December8th, 2021 by Aston Martin Palm Beach. Released on October 8th, 2021, the 25th James Bond movie, No Time to Die, features four Aston Martin James Bond cars—two from the past, one from the present, and a concept car that’s yet to be released! Essentially, the new James Bond film pays tribute to the Aston Martin legacy’s full spectrum. Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. Today, we have a lot more news about how the new coronavirus is affecting the entertainment industry. There's also a Batmobile. Let's get Is Hitting Hollywood HardEarlier this week we reported that James Bond fans had posted an open letter to the companies behind No Time to Die asking them to push back the release date for the film because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Yesterday, they did. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the release date for the 25th Bond film, originally scheduled for April 10, will now be November 25 in the US. That makes No Time to Die the first major movie tentpole to change its release plans because of the new coronavirus, but chances are it won’t be the last. Globally, the film industry is looking to lose $5 billion due to closed theaters in places like China, where the virus has taken a massive toll. If delays like this continue, the box office will no doubt continue to of Companies Are Pulling Out of SXSWSpeaking of the coronavirus, it’s also—as we’ve reported here—taking a toll on upcoming conferences. As companies are starting to advise employees against unnecessary travel and pull out of conventions and conferences out of concern for their health, events like the Game Developers Conference, Facebook’s F8 conference, and Google I/O have been postponed. So far, the upcoming South by Southwest conference is still happening, but many companies are opting out of their previously scheduled involvement, including Facebook, Twitter, Vevo, and TikTok. This week, Amazon Studios joined the list. More are surely soon to Your First Look at the New BatmobileIn slightly better news, director Matt Reeves is still working on The Batman, his extremely star-studded new film about the Caped Crusader. Plot details are still pretty scarce, but he has been sharing photos of the movie’s costumes and such. To that end, on Wednesday, the director revealed the new Batmobile for his film. Gotta say, it looks pretty Great WIRED StoriesThe secret to enjoying nature is 
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DanielCraig returns one last time as James Bond; starring alongside OSCARÂź-winner Rami Malek (2019; Best Actor; "Bohemian Rhapsody") in "No Time To Die." Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. However; his peace is short-lived when his old friend; Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) from the CIA turns up asking for his help.
Towards the beginning of the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, a stuntman pulls off a breathtaking jump on a motorcycle. A rider, ostensibly the film’s protagonist, races up a steep ramp in Matera, Italy, then soars over a wall. The 25th Bond film debuts on Friday, Oct. 8, and viewers can expect the typical excitement—car chases, explosions, gun battles, and the like. Popular Science caught up with the film’s special effects and action vehicles supervisor, Chris Corbould, to learn more about how they put some of those sequences together. There are no spoilers ahead; all the stunts referenced are visible in the film’s trailers, one of which is embedded below. Here’s what we know about that motorcycle jump, and other awe-inspiring moments from this fifth and final installment in the Craig-as-Bond franchise; we also look back at one classic car scene from a 70s-era Bond film. The motorcycle jump The jump in Matera, Italy, features a stuntman named Paul Edmondson riding a Triumph Scrambler motorcycle. “That was absolutely done for real,” Corbould says. “Lee Morrison, the stunt coordinator in the film, has a big background in motorcycles.” “Cary [Joji Fukunaga, the director] wanted one great bike stunt in that beautiful city, and that’s what Lee came up with,” he says. “I’ll never forget, when we did that on the day, there was a massive round of applause.” “There was no trickery there—he just went up it and jumped it,” he adds. Viewers interested in the jump can also check out Being James Bond, a documentary about Daniel Craig’s work in the Bond films; at about the 39-minute mark, there’s a brief clip of what appears to be the tail end of that stunt, with the rider wearing a helmet. Both Autoweek and MotorBiscuit have more details, and here’s some behind-the-scenes footage. The donuts In another moment towards the beginning of the film, Bond is behind the wheel of an Aston Martin DB5, and there’s a scene in which the car spins in circles, spraying bullets from guns protruding from the front of it. “Daniel [Craig] actually did that donut in the square,” Corbould says, “where it was spinning around and firing the guns at the walls.” Corbould explains that the film involved a second unit, or the “action unit,” which filmed shots first, and then the actors arrived. “We shot the donut and DB5 shooting up the walls with stunt drivers,” he says, “and then when