‘Madagascar’

Despite the news of a press conference to be held this evening in Prague, CBn is able to deliver you some more exclusive pictures from the Bahamas sets of Casino Royale! Harry Wyckoff, our own man at station B, has returned with more detailed information and more explicit photos.

If you remember CBn’s last article on the Bahamas locations, you will surely have memorized the set called "Royal Bahamas Defence Force" (see map again here). An abandoned hotel is now heavily fitted out with large cranes, and a bunch of additional metal frames, about 100ft high. According to Harry, this set is now called Madagascar and will double for the island nation in the Indian Ocean.

‘Madagascar’

The set will be used in a fairly major sequence that has also been described in the leaked script summary a few days ago. The sequence that will be filmed there is a chase through the ‘town’ (the set), followed by a chase through the jungle, culminating in a pretty major stunt involving all the large metal frameworks mentioned previously. These frames are the beginnings of a ‘hotel’ which will be the basis for a ‘jumping from hotel window’ stunt at the end of the chase scene.

All 10 set pictures can be found in the CBn image gallery. Thanks again to Harry Wyckoff.

Casino Royale is the 21st James Bond film produced by franchise holders Eon Productions. The MGM/Columbia Pictures production began shooting in January and is due for release worldwide on 17 November 2006. Starring Daniel Craig as James Bond, it is currently being filmed in the Czech Republic, the Bahamas, Italy and the UK.

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