of a village. Anyway, I can't believe now that "Bond 24" will only have a PTS in the snow and nothing more. It'll be a true "winter Bond film" I think ;-).
Sölden:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sölden
Sölden is also a popular ski resort and regularly hosts the first World Cup races of the season; a giant slalom for both men and women is usually scheduled for late October on the Rettenbach glacier. The races in October 2011 started at 3,040 m (9,974 ft) and finished at 2,670 m (8,760 ft). Elevation: 1,350 m (4,429 ft) (Sölden village) - 3,250 m (10,663 ft). Lifts: 36. Terrain: 146 km (91 mi) total - (62 km red, 51 km blue, 27 km black, 6 km Skiroute).
Obertilliach:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obertilliach
Obertilliach, a popular Nordic paradise, also has a well-earned reputation as a great venue for beginner skiers and families. Wide, rolling trails are ideal for those just getting their snow legs, and none of its runs are rated expert. Located at Kartitsch Saddle in Upper Lesach Valley, Golzentipp is a great mountain for winter sports enthusiasts.
hehe, let's see. Have you actually ever been to Sölden? Magnificent ski slopes! I've been there as a kid, and I can understand why EON would love to film there (and in Obertilliach).
Skiing in Bond films. My TOP 6:
01) OHMSS
04) FYEO
04) TSWLM
06) TWINE
06) TLD
06) AVTAK
:-p
Nah, but serious. I truly believe Babs & Michael can create another "action benchmark" again....when they take into account some of our ideas in this topic.
But I'd also like possibly a cable car fight or some dangerous situation involving a cable car. (Nothing like in MR). Something that we haven't had in a Bond film for a while.
Wow!! Amazing news! So Sölden is confirmed also! The Rettenbachferner glacier near Sölden is one of the most popular black piste resorts in Austria!! Apparently, it was one of the candidate resorts to host the alpine skiing events if Salzburg would have hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics. Currently, Rettenbachferner glacier is used for many World Cup and World Championship Alpine Skiing events. Just have a look at the Wiki-page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettenbach_glacier
The Rettenbachferner glacier in summer:
The Rettenbachferner glacier in winter:
The Rettenbachferner Glacier is located in between two of the highest mountains in Austria, the "Äußere Schwarze Schneid" (3,255 m's) and the "Karleskogel" (3,106 m's). And the glacier eventually flows into the alpine city of Sölden.
Wun-der-ful news :-). It seems we're getting a true classical "winter Bond film", with perhaps some innovative ski chases, influenced by Julian Carr & Halvor Angvik
The main thing is that the the action sequence is up to scratch with no CGI and is woven organically into the narrative. The TWINE was so randomly tacked on and then when the action did come it was such a damp squib.
But what Sölden, for which the Rettenbachferner glacier will be used?
Yes but thats just a ski slope that will be used for the action scenes. But you cant have 40 minutes of the film on the side of a mountain. Unless I suppose theres some sort of Piz Gloria building which is filmed at Pinewood. But then the whole things getting a bit too derivative of OHMSS isnt it?
@TheWizardOfIce: Have you seen the first on-set-picture? The production design crew is constructing, what seems to be, a big house in Obertilliach. It could become a big mountain villa/log cabin. So, already sets that can actually be created at the Pinewood lot, are build on location in Austria. That must tell you something.
Also several hotels have been rent out for cast & crew in Tirol, Austria, including the Dolomitengolf Resort in East-Tirol and the Grand Hotel Lienz. Now, usually EON is not booking this stuff for just the cast. You can use fully-loaded trailers for that. I remember back in 2005 EON booked the wunderful Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary (which later turned out to be the Hotel Splendide), and that wasn't just for the cast as we know now.
So let's have a look at the hotels that are booked by EON Productions, according to http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/leute/kaernten/3751118/bond-film-flugzeug-nimmt-kurs-osttirol.story:
Grandhotel Lienz, Lienz, East-Tirol, Austria (5 stars):
http://www.grandhotel-lienz.com/de/das-grandhotel
Well guys, this could very well be a hotel that will be used in the storyline/plot of Bond 24. Such a wunderful beautiful hotel will not just be used for crew. Just have a look at the pictures. It has got the "grandeur" and elegance of previous Bond hotels, like Splendide ("Casino Royale") and Hotel Palacio ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service"). And looking at the interior design it has got the warmth of a true alpine hotel.