Daniel came out, he did another shot as well, so they could get shots with his face in it.” Autoweek also has more on those donuts, explaining that the scene involved modifying the stunt vehicle so that its front left wheel wouldn’t spin, thanks to a handbrake. For the actual vehicles, the filmmakers relied on 10 physical versions of the DB5. Two of the vehicles were “pristine,” Corbould says, which they used for “whenever Daniel was getting in and out, [or] pulling away.” Meanwhile, eight additional vehicles played various roles. “Some were kitted out with gadgets; some were full stunt cars, with full rally roll cages in; they each had a job to do,” Corbould says. [Related Rolls-Royce’s zippy electric airplane wants to break speed records—and power air taxis of the future] “You have to have multiples of each,” he says, “because if one gadget car clips the curb during the sequence, and bends an axle, you can’t have 600 people waiting around while we mend it, so you just pull that one out, and pull another one in.” Those eight cars were Aston-Martin-built replicas, and by “gadget car,” Corbould means a vehicle that deploys gadgets, such as those machine guns in the front. Car and Driver notes that the guns “malfunctioned” back in 2019—the barrels didn’t spin as they were supposed to—when they were on set observing. Bond films, of course, have a long history of action sequences. Back in early 1970s, for example, The Man with the Golden Gun involved a car’s crazy twisting jump over a river, which, as a company called Altair points out, wouldn’t have worked if the vehicle hadn’t been adjusted in a very specific way to include a type of fifth wheel to keep it on track for the stunt. The seaplane Finally, in another scene, a seaplane flies away from a fishing boat, towards the camera, as the vessel explodes in the background. “That was a real shot—that was a real trawler, and a real plane,” Corbould says. “It was all perfectly lined up from a helicopter shot.” “We did it twice,” he adds. “The first time the framing wasn’t quite right, but the second time we absolutely nailed it.” As for that fishing vessel, it didn’t actually explode. “We made it look like it was blowing up,” Corbould says. ï»żMI6HQ concluded: “All the evidence points to the probability that if No Time To Die is released in October 2021, it will fall short of the $928m worldwide box office it needs to break even. “Even if it does somehow make a profit, it is likely to be the least successful James Bond film in terms of return on investment.”
Ten Aston Martin DB5s were used in the movie, two of them the genuine article. Four were full-blown stunt cars using tube-framed carbon fiber bodies with non-Aston powertrains. All the stunts you see in the film were real, nothing was faked, though some of the scenes were shot using a fully remote stunt driving vehicle that allows a stunt driver to pilot a vehicle thriller No Time To Die opens October modern movie goer could be forgiven for thinking that everything they see on the big screen is fake. And many things are. But not the stunts in the new James Bond thriller No Time To Die.“Everything that you saw was for real,” said the film’s action vehicle supervisor Neil Layton. “Everything from the motorcycle jump to the Land Rover jump. That was all done for real.” Five-time world enduro champ Fast Eddie Edmundson makes the Bros. Yes, the motorcycle jump, let’s start with that one. The huge leap done ostensibly by Bond riding a Triumph Scrambler as he escapes the pack of Jaguar XF-driving henchmen out to get him. The bike is barreling down a cobblestone street in the real-life stone village of Matera in Southern Italy. As he comes around a corner, Bond encounters a narrow street filled with parishioners exiting church, so he aims left, rockets up a long stone staircase and launches over the stone wall at the top. That was a real Triumph Scrambler and that was a real jump. Only it wasn’t Daniel Craig on the bike, of course. It was a real motorcyclist. “His name is Paul Edmondson,” said Layton. “He’s five-time world enduro bike champion back in the day 1989-90, 1993-94, and 1996. He’s known to his friends as Fast Eddie.’ That jump was done on his 50th birthday. So to do that jump obviously at 50, yeah, it was quite breathtaking.”Edmundson not only did the jump, he sort of topped it off during rehearsals.“In the run up and the rehearsals, because he was timing it to perfection, a couple of times he would just lay the back wheel on the top of the wall, and just set the bike there and then hop it off the wall onto the ground and then go. So it wasn't a case that he was just launching the bike up and over the wall. It was done down to precision.” No DB5s were harmed in this production. Well, maybe one or The same precision also applied to all the Aston Martin DB5s used to make the movie. If you count them all up in the opening photo of the excellent new book, James Bond’s DB5 $50, available from Hero Collector Books, you see 10 of them. Hero Collector “Two are originals and we had eight replicas,” Layton said. “Of the replicas, two were parts cars, two were gadget cars and four were full-blown stunt cars.”The full-blown stunt cars are tube-framed carbon fiber-bodied replicas with non-Aston powertrains. “It was a straight six-cylinder engine that was housed in a spaceframe monocoque chassis that was dressed with carbon fiber overlay panels. So the car was very, very lightweight. It housed 380 brake horsepower, it had a limited-slip diff, and obviously, it had upgraded brakes. So that car was a lot of fun. Yeah, and it didn’t disappoint whenever we had to drive it.”Layton got to drive it in some scenes, and then a lot of the driving was done by British rally champion Mark Higgins, who was working in his fourth Bond best car scene in the movie may be early on when Bond and his love interest are trapped in the DB5 in the town square as bad guys shoot at the car which—surprise!