Quantum of Solace

Saturday, 27 October 2012

Quantum of Solace

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007 Stage
The Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage is one of the largest silent stages in the world. It is located at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, and named after the famous James Bond film producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli.
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Aldershot
Aldershot is a town in the English county of Hampshire, located on heathland about 60 km (37 miles) southwest of London. The town is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council. The town has a population of 33,840, whilst the Aldershot Urban Area, a loose conurbation (which also includes other towns, such as Camberley, Farnborough, and Farnham) has a population of 243,344, making it the thirtieth-largest urban area in the UK
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Algeria
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Antofagasta
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Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert is a virtually rainless plateau in South America, covering a strip of land on the Pacific coast of South America, west of the Andes mountains. The Atacama desert is, according to NASA, National Geographic and many other publications, the driest desert in the world, due to the rain shadow on the leeward side of the Chilean Coast Range, as well as a coastal inversion layer created by the cold offshore Humboldt Current. The Atacama occupies in northern Chile, composed mostly of salt basins (salares), sand, and felsic lava flows towards the Andes.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Baja California
Baja California (, ) officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California () is one of the 31 states which with the Federal District comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. Is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of , or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, north of the 28th parallel. The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora, the U.S. State of Arizona, and the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), and on the south by Baja California Sur. Its northern limit is the U.S. state of California.
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Basilicata
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Bedford
Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, in the East of England. It is a large town and the administrative centre for the wider Borough of Bedford. According to Bedfordshire County Council's estimates, the town had a population of 79,190 in mid 2005, with 19,720 in the adjacent town of Kempston. The wider borough, including a rural area, had a population of 153,000.
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Bolivia
Bolivia (), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, (, ) is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, and Chile and Peru to the west.
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Bregenzer Festspiele
Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival) is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz, Austria.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Carrara
Carrara is a city and comune in the province of Massa-Carrara (Tuscany, Italy), famous for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some 100 kilometres (62 miles) west-northwest of Florence.
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Chile
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Cobija, Chile
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Cochabamba
Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the third largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 (2008) and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people. The name derives from a compound of the Quechua words qucha, meaning "lake", and pampa, "open plain". Residents of the city and surrounding areas are commonly referred to as Cochabambinos. Cochabamba is known as the "City of Eternal Spring" and "The Garden City" due to its spring-like temperatures year round. It is also known as "La Llajta", "town" in Quechua.
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Colón, Panama
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Craco
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Cusco
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ESO Hotel
ESO Hotel an the Cerro Paranal is the accommodation for Paranal Observatory in Chile built in 2003. It is mainly used for the ESO (European Southern Observatory) scientists and engineers who work there on a roster system.
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Farnborough Airfield
Farnborough Airport or TAG London Farnborough Airport (previously called RAE Farnborough, ICAO Code EGUF) is an airport situated in Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, England. The airport covers about 8% of Rushmoor's land area.
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Fort Sherman
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Framestore
Framestore is an Oscar-winning visual effects company based near Oxford Street in London. Formed in 1986, it acquired (and subsequently merged) the Computer Film Company in 1997. The company works across several different areas of the media: feature films, commercials, music videos, feature animation and digital.
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Haiti
Haiti (; French , ; Haitian Creole: Ayiti, ), officially the Republic of Haiti ( ;
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Italy
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Kazan
Kazan (; , ) is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The sixth largest city of Russia, it lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. The Kazan Kremlin is a World Heritage Site. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the right to brand itself as the "Third Capital" of Russia. In 2009 it was chosen as the "sports capital of Russia".
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La Paz
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Limone sul Garda
Limone sul Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy), on the shore of Lake Garda.
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Madrid
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Malcesine
Malcesine is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 120 km northwest of Venice and about 40 km northwest of Verona.
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Maratea
Maratea is a town and comune of Basilicata, in the province of Potenza. It is the only town of the region on the Tyrrhenian coast and because of its beautiful scenery and coastline it has been called "the Pearl of the Tyrrhenian". Owing to the considerable number of its churches and chapels it has also been described as "the town with 44 churches".
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Mexico
Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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Montenegro
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, music, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities.
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Palio di Siena
The Palio di Siena (known locally simply as Il Palio) is a horse race held twice each year on July 2 and August 16 in Siena, Italy, in which ten horses and riders, bareback and dressed in the appropriate colours, represent ten of the seventeen Contrade, or city wards.
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Panama
Panama (), officially the Republic of Panama (; ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The capital is Panama City.
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Panama City
Panama () is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 813,097, with a total metro population of 1,206,792, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, at . Panama City is the political and administrative center of the country.
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Piazza del Campo
Piazza del Campo is the principal public space of the historic center of Siena, Tuscany, Italy and is one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili surround the shell-shaped piazza. At the northwest edge is the Fonte Gaia.
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Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. Approximately west of Central London on what was the estate of Heatherden Hall, the studios were created in 1934 by Charles Boot and built within 12 months by the Henry Boot Company of Sheffield. Boot drew his inspiration from the latest Hollywood movie studios. J. Arthur Rank later took control of both Pinewood and Denham Film Studios, which were often used by producer Alexander Korda.
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Port-au-Prince
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Siena Cathedral
The Cathedral of Siena (), dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church and now to Santa Maria Assunta (Most Holy Mary of Assumption), is a medieval church in Siena, central Italy.
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Swiss Alps
The Swiss Alps (, , , ) are the portion of the Alps mountain range that lies within Switzerland. Because of their central position within the entire Alpine range, they are also known as the Central Alps.
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Switzerland
Switzerland (, , , ), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
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Talamone
Talamone is a town that, although today is administratively a frazione of the comune of Orbetello, Grosseto, in the Tuscan Maremma, has had its own history and significance, distinct from those of the other lagoon cities.
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Tremosine
Tremosine is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, near Lake Garda. It's divided into 18 little frazioni; Pieve is the frazione where there's the town hall, Vesio the biggest one. Campione is a frazione famous for aquatic sport, like kitesurfing, and the only one straight on Lake's riverside.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Wales
Wales ( ; pronounced ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has an estimated population of three million and is officially bilingual with the Welsh and English languages having equal status. The Welsh language is an important element of Welsh culture. Its decline has reversed over recent years, with Welsh speakers estimated to be around 20% of the population of Wales.
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Alfonso Cuarón
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while remaining a British subject.
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began to play classical music on the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. She later attended Columbia University before dropping out to pursue her music career. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
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Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B;, soul, jazz. Winehouse is best known for her powerful contralto vocals.
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Anatole Taubman
Anatole Taubman (born December 23, 1971) is a Swiss actor, who has appeared in many films, such as a henchman in the latest James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Barbara Broccoli
Barbara Dana Broccoli, OBE (born June 18, 1960) is an American film producer.
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Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz (; born March 22, 1941) is a Swiss actor, known for his roles as Damiel in Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall.
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Camille Montes
Camille Montes Rivero is a fictional character in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. She is portrayed by Olga Kurylenko.
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Coen brothers
Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, although until recently Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing film credits for editor under the alias Roderick Jaynes. They are known in the film business as "the two-headed director", as they share a similar vision of their films. It is said that actors can approach either brother with a question and get the same answer.