Dolomitengolf Resort, Lavant, East-Tirol, Austria (4 stars "plus"):
http://www.hotel-dolomitengolf.com/de/golfplatz-oesterreich
The hotel has got a 27-hole golf course, which in summer is used extensively by the more.......upper class tourists. Actually, the golf course is the biggest in Tirol. Could it be that Bond will be playing golf also :-)?
@TheWizardOfIce? So besides Obertilliach (where construction of a big house takes place, perhaps villain's lair), Sölden (Rettenbachferner glacier, for skiing), you can also add Lienz (Grandhotel Lienz) and Lavant (most likely used for crew, but it has a wunderful 27-hole golf course) to the list of Austrian locations.
Now I also have a question for @JamesPage. Do you pursue some research journalism on MI6-HQ as well? Isn't it possible to....give a sweet call to Grandhotel Lienz and Dolomitengolf Resort....just to confirm IF and WHEN these hotels are booked by a "big film crew"? Apparently http://www.kleinezeitung.at knows a bit more than we do.....
They never shot at Hashima, it was built on the backlot. Seems like we'll definitely be getting some decent location photography this time, particularly in Austria.
Should have guessed that, I take it it was too expensive to use the location itself.
Super - thanks for the info & great scenery, Gustav!
Where are you from? I've also been to Sölden and can only agree that it's perfect!
I am Dutch, from the Northeastern part of The Netherlands, but I live & work in Barcelona, Spain ;-). I like skiing, in the past mainly in Austria, but lately also in the Catalan Pyrenees.
Where are you from?
Nou - dan hebben we all een aantal dingen gemeen!
Ben zelf half Engels / half Oostenrijks maar heb lang in NL gewoond (Hengelo, Overijssel) en skiën is ook een grote passie van me. Ben met een Nederlandstalige getrouwd, dus kan het nog wel aardig...
Nog geen ervaring met wintersport de Pyrineën - is het de moeite?
Ik ga het in januari weer meemaken in Boi Taull. Tis er ook veel goedkoper dan in de Alpen :-). La Molina is ook gaaf, maar wel errug toeristisch.
By the way, I was watching yesterday the "Real Bond" documentary about the stunts in "Casino Royale". I found it curious how the Bond producers got inspired by freerunning/parkour from a Channel 4 documentary, in which Sebastien Foucan appeared.
Maybe similarly the Bond producers could get inspired by Julian Carr & Halvor Angvik, who really bring skiing and wintersports on the whole to a new, more exciting level. Have you seen some of those videos I have posted earlier?
I think the crane stunts and the DB9 crash in CR and two of the most memorable stunts in the last 25 years.
The integration of Parkour (and getting the sports co-cteator to act the part) was a very Cubby move in my opinion. Stroke of genius that made for some great action.
I think for the past three Bond films history has been repeating itself again. With CR, QOS & SF I sometimes feel like I'm in a timetunnel to the years when DN and FRWL where premiering. In all honesty? I loved that timetunnel. It didn't bother me that the first three Craig films weren't so oriented on the stunts and action sequences. They were more focussed on good written characters...and how to introduce them again. A lot was about story and plot, less about individual elements like action and stunts.
BUT, I now agree with you. It's time Bond 24 will do something groundbreaking again in the field of action and stunts. Do not forget that in 2015 the competition for Bond will come from many other franchises. A disadvantage "Skyfall" lacked. So we have the new M:4-film coming up, then a lot of buzz surrounding the new F&F-movie. We have a big-screen film of the "Man From UNCLE".
So what you need to do then is OVERRULING ALL THESE FILMS and come up with something fucking trendsetting and jawdropping good! Action-wise, stunt-wise I mean off course ;-). Hence this topic. Let the villain be a dangerous ski-addict. Let him put a GoPro camera on his helmut, so every person in the cinema can see him (para)skiing.
Just to warm you up, have a look at this video, filmed during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, just before the alpine skiing event started :-):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sochi-2014-graham-bell-takes-3133524