—is bulletproof. As you know if you’ve seen the trailer, Bond extricates himself from that particular tricky situation by firing gatling guns from the DB5’s headlights while doing donuts. Turns out that kind of thing clears a town square right out. But there was more to the scene than just the donuts and the firing. This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. “That’s a stunt car that had a hydraulic handbrake that can lock up the left front wheel,” Layton explained. “What you don’t appreciate in the scene is that the gradient on that ground was actually dropping away. So, if the car was put on a coaster rig, for example, it would rotate around 180 degrees and then just roll down to the lowest point in that courtyard. So to initially get the car to break traction and to start rotating, rather than pushing on it, we gave it the ability to lock that left front wheel, just so they didn't keep pushing on down the road. We could keep it nailed on a sixpence. And then as soon as the car started to rotate and come around, we could release the handbrake. And then the car would rotate on its own.”Could a real DB5 do donuts like that? Maybe, maybe not, so the stunt-DB5s had more modern powerplants. No one would acknowledge exactly which modern engine they were, but specs-deduction and a shot of a shifter knob suggest they might be BMW S54 M inline-sixes. They worked quite well, as did the left-front brake lock.“We got to the point where we got the car and where it is in the square so precise that Daniel Craig could have actually jumped in the car and done the stunt himself if we hadn’t pulled it off.” This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. But, of course, they did pull it off and it looks pretty cool. Then there’s a long stretch ofHow-can-I-trust-you?But-I-love-you-James!Loyalty!Betrayal! Token really cute American!Moneypenny!Ha!-I-am-the-villain-and-I’m-NOT-Freddie-Mercury-I-have-a-skin-condition!Stereotypical-Bond-villain-lair yadda, yadda, yadda before we get another chase scene. The other big chase scene takes place off-road through a forest, using Land Rover Defenders as the bad guy vehicles. Bond is driving a Toyota Land Cruiser and is chased by Land Rover Defenders and Range Rover Sports. He simply nerfs them at just the right spot and—fwoomp!—they launch into the air, one flying brilliantly over the Land Cruiser to crash in oblivion. Bond even takes out a Triumph rider using the crashed Rover’s front winch!There was more technology used in the filming, too. Some of the scenes were shot using what Layton called “a fully remote stunt driving vehicle with Shiftec” that allows a stunt driver to pilot a vehicle remotely, up to a quarter mile away. This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. “In conjunction with Shiftec, we’ve developed a vehicle system called the Gemini that allows us to drive the vehicle up to a range of 500 meters remotely from the car, but it still allows us to drive the car dynamically as if we were in the car ourselves. So it opens up many avenues. We could even drive the car sitting in another vehicle that’s trailing the first car from behind. So if we ever wanted to do a dynamic, dramatic stunt, or a total loss where the car crosses a train track and it gets hit and written off, this gives us the ability to do it all in one take rather than cutting from scene to scene to scene.”The technology sounds interesting. Will it ever replace stunt drivers?“There doesn’t seem to be any substitution for the stunt people to do it themselves,” Layton said. “That's why they’re stunt people, they take the risks and take the money. But in some aspects, it’s always a bonus if you can eliminate or reduce the percentage of the risks you’re faced with. You still need a precision driver to drive the car dynamically. It’s just that it opens up a lot more variables to the production team as to what they can and can’t actually achieve.”To see what they’ve achieved in No Time To Die, get in line now for opening night on October 8. If you want to know how it ends, call me and I’ll tell you. But I can say after seeing the film, that the stunt driving is pretty impressive. A car-lover’s community for ultimate access & unrivaled NOW Mark Vaughn Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed Ford, all its products and everyone who ever worked there.
No Time to Die," the latest entry in the James Bond franchise, notched an estimated $56 million at the North American box office this weekend, according to its studio, MGM.
