My stuff are mostly originals but not originals used on the film set.
For example: I have the real St Dupont cufflinks that Craig uses with his tuxedo in the poker scene from Casino Royale but not the actual pair craig was wearing during shooting. Clear?
i admire your commitment to the franchise DC, but personally I can't warrent spending that kinda cash on a keyring, even being a die hard AM fan as well as a JB fan. the thing that really gets me is why did holt do an aston that doesn't appear in the films?* wouldnt a db5 have made more sense?
*ok, if you wanna get real picky, a db9 did appear in a film, 10 points if you can spot it.
i admire your commitment to the franchise DC, but personally I can't warrent spending that kinda cash on a keyring, even being a die hard AM fan as well as a JB fan. the thing that really gets me is why did holt do an aston that doesn't appear in the films?* wouldnt a db5 have made more sense?
*ok, if you wanna get real picky, a db9 did appear in a film, 10 points if you can spot it.
It is a perfect replica of a Aston Martin DB9 in Sterling silver made in cooperation with Aston Martin... So I believe it is worth the price of £295.
Yes you are correct. A DB5 keyring would have been more appropriate. Maybe Dimitrios wasent that knowledgeable about Aston Martin or just dident care. Anthony Holt dident make the keyring especially for the film. It is part of their standard collection. Holt dont only cater to Bond fans. They have a DB7 in their standard collection as well.
(A modified DB9 car was used in Casino Royale for the crash scene)
I think also they had DB9s in CR but only at the Aston Martin crash scene.
Yes. This is correct.
The scene involving the car crash was devised using an Aston Martin DB9 that was especially modified to look like Bond's Aston Martin DBS V12 and reinforced to withstand the impact.
Due to the low centre of gravity of the vehicle, an 18-inch (450 mm) ramp had to be implemented on the road tarmac at Millbrook Proving Grounds and stunt driver Adam Kirley had to use an air cannon located behind the driver's seat to propel the car into a roll at the precise moment of impact.
At a speed exceeding 70 mph (113 km/h), the car rotated seven times while being filmed, and was confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records on 5 November 2006 as a new world record. (Three DB9s were wrecked for this scene).
The Aston Martin DBS was used in the rest of Casion Royale and in Quantum of Solace opening car chase
(Six Aston Martins were destroyed during filming of this scene in Quantum of Solace).
I had forgotten the fact that Aston wernt ready wv the DBS for the
chase sequence and yes jeff teppo et al ur right they were old db9 hacks
with skirts....
In fact Aston is always late! The actual production cars wr almost a year late
for delivery to those who had put up their deposits to get one.
Anyone know why the cars were delayed? This might make you chuckle
in case anyone prefers actual horsesmouth fact rather than wiki-truth this
officially attributed article might interest some
What happened when Aston Martin lent its brand new DBS to the world’s best known secret agent
Text: Richard Porter / Photos: Andy Morgan
The choice of star car for Casino Royale was made in late 2005 when Aston boss Dr Ulrich Bez invited Bond producer Barbara Broccoli up to Gaydon to look at a new DB9-based model under development in the design studio. Broccoli loved the car and immediately cast it as the perfect transport for Daniel Craig’s leaner, meaner, slightly blonder Bond.
This left Aston with a small problem. The new car, to be called DBS, wasn’t due to be launched until 2007 and at that point it was just a styling buck still being finessed by design director Marek Reichman. No actual DBSs existed and it wasn’t going to be much of a starring role if all Bond did was lean casually on a clay model.
With principle photography due to start in January 2006, Aston’s prototype workshop pulled out all the extruded aluminium stops to hand-build two identical DBS ‘hero’ cars that could be used for close-up shots and gentle driving. Externally these cars looked near-as-dammit like the proposed production DBS. Inside, the Aston design team were given a little more licence, installing a crash helmet cubby, gun holder, and other cheeky features unlikely to be seen on customers’ cars unless they ask really nicely. The build team worked flat out and the cars were delivered to the Bond crew as promised in April 2006.
