Aston Martin DB5 Returns

welshboy78

Courtesy of MI6-HQ

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond_23_dec09_aston_martin_db5.php3?s=bond23&id=03029

HowardB

Well that's a welcome addition. Nice that they let him keep the DB5. Wonder if he had to pay taxes on it?

Moonraker 5

Classic! Good to see that!

welshboy78

Well so far we have the DB5 and Martini glasses, a few classic Bond elements - Mendes prob going for a winning formula

Just need a iconic villain, loads of birds and a classic gadget!!

oscar rubio

Very good,I´ts a good news

DangerMouse

Good continuity, seeing as he won it in the card game in Casino Royale. I hope that's the only shout out to the 50th anniversary, unlike all the shameless shout outs to previous films in DAD nine years ago.

welshboy78

DangerMouse wrote:

Good continuity, seeing as he won it in the card game in Casino Royale. I hope that's the only shout out to the 50th anniversary, unlike all the shameless shout outs to previous films in DAD nine years ago.

Ha - yeah imagine Daniel Craig with a jet pack!!

Mr Beech

I'm glad to see this, too. Thought it was a great classic element.

Thomas-Crown

Craig might try to change the look of Bond but something never change... So happy to see the legendary DB5!

Loeffelholz

Gladdens my heart :007)

scaramanga1

Pleased to see the DB5 - I hope there is a decent car chase, but one with minimal damage to that beautiful car. -{

DanielCraig007

Ejector seat anyone?

jon_1uk

DanielCraig007 wrote:

Ejector seat anyone?

where in the bond timeline is this new film supposed to sit ?
if its before goldfinger then i would say no to the ejector seat and the rest of the mods.

MrZareba

jon_1uk wrote:

DanielCraig007 wrote:

Ejector seat anyone?

where in the bond timeline is this new film supposed to sit ?
if its before goldfinger then i would say no to the ejector seat and the rest of the mods.

Haha, there is no timeline, Craig's Bond is in no way connected with the previous ones, they are making it in a completely different way, so no gadgets at all I thing

zaphod

jon_1uk wrote:

DanielCraig007 wrote:

Ejector seat anyone?

where in the bond timeline is this new film supposed to sit ?
if its before goldfinger then i would say no to the ejector seat and the rest of the mods.

I assume we are running a new timeline in which Bond wins the DB5 as part of an earlier adventure broadly in sync with the real world passage of time. Unless of course recent photos are meant to suggest that we have Catapaulted forward 20 years and that the rest of the movie is told in flash back (damn and I have been trying so hard to restrain myself!)

Predator

Always good to see the DB5 however big its role in the film

Loeffelholz

Predator wrote:

Always good to see the DB5 however big its role in the film

Indeed. I'll be presently surprised if it's more than an incidental appearance, as in TND. I do enjoy watching it being driven fast, though :007)

waltherppk7.65

no they have to wreck it, like in goldfinger

Loeffelholz

We shall see... :v Bond customarily wrecks his duty car, which the DB5 certainly was in GF. More likely it'll just be show arriving at a function, or simply sitting idle/parked. I'd like to be wrong!

minigeff

waltherppk7.65 wrote:

no they have to wreck it, like in goldfinger

Someone take this fool out and slot him.

Given most aston db5's fetch the far side of 160k these days, and are adored by their very rich and careful owners, I'd say the likeliness of a genuine 5 being 'wrecked' very slim.

And that is very fine by me.

Gassy Man

As iconic as the car is and as much as I don't want to see it wrecked, somewhere in the end of the second or beginning of the third act the hero's possessions/allies start to get taken out, and it wouldn't surprise me if they decide to do that with the DB5. It's formulaic but then so are most films today. But I would like to see the DB5 buck the expectations.

Thunderpussy

This may be unpopular But, I'd like to see the DB5 destroyed. Mabey Bond has to sacrafice it in a chase to save a friend or something similar. As I never felt the Car fitted in with the New series, Nice car and I'm sure Bond was happy to win it. Although IMHO it dosen't go with the T Ford suits etc Craig's Bond should have a modern Car something which can become a modern icon for a new generation.

Bond_James_Bond

Thunderpussy wrote:

This may be unpopular But, I'd like to see the DB5 destroyed. Mabey Bond has to sacrafice it in a chase to save a friend or something similar. As I never felt the Car fitted in with the New series, Nice car and I'm sure Bond was happy to win it. Although IMHO it dosen't go with the T Ford suits etc Craig's Bond should have a modern Car something which can become a modern icon for a new generation.