Though Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond won’t be one for box office record books, “No Time to Die” easily took the top spot in North America. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and co-starring Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Lashana Lynch and Ralph Fiennes, the latest 007 adventure debuted to $56 million over the weekend — a result that would have been more dazzling had the film not cost $250 million to produce and at least another $100 million to promote. Despite opening slightly behind expectations, “No Time to Die” marks a positive step forward for the movie theater business, which has struggled to rebound from the pandemic. With Bond’s assist, the overall box office collected $108 million between Friday and Sunday, according to Comscore, marking only the fourth weekend in the past 18 months to cross the $100 million benchmark. Box office experts predict that momentum from “No Time to Die” and Sony’s comic book sequel “Venom Let There Be Carnage,” which smashed pandemic records earlier in October, portends an especially busy fall and winter at the movies, at least, by COVID-19 standards. The box office may continue to ebb and flow between weeks, but for the first time in nearly two years, there’s a steady stream of buzzy films on the schedule. Throughout the rest of October and early November, movie theater marquees will feature “Halloween Kills” with Jamie Lee Curtis, director Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” remake and Marvel’s “Eternals.” “Going forward, business will continue to build, but it will be uneven,” predicts David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “Three steps forward, two steps back.” Here are five takeaways from Bond’s latest box office mission 1. Older audiences aren’t ready to return to theaters Hollywood hoped Bond, a long-running franchise that has always been particularly popular among older crowds, would bring those moviegoers back in a bigger way after lukewarm ticket sales for “The Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark,” Clint Eastwood’s Western “Cry Macho,” the Jessica Chastain-led biopic “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and other offerings intended to appeal to audiences who are less interested in superhero spectacles. Moreover, executives and theater operators were counting on “No Time to Die” to inspire people to return for numerous awards hopefuls on the calendar later in fall, such as Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” and Pablo Larrain’s Princess Diana drama “Spencer.” “No Time to Die” sold more tickets to moviegoers over 45 than any other pandemic-era movie, with 36% of ticket buyers over the age of 45 and 57% over 35. Yet the reality is that older audiences have been the most concerned about new variants of COVID-19 and, as a result, haven’t been as tempted to go to their local multiplex. Older audiences aren’t known to rush out on opening weekend, and reviews have been strong for “No Time to Die,” which could be a positive sign for the movie’s long-term prospects. “Older and family audiences are unlikely to return to full strength before the pandemic is completely behind us,” Gross says. There have been signs that may be improving, albeit slower than most would have liked. United Artists Releasing, the company distributing the film in the reported 25% of ticket buyers returned to theaters for the first time in more than 18 months for Bond. 2. Young men aren’t sweating variants Just like older audiences have been more or less absent from theaters, another consistency has been boys and men buying tickets in force. For “No Time to Die,” audiences skewed heavily male, representing 64% of ticket sales. That was also the case with “Venom Let There Be Carnage” $141 million in North America to date, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” $212 million in North America to date, “Black Widow” $183 million in North America to date and “F9 The Fast Saga” $173 million in North America to date. Those properties all cater to younger audiences, which is likely why initial returns were higher than “No Time to Die.” The 25th Bond outing also faced steep competition from “Venom Let There Be Carnage,” which opened last weekend and continued to pull in strong numbers. It’s possible that moviegoers under 25 were more tempted to see Tom Hardy’s mischievous alien symbiote wreak havoc rather than watch Bond emerge from retirement. 3. It’s all about Imax When people have been going to cinemas, they have been opting to watch the latest blockbuster in the best quality possible. It makes sense, since box office charts have been led by spectacles that are filled with CGI and intricate action sequences. In the case of “No Time to Die,” premium large formats such as Imax, Dolby, 4DX and RealD contributed to 36% of overall ticket sales. Imax alone accounted for 13% of box office revenues with $ million domestically, marking the company’s biggest debut since “Aquaman” opened in December of 2018. “The combination of Imax technology and this iconic franchise has proven to be a winning one at the global box office, with audiences everywhere turning out to experience Cary Fukunaga’s immersive filmmaking as it was meant to be seen,” Megan Colligan, Imax Entertainment president, said in a statement. “Imax is reaching and even exceeding pre-pandemic global box office for September and October, which is a very exciting prospect given the upside ahead with audiences and blockbusters still returning to theaters.” Expect upcoming visual-effects heavy tentpoles like “Dune,” “Eternals,” Sony’s “Spider-Man No Way Home” and the Warner Bros. sequel “The Matrix Resurrections” to continue that trend. 