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Cosmo Landesman
Cosmo Landesman is a journalist and editor and son of Jay and Fran Landesman. With his then wife Julie Burchill, he set up the magazine The Modern Review. The magazine folded, and Burchill left him for Charlotte Raven, one of the female interns.
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Dan Bradley
Dan Bradley is a stunt coordinator and second unit film director.
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Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor and film producer. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert. His breakthrough performances were in the films Layer Cake, Some Voices and ''.
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David Arnold
David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English film composer best known for scoring five James Bond films, the 1994 film Stargate, the 1996 film Independence Day, and the cult television series Little Britain.
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David Giammarco
David Giammarco is a Canadian-born Television personality, actor, journalist, and author of the book ''.
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David Harbour
David Harbour (born 1975) is an American actor who has performed in film, television and in the theater.
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David Hedison
Albert David Hedison, Jr. (born May 20, 1927, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American film, television, and stage actor. In 1959, when he was cast in the role of Victor Sebastian in the short-lived espionage television series Five Fingers, NBC insisted that he change his name. It was proposed that he use his middle name and he has been known as David Hedison ever since.
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David Niven
James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983), known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom," in The Pink Panther. He was awarded the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor in Separate Tables.
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Dennis Gassner
Dennis Gassner (born 1948) is an art director. He has been nominated four times and has won once. The movies which he received nominations for are:
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Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''.
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Dominic Greene
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George Lazenby
George Robert Lazenby (; born 5 September 1939) is an Australian actor and former model, best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 film ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''.
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Honor Blackman
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Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British author and journalist, most famous for his novels about the British spy James Bond. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories, a literary output that has sold over 100 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most popular series of related novels of all time. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two works of non-fiction.
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James Bond
James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and most financially successful English-language film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr. No.
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Jasper Conran
Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran OBE (born 12 December 1959) is an English fashion designer. He is the son of the designer Sir Terence Conran and the author Shirley Conran.
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Jesper Christensen
Jesper Christensen (born 16 May 1948) is a Danish actor. A veteran of European cinema, he has more recently made the transition to English language projects, including The Interpreter and Revelations. He has also appeared as the mysterious villain Mr. White in the James Bond film Casino Royale and its sequel, Quantum of Solace.
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Joaquín Cosío
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Joshua Zetumer
Joshua Zetumer is an American screenwriter. He has written numerous spec scripts, two of which, Villain and The Infiltrator, were put into production: the latter is being produced by David Benioff and is set to star Leonardo DiCaprio. He was enlisted to rewrite the Quantum of Solace script during filming. Recently, he has completed a 175-page draft for a film adaptation of Dune, to be directed by Pierre Morel.
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Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress.
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Ken Adam
Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE (born 5 February 1921 as Klaus Hugo Adam) is a production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Kieran Hebden
Kieran Hebden (born 1977, Putney, London, England, United Kingdom) is a post-rock and electronic musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist under the moniker of Four Tet.
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Kim Newman
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Lindy Hemming
Lindy Hemming is a Welsh costume designer, who won the Academy Award for Costume Design for Topsy-Turvy (1999). After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she designed costumes for productions at West End theatres, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, and has also created costumes for the James Bond films from GoldenEye (1995) to Casino Royale (2006).
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Marc Forster
Marc Forster (born ) is a German-Swiss filmmaker and screenwriter, known for films such as ''Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger than Fiction, The Kite Runner, and Quantum of Solace''.
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Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is an English DJ, guitarist, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. He currently works with his band under the music alias of Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation.
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Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric (born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and film director, perhaps best known internationally for his role as the antagonist in Quantum of Solace. He also has won the and the .
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Matt Chesse
Matt Chesse is an American film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with Independent films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for Finding Neverland (2004). Chesse has edited most of the films directed by Marc Forster, including the most recent James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008).
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Michael G. Wilson
Michael Gregg Wilson, OBE (born January 21, 1942) is the producer and screenwriter of many modern James Bond movies.
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Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (born 6 August 1962) is a Hong Kong based Malaysian actress and dancer, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s.
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Neal Purvis
Neal Purvis (born 9 September 1961) is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the last four James Bond films with his long-time collaborator Robert Wade.
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Neil Jackson
Neil Jackson (born 5 March 1976) is an Indian-born, English actor and writer who has appeared in several television series and films, but is probably best-known for his role as Marcus on and Sasha on Make It or Break It. His screenwriting credits include the film The Passage directed by Mark Heller and released in 2007. He has starred in several other films including Quantum of Solace and Push.
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Olga Kurylenko
Olha Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (; born November 14, 1979) better known as Olga Kurylenko, is a Ukrainian actress and model. She is perhaps best known as the Bond girl, Camille Montes, in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. She also portrayed Nika Boronina in the movie adaptation of the video game Hitman. Born in Ukraine, she became a French citizen in 2001.
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Paul Haggis
Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian-American screenwriter, producer and film director. He spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series.
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Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw is a British writer and film critic. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he was President of Footlights.
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Peter Lamont
Peter Lamont (born November 12, 1929 in England, UK) is a noted set decorator, script editor, art director, and production designer most famous for working on eighteen James Bond films. The only four Bond films that he did not work on are Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Tomorrow Never Dies and Quantum of Solace.
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Rick Pearson
Richard "Rick" Pearson (born 1961) is an American film editor, producer, and director, who is mainly associated with action films. Pearson, with Clare Douglas and Christopher Rouse, received the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film United 93 (2006).
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Roberto Schaefer
Roberto Schaefer A.S.C. (born in White Plains, New York) is a BAFTA nominated American cinematographer.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and screenwriter. Forbes has described him as "the most powerful pundit in America".
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Roger Michell
Roger Michell (born 5 June 1956) is an English theatre, television and film director.
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Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear (born 17th February 1978) is a British actor.
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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery KBE (born 25 August 1930), more commonly known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes.
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Stana Katic
Stana Jacqueline Katic (born April 26, 1978) is a Canadian film and television actress active in the United States. She is best known for her portrayal of Detective Kate Beckett in ABC's Castle.
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The Times
The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.
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Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith (born 13 May 1946) is an English film and television actor.
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Timothy Dalton
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007; he resigned from all these positions in June 2007.
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Tracy Bond
Teresa "Tracy" Bond (born Teresa "Tracy" Draco, and also known as the Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo) is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the James Bond film and novel ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''. She is the first Bond girl to officially marry secret agent Commander James Bond (second being Kissy Suzuki Bond), though Bond would later marry again (though the third marriage was invalid) in John Gardner's Scorpius. In the film version of ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', Tracy was played by actress Diana Rigg.
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Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd is a fictional character of Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. It has been claimed that Fleming based Lynd on Christine Granville/Krystyna Skarbek. In the 1967 film of Casino Royale she is played by Ursula Andress. In the 2006 film of the same name she is played by Eva Green.
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Quantum of Solace (2008)

