Locations for future Bond films

Number24

I know there are threads like this somewhere, but I couldn't find it. I'll go first.
Some of them are mentioned before, but there are some new ones too.

1) The Moscow metro - probably the most beautiful metro in the world.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jTd6EWULjP8/TUHFjerLWoI/AAAAAAAAAuM/DLLNcayk9fw/s1600/Moscow_Metro.jpg

http://www.sodahead.com/fun/soviet-era-subway-stations-beautiful-or-spooky/question-1477651/?link=ibaf&imgurl=http://images.sodahead.com/slideshows/000004893/4511423847_moscow_metro_36258310951-36258440353_xlarge.jpeg&q=Beautiful

But here comes the twist - there is most likely a secret metro and a town for 15 000 people under the official metro!
It was buildt during the cold war for the Soviet elite to hide during a neuclear war. Read the wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-2


2) Stageliano cemetry in Genova, Italy. incredibly beautiful, haunting and even erotic with its mausoleums, trees and statues. For a late nigt agent meeting perhaps?

http://www.joydiv.org/images/stal2b.jpg

http://passages.altaplana.be/galerie/5Europe/staglieno1G.jpg


3) Jerusalem, Israel. A city full of conflicts, but there is no need for Bond to meddle in those. Jerusalem is also relevant for plots involving the mercenary/security industry, diamond trade and espionage.

4) Veranasi, India. The holiest city in hinduism where people come to bathe in the holy river Ganges, to die and to burn the dead.

http://www.bhu.ac.in/images/varanasi.jpg

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQtL7kmVuS8BBm29fanNFcrqbBi7yKhjeyN-B9kA1zC1mM1Rj7C


5) Alang in India, where old ships are beached on the shore and ant-like hordes of workers take them apart with the simplest tools imaginable. Good for an origional gunfight.

http://southasia.oneworld.net/ImageCatalog/ship-dismantle.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giWMxehMOXo/TTDHGHOf5oI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/MbQTiSirIvk/s1600/alang-02.jpg

Napoleon Plural

Some brilliant choices! EON should snap you up.

The Moscow subway should have been used in GE, mind you that was St Petersburg, right? It is v odd why the locales are generally so unexotic, though Craig's era has picked things up a bit. I think in Bronsan's time they were trying not to glam it up and make it too much like the Roger Moore era.

Watching the, erm, Mecca thing you get each year with thousands of muslims descending on one particular place, that would be great to be captured on film, as a backdrop to some event.

Number24

First of all,thank you for your kind words.
Mecca would be a striking and interesting location. It would be a first in cinema history. Unfortunatelly, there is a reason for that. The city of Mecca is forbidden for all infidels.

Napoleon Plural

Well, there you are then! Hire a Muslim second unit director! Job done!

Number24

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Well, there you are then! Hire a Muslim second unit director! Job done!

... and a muslim body double for Craig? It could possibly work, but I really doubt it. I really don't think they would get a filming permit from our "allies" in Saudi Arabia and some organisations blow up stuff for the smallest imagined or real snub to Allah.

Napoleon Plural

Fair enough, but then again I was thinking you could just film the event, then cut away to some going-on in an interior that isn't filmed at the event.

Not sure why permit would be needed, you can just film there anyway surely, but I've had that opinion of a lot of things, just send a crew out and don't say it's for the Bond film. Though you're right that they can blow things out of proportion with regards to offence taken and all that.

Thunderpussy

The way things seem to be going everthing will be filmed around Pinewood "Does it look like we're cutting Back " Yes it Does. )

Number24

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Fair enough, but then again I was thinking you could just film the event, then cut away to some going-on in an interior that isn't filmed at the event.

Not sure why permit would be needed, you can just film there anyway surely, but I've had that opinion of a lot of things, just send a crew out and don't say it's for the Bond film. Though you're right that they can blow things out of proportion with regards to offence taken and all that.

That`s the problem. Extremists of this kind are more easily offended than de Gaule. I read about one butter-fingered who managed to blow himself up to early, failing to murder a single inocent bystander. The organisation promptly sent a new suicide bomber to "avenge" him!

Number24

A Bond villian should have visually striking office. Here is my idea: base it on queen Sonja of Norway` office in the castle in Oslo! The office is in a typical impire style room in the caste. Very high under the ceiling and two hundred year old and in very grand style. The doors are huge and a row of windows on one side of the room going almost from floor to seiling. Between each window there are stretches of wall about as wide a window. Queen Sonja has allways been very intersted in art, attending exhibituions, befriending painters, even doing paintings herself. What she did was hanging modernistic, non-figurative painting in the space between the windows. The paintings are really big, actually as large as the sections of wall between the windows. The very modern paintings clash with the old fashioned room, but the colours used in the paintings go very well with the colours in the the room. The frames of the painting are big, gold-painted and in the style of the origional room. I hope I have managed to convey how it looks, because i couldn`t find any pictures of it. My point is the grand palace room, both working with and clashing with the big modern painting would make a both fresh and yet typically Bondian office.

Number24

This is Siachen glacier - the world's highest battlefield.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17981187

It is situated on the line of control between Pakistan and India. It falls from an altitude of 5,753 m (18,875 ft) above sea level at its head at Indira Col on the China border down to 3,620 m (11,875 ft) at its lowest. Both India and Pakistan have troops there and there has been clashes there more than once. In spite of the fact that the glacier has only symbolic value, many soldiers have died defending it. Often they are killed by the climate and terrain rather than the opposing side. Imagine a villan trying to start a new war between India and Pakistan by staging an incident on the glacier and Bond stepping in to stop it. The India-Pakistan border is one of the most tense in the world. It is also worth mentioning that both contries are nuclear powers.