4. An October to remember? Outside of Imax, moviegoing has hardly compared to pre-pandemic levels. Yet October, which isn’t a typically busy period at the box office, is shaping up to be stronger than historically lucrative summer months as audiences return to theaters. Thanks to the “Venom” sequel and “No Time to Die,” October has already outpaced May of 2021, the official start to summer blockbuster season, in overall ticket sales. It’s the first time, maybe ever, that has happened. Through its first 10 days, October has generated $269 million in receipts, while the entire month of May which saw the release of “A Quiet Place Part II,” “Cruella” and hardly any other compelling titles brought in $215 million. If “Halloween Kills” and “Dune” incentivize movie-watchers in droves, October could eclipse July $583 million, August $421 million and June $409 million to become the biggest month of the year. Whether or not it breaks records, it marks a notable improvement on the first quarter of the year with lackluster turnouts in January $64 million, February $56 million and March $116 million. “We are seeing numbers in October that we would normally see in the summer,” says Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with Comscore. “It’s going to be one of the more potent Octobers at the box office.” 5. James Bond may need to economize With 25 popular movies across six decades, Bond has cemented its place as a film franchise with few rivals. The property was a cornerstone of Amazon’s $ billion acquisition of MGM, the company that backs Bond. Universal Pictures distributes Bond internationally. That means although Craig has retired his black tux and signature martini, it’ll hardly be the last that audiences see of the coveted spy series. Though no upcoming projects have been announced, the Bond overlords are likely taking a hard look at how much money they will pump into the next 007 outing — whether on the big or small screen. For “No Time to Die,” $56 million to start is somewhat disappointing because it carries an enormous budget and will need to gross at least $800 million globally to get out of the red probably closer to $900 million. Box office experts predict the film will complete its domestic run with approximately $150 million, considerably short of its franchise predecessors, 2012’s “Skyfall” $300 million and 2015’s “Spectre” $200 million. In that case, “No Time to Die” will need to generate significant coinage at international box office, where it’s already amassed a strong $145 million. It has yet to open in China set for Oct. 29, which is a popular market for Bond. “No Time to Die” has grossed $313 million to date and may struggle to break even, at least in its theatrical run. “I don’t know that a future Bond property will have the same unique budgetary stressors this film had,” says Dergarabedian, referring to the tens of millions the studio had to spend delaying the movie due to the pandemic. “It takes a lot to offset those kind of costs. But audiences expect a certain level of production value from James Bond.” It’s true that Bond has become synonymous with extravagance, but there should be ways to reduce costs — and still deliver on style — to assure an easier path to profitability. May we recommend leasing the Aston Martin? Read More About
Narrator That's Chris Corbould, special effects and car supervisor for "No Time To Die." While Corbould has overseen tank chases and record-shattering explosions for the Bond franchise, this shoot presented a surprising challenge: cobblestone streets. Matera's ancient streets weren't suitable for vehicles going 80 miles per hour. While beautiful, the roads were

Dr. Madeleine Swann is a fictional French psychiatrist originally affiliated to the Austrian Hoffler Klinik organization. She is also the daughter of the mysterious SPECTRE member Mr. White and the lover of Secret Intelligence Service SIS/MI6 operative James Bond, becoming the mother of his only child. A major character portrayed by French actress, Léa Seydoux, she first appeared in the 2015 film, Spectre, and returned in its 2021 sequel, No Time to Die. Biography Early life Madeleine Swann was born to Mr. White and his now deceased wife. When she was a young child, she was very close to both her parents, as shown in the photos on the wall in Mr. White's secret room in the hotel L'Americain. In 1998, Lyutsifer Safin came to their house in Nittedal, Norway to kill White, but only found a young Madeleine and her mother Mrs. White. From a closet in her house, Madeleine heard Safin murder her mother and hid under her bed as he turned his attention towards her. Madeleine, knowing her father kept a pistol hidden in a cupboard, got the gun and blindly shot Safin, breaking his mask. Madeline then dragged Safin's body out of the house, but before she could dispose of it, Safin reawakened and restarted his pursuit of her, forcing her onto a frozen lake. The ice cracked beneath her feet and she fell in, beginning to drown. However, Safin took pity on her and shot the ice before pulling her to the surface. He left soon after. Madeleine grew estranged from her father and his lifestyle as a callous and ruthless assassin, blaming him for her mother's death because of that incident, which leads to her running away from him to live with relatives of her mother in Paris and severing all contact with him. Madeleine also developed a dislike of guns. She later became a consultant in psychiatry, and as such, worked two years with Medecins Sans Frontieres in English, Doctors Without Borders before she went into hiding at the Hoffler clinic near Sölden in the Austrian Alps. Meeting James Bond After James Bond travelled to Austria to find Mr. White, White tells Bond to find Madeleine who will take him to L'Américain, which will in