I completely agree with you Thunderpussy, even though the DB5 is probably my favourite car of all time.

Connery drove it because that was the car for that particular era. Lazenby, Moore and Dalton never drove it and it was only brought back for Pierce Brosnan in 2 of his films to really lay in concrete the fact that Bond was back after being away for so long (I found it funny that it never appeared in DAD as this harked back to so many previous Bond films - yet they forgot possibly the most classic element of all).

Anyway the DB5 appearing in modern James Bond films to me is just so much of a cliche, which again is strange as they have tried to get away from all of those cliches with Craig's more modern Bond.

DangerMouse

Bond_James_Bond wrote:

Connery drove it because that was the car for that particular era. Lazenby, Moore and Dalton never drove it and it was only brought back for Pierce Brosnan in 2 of his films to really lay in concrete the fact that Bond was back after being away for so long.

It also appeared in a deleted scene from The World Is Not Enough.

James Suzuki

did it? I agree with the others, having the DB5 just brings back to many bad DAD nightmares

Predator

Thunderpussy wrote:

This may be unpopular But, I'd like to see the DB5 destroyed. Mabey Bond has to sacrafice it in a chase to save a friend or something similar. As I never felt the Car fitted in with the New series, Nice car and I'm sure Bond was happy to win it. Although IMHO it dosen't go with the T Ford suits etc Craig's Bond should have a modern Car something which can become a modern icon for a new generation.

It's funny, they almost managed it with the Esprit, but if you think about the inclusion of that car in a modern Bond film would be positively comical (in saying that, *I* love the Esprit). The DB5 is a different beast entirely, although if you consider the heritage of the AM range, there is a direct lineage between DB5 (Connery) > DBS (Lazenby) > V8 (Dalton) cars. All on the same (approximate) chassis design philosophy and very direct links between overall design. Similarly, the recent Bonds and their work cars are from the same mould.

Moonraker 5

xboy614 wrote:

did it? I agree with the others, having the DB5 just brings back to many bad DAD nightmares

But it wasn't in DAD?

The DB5 is an ubercool car, age not making an impact. I can very much see a modern guy cutting about in Tom Ford suits and liking the finer things in life having this in his garage. Two very cool adverts for perfumes have appeared on the TV this Christmas in the UK, one for Paco Rabane heavily featuring a Jaguar E-Type, and another for Givenchy with Liv Tyler in a vintage motorboat on the Seine. That's because classic vehicles are cool and once in an iconic state, they cease aging. I like the fact it's here, and it better be gleaming on it's first appearance and just as gleaming in it's last, for my likening.

minigeff

DangerMouse wrote:

Bond_James_Bond wrote:

Connery drove it because that was the car for that particular era. Lazenby, Moore and Dalton never drove it and it was only brought back for Pierce Brosnan in 2 of his films to really lay in concrete the fact that Bond was back after being away for so long.

It also appeared in a deleted scene from The World Is Not Enough.

Not all of the db5's appearances in TWINE ended up on the cutting room floor....

Moore Than

Apologies if this has been posted already. A report from the Mail including images of Daniel Craig as Bond being chauffered in a Range Rover.

Scroll down the page to news and gossip. No more Aston Martin?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2093168/Daniel-Craig-gets-grips-Range-Rover-shooting-latest-Bond-installment-Skyfall.

welshboy78

Thats just Daily Mail waffle.

The Aston Martin has already been spotted on set. Bond aint even driving in that Range Rover scene, he is in the back!!

James Suzuki

Moonraker 5 wrote:

xboy614 wrote:

did it? I agree with the others, having the DB5 just brings back to many bad DAD nightmares

But it wasn't in DAD?

The DB5 is an ubercool car, age not making an impact. I can very much see a modern guy cutting about in Tom Ford suits and liking the finer things in life having this in his garage. Two very cool adverts for perfumes have appeared on the TV this Christmas in the UK, one for Paco Rabane heavily featuring a Jaguar E-Type, and another for Givenchy with Liv Tyler in a vintage motorboat on the Seine. That's because classic vehicles are cool and once in an iconic state, they cease aging. I like the fact it's here, and it better be gleaming on it's first appearance and just as gleaming in it's last, for my likening.

I know that, I was just reminding me of too many homages. I want a new bond car, not the DB5