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'Quantum of Solace' Production Moves To Chile

Craig, Kurylenko and Amalric to arrive in mid-March; filming in the Atacama Desert

Daniel Craig To Arrive In Chile On 24 March For 'Quantum' Filming

Scenes to be shot at Antofagasta, Cobija, Baquedano and Michilla; plus a press conference

From Diario Noticiascadadia:

Daniel Craig will arrive in Chile during the second half of March to film scenes for the upcoming movie 'Quantum of Solace' in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile

The actors will be filming for twelve days in different locations in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta and the desert, more than 1,300 miles from Santiago.

According to production sources cited yesterday by the newspaper La Tercera, Craig will arrive in the country alongside the model Ukrainian Olga Kurylenko (the new "Bond girl" in the role of Camille) and the French actor Mathieu Amalric (Dominic Greene).

Sources indicated that although British producers have been scouting sites for the new Bond movie since last September, filming will begin March 23 and will involve 210 foreign professionals and another 105 Chileans.

Although the locations where the film will be shot have not been specified, we know that the scenes in Chile will have "a lot of action", including the landing of a plane in the middle of the desert, a source described.

The recording of scenes began last August in Italy and Madrid, and three months later in the Pinewood Studies, in London.

The filming of the twenty-second James Bond movie, will also have scenes in Panama City and in Cuzco, Peru, to be completed by the middle of this year in Austria.

I wonder if it's that small plane we've heard about recently that will be landing in the middle of the desert.

Bond in a desert. Excellent.

They seem to be throwing a lot into this film.

Is that a bad thing?

What? No. I haven't said so. Just an observation.

Foreign locations, lots of people involved - sounds like a proper Bond film again! Not 'Wales doubling as North Korea'.

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'Quantum of Solace' Production Moves To Chile

Craig, Kurylenko and Amalric to arrive in mid-March; filming in the Atacama Desert

filming will begin March 23

So, we already know that filming in Peru will occur between 2nd March and 12th March.
(presumably they are already there)

I wonder what they are up to after the 12th and before the 23rd.

This article seems to have a few more details, perhaps someone can translate.

http://www.emol.com/noticias/cultura_espec...dnoticia=294825

It does seem to say that part of the reported action to be filmed will involve “helicopters and explosions in the Paranal Observatory (Taltal)”

and

“Meanwhile, in the last week executives of the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere have had contact with the film production, in order to refine details of the occupation of the Observatory for the Paranal filming.”

But it also seems to say that they have been unable to confirm this….

But this does seems to add credibility to the rumour, that appeared on a blog sometime back, that they would be using the complex at Paranal.

From what we know from that earlier information it is the Residencia building that overlooks the desert (and not the buildings that house the telescope) that Eon is interested in using

Ahh excellent! I was wondering when the crew would be finished in Panama and moving on to their next location.

If Dan and the rest aren't set to start filming until mid-march, maybe a trailer will be cut together now with what we have so far.

It's all buiding into one hell of an intriguing story/film ain't it? I don't think we've caught on to much of the plot at all yet - which makes it all the more fasinating!!

I think there was a rumour that the Paranal location would be Dominic Greene's headquarters, and that it would be the location for the movie's finale? Looks iike a fantastic location for sure. I'll try and find the original thread.

Still say you should be a mod here.

Things seem to be shaping up. Nice to see interesting and uncharted locations.