turn lead him to the people he is after. Bond finds her at the clinic where she works, but she is captured by Mr. Hinx first. Bond gives chase to the kidnappers, and their three cars crash. The two then make their escape. The pair then meet with Q, who reveals that Marco Sciarra's ring contains trace elements linking Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the leader of the organisation, and Bond's three previous missions. Swann then informs them about the name SPECTRE, and that L'Américain is a hotel in Morocco. Bond and Swann travel to the hotel and stay in the suite her father used to stay in every year. Swann there tells him about her troubled relationship with her father, to which Bond defends the deceased White, stating that White - in the poor health state he was in, when he was found by Bond - could have died weeks ago, but that Madeleine was the only reason that kept his heart beating until Bond arrived. As a drunken Madeleine wants to go to bed, she slips and falls into Bond's arms. However she doesn't want to become romantically involved with him, going as far as to threatening to kill him, should he touch her in her sleep. The next morning, Bond discovers White had built a secret room full of videotapes, charts and photographs, as well as maps and co-ordinates of where they go next. They travel to the nearest point a train will go, but are again attacked on the train by Mr. Hinx. Bond fights with him and Swann shoots several rounds from Bond's gun at Hinx. They all miss, but it gives Bond time to throw Hinx off the train by attaching a rope to his neck and attaching the other side to some barrels, which he hurls off the train, yanking Hinx off with them. She proceeds to sleep with Bond back in their cabin. Meeting Oberhauser At the station, the two are transported to a facility in the desert, where they are met by Oberhauser, the son of Hannes Oberhauser, the man who looked after the younger Bond when he had just been orphaned. While torturing Bond with the Neurosurgical Chair, Oberhauser also informs him that Max Denbigh is part of SPECTRE, and he feeds all the intelligence data straight to the criminal organisation. Oberhauser then reveals to Bond that he now goes by the name Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He changed his name to one from his motherñ€ℱs bloodline after faking his death 34 years ago. Bond and Swann escape with the help of Bond's exploding watch, destroying the facility in the process. Final Showdown in London Back in London, Bond and Swann meet M, Tanner, Q and Moneypenny, and they travel to arrest Denbigh and stop the launch of the Nine Eyes program. Swann tells Bond she does not wish to assist and they part ways. She is captured by Blofeld's men and taken to the old MI6 building, derelict since the attack by Raoul Silva. Bond arrives at the former HQ and sees Blofeld, who was scarred in the explosion earlier, who tells him the building is rigged to explode in three minutes and that Swann is hidden somewhere within it. Bond finds her and the couple escapes by boat out onto the Thames. They chase Blofeld's helicopter and shoot it down. The helicopter crashes and Bond leaves Blofeld to be arrested by M and leaves with Madeleine. The next day, Bond retrieves his old Aston Martin DB5 from Q and drives off with Madeleine. Matera Later, Swann and Bond are near the Acropolis in Matera. On that day, people are burning their secrets by writing them down and burning them. Bond asks Swann to tell him her secrets, upon which she says "I'll tell you mine when you visit Vesper's grave." The next day, Bond visits Vesper's grave and is ambushed by a bomb. Bond then escapes back to his hotel, accusing Swann of setting him up. Following this, Bond and Swann go on a car, where Blofeld makes a call to Swann that suggests Swann has given Bond's location away. While Bond is able to dispatch the enemies who attempt to kill him and notably, try to kill Swann first, he sends Swann away on a train, saying he will never see her again. As the doors close, Swann's hand noticeably goes to her belly, indicating a desire to tell Bond about her pregnancy, but no longer having the immediate opportunity to do so. Swann keeps walking backwards on the train as it pulls out to keep him in sight. Five Years Later Approximately five years, Bond has gone into a quiet retirement in Jamaica, but is drawn back into his old life to investigate the Project Heracles conspiracy. In London, it turns out that Swann is Safin's psychiatrist. Safin makes his intention clear. In order to save Bond, Swann must kill Blofeld using the nanobots. While Swann is initially hesitant, she eventually agrees to put a Heracles targeted for Blofeld on her hands. While interrogating Blofeld, she unexpectedly runs into Bond. Bond extends his hand but Swann refuses to shake it, making Bond rather confused. Before seeing Blofeld, her hands shake so much that she leaves the room for "home," but not before James' hands brush against hers. James then inadvertently kills Blofeld by almost strangling him, causing the Heracles virus to be transmitted and killing Blofeld instantly. Blofeld reveals to James that Swann had never betrayed him - in fact, Blofeld framed her. Swann then returns to her childhood home in Norway, where it was that she first encountered Safin. Bond tracks her to the house, expressing his regret for having pushed her out of his life. Madeline replies that she knows he is "not built to trust," and Bond acknowledges that neither of them are. Just as they begin to kiss, the are interrupted by Swann's five-year-old daughter Mathilde. When Bond asks indirectly if the child is his, Swann repeatedly denies it, despite the obvious resemblance in eyes. Their reunion is short-lived when