But Aston’s commitments didn’t end there. In the script, 007 discovers his love interest Vesper Lynd has been kidnapped and hammers his Aston along the twisting roads of Montenegro in hot pursuit. Director Martin Campbell wanted the audience to think they were about to see a lengthy car chase and then surprise them when instead Bond encounters Lynd lying on the road ahead, swerves to avoid her and flips his car into a spectacular barrel-roll. Ripping stuff on screen, but a headache for the Gaydon workshop, which had to fulfil the film makers’ request for three cosmetically accurate DBS stunt cars.
Fortunately Aston had a trio of redundant DB9 development hacks and drafted them into the prototype shop to be turned into DBS replicas. From the outside these sacrificial lambs looked identical to the fully formed ‘hero’ cars already working their stuff for the cameras. Inside, they were rather less polished, with tatty, rough-grained dashboards and stout roll-cages betraying their origins as pre-production workhorses. The tired matt-black vents and buttons on the top half of the dash were pretty far from the chrome-splashed versions in the show cars but, to avoid any risk of knackering continuity, the team came up with a cunning fix involving careful application of kitchen tin-foil.
Once again Aston met its deadline, delivering the three action cars to the Bond vehicle team along with the original DB9 manual gearbox prototype, looking scruffy and care-worn in its flaking white paintjob, so that the stunt drivers had a fourth car in which to practise.
Final planning for the stunt took place at Dunsfold Aerodrome near Guildford, familiar to TV viewers as home to the Top Gear test track, where the Casino Royale second unit was busy filming an explosive night-time sequence with kerosene tankers and an old 747. In the final movie you’d never guess that the fiery chase around Miami International Airport was actually shot in rural Surrey, especially once a twinkling Floridian city- scape had been digitally added to the background during post-production.
On another part of the airfield the stunt team set up the eight-inch ramp they calculated would be enough to flip the DBS and brought in two battered E34 BMW 5-series, chosen because they broadly replicated the size and weight of the Aston, for a couple of rehearsal rolls. Stunt co-ordinator Gary Powell had found a couple of dramatic rallycross crashes on the internet and was aiming for a similar multi-roll spectacular with the Aston. Sure enough, when they hit the ramp at 65mph, the Bee-Ems barrelled three or four times, in exactly the way Powell was looking for.
Satisfied that the stunt would work, the Bond crew moved to the hill circuit at Millbrook proving ground in Bedfordshire, doubling for the country roads of Montenegro, and carried out some final trials with their DB9 practice car. Unfortunately, the Aston proved a lot more stable than those crusty 5-series and, with only limited chances to get this right, the ramp was raised to 18 inches to make sure the Bond car turned turtle.
As it turned out, this still wasn’t enough. When stunt driver Adam Kirley charged the first DBS into the ramp at 70mph it simply took off, levelled out and landed on all four wheels, clouting the dummy that stood in for the prone Vesper Lynd before mangling its front suspension as it slithered unimpressively across the damp grass. The Aston’s stiffer chassis and lower centre of gravity meant it wasn’t inclined to go belly-up like those BMWs at Dunsfold.
Fortunately, the Bond team had a back-up plan involving another DBS fitted with a gas cannon that used pressurised nitrogen to punch a metal ram out of the bottom of the car and flip it onto its roof. It was up to Adam Kirley to hit the trigger at precisely the right moment, otherwise he’d risk being punted painfully into the trees by the side of the road.
With everything in place and the cameras running, Kirley gunned the Aston up to 75mph, came charging onto the wet tarmac of the beautifully lit filming area, swerved slightly to the left and fired the ram bang on cue. The result was even more spectacular than the stunt team had imagined. Once the Aston hit the grass, it dug in and just kept rolling, pieces of bodywork and a wheel flying off until it came to rest, right side up, lights still twinkling into the Millbrook undergrowth.
Kirley later described being in the car as ‘a fairly violent sort of ride’ but incredibly he stepped from the mashed Aston unhurt. He didn’t know at the time that he’d just established a new Guinness World Record for most cannon rolls in a car, achieving an astonishing seven complete turns and stealing the record from Top Gear, who had previously set the benchmark using a rather less glamorous Sierra estate.