"Quantum of Solace (2008)" Actors

"Quantum of Solace (2008)" Director

Marc Forster

007 Quantum Of Solace(2008) Official Trailer

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Quantum Of Solace Official Trailer

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Quantum of Solace - Chase scene

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Quantum of Solace (2008) Trailer [HD] - Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko

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Quantum of Solace
File:Qos-teaser.jpg Cinema poster
Directed by	Marc Forster
Produced by	Michael G. Wilson Barbara Broccoli
Written by	Ian Fleming (characters) Michael G. Wilson (plot)
Screenplay by	Joshua Zetumer (uncredited) Paul Haggis Neal Purvis Robert Wade
Starring	Daniel Craig Olga Kurylenko Mathieu Amalric Gemma Arterton Judi Dench Jeffrey Wright Giancarlo Giannini
Music by	David Arnold "Another Way to Die" Performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys
Cinematography	Roberto Schaefer
Editing by	Matt Chesse Rick Pearson
Studio	Eon Productions Danjaq LLC United Artists Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	29 October 2008 (2008-10-29) (London, premiere)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$200 million^[1]
Box office	$586 million^[2]

Quantum of Solace (2008) is the twenty-second James Bond film, produced by Eon Productions for MGM and Columbia Pictures, and is the direct sequel to the 2006 film Casino Royale. Directed by Marc Forster, it features Daniel Craig's second performance as James Bond. In the film, Bond battles wealthy businessman Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a member of the Quantum organisation, posing as an environmentalist who intends to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia to seize control of the nation's water supply. Bond seeks revenge for the death of his lover, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), and is assisted by Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko), who is also seeking revenge.

Producer Michael G. Wilson developed the film's plot while Casino Royale was being shot. Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis, and Joshua Zetumer contributed to the script. The title was chosen from a 1960 short story in Ian Fleming's For Your Eyes Only, though the film does not contain any elements of the original story. Location filming took place in Mexico, Panama, Chile, Italy, Austria, and Wales while interior sets were built and filmed at Pinewood Studios. Foster aimed to make a modern film that also featured classic cinema motifs: a vintage Douglas DC-3 was used for a flight sequence, and Dennis Gassner's set designs are reminiscent of Ken Adam's work on several early Bond films. Taking a course away from the usual Bond villains, Forster rejected any grotesque appearance for the character Dominic Greene to emphasise the hidden and secret nature of the film's contemporary villains.

The film premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 29 October 2008, gathering mixed reviews which mainly praised Craig's gritty performance and the film's action sequences while feeling that Quantum of Solace was not as impressive as the predecessor Casino Royale. It is also the second highest-grossing James Bond film, without adjusting for inflation, earning $586,090,727 worldwide, while becoming one of the highest grossing Bond films in the United States.

Plot [link]

James Bond – MI6 agent codename '007' – is driving from Lake Como to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White in the boot of his car. After evading pursuers, Bond and M interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Mitchell, a double agent, attacks M, enabling White to escape; Bond chases Mitchell and kills him.

Bond and M return to London and search Mitchell's flat, discovering through tagged banknotes that Mitchell had a contact in Haiti. Bond tracks the contact, Edmund Slate, and learns that Slate is a hitman sent to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her lover, environmentalist Dominic Greene. While observing her subsequent meeting with Greene, Bond learns that Greene is helping an exiled Bolivian General, Medrano — who murdered Camille's family — to overthrow his government in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.

After rescuing Camille from Medrano, Bond follows Greene to a performance of Tosca in Bregenz, Austria. En route, the CIA head of the South American section, Gregg Beam, strikes a non-interference deal with Greene to maintain access to assumed stocks of Bolivian oil. Bond infiltrates Quantum's meeting at the opera, and a gunfight ensues. A Special Branch bodyguard of Quantum member Guy Haines, an advisor to the British Prime Minister, is killed while in combat with Bond, and M – assuming Bond shot him at point-blank range – has his passports and credit cards revoked.

Bond convinces his old ally René Mathis to accompany him to Bolivia. At the La Paz airport, they are greeted by Strawberry Fields, an MI6 officer, who demands that Bond return to the UK immediately; nonetheless, Bond soon seduces her before they attend a party Greene holds that night.

At the party, Bond again rescues Camille from Greene. Leaving, Bond and Camille are pulled over by Bolivian police working for Medrano. They had earlier attacked Mathis and put him in the boot of Bond's car to frame Bond; and, in the ensuing struggle, Mathis is killed. The following day, Bond and Camille survey Quantum's intended land acquisition by air; their plane is shot down after a brief air battle and they skydive out of the burning plane into a sinkhole. In the cave, Bond and Camille discover Quantum are damming Bolivia's supply of fresh water to create a monopoly. Back in La Paz, Bond meets M and learns that Quantum murdered Fields by drowning her in crude oil. M orders Bond arrested for disobeying orders but he escapes. He risks capture by doubling back to tell M that Fields demonstrated bravery in the field, and this is enough to convince M that Bond can be trusted.

Bond meets with Leiter, who discloses Greene and Medrano will meet in the Atacama Desert to finalise the coup. Warned by Leiter, he evades the CIA's Special Activities Division when they attempt to kill him. At the hotel, Greene and Medrano negotiate their terms. Greene then finally reveals his true plans: now that he controls the majority of Bolivia's water supply, Greene forces Medrano to accept a new contract that makes Greene Planet Bolivia's sole water utility company at significantly higher rates. Bond infiltrates the hotel, kills the Chief of Police for betraying Mathis, and confronts Greene. The hotel is destroyed during the ensuing struggle; Camille kills Medrano, avenging the murders of her parents and sister, and Bond captures Greene. After interrogating him about Quantum, Bond leaves Greene stranded in the middle of the desert with only a can of engine oil. Bond and Camille kiss before they part.

Bond travels to Kazan, Russia, where he finds Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef Kabira, with a new target, a Canadian agent. Yusef is a member of Quantum who seduces women with valuable connections. Bond decides not to kill Yusef and allows MI6 to arrest him. Outside, M tells Bond that Greene was found in the middle of the desert dead, shot twice and with engine oil in his stomach; Bond denies knowing anything. M also reveals that Leiter has been promoted and has taken Beam's place. She reinstates Bond as an agent; he tells M that he never left. As he leaves, he drops Vesper's necklace in the snow.