they discover Safin is hot on their tail. They take Madeline's SUV, where they are chased by Safin's henchman. At one point, Swann rescues Bond while he holds Mathilde by shooting an enemy. When Bond realized too many enemies are coming, he hides Swann in a bunker with Mathilde. While Swann is able to kill several henchman, Safin captures her and Mathilde. Swann and Mathilde are taken to Safin's base, which contains many toxic chemicals. When Mathilde is grabbed away from Swann, Swann continues following Mathilde around, repeatedly warning Mathilde not to touch any of the poisonous flowers. Eventually, Swann is taken away, where she's ordered to drink a tea; however, recognizing the scent of the flowers added to this tea, she knows it will make her blind. When she fails to persuade Primo to change sides, she blinds him by throwing the tea into his eye and escapes, locking Primo inside her cell. When Bond finishes killing Safin's guards, she and Bond find Mathilde and Bond sends Swann and Mathilde on a lifeboat away. Swann and Bond share a farewell kiss, and Swann rides off, while Bond promises he would return to them quickly. Thanks to Nomi's help, Madeleine and her child were able to quickly get to a small rocky shoal island that was at a safe distance from the island. After Bond is infected with Heracles by Safin, Swann talks with Bond. Swann says that all of her secrets are finally behind her with Safin's death, and they can now live happily ever after. Bond knows, however, that they will not be able to be together, as Safin has put a Heracles targeting Swann and Mathilde in Bond's blood. As Swann sees the missiles fly, she tells Bond that Mathilde is his, and bids him a tearful goodbye. After his death, Swann drives Mathilde into the distance, telling her the story of her father, James Bond. Personality As a psychiatrist and Mr. White's daughter, Madeleine Swann is a strong, rebellious and resourceful woman. She was able to hide and evade SPECTRE members, with the Hoffler Clinic providing a perfect hiding place. However, Madeleine was still traumatized by her past and that of her father, as evidenced by her perpetual hatred of weapons and the originally aggressive behavior she exhibited at the beginning of her relationship with Bond. Despite this, her abilities and indirect connection to SPECTRE have made her a safe and effective ally for Bond. Moreover, her courage and fearlessness are such that she was able to briefly resume handling a gun to save 007 from Mr. Hinx. Behind the scenes "I don't consider myself a Bond girl. I think I'm not really the stereotyped Bond girl. I feel quite different. You can't be like, 'Oh, James.' You have to find something else. She's not a fighter, she's a doctor. She fights in another way." ― Léa Seydoux[2] Images Madeleine Swann/Gallery Trivia Madeleine is the first blonde leading lady since Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights. It is interesting to notice that, Léa Seydoux being French, "Madeleine" and "Swann" are probably references to Marcel Proust's novel "À la recherche du temps perdu", the madeleine being an important element in the first book, called "Du cÎté de chez Swann". Madeleine is the first Bond girl in the film series to be a mother, as well as a mother to a child of James Bond. Madeleine is also the first Bond girl to appear in more than one film since Eunice Gayson, who, as Sylvia Trench, appeared in Dr. No and From Russia with Love, and Rubelvitch from The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy though she appeared as a minor character in all three. However, Madeleine is the first Bond girl to play a major role in more than one film. Indeed, she is the main Bond girl for both films. Madeleine is the first and so far the only woman that Bond has truly fallen in love with and survived any of her appearances. The other two women that Bond fell in love with, Tracy and Vesper, were both killed at the end of their first movie. Madeleine references Vesper by name in No Time to Die. This marks the first time since Anya Amasova's reference to Tracy in The Spy Who Loved Me that a Bond girl has acknowledged the existence of a previous one, and the first time one has been referenced directly by name. References ñ† Cite error Invalid tag; no text was provided for refs named moviespectre ñ† 2/26/15 ñ€” EmpireOnline ñ€” World First Look At Dave Bautista's Mr. Hinx In Spectre

WithNo Time to Die, Craig’s final Bond outing, Corbould marks the end of yet another era.The iconic Aston Martin DB5, a staple in the franchise (with a retail price of LOL), is once again driven by Bond in the film, which means Corbould got under its hood.Since first appearing in 1964’s Goldfinger, the swanky vehicle has appeared in Thunderball (1965), GoldenEye (1995), While the James Bond of Ian Fleming's novels started out driving Bentleys, the cinematic version of Britain's most famous spy has been an Aston Martin man since Sean Connery drove a DB5 in 1964's Goldfinger. Sure, Bond has had other automotive dalliances since then, including the subaquatic Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me and that unfortunate BMW period, which started with a four-cylinder Z3. But in No Time to Die—finally released after long pandemic-related delays—007 honors his silver-screen roots with a chase in a 1963 DB5. This posed two problems for producers. A pristine DB5 is now worth seven figures, and, equally significant, Aston's early-1960s grand tourers don't have the athleticism to pull off stunts for a modern Bond movie. The solution was both simple and hugely complicated build eight replicas with modern mechanicals that could be used and used up in the crash-and-bash parts. DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM We visited