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M's office location
This may be a very obvious question and i'm sure this thread can be very quickly wrapped up, but where exactly are M's office, Moneypenny's adjoining office and Q-Branch located? In the older films they do not appear to be in the famous MI6 building on the Thames seen in later films, but we see various shots of a building eg in Octopussy where we see it from the street. Did MI6 relocate at some point and if so when?
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Beginning with Brosnan and continuing on with Craig, they decided to give it more of a real world context and use the actual MI6 building.
In TWINE when the London HQ was blown up they briefly moved to a castle in Scotland. When the same thing happened in SF they moved to an underground bunker. In DAD they also have an abandoned tube station for disavowed agents, outdated gadgets, etc.
The new MI6 we see in Spectre is based near the government buildings Whitehall. We don't really get a good look at which building it is, we just see Bond walking off outside. This doesn't apply to Q's new lab which is situated in an underground bunker somewhere along the thames.
Hope that clears things up for you.
It's more to do with the fact that in the real world MI6 became more open - until 1994 they didn't even officially exist.
"I'm the money."/"Every penny of it." ;)
The minimalist design of that MI6 was actually The National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, where 50 Years of Bond Cars began its life. For all of the films up to Octopussy, the building where M is supposed to be based is never seen. Instead, generic shots of London are shown.
After the bombing of MI6 in Skyfall, MI6 presumably moves to The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC), as Bond stands on its roof at the end of the film. Moneypenny is shocked to realise that you can go up there, but in real life, you unfortunately can't. The underground bunker entrance is located at Smithfield Car Park in West Smithfield, EC1.
You can find the castle headquarters used in TWINE at Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland.
In the novels, Universal Exports is said to be based in either an 8 or 9 floor (it fluctuates based on which book you read) building overlooking Regent's Park.
I hope this helps.
Which MI6 are you referring to? Was the actual Museum used in any of the films?
Sorry. I got The National Motor Museum in Beaulieu confused for The Barbican Centre where Designing 007 started. That's what I meant to say. Check your facts, me!
Anyway, yes, it was used in the film. You know the scene where M and Tanner walk through a courtyard in QoS after Bond has murdered Slate?
M says "Damn him. He killed him." That's the museum there. That kind of circular glass building that surrounds them. I'm sure the interiors were shot at Pinewood though.
Yes, I don't believe anyone ever made sense of that. It must have been one of Forster's artistic/visual decisions to have the all-white minimalistic offices, but I can't understand how it got past Babs and MGW, especially with QOS being so heavily advertised by them as a direct continuation of CR. Thank heavens they got rid of it in SF.