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India Locations Cancelled [Was: 'India Locations Selected']

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edited September 2011 in Skyfall Posts: 4,619
<i>Said an industry source, "It's at a nascent stage. Everything is being kept under wraps now. Permissions are being sought from the ministry. There have been talks about location scouting down the Konkan Railway line. If all goes well, the shoot might begin end of this year."</i>

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-interviews/Bond-23-to-be-shot-in-India/articleshow/7998177.cms

(I updated the title of this topic on the 27th of August 2011.)
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  • VirageVirage
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    And yet still no Aussie or NZ
  • 007007
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    Quoting Virage:

    And yet still no Aussie or NZ
    Please don't do Australia. Some of the scenes look good, but it would be completely ruined by Australian actors. They would need to bring their own actors to make it any decent.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited April 2011 Posts: 15,690
    I hope to god they don't go the QOS route again, with too much locations. The excess of globe trotting put me off the last film, as I couldn't enjoy any scenery before the next location change. I hated the Brosnan films because it seemed the entire films were shot indoors, and they haven't improved with the Craig outings, as most of the outdoor shots are concentrated on the action and not the scenery. You didn't see much of Haiti apart Craig on his bike, Craig on his boat, Craig in Camille's car, Craig in the hotel, Greene in the dock building... Same thing with Sienna - apart from the opening shots, and the overview of the city, it seems the scenery was confined to Bond's car. Sure, you have the beautiful scenery ariving to Talamone, but the rest of the scene is close-ups of Craig and Giannini.

    The bottom line : Less globe-trotting, more scenery for the 1 or 2 locations. QOS has 3 times more locations than YOLT and TB, yet those 2 films still have a much grand scape, epic scope than QOS. So we do have a pretty big problem with the globe-trotting. That aspect of QOS reminded me much more of Bourne (the constant location change of Supremacy and Ultimatum) than the Connery films (reaching an epic scope with only a couple of locations).
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I fully agree with DC here. Bond as a travelogue works fine for me, but not in the five-minutes-per-location style as seen in QOS. A Bond film should read like a book that shows you all the goods of one or two cities/countries on the planet, not like a catalogue that sums up all places one can go over a period of X days.

    Besides that, I don't mind them going to India again - though I wonder why they insist on going there a second time when so many good spots on the planet haven't felt Bond's footsteps yet.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    I agree with Dimi - why go to India again, when Bond has never visited so many places?

    But, if they must insist on going to Indiana, I hope that location is treated the same way as OP. Maybe not to the point of having someone actually play the Bond theme to Bond, but I really want to see the sheer genius and entertainement of the chase with Vijay again. Just put some hilarious elements in it, Craig visibly enjoying himself for once and popping one-liners, and a full-blast Bond theme, and it should be awesome.

    I mean, who doesn't love the moment when the taxi speeds through the advertisement that replaces itself when damaged ?
  • ZorinIndustriesZorinIndustries
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    Is this the same TIMES OF INDIA that reports every Bond film is about to start shooting in India - by way of some rubbish publicity coup for India's tourism and an even poorer attempt at getting up internet hits for the news outlet?
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited April 2011 Posts: 13,350
    Quoting ZorinIndustries:
    Is this the same TIMES OF INDIA that reports every Bond film
    is about to start shooting in India - by way of some rubbish publicity coup for
    India's tourism and an even poorer attempt at getting up internet hits for the
    news outlet?
    @ZorinIndustries has posted what I was thinking!

    This could just be another rumour cooked up by the Indian papers. I doubt it's true. Remember all that "Indian company wants to buy MGM" rumours? Plus I wouldn't want Bond to go back to India again anyway.
  • LudsLuds MIA
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    India is a nice location. I'd love to see some nice settings in India in the next flick. It has been a while since we last saw Bond in India as well.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited April 2011 Posts: 15,690
    Quoting Luds: It has been a while since we last saw Bond in India as well.
    Not since Grumpy Grandpa Moore's days... 8->
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    How much will India have changed in the last nearly 30 years since Bond has been there?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    We have Slumdog Millionaire to answer that question for us, Sammy. ;;)
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Danny Boyle for director !! [-O<
  • j7wildj7wild Suspended
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    I was in India 2 years ago.

    Crowded, dirty cities!!
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Quoting j7wild: Crowded, dirty cities!!
    I could say the same about Paris.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    Quoting DarthDimi:
    We have Slumdog Millionaire to answer that question for us,
    Sammy. ;;)
    I wouldn't know. I've never seen it!
  • St_GeorgeSt_George Shuttling Drax's lovelies to the space doughnut - happy 40th, MR!
    edited April 2011 Posts: 1,699
    Quite frankly, it's about time Bond went back to the Indian sub-continent. You could say the same about, ooh, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, sure. But still. I'd love to see Bond visit Rishikesh - amazing scenery and atmosphere for the camera to capture and the story to ingest. And snow very nearby for, yes, skiing!

    I hear the calls that QOS is too crammed with locales, and that's maybe a fair shout. However, for me, that's maybe one of its draws. To be honest, I don't think it gives either Haiti, Talamone or Sienna short shrifts (especially the latter, with the Palio and the chase it really gives that location some meaty plot development). One may argue Bregenz is wasted, but (I don't know), is there anything there apart from the opera stage? And surely it uses Chile (if not actually Bolivia) well in the movie's second half.

    By the way, here's the Konkan Railway line of which the article speaks - it runs through a part of that fascinating country I certainly wouldn't be adverse to seeing on film...

  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited April 2011 Posts: 15,690
    Quoting Samuel001: I wouldn't know. I've never seen it!