the movie set in the Italian town of Matera in the summer of 2019 when one of the DB5's main action sequences was being shot. As, indeed, was one of the stunt cars. For this scene, the DB5 was surrounded by a murderous mob and subjected to withering automatic gunfire as cameras filmed multiple takes and angles. Our interviews were conducted to the background noise of fusillades of shots and amplified instructions from the crew's coordinator Neil Layton prepares the replicas for the demands of different sequences, a job made easier by the vehicles' removable carbon-fiber bodywork and mounting points that allow cameras to be carried. But Layton, a former rally engineer with Prodrive in the says that the suspension design—a pair of control arms at each corner and rallycross springs and dampers—is the most important detail. "You've got to maintain a standard ride height or the car will look wrong," he explains. "The challenge is the big jumps. We've got a massive amount of droop on these vehicles. That's what we use to arrest the car and control it." DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM Mark Higgins, a former British rally champion and one of the world's acknowledged talents for high-precision stuff, is at the wheel for most of the stunts, which weren't planned or storyboarded before the crew arrived. "We had some ideas, but we wanted to walk around and see what was possible," Higgins tells us. The team quickly discovered that Matera's roads weren't grippy enough. "In places, it was like ice," he says. "Rear grip isn't an issue. You want it to look exciting, so we don't mind going sideways. But front grip is key; if you haven't got speed, you can't do anything." To increase adhesion, the crew sprayed the corners with several hundred gallons of full-sugar cola. Higgins says he has learned not to make the driving look too slick or rehearsed. "What the director is looking for and what I think is cool can be totally different," he admits. "You can have a lovely drift scene and it feels great, but it doesn't look real. You have to make it look scrappy, not fluid." The rally champ's driving skills are on full display in the DB5's big scene. In No Time to Die, the Aston has been substantially upgraded from the original Goldfinger car. Instead of twin Browning machine guns that deploy from the turn signals, the new DB5 has multibarreled miniguns coming through the headlights. "The idea was to pay homage but also move it on, to give it a little bit of an upgrade," says special-effects supremo Chris Corbould, a veteran of 15 Bond films. And how better to distribute the DB5's firepower against villains on all sides than with a massive tire-smoking donut?You can see a little bit of this in the movie trailer and the officially sanctioned shot above, but it didn't work out on the day of our visit as the guns malfunctioned, disgorging hundreds of cartridges while the barrels refused to spin. The good news is, you'll be able to see the full stunt in a theater near you, because the film opens in the on October 8.
Throughfour films now, we’ve watched Daniel Craig make his mark as James Bond, the iconic MI6 super spy. And now, it’s time to say goodbye, with
Daniel Craig’s iconic swim shorts scene from Casino Royale was 14 years ago. Though he’s now in his sixth decade, this generation’s 007 shows no sign of slowing down – but ploughing through nameless henchmen can be tough on the body. Accordingly, trainer Simon Waterson adapted Craig’s regimen for his latest film, No Time to Die. “When you get older, you have to realise that your body isn’t as capable as it once was,” he says. “But that doesn’t mean you can’t be just as fit, or look as amazing.” Using this session that fuses bodyweight training with conditioning, three times a week, Craig was able to remain injury-free and stay in killer shape. 1A Assisted Pull-Up 2 Sets of 25 Reps, No Rest Wrap a resistance band around a pull-up bar, so that the loop hangs in front of you. Step in with one foot, making it take some of your weight, and grip the bar with an overhand grip A. Pull your elbows down to lift your chest to the bar B. Repeat. 1B Agility Ladder 2 Sets of 60sec, 60sec Rest Start at one end of the ladder A. Staying on your toes, swiftly move through the ladder to build agility, with your right foot between the rungs and your left foot outside the ladder B. Turn around and work back with your left foot in the ladder. Rest 60 seconds and go back to the pull-ups. Lusum Adjustable Agility Ladder, 6M 2A Bosu Mountain Climber 2 Sets of 25 Reps, No Rest Set up in a high plank with your hands on the edges of a Bosu. Raise your knees to your elbows alternately to perform one mountain climber A, then lower your chest to the Bosu B. Press back up, engaging your core. BOSU BOSU Pro Balance Trainer 2B Bike Sprint, 2 Sets of 60sec, 60sec Rest This one is pretty simple, but be warned it’s going to hurt. Clamber into the saddle A and start pedalling B. Make sure you go as fast as you can, but remember that this is for a whole minute, so try to pick a pace – around 80% effort – that you can maintain throughout. Grit your teeth. 3A Plank to Pike, 2 Sets of 25 Reps, No Rest Set up in a low plank, resting on your forearms with your elbows below your shoulders A. Lift your hips and push your head through your arms to raise yourself into the pike B. Contract your abs and then reverse the movement. Now, go again. 3B Running Sprint 2 Sets of 60sec, 60sec Rest Measure out a distance of around 25m, drop into a sprinter’s stance A, then go at full pace for the line. Drive your elbows backward and pump your legs B. Jog back to recover and go again. Try for as many sprints as you can in the minute. r3XUl.
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