If the ramp had been used it would have been hidden under a pile of peat to make it look like the car had flipped off the grass verge. Since they’d successfully deployed the cannon instead, a new bridging shot was required to establish the start of the roll and two weeks later the team returned to Millbrook with the third DBS action car, packed on one side with counterweights.
When Adam Kirley swerved around a flinching Vesper Lynd – actually stunt performer Nikki Berwick doubling for actress Eva Green – these weights were enough to pitch it onto its roof to make the first shot of the crash sequence that you see in the movie. With this extra roll in the bag, that was it. Three real Aston Martins successfully and spectacularly trashed.
When filming wrapped, the wrecked DBS replicas were returned to Gaydon where, in line with standard practice for development cars, they were due to be crushed, allowing the company to reclaim the VAT on their value and avoiding the risk of rogue prototype parts getting into the public domain. But from the mangled beauty you see here, you’ll notice the cannon-roll car has so far escaped the breakers’ yard. After its moment of record-breaking movie stardom, the chaps at Aston admit they’ve become quite attached to it.
The cufflinks are copies of the Dunhill cufflinks Brosnan wears in TND and TWINE.
The pen is a Parker jotter pen from GE. I got the cufflinks from Ebay and the pen from Amazon.
The black and white sunspel undershirts (crew neck) were used by Bond when he is recovering in hospital (CR).
The pointed bowtie is just a silk bowtie that I bought that looks similar to the one in QoS.
I think Mr. Zareba is referring to the area directly beneath the screen on the K800. On DanielCraig007's phone, the Sony Ericsson Cyber-Shot logo has been covered by a piece of grey plastic to make it match the rest of the "frame" that surrounds the screen. On mine (& evidently Mr. Zareba's), the Cyber-Shot logo remains uncovered. I think he wants to know how to cover up the logo to make the phone match the screen-used prop.
That's right. I might be speaking incomprehensible yesterday, I was after 5 drinks ^^ Apologise for that. Anyway, like BLU8 said: I am talking about the small piece of plastic just over the Cyber-Shot logo. I know that the branded versions of k800i had something like this with a operator logo on it (O2, Orange etc.) I think I'll go tomorrow to Sony Ericsson and ask them if they could order a silver housing with the plastic cover instead of the CS logo.
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A strange thing to say
For example: I have the real St Dupont cufflinks that Craig uses with his tuxedo in the poker scene from Casino Royale but not the actual pair craig was wearing during shooting. Clear?
(I prefer to buy authentic products instead of replicas)
Worth every moneypenny :007)
Where is the valid ticket
www.007jamesbond.dk
http://thedangermen.com/
is it? i mean, really?
i admire your commitment to the franchise DC, but personally I can't warrent spending that kinda cash on a keyring, even being a die hard AM fan as well as a JB fan. the thing that really gets me is why did holt do an aston that doesn't appear in the films?* wouldnt a db5 have made more sense?
*ok, if you wanna get real picky, a db9 did appear in a film, 10 points if you can spot it.
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
www.cancerresearchuk.org
Got me
now if u meant another film...
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Aston+Martin&model=DB9&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on
TIS - "The moment you think you got it figured - you're wrong"
Formerly known as Teppo
It is a perfect replica of a Aston Martin DB9 in Sterling silver made in cooperation with Aston Martin... So I believe it is worth the price of £295.
Yes you are correct. A DB5 keyring would have been more appropriate. Maybe Dimitrios wasent that knowledgeable about Aston Martin or just dident care. Anthony Holt dident make the keyring especially for the film. It is part of their standard collection. Holt dont only cater to Bond fans. They have a DB7 in their standard collection as well.
(A modified DB9 car was used in Casino Royale for the crash scene)
Yes. This is correct.
The scene involving the car crash was devised using an Aston Martin DB9 that was especially modified to look like Bond's Aston Martin DBS V12 and reinforced to withstand the impact.