Cast [link]

Main article: List of Quantum of Solace characters

Daniel Craig as James Bond. Craig's physical training for his reprise of the role placed extra effort into running and boxing, to spare him the injuries he sustained on his stunts in the first film.^[3] Craig felt he was fitter, being less bulky than in the first film.^[4] He also practiced speedboating and stunt driving. Craig felt Casino Royale was [physically] "a walk in the park" compared to Quantum of Solace,^[5] and required a different performance from him because Quantum of Solace is a revenge film, not a love story like Casino Royale.^[4] While filming in Pinewood, he suffered a gash when kicked in his face,^[6] which required eight stitches, and a fingertip was sliced off. He laughed these off, noting they did not delay filming, and joked his finger wound would enable him to have a criminal career (though it had grown back when he made this comment).^[4] He also had minor plastic surgery on his face.^[7] The actor advised Paul Haggis on the script and helped choose Marc Forster as the director.^[8]
Olga Kurylenko as Camille Montes, a Bolivian agent with her own vendetta regarding Greene and Medrano. Forster chose her because out of the 400 women who auditioned, she seemed the least nervous.^[9] When she read the script, she was glad she had no love scene with Craig; she felt it would have distracted viewers from her performance.^[10] Kurylenko spent three weeks training to fight with weapons, and she learned a form of indoor skydiving known as body flying.^[11] Kurylenko said she had to do "training non-stop from the morning to the evening" for the action scenes, overcoming her fears with the help of Craig and the stunt team.^[12]^[13]^[14] She was given a DVD box set of Bond films, since the franchise was not easily available to watch in her native Ukraine.^[11] Kurylenko found Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies inspiring "because she did the fight scenes by herself."^[9] The producers had intended to cast a South American actress in the role.^[15] Kurylenko trained with a dialect coach to perform with a Spanish accent.^[13] She said that the accent was easy for her because she has "a lot of hispanic friends, from Latin America and Spain, and it’s an accent I’ve always heard".^[16] When reflecting on her experience as a Bond girl, she stated she was most proud of overcoming her fears in performing stunts.^[17]
Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene, the main villain. He is a leading member of Quantum posing as a businessman working in reforestation and charity funding for environmental science. Amalric acknowledged taking the role was an easy decision because, "It's impossible to say to your kids that 'I could have been in a Bond film but I refused.'"^[11] Amalric wanted to wear make-up for the role, but Forster explained that he wanted Greene not to look grotesque, but to symbolise the hidden evils in society.^[6] Amalric modelled his performance on "the smile of Tony Blair [and] the craziness of Sarkozy," the latter of whom he called "the worst villain we [the French] have ever had [...] he walks around thinking he's in a Bond film."^[18] He later claimed this was not criticism of either politician, but rather an example of how a politician relies on performance instead of a genuine policy to win power. "Sarkozy, is just a better actor than [his presidential opponent] Ségolène Royal – that's all," he explained.^[19] Amalric and Forster reconceived the character, who was supposed to have a "special skill" in the script, to someone who uses pure animal instinct when fighting Bond in the climax.^[20] Bruno Ganz was also considered for the part,^[15] but Forster decided Amalric gave the character a "pitiful" quality.^[20]
Gemma Arterton as MI6 Agent Strawberry Fields, who works at the British consulate in Bolivia. Fields, who is merely an office worker as described by M, takes herself seriously and tries to over-power Bond when the pair meet. She is later seduced by Bond, infiltrates Greene's fund raiser party with him and ends up paying the ultimate price. Forster found Arterton a witty actress and selected her from a reported 1,500 candidates. One of the casting directors asked her to audition for the role, having seen her portray Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Theatre.^[21] Arterton said Fields was "not so frolicsome" as other Bond girls, but is instead "fresh and young, not [...] a femme fatale."^[22] Arterton described Fields as a homage to the 1960s Bond girls, comparing her red wig to that of Diana Rigg, who played Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Rigg, alongside Honor Blackman, is one of her favourite Bond girls.^[21] Arterton had to film her character's death scene first day on the set, where she was completely covered head to toe in non-toxic black paint. Although she found the experience unpleasant, she believes the scene will be an iconic part of the film.^[23] The character's first name, which is a reference to the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever", is never actually uttered on screen; when Bond asks her for her name, she replies, "Just Fields."
Giancarlo Giannini as René Mathis, Bond's ally who was mistakenly believed to be a traitor in Casino Royale. Having been acquitted, he chooses to aid Bond again in his quest to find out who betrayed him.
Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter, Bond's ally at the CIA. This marked the first time the same actor played Leiter twice in a row. Only David Hedison had previously played the character twice, in Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence to Kill (1989), but these performances were not consecutive.^[11] Early script drafts gave Leiter a larger role, but his screentime was restricted by on-set rewrites.^[24]
Judi Dench as M. Forster felt Dench was underused in the previous films and wanted to make her part bigger, having her interact with Bond more because she is "the only woman Bond doesn’t see in a sexual context," which Forster finds interesting.^[25]
Anatole Taubman as Elvis, Greene's second-in-command. Taubman wanted to make Elvis "as colorful, as edgy and as interesting as possible", with one of his suggestions being the bowl cut.^[26] Amalric and Taubman improvised a backstory for Elvis: he is Dominic's cousin and once lived on the streets before being inducted into Quantum. He called Elvis "a bit of a goofball. He thinks he's all that but he's not really. [...] He's not a comic guy. He definitely takes himself very serious, but maybe by his taking himself too serious he may become friendly."^[27]
David Harbour as Gregg Beam, the CIA Section Chief for South America and a contact of Felix Leiter.
Joaquín Cosío as General Medrano, the exiled general whom Greene is helping to get back into power, in return for support of his organisation. He murdered Camille's entire family when she was a young girl.
Fernando Guillen Cuervo as Carlos, the Colonel of Bolivian Police, the chief of all police forces, and the contact of René Mathis in Bolivia.
Jesper Christensen as Mr. White, whom Bond captured after he stole the money won at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
Rory Kinnear as Bill Tanner, M's aide.
Tim Pigott-Smith as the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
Neil Jackson as Edmund Slate, a henchman who fights Bond in Haiti.
Simon Kassianides as Yusef, a member of Quantum who seduces female agents and manipulates them into giving away classified information. He is indirectly responsible for Vesper Lynd's death.
Stana Katic as Corrine Veneau, a Canadian agent and Yusef's latest target.
Glenn Foster as Craig Mitchell, M's bodyguard and a double agent.
Oona Castilla Chaplin as "damsel in distress"—girl saved by Camille Montes in one of last sequences.
Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere as Gemma, Mathis' girlfriend.
Elizabeth Arciniega as Mr. White's girlfriend.

Marc Forster asked his friends and fellow directors Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón to appear in cameos. Cuarón appears as a Bolivian helicopter pilot, while del Toro provides several other voices.^[28]

Production [link]

Development [link]

"If you remember in Chinatown, if you control the water you control the whole development of the country. I think it's true. Right now it appears to be oil, but there's a lot of other resources that we don't think about too much but are all essential, and they're very limited and every country needs it. Because every country knows that raising the standard of living (and populations are getting bigger) is the way we're all going."

