007: From Chile With Revenge
Quantum of Solace is the 22nd spy film in EON Productions' James Bond film series, due for release in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2008. It is the sequel to the 2006 film Casino Royale, which rebooted the series. It is directed by Marc Forster, and features Daniel Craig's second performance as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade returned as writers. In the film, Bond battles environmentalist Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a member of a cover organisation called Green Planet, seeking revenge for the death of Vesper Lynd. Greene intends to stage a coup d'état in a Latin American country. Bond is assisted by Camille (Olga Kurylenko), who also wants revenge against Greene. The title was chosen from an unrelated short story in Ian Fleming's For Your Eyes Only (1960). Producer Michael G. Wilson created the film's story whilst Casino Royale was shooting. The film was originally scheduled for a 2 May 2008 release, but it was pushed back to allow more time when Roger Michell dropped out as director. Second unit filming began in August 2007 at Siena and Madrid, before principal photography began in January 2008 at Pinewood Studios. Production designer Dennis Gassner took over from Peter Lamont, who retired after working on eighteen Bond films. He designed the five major Pinewood sets, which stand in for Siena, Bolivia and the MI6 headquarters. Gassner's designs are close to the modernism of Ken Adam, the first Bond production designer. Location filming will take place at Panama, Chile, Peru, Italy and Austria, before moving back to Pinewood in June. There will be more gadgets than in Casino Royale, though they will still aim to be realistic.
Filming
Dan Bradley was hired as second unit director because of his work on the Jason Bourne films, so the film would continue the gritty action style begun in Casino Royale. The town council of Siena gave permission to shoot at the Palio di Siena horse race on 16 August 2007. Fourteen cameras were placed around the arena, for shots which would be edited into the main sequence, shot during 2008. Aerial shots using helicopters were banned, and the crew were also forbidden from showing any violence "involving either people or animals". From 23-29 August, the second unit shot at Madrid. They spent three weeks (up until 15 February 2007) in Baja California, Mexico, filming planes in flight. Old propeller planes were used for a retro feel. From March 15-March 21, they were returned to Italy, to film at Malcesine and Limone sul Garda for a chase scene.
Principal photography was going to begin on 10 December 2007,but was pushed back to 3 January 2008. Production designer Peter Lamont, a crew member on eighteen Bond films, retired after Casino Royale. Dennis Gassner, who worked on Road to Perdition (2002) and The Golden Compass (2007), both which also featured Daniel Craig, was hired in Lamont's stead. Craig said the film will be "more of a classical Bond movie", with "a touch of Ken Adam," referring to the production designer most famous for creating the lairs of the villains in several of the early films. Michael G. Wilson also called Gassner's designs "a postmodern look at modernism".The rebuilt 007 Stage is being used to house three replicas of buildings in Siena. These include an art gallery used for a fight scene, and an MI6 safehouse hidden within the city's cisterns. Other soundstages feature Bond's "honeymoon" suite in a Bolivian hotel, and the MI6 headquarters with M's office.
Shooting at Panama City began on 7 February 2008 at Howard Air Force Base. The country doubles for Bolivia, with the National Institute of Culture of Panama standing in for the Grand Andean Hotel. A sequence requiring several hundred extras will also be shot at nearby Colón. Officials in the country will work with the locals to "minimise inconvenience" for the cast and crew, and hope the city's exposure in the film will increase tourism. The crew was going to move to Cusco, Peru for ten days of filming on 2 March, but the location was cancelled because of bad weather predictions. Twelve days of filming in Chile will begin on 24 March. Locations include the Paranal Observatory and Atacama Desert. 
The first and second units will combine on April 15 in areas around Lake Garda for the opening chase sequence. The Siena officials have supplied €1 million to the filmmakers, to build four camera cranes, alter rooftops, and hire 300 extras needed for the scene. A cable camera is being used for the first time in a feature film. Filming will take place at the floating opera stage at the lake in Bregenz, Austria from 28 April-9 May 2008. The sequence, in which Bond chases a villain on to the stage during a performance of Tosca, will use 1500 extras. A short driving sequence will shoot at the nearby Feldkirch, Vorarlberg. By June, the crew will return to Pinewood, when new sets have been finished.