Due to the low centre of gravity of the vehicle, an 18-inch (450 mm) ramp had to be implemented on the road tarmac at Millbrook Proving Grounds and stunt driver Adam Kirley had to use an air cannon located behind the driver's seat to propel the car into a roll at the precise moment of impact.
At a speed exceeding 70 mph (113 km/h), the car rotated seven times while being filmed, and was confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records on 5 November 2006 as a new world record. (Three DB9s were wrecked for this scene).
The Aston Martin DBS was used in the rest of Casion Royale and in Quantum of Solace opening car chase
(Six Aston Martins were destroyed during filming of this scene in Quantum of Solace).
Or forget something!....
I had forgotten the fact that Aston wernt ready wv the DBS for the
chase sequence and yes jeff teppo et al ur right they were old db9 hacks
with skirts....
In fact Aston is always late! The actual production cars wr almost a year late
for delivery to those who had put up their deposits to get one.
Anyone know why the cars were delayed? This might make you chuckle
in case anyone prefers actual horsesmouth fact rather than wiki-truth this
officially attributed article might interest some
What happened when Aston Martin lent its brand new DBS to the world’s best known secret agent
Text: Richard Porter / Photos: Andy Morgan
The choice of star car for Casino Royale was made in late 2005 when Aston boss Dr Ulrich Bez invited Bond producer Barbara Broccoli up to Gaydon to look at a new DB9-based model under development in the design studio. Broccoli loved the car and immediately cast it as the perfect transport for Daniel Craig’s leaner, meaner, slightly blonder Bond.
This left Aston with a small problem. The new car, to be called DBS, wasn’t due to be launched until 2007 and at that point it was just a styling buck still being finessed by design director Marek Reichman. No actual DBSs existed and it wasn’t going to be much of a starring role if all Bond did was lean casually on a clay model.
With principle photography due to start in January 2006, Aston’s prototype workshop pulled out all the extruded aluminium stops to hand-build two identical DBS ‘hero’ cars that could be used for close-up shots and gentle driving. Externally these cars looked near-as-dammit like the proposed production DBS. Inside, the Aston design team were given a little more licence, installing a crash helmet cubby, gun holder, and other cheeky features unlikely to be seen on customers’ cars unless they ask really nicely. The build team worked flat out and the cars were delivered to the Bond crew as promised in April 2006.
But Aston’s commitments didn’t end there. In the script, 007 discovers his love interest Vesper Lynd has been kidnapped and hammers his Aston along the twisting roads of Montenegro in hot pursuit. Director Martin Campbell wanted the audience to think they were about to see a lengthy car chase and then surprise them when instead Bond encounters Lynd lying on the road ahead, swerves to avoid her and flips his car into a spectacular barrel-roll. Ripping stuff on screen, but a headache for the Gaydon workshop, which had to fulfil the film makers’ request for three cosmetically accurate DBS stunt cars.
Fortunately Aston had a trio of redundant DB9 development hacks and drafted them into the prototype shop to be turned into DBS replicas. From the outside these sacrificial lambs looked identical to the fully formed ‘hero’ cars already working their stuff for the cameras. Inside, they were rather less polished, with tatty, rough-grained dashboards and stout roll-cages betraying their origins as pre-production workhorses. The tired matt-black vents and buttons on the top half of the dash were pretty far from the chrome-splashed versions in the show cars but, to avoid any risk of knackering continuity, the team came up with a cunning fix involving careful application of kitchen tin-foil.
Once again Aston met its deadline, delivering the three action cars to the Bond vehicle team along with the original DB9 manual gearbox prototype, looking scruffy and care-worn in its flaking white paintjob, so that the stunt drivers had a fourth car in which to practise.
Final planning for the stunt took place at Dunsfold Aerodrome near Guildford, familiar to TV viewers as home to the Top Gear test track, where the Casino Royale second unit was busy filming an explosive night-time sequence with kerosene tankers and an old 747. In the final movie you’d never guess that the fiery chase around Miami International Airport was actually shot in rural Surrey, especially once a twinkling Floridian city- scape had been digitally added to the background during post-production.