—–Michael G. Wilson on the plot.^[24]

In July 2006, as Casino Royale entered post-production, Eon Productions announced that the next film would be based on an original idea by producer Michael G. Wilson.^[29] It was decided beforehand the film would be a direct sequel, to exploit Bond's emotions following Vesper's death in the previous film.^[30] Just as Casino Royale's theme was terrorism, the sequel focuses on environmentalism.^[19] The film was confirmed for a 2 May 2008 release date, with Craig reprising the lead role.^[31] Roger Michell, who directed Craig in Enduring Love and The Mother, was in negotiations to direct, but opted out because there was no script.^[32] Sony Entertainment vice-chairman Jeff Blake admitted a production schedule of 18 months was a very short window, and the release date was pushed back to late 2008.^[33] Neal Purvis and Robert Wade completed their draft of the script by April 2007,^[34] and Paul Haggis – who polished the Casino Royale script – began his rewrite the next month.^[35]

In June 2007, Marc Forster was confirmed as director.^[36] He was surprised that he was approached for the job, stating he was not a big Bond film fan through the years, and that he would not have accepted the project had he not seen Casino Royale prior to making his decision: he felt Bond had been humanised in that film, arguing since travelling the world had become less exotic since the series' advent, it made sense to focus more on Bond as a character. Born in Germany and raised in Switzerland, Forster was the first Bond director not to come from the British Commonwealth of Nations, although he noted Bond's mother is Swiss, making him somewhat appropriate to handle the British icon.^[37] The director collaborated strongly with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, noting they only blocked two very expensive ideas he had.^[15] The director found Casino Royale's 144 minute running time too long, and wanted his follow-up to be "tight and fast [...] like a bullet."^[38]

"Because Bond plays it real, I thought the political circumstances should be real too, even though Bond shouldn't be a political film. I thought the more political I make it, the more real it feels, not just with Bolivia and what's happening in Haiti, but with all these corporations like Shell and Chevron saying they're green because it's so fashionable to be green. During the Cold War, everything was very clear, the good guys and the bad guys. Today there's much overlapping of good and bad. It isn't as morally distinct, because we all have both elements in us."

—–Marc Forster on the political landscape of the film.^[39]

Haggis, Forster and Wilson rewrote the story from scratch.^[40] Haggis said he completed his script two hours before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike officially began.^[37] Forster noted a running theme in his films were emotionally repressed protagonists, and the theme of the picture would be Bond learning to trust after feeling betrayed by Vesper.^[41] Forster said he created the Camille character as a strong female counterpart to Bond rather than a casual love interest: she openly shows emotions similar to those which Bond experiences but is unable to express.^[13] Haggis located his draft's climax in the Swiss Alps,^[42] but Forster wanted the action sequences to be based around the four classical elements of earth, water, air and fire.^[43] The decision to homage Goldfinger in Fields's death came about as Forster wanted to show oil had replaced gold as the most precious material.^[39] The producers rejected Haggis's idea that Vesper Lynd had a child, because "Bond was an orphan [...] Once he finds the kid, Bond can't just leave the kid."^[44] The water supply issue in Bolivia was the main theme of the film, with a story based on the Cochabamba Water Revolt.^[45]

Michael G. Wilson decided on the film's title Quantum of Solace only "a few days" before its announcement on 24 January 2008.^[22] It was the name of a short story in Ian Fleming's anthology For Your Eyes Only (1960).^[46] The film is related to the title in one of its thematic elements: "...when the 'Quantum of Solace' drops to zero, humanity and consideration of one human for another is gone."^[47] Daniel Craig admitted, "I was unsure at first. Bond is looking for his quantum of solace and that's what he wants, he wants his closure. Ian Fleming says that if you don't have a quantum of solace in your relationship then the relationship is over. It's that spark of niceness in a relationship that if you don't have you might as well give up."^[11] He said that "Bond doesn't have that because his girlfriend [Vesper Lynd] has been killed,"^[46] and therefore, "[Bond is] looking for revenge [...] to make himself happy with the world again."^[22] Afterwards, Quantum was made the name of the organisation introduced in Casino Royale.^[48] Craig noted the letter Q itself looks rather odd.^[4] Near the end of the film, the Camille Montes character and Bond have a discussion about their individual quests to avenge the deaths of their loved ones. Montes asks Bond to "let me know what it feels like" when he succeeds, the implication of the title being that it will be a small amount of solace compared to his despair. Bond's lack of emotion when he does exact revenge shows this to be the case.

During filming, after the strike ended, Forster read a spec script by Joshua Zetumer, which he liked, and hired him to reshape scenes for the later parts of the shoot, which the director was still unsatisfied with.^[40] Forster had the actors rehearse their scenes, as he liked to film scenes continually.^[19] Zetumer rewrote dialogue depending on the actors' ideas each day.^[19]

Filming [link]

Quantum of Solace was shot in six countries,^[1] Second unit filming began in Italy at the Palio di Siena horse race on 16 August 2007:^[49] though at this point Forster was unsure how it would fit into the film.^[43] Some scenes were filmed also in Maratea and Craco, two small distinctive towns in Basilicata in southern Italy.^[50] Other places used for location shooting were Madrid in August 2007;^[51] Baja California, Mexico in early 2008, for shots of the aerial battle;^[52]^[53] Malcesine, Limone sul Garda and Tremosine in Italy during March,^[54] and at Talamone during the end of April.^[55] The main unit began on 3 January 2008,^[15] at Pinewood Studios. The 007 Stage was used for the fight in the art gallery,^[11] and an MI6 safehouse hidden within the city's cisterns,^[56] while other stages housed Bond's Bolivian hotel suite,^[57] and the MI6 headquarters.^[56] Interior and exterior airport scenes were filmed at Farnborough Airfield and the snowy closing scenes were filmed at the Bruneval Barracks in Aldershot.^[58]

A docking bay filled with boats and people.

Marine shooting being carried out at Fort Sherman

Shooting in Panama City began on 7 February 2008 at Howard Air Force Base. The country doubled for Haiti and Bolivia, with the National Institute of Culture of Panama standing in for a hotel in the latter country. A sequence requiring several hundred extras was also shot at nearby Colón.^[59] Shooting in Panama was also carried out at Fort Sherman, a former US military base on the Colón coast. Forster was disappointed he could only shoot the boat chase in that harbour, as he had a more spectacular vision for the scene.^[60] Officials in the country worked with the locals to "minimise inconvenience" for the cast and crew, and in return hoped the city's exposure in the film would increase tourism.^[61] The crew was going to move to Cusco, Peru for ten days of filming on 2 March,^[59] but the location was cancelled for budget reasons.^[1] Twelve days of filming in Chile began on 24 March at Antofagasta. There was shooting in Cobija, the Paranal Observatory, and other locations in the Atacama Desert.^[62] Forster chose the desert and the observatory's ESO Hotel to represent Bond's rigid emotions, and being on the verge of committing a vengeful act as he confronts Greene in the film's climax.^[48]^[63]

Marc Forster chose the Atacama Desert to represent Bond's vengefulness in the climax.