The border closing cermony every evening on the roads between the two nations is a sight to behold! ) This is from a perfectly ordinary day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_PzMSw6jZo

Number24

They probably couldn`t film on the Siachen glacier. Most likely the Alps would have to stand in for Siachen, but I think it would work very well in a plot.

Number24

This is Pionen Data Center, high-security data center run by one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city. As the article says, it is VERY bondian:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/

Mr Martini

Just received and e-mail with some interesting locations. They look somewhat interesting to me.

Emerald Lake in the center of an extinct volcano Tongariro National Park ~ New Zealand
http://thistimeimeanit.com/wp-content/flagallery/amazing-photos/3a6bdf.jpg

Lost Paradise in the Indian Ocean. Isle of Lamu
http://thistimeimeanit.com/wp-content/flagallery/amazing-photos/3a6f98.jpg

And why they've never filmed here is beyond me

http://static5.depositphotos.com/1049689/525/i/450/dep_5254555-Sydney-Opera-House-at-night.jpg

James Suzuki

I live in New zealand and I defiently think Bond should shoot in Audtralia and in New Zealand! On a volcano would be epic... and in the desert. I would like to see Bond facing the elements as well as juggling the bad guys..
like maybe...
the desert in Australia
volcanoes and the hot pools and lakes in NZ (the baddie could fall in 1)
antartica!
south america- the rainforest in South America

WordsAndDreams

Not the most exotic location, but I would love for Bond to come to Chicago at some point. Mostly because it's where I'm from and it would be awesome to see the character in familiar locations. But as far as American cities go, it's one of the largest and gets relatively (compared to NY and LA) very little film love (although Batman Begins/The Dark Knight was nice). They could do some cool stunts on the the L or the Chicago River.

Mr Martini

WordsAndDreams wrote:

Not the most exotic location, but I would love for Bond to come to Chicago at some point. Mostly because it's where I'm from and it would be awesome to see the character in familiar locations. But as far as American cities go, it's one of the largest and gets relatively (compared to NY and LA) very little film love (although Batman Begins/The Dark Knight was nice). They could do some cool stunts on the the L or the Chicago River.

Not to go off topic. But watch Harrison Ford in The Fugitive . I think you'll be pleased with the love Chicago is given.

Blackleiter

I lived in Chicago years ago, and I was lucky enough to see parts of The Untouchables being filmed. I had a colleague who was good friends with a production assistant on the film, and he secured Sean Connery's autograph for me (had him sign a publicity photo from Goldfinger.) Chicago is a terrific city with some great locations for shooting.

WordsAndDreams wrote:

Not the most exotic location, but I would love for Bond to come to Chicago at some point. Mostly because it's where I'm from and it would be awesome to see the character in familiar locations. But as far as American cities go, it's one of the largest and gets relatively (compared to NY and LA) very little film love (although Batman Begins/The Dark Knight was nice). They could do some cool stunts on the the L or the Chicago River.

Number24

I'm reviveing this topic, simply because I want to

This is Trollstigen Fjellstue ("mountain cabin") a tourist visiting center in Geiranger in a country in western Scandinavia :v
I think it looks very Bondian, and so does the scenery:

Thunderpussy

Yes, it looks fantastic. -{

The Wicker Man

Wow what a fantastic location!
The modern architecture against the rugged scenery would make an ideal location.
Love the winding road up the mountain as well - very Goldfinger

Number24

The Fjellstue is in the valley behind the waterfall, I think. This would be perfect for the building where Bond meets Madeline Swann in SPECTRE (Yes, still bitter ....... )




....and the walkway goes to this viewpoint, I think.

Thunderpussy

) Yes, hold on to that bitterness, and in no time, you too will be
a Grumpy old git, Like ME !! " Come over to the dark side young
Number24". )

Number24

Thunderpussy wrote:

) Yes, hold on to that bitterness, and in no time, you too will be
a Grumpy old git, Like ME !! " Come over to the dark side young
Number24". )

I'm on my way X-(

Absolutely_Cart

Africa is a beautiful diverse continent. I'd start looking there.

Gassy Man

So many of these places are great, but I'd like to see them film a Bond movie in parts of Asia -- and not the dirty, backwater places that make people think Third World country but places like Singapore, South Korea, and Japan, where there are gleaming metropolises and futuristic buildings that are stunning, as well as beautiful natural and historical tourist sites. Not since You Only Live Twice have the Bond filmmakers made an effort to make Asia look good, or at least not worse than European locations.

Matt S

They need to look to new places rather than repeating old ones, which is what many of Daniel Craig's Bond films have done.

Some new places, as mentioned above:
Australia
New Zealand
Antarctica
Chicago

Some other places Bond hasn't been:
South Africa
African Jungle
Spain

Or how about set part of a film in a non-exotic place like a suburban town?

hehadlotsofguts

Bit of a biased post, but i'd like to see a chase scene here.



As Matt S says, the setting doesn't have to be exotic.

broadshoulder

Matt S wrote:

T
Or how about set part of a film in a non-exotic place like a suburban town?

We had that in TWINE?

Only joking I would like to see Africa get a chance. A plot to assssiinate Bond in Kenya or the Serengeti. Plus also Salzburg and Seville?

broadshoulder

hehadlotsofguts wrote:

Bit of a biased post, but i'd like to see a chase scene here.



As Matt S says, the setting doesn't have to be exotic.

Oh god, thats Newcastle. And I mistook it for Sydney..

hehadlotsofguts

The company that designed the Tyne bridge also designed the Sydney Harbour bridge.

Matt S

hehadlotsofguts wrote:

Bit of a biased post, but i'd like to see a chase scene here.



As Matt S says, the setting doesn't have to be exotic.

The setting doesn't have to be exotic as long as it's only for a small part of the film. And preferably not in the UK since Bond still needs to be an international traveller.