On another part of the airfield the stunt team set up the eight-inch ramp they calculated would be enough to flip the DBS and brought in two battered E34 BMW 5-series, chosen because they broadly replicated the size and weight of the Aston, for a couple of rehearsal rolls. Stunt co-ordinator Gary Powell had found a couple of dramatic rallycross crashes on the internet and was aiming for a similar multi-roll spectacular with the Aston. Sure enough, when they hit the ramp at 65mph, the Bee-Ems barrelled three or four times, in exactly the way Powell was looking for.
Satisfied that the stunt would work, the Bond crew moved to the hill circuit at Millbrook proving ground in Bedfordshire, doubling for the country roads of Montenegro, and carried out some final trials with their DB9 practice car. Unfortunately, the Aston proved a lot more stable than those crusty 5-series and, with only limited chances to get this right, the ramp was raised to 18 inches to make sure the Bond car turned turtle.
As it turned out, this still wasn’t enough. When stunt driver Adam Kirley charged the first DBS into the ramp at 70mph it simply took off, levelled out and landed on all four wheels, clouting the dummy that stood in for the prone Vesper Lynd before mangling its front suspension as it slithered unimpressively across the damp grass. The Aston’s stiffer chassis and lower centre of gravity meant it wasn’t inclined to go belly-up like those BMWs at Dunsfold.
Fortunately, the Bond team had a back-up plan involving another DBS fitted with a gas cannon that used pressurised nitrogen to punch a metal ram out of the bottom of the car and flip it onto its roof. It was up to Adam Kirley to hit the trigger at precisely the right moment, otherwise he’d risk being punted painfully into the trees by the side of the road.
With everything in place and the cameras running, Kirley gunned the Aston up to 75mph, came charging onto the wet tarmac of the beautifully lit filming area, swerved slightly to the left and fired the ram bang on cue. The result was even more spectacular than the stunt team had imagined. Once the Aston hit the grass, it dug in and just kept rolling, pieces of bodywork and a wheel flying off until it came to rest, right side up, lights still twinkling into the Millbrook undergrowth.
Kirley later described being in the car as ‘a fairly violent sort of ride’ but incredibly he stepped from the mashed Aston unhurt. He didn’t know at the time that he’d just established a new Guinness World Record for most cannon rolls in a car, achieving an astonishing seven complete turns and stealing the record from Top Gear, who had previously set the benchmark using a rather less glamorous Sierra estate.
If the ramp had been used it would have been hidden under a pile of peat to make it look like the car had flipped off the grass verge. Since they’d successfully deployed the cannon instead, a new bridging shot was required to establish the start of the roll and two weeks later the team returned to Millbrook with the third DBS action car, packed on one side with counterweights.
When Adam Kirley swerved around a flinching Vesper Lynd – actually stunt performer Nikki Berwick doubling for actress Eva Green – these weights were enough to pitch it onto its roof to make the first shot of the crash sequence that you see in the movie. With this extra roll in the bag, that was it. Three real Aston Martins successfully and spectacularly trashed.
When filming wrapped, the wrecked DBS replicas were returned to Gaydon where, in line with standard practice for development cars, they were due to be crushed, allowing the company to reclaim the VAT on their value and avoiding the risk of rogue prototype parts getting into the public domain. But from the mangled beauty you see here, you’ll notice the cannon-roll car has so far escaped the breakers’ yard. After its moment of record-breaking movie stardom, the chaps at Aston admit they’ve become quite attached to it.
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
www.cancerresearchuk.org
ah hell, you decide.
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
www.cancerresearchuk.org
What are the cufflinks and pen from / who makes em?
Are the black and white undershirts in CR as well or just part of the sunspel collection? And finally, whats the right b-tie? Qos?
The pen is a Parker jotter pen from GE. I got the cufflinks from Ebay and the pen from Amazon.
The black and white sunspel undershirts (crew neck) were used by Bond when he is recovering in hospital (CR).
The pointed bowtie is just a silk bowtie that I bought that looks similar to the one in QoS.
The frame?
Your DAD Bond on set book, is it the paperback or hardback ?