While filming in Sierra Gorda, Chile, the local mayor, Carlos Lopez, staged a protest because he was angry at the filmmakers' portrayal of the Antofagasta region as part of Bolivia. He was arrested, detained briefly, and put on trial two days later. Eon dismissed his claim that they needed his permission to film in the area.^[64]^[65] Michael G. Wilson also explained Bolivia was appropriate to the plot, because of the country's history of water problems,^[63] and was surprised the two countries disliked each other a century after the War of the Pacific.^[66] In a poll by Chilean daily newspaper La Segunda, 75% of its readers disagreed with Lopez's actions, due to the negative image they felt it presented of Chile, and the controversy's potential to put off productions looking to film in the country in the future.^[67]

From 4–12 April, the main unit shot on Sienese rooftops.^[55] Shooting on the real rooftops turned out to be less expensive than building them at Pinewood.^[1] The next four weeks were scheduled for filming the car chase at Lake Garda and Carrara.^[55] On 19 April, an Aston Martin employee driving a DBS to the set crashed into the lake. He survived, and was fined £400 for reckless driving.^[68] Another accident occurred on 21 April, and two days later, two stuntmen were seriously injured, with one, Greek stuntman Aris Comninos, having to be put in intensive care. Filming of the scenes was temporarily halted so that Italian police could investigate the causes of the accidents.^[69] Stunt co-ordinator Gary Powell said the accidents were a testament to the realism of the action.^[42] Rumours of a "curse" spread among tabloid media, something which deeply offended Craig, who disliked that they compared Comninos' accident to something like his minor finger injury later on the shoot (also part of the "curse"). Comninos recovered safely from his injury.^[4]

A construction site where a large panel of an eye is being built.

Preparations for the performance of Tosca at Bregenzer Festspiele

Filming took place at the floating opera stage at Bregenz, Austria from 28 April–9 May 2008. The sequence, where Bond stalks the villains during a performance of Tosca, required 1500 extras.^[70] The production used a large model of an eye, which Forster felt fitted in the Bond style, and the opera itself has parallels to the film.^[71] A short driving sequence was filmed at the nearby Feldkirch, Vorarlberg.^[72] The crew returned to Italy from 13–17 May to shoot a (planned) car crash at the marble quarry in Carrara,^[73] and a recreation of the Palio di Siena at the Piazza del Campo in Siena. 1000 extras were hired for a scene where Bond emerges from the Fonte Gaia. Originally, he would have emerged from the city's cisterns at Siena Cathedral, but this was thought disrespectful.^[55] By June, the crew returned to Pinewood for four weeks,^[71] where new sets (including the interior of the hotel in the climax) were built.^[40]^[57] The wrap party was held on 21 June.^[74]

Design [link]

Production designer Peter Lamont, a crew member on eighteen previous Bond films, retired after Casino Royale.^[75] Forster hired Dennis Gassner in his stead, having admired his work on The Truman Show and the films of the Coen brothers.^[41] Craig said the film would have "a touch of Ken Adam,"^[76] while Michael G. Wilson also called Gassner's designs "a postmodern look at modernism."^[57] Forster said he felt the early Bond films' design "were ahead of their time,"^[41] and enjoyed the clashing of an older style with his own because it created a unique look unto itself.^[77] Gassner wanted his sets to emphasise Craig's "great angular, textured face and wonderful blue eyes," and totally redesigned the MI6 headquarters because he felt Judi Dench "was a bit tired in the last film, so I thought, let’s bring her into a new world."^[78]

Louise Frogley replaced Lindy Hemming as costume designer, though Hemming remained as supervisor. Hemming hired Brioni for Bond's suits since her tenure on the series began with 1995's GoldenEye, but Lindsay Pugh, another supervisor, explained their suits were "too relaxed." Tom Ford was hired to tailor "sharper" suits for Craig. Pugh said the costumes aimed towards the 1960s feel, especially for Bond and Fields. Prada provided the dresses for both Bond girls. Jasper Conran designed Camille's ginger bandeau, bronze skirt and gold fish necklace,^[79] while Chrome Hearts designed gothic jewellery for Amalric's character, which the actor liked enough to keep after filming.^[80] Sophie Harley, who created Vesper Lynd's earrings and Algerian loveknot necklace in Casino Royale, was called upon to create another version of the necklace.^[81]

The film returns to the traditional gun barrel opening shot, which was altered into part of the story for Casino Royale where it was moved to the end of the title sequence. In this film the gun barrel sequence was moved to the end of the movie, which Wilson explained was done for a surprise,^[82] and to signify the conclusion of the story begun in the previous film. The opening credits sequence was created by MK12; Having worked on Forster's Stranger than Fiction and The Kite Runner, MK12 spontaneously began developing the sequence early on in production, and had a good idea of its appearance which meant it did not have to be redone when the title singer was changed. MK12 selected various twilight colours to represent Bond's mood and focused on a dot motif based on the gunbarrel shot. MK12 also worked on scenes with graphical user interface, including the electronic table MI6 use,^[83] and the Port-au-Prince, Haiti title cards.^[84]

Effects [link]

Aston Martin DBS V12 on display at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International

Quantum of Solace was the last in Ford Motor's three-film deal that began with 2002's Die Another Day. Although Ford sold over 90% of the Aston Martin company in 2007, the Aston Martin DBS V12 returned for the film's car chase around Lake Garda;^[85] Dan Bradley was hired as second unit director because of his work on the second and third Bourne films, so the film would continue the gritty action style begun in Casino Royale.^[86] He had intended to use Ford GTs for the opening chase,^[87] but it was replaced by the Alfa Romeo 159.^[88] After location filming in Italy, further close-ups of Craig, the cars and the truck were shot at Pinewood against a bluescreen.^[89] Originally three Alfa Romeos were in the sequence: but Forster felt the scene was running too long and re-edited the scene so it only looked like two Romeos were chasing Bond.^[90] Six Aston Martins were destroyed during filming, and one of them was purchased by a fan.^[4]

Fourteen cameras were used to film the Palio di Siena, footage which was later edited into the main sequence. Aerial shots using helicopters were banned, and the crew were also forbidden from showing any violence "involving either people or animals."^[49] To shoot the foot chase in Siena in April 2008 four camera cranes were built in the town, and a cable camera was also used.^[54] Framestore worked on the Siena chase, duplicating the 1000 extras during principal photography to match shots of the 40,000 strong audience at the real Palio, removing wires that held Craig and the stuntmen in the rooftop segment of the chase, and digital expansion of the floor and skylight in the art gallery Bond and Mitchell fall into.^[89] The art gallery fight was intended to be simple, but during filming Craig's stunt double accidentally fell from the construction scaffolding. Forster preferred the idea of Bond hanging from ropes reaching for his gun to kill Mitchell, rather than having both men run out of the building to continue their chase as specified in the script, and the number of effects shots increased.^[89]

To film the aerial dogfight, a "Snakehead" camera was built and placed on the nose and tail of a Piper Aerostar 700. SolidWorks, who provided the software used to design the camera, stated "pilots for the first time can fly as aggressively as they dare without sacrificing the drama of the shot." The camera could turn 360 degrees and was shaped like a periscope.^[91] The crew also mounted SpaceCams on helicopters, and placed cameras with 1600 mm lenses underground, to cover the action.^[52] Forster wanted to film the plane fight as a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and chose planes like the Douglas DC-3 to suit that.^[77]^[92]

The free-fall scene involved its own set of challenges, Craig disliked the idea of "being hung by wires and blown by a large fan in front of a green screen" but actual sky diving coverage has serious drawbacks. It’s not only difficult, dangerous and time-consuming, but nearly always results in problematic head-replacements for close-ups. Stunt co-ordinator Gary Powell and VFX Designer Kevin Tod Haug, presented the idea of filming the scene in a large vertical wind tunnel in Bedford in order to do this sequence as practically as possible. While a great solution for the actors’ performances the technique presented enormous VFX challenges: relighting shots captured in a tall white tube to match the sky over the Bolivian desert, and the impossibility of filming medium to wide shots of the actors. An array of eight Dalsa Origin cameras (supported by 7 HD cameras and a 35mm hand-held camera, all running in sync) was used to create a virtual camera with which to shoot the actors floating in the simulator. Ged Wright and his team at Double Negative^[90] developed a method to use the data from these cameras that allowed these real performances to be placed in a synthetic environment as seen by a synthetic camera. During the shooting in the wind tunnel Craig and Kurylenko wore wind-resistant contact lenses that enabled them to open their eyes as they fell. For safety and comfort, they only shot for thirty seconds at a time.^[93] Forster wished he had more time to work on the free-fall scene.^[89]

The Moving Picture Company created the climactic hotel sequence. The fire effects were supervised by Chris Corbould, and post-production MPC had to enhance the sequence by making the smoke look closer to the actors, so it would look more dangerous.^[89] A full-scale replica of the building's exterior was used for the exploding part Bond and Camille escape from. The boat chase was another scene that required very little CGI. Machine FX worked on replacing a few shots of visible stuntmen with a digital version of Craig's head,^[90] and recreated the boats Bond jumps over on his motorcycle to make it look more dangerous.^[89] Crowd creation was done for the Tosca scene by Machine FX, to make the performance look like it had sold out.^[90] Forster edited the opera scene to resemble The Man Who Knew Too Much.^[60] In total, there are 900+ visual effects shots in Quantum of Solace.^[89]

Music [link]

Main article: Quantum of Solace (soundtrack)

David Arnold, who composed the scores for the previous four Bond films, returned for Quantum of Solace. He said that Forster likes to work very closely with his composers and that, in comparison to the accelerated schedule he was tied to on Casino Royale, the intention was to spend a long time scoring the film to "really work it out." He also said he would be "taking a different approach" with the score.^[94] Arnold composed the music based on impressions from reading the script, and Forster edited those into the film.^[95] As with Casino Royale, Arnold kept use of the "James Bond Theme" to a minimum.^[43] Arnold collaborated with Kieran Hebden for "Crawl, End Crawl," a remix of the score played during the end credits.^[96]

Jack White of The White Stripes and Alicia Keys collaborated on "Another Way to Die," the first Bond music duet.^[97]^[98] They had wanted to work together for two years beforehand.^[99] The song was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee; White played the drums while Keys performed on the piano.^[100] The Memphis Horns also contributed to the track.^[99] White's favourite Bond theme is John Barry's instrumental piece for On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and he watched various opening credit sequences from the series for inspiration while mixing the track.^[100] Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse had recorded a demo track for the film,^[101] but Ronson explained Winehouse's well-publicised legal issues in the preceding weeks made her "not ready to record any music" at that time.^[102]

Release [link]

The film premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 29 October 2008. Princes William and Harry attended, and proceeds from the screening were donated to the charities Help for Heroes and the Royal British Legion.^[103] The film was originally scheduled to be released in the UK and North America on 7 November; however, Eon pushed forward the British date to 31 October during filming,^[104] while the American date was pushed back in August to 14 November, after Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had been moved to 2009, thereby allowing the distributors to market the film over the Fall blockbuster Thanksgiving holiday weekend.^[105] In Australia, the film was moved a week to 19 November, after 20th Century Fox chose to release Australia on Quantum of Solace's original date of 26 November.^[106]

Marketing [link]

Returning product placement partners from Casino Royale included Ford, Heineken Pilsener, Smirnoff, Omega SA, Virgin Atlantic Airways and Sony Ericsson.^[107] A reported £50 million was earned in product placement, which tops the Bond film's record of £44 million for Die Another Day.^[108] The 2009 Ford Ka is driven by Camille in the film.^[109] Avon created a fragrance called Bond Girl 007 with Gemma Arterton as the "face" of the product.^[110] Coca-Cola became a promotional partner, rebranding Coke Zero as "Coke Zero Zero 7." A tie-in advert featured the orchestral element of "Another Way to Die."^[111] In the film, Coca-Cola was briefly seen being served at Dominic Greene's party. Sony held a competition, "Mission for a Million," enabling registered players to use their products to complete certain tasks. Each completed "mission" gives consumers a chance to win $1 million and a trip to a top secret location.^[112]

Merchandise [link]

Corgi International Limited made 5-inch action figures and gadgets (such as a voice-activated briefcase), as well as their traditional die-cast toy vehicles.^[113]^[114] They also created 7-inch figures of characters from the previous films.^[115] Scalextric released four racing sets to coincide with the film.^[116] Activision released their first James Bond game, also titled Quantum of Solace, which is based on both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. It is the first Bond game to feature Craig's likeness and the first seventh generation console game in the series. Swatch designed a series of wrist watches, each of them inspired by a Bond villain.^[117]

Though there was no novelisation despite its original storyline, Penguin Books published a compilation of Fleming's short stories entitled Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories, with a UK release date of 29 May 2008^[118] and a North American release date of 26 August 2008.^[119] The book combines the contents of Fleming's two short story collections, For Your Eyes Only—including the original "Quantum of Solace" short story—and Octopussy and The Living Daylights.

The November/December 2008 issue of Cigar Aficionado was a special James Bond edition written by David Giammarco, noted author of For Your Eyes Only: Behind the Scenes of the James Bond Films, and featured an extensive 20-page feature on the making of Quantum of Solace from his exclusive interviews on location with Daniel Craig, Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, director Marc Forster, and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. This tribute issue of the upscale magazine also featured Giammarco's in-depth profile of 007 author Ian Fleming and the 46-year history of the James Bond films. The Cigar Aficionado James Bond special edition became the magazine's biggest-selling issue around the world.

Reception [link]

Box office [link]

Upon its opening in the UK, the film grossed £4.9 million ($8 million), breaking the record for the largest Friday opening (31 October 2008) in the UK.^[120] The film then broke the UK opening weekend record, taking £15.5 million ($25 million) in its first weekend, surpassing the previous record of £14.9 million held by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It earned a further £14 million in France and Sweden – where it opened on the same day. The weekend gross of the equivalent of $US10.6 million in France was a record for the series, surpassing what Casino Royale made in five days by 16%. The $US2.7 million gross in Sweden was the fourth-highest opening for a film there.^[121]^[122]

The following week, the film was playing in sixty countries. It grossed the equivalent of $US39.3 million in the UK, $US16.5 million in France and $US7.7 million in Germany on 7 November 2008.^[123] The film broke records in Switzerland, Finland, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Romania and Slovenia. Its Chinese and Indian openings were the second largest ever for foreign-language films.^[124]

The film grossed $27 million on its opening day in 3,451 cinemas in Canada and the United States, where it was the #1 film for the weekend, with $US67.5 million and $US19,568 average per cinema.^[125] It was the highest-grossing opening weekend Bond film in the US,^[126] and tied with The Incredibles for the biggest November opening outside of the Harry Potter series. The film earned a B- from CinemaScore's audience surveys.^[127] From the 31 October British opening through to the 14 November US opening weekend, the film had grossed a total $US319,128,882 worldwide. As of 10 February 2010, it has grossed the equivalent of $US417,722,300 in countries other than Canada and the U.S.A., where it grossed $US168,368,427, to give a total of $US586,090,727.^[2]

Critical response [link]

Reviews for Quantum of Solace have been mixed to positive. Of the 242 reviews listed on Rotten Tomatoes, 64% are positive, with an average rating of 6.1/10. However, only 37% of 41 selected notable reviewers gave it a positive write-up, with an average rating of 5.6/10.^[128] Metacritic calculated a score of 58 out of 100 from 38 reviews, indicating a "mixed or average" response.^[129] Critics generally preferred Casino Royale, but continued to praise Craig's depiction of Bond, and agree that the film is still an enjoyable addition to the series. The action sequences and pacing were praised, but criticism grew over the realism and serious but gritty feel that the film carried over.^[130]

Roger Moore, the third actor to play Bond in the films, continued to feel Craig was a "damn good Bond but the film as a whole, there was a bit too much flash cutting [and] it was just like a commercial of the action. There didn't seem to be any geography and you were wondering what the hell was going on."^[131]

Kim Newman of Empire gave it 4/5, remarking it was not "bigger and better than Casino Royale, [which is] perhaps a smart move in that there's still a sense at the finish that Bond’s mission has barely begun." However, he expressed nostalgia for the more humorous Bond films.^[132] The Sunday Times review noted that "[f]ollowing Casino Royale was never going to be easy, but the director Marc Forster has brought the brand’s successful relaunch crashing back to earth — with a yawn"; the screenplay "is at times incomprehensible" and the casting "is a mess." The review concludes that "Bond has been stripped of his iconic status. He no longer represents anything particularly British, or even modern. In place of glamour, we get a spurious grit; instead of style, we get product placement; in place of fantasy, we get a redundant and silly realism."^[133]

The Guardian gave a more positive review, rating it as 3/5 stars, and was particularly fond of Craig's performance, saying he "made the part his own, every inch the coolly ruthless agent-killer, nursing a broken heart and coldly suppressed rage" and calling the film "a crash-bang Bond, high on action, low on quips, long on location glamour, short on product placement"; it concludes "Quantum of Solace isn't as good as Casino Royale: the smart elegance of Craig's Bond debut has been toned down in favour of conventional action. But the man himself powers this movie; he carries the film: it's an indefinably difficult task for an actor. Craig measures up."^[134]

Screen Daily says, "Notices will focus – rightly – on Craig's magnetism as the steely, sexy, murderous MI6 agent, but two other factors weigh in and freshen up proceedings: Forster's new technical team, led by cinematographer Roberto Schaefer and production designer Dennis Gassner. And the ongoing shift of M, as played by Judi Dench, to front and centre: the Bond girls fade into insignificance as she becomes his moral counterpoint and theirs is the only real relationship on screen." The review continues, "Bond is, as has been previously noted, practically the Martin Scorsese of the BAFTAs: 22 films later, with grosses probably close to the GDP of one of the small nations it depicts, it's still waiting for that Alexander Korda award. The best Casino Royale could achieve was a gong for sound. Will this be the year that changes its fortunes?"^[135]

Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times, who praised the previous film, disliked Quantum of Solace. He wrote that the plot was mediocre, characters weak and that Bond lacked his usual personality, despite his praise for Craig's interpretation of the role. Throughout his review, he emphasised that "James Bond is not an action hero."^[136] Some writers criticised the choice of Quantum of Solace as a title. "Yes, it's a bad title," wrote Marni Weisz, the editor of Famous, a Canadian film publication distributed in movie cinemas in that country, in an editorial entitled "At least it's not Octopussy."^[137]

Awards [link]

The film was nominated for Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Visual Effects, Film and Sound Editing at the 2008 Satellite Awards, winning Best Song.^[138] It was nominated for Best Action Movie at the 2009 Critics' Choice Awards,^[139] and at the Empire Awards, which is voted for by the public, it was shortlisted for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Newcomer, Best Thriller and Best Soundtrack.^[140] It was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film, while Kurylenko and Dench were both nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award.^[141] An editorial by The Times also listed the film's pre-titles sequence as the tenth greatest car chase in film history.^[142]

Television [link]

The film made its UK television terrestrial premiere on ITV1 on Saturday 26 March 2011. it attracted 4.727 million viewers between 9 pm and 11 pm, which was an audience share of 23.3%. A further 232,000 watched 'time shifted' within 24 hours. ITV ranked #1 in the Saturday night prime-time ratings average with 22.4% of the national audience. It made its American TV premiere in April 2010 on Showtime.

Home media [link]

Quantum of Solace was released on DVD and Blu-ray by MGM via 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in Australia, the UK and North America from 18 to 24 March 2009. At the DVD sales chart the film opened at #3, grossing $21,894,957 from 1.21m DVD units sold.^[143] As of 1 November 2009 2,643,250 DVD units have been sold, generating $44,110,750 in sales revenue.^[143] These figures do not include Blu-ray sales or DVD rentals. They released the DVD in a standard one disc set and a deluxe two disc special edition. There are no audio commentaries or deleted scenes on these editions.^[144]

Like Casino Royale, no book adaptation of the movie was released despite having no relations with the short story except for its title. Instead, Penguin Books released Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories, which is a compilation of both Octopussy and The Living Daylights and For Your Eyes Only, which were both written by Ian Fleming.

References [link]

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Roger Moore	Live and Let Die (1973) The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Moonraker (1979) For Your Eyes Only (1981) Octopussy (1983) A View to a Kill (1985)

Timothy Dalton	The Living Daylights (1987) Licence to Kill (1989)

Pierce Brosnan	GoldenEye (1995) Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) The World Is Not Enough (1999) Die Another Day (2002)

Daniel Craig	Casino Royale (2006) Quantum of Solace (2008) Skyfall (2012)

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