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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Ah well any location suits me as long as the do it right. I'm sure India has many great locations to offer that we haven't yet seen in a Bond film. If this rumour is correct of course.

    I'd enjoy a few more scenes in London to be honest. There's so much left un-Bonded in that wonderful city.
  • forgotmyusernameforgotmyusername
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    You are so right Darthbay - London is so underused. But you've got to go where the new money is and India and China is where the new wealth is.

    Does this mean we will get my wish and have Katrina as a Bond girl - I so much hope so she's corrrrrrrrrrrrr.

    Oh and India, if you ignore the corruption and slums as so much of the new Indian middle class do, it is a beautiful place.


    Any way here's Katrina is action:

  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
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    I think it would be great to have Bond go back to India, considering the size of the place I'm sure they could find a new and interesting Bond angle to the place, and if they get really stuck they could just avoid using all those tired, tawdry and sterotypical images that they used in abundance in OP.
    Politically India is such an interesting choice of location at the moment, it's an up and coming economic superpower, it's close proximity to the middle east could be used for story lines involving either international terrorism or/and the drug trade and as a bonus while shooting they could nip down to the Maldives and film a smashing PTS (a unused fantastic Bond location opportunity)
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Quoting saunders: void using all those tired, tawdry and sterotypical images that they used in abundance in OP
    IMO, that those stereotypes were the best part of OP. Those elements of the Vijay chase were just outrageously hilarious, and I would welcome them back with open arms. It would certainly give Craig the time to relax, smile, and enjoy himself and pop one liners, instead of looking dead serious the whole film.
  • bondboy007bondboy007
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    I'd really like India. It'd be a nice change of pace.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Quoting bondboy007: It'd be a nice change of pace.
    Explain that, please. :-|
  • The_ReaperThe_Reaper
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    Sounds good to me.
  • sHell_Is_HeresHell_Is_Here
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    Quoting saunders: Politically India is such an interesting choice of location at the moment, it's an up and coming economic superpower, it's close proximity to the middle east could be used for story lines involving either international terrorism or/and the drug trade and as a bonus while shooting they could nip down to the Maldives and film a smashing PTS (a unused fantastic Bond location opportunity)
    My thoughts exactly. Here in the States, there is quite a bit of current interest in India that didn't exist a year or two ago. Quite a bit of it is from media like Slumdog Millionaire or the television program Outsourced, but it is also due to India's rise in economic power.

    I would love to see the Maldives as well.

    As for the calls for Australia to be used as a location... what exactly would Bond be doing there? Scuba diving at a reef? Boxing 'roos? Unless poaching koalas is involved in Quantum's next financial scheme, I don't see much of a reason to head down under. Don't get me wrong, I am in love with what I know of Aussieland, but I would prefer to see Bond visiting locales of more prominent importance in terms of up-to-date international politics (i.e. the Middle East, China, India, even maybe Lybia).
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    Is it India calling for James Bond?

    If all goes according to plan, Daniel Craig could be shooting for the new James Bond film in India soon. The yet-untitled new 007 flick, being referred to as Bond 23 for now, will be directed by Sam Mendes, the Oscar- winning maker of American Beauty.

    The film is scheduled to open in 2012 and is right now in its scripting stage. Mendes along with his team of writers - John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade-is finalising the screenplay.

    "Reportedly, the makers plan to shoot a significant portion of the film in a foreign location. The toss- up right now seems to be between India and South Africa. A team has been scouting for shooting sites around the scenic Konkan Railway line between Mumbai and Mangalore. It's all too early to talk about. If they decide on a location they like in India, the next step will be to obtain official permission to shoot here," said a trade source in Mumbai.

    Early reports have suggested that Javier Bardem, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in No Country For Old Men in 2007, could play the villain in Bond 23 while Dame Judi Dench has confirmed that she will be returning to reprise the role of Bond's boss M. According to a report in Variety magazine, the film will reportedly also star acclaimed British actor Ralph Fiennes.

    If Craig, Mendes and company indeed arrive in India to shoot, this will be the second Bond film to be shot in this country. Portions of Octopussy , the 13th film in the series, were shot extensively in Agra and Udaipur.

    Octopussy , where Roger Moore played Bond, was released in 1983 and a high point of the film for Indian fans was the presence of Kabir Bedi and tennis ace Vijay Amritraj in the cast. While Amritraj played an aide to Bond, Bedi was one of the baddies.

    Bond 23 has been in the news ever since it was announced. While considerable hype was generated thanks to Craig's consecutive successes as Bond with his first two outings, Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace, financial woes at MGM, the banner that helms the Bond productions, indicated trouble.

    Subsequently, MGM struck a deal with Sony that involved the latter in the co- financing and worldwide marketing and distribution of the new 007 flick.

    The release of Bond 23 in 2012 is scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Dr. No, the first Bond film released in 1962. Dench, playing Bond's boss M, was recently in India to shoot for John Madden's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, co-starring Dev Patel. For Craig, Bardem and Fiennes, this would be their first shooting stint in this country if the producers choose India over South Africa.

    http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/james-bond-india-007-flick/1/135564.html

    Are we all being played or could India really be the next big Bond location? And India or South Africa. It's good to know it'll either be one or the other.
  • St_GeorgeSt_George Shuttling Drax's lovelies to the space doughnut - happy 40th, MR!
    edited April 2011 Posts: 1,699
    Quoting sHell_Is_Here: I would prefer to see Bond visiting locales of more prominent importance in terms of up-to-date international politics (i.e. the Middle East, China, India, even maybe Lybia).
    That is a decent point - and makes India a potentially good location, beyond its physical beauty and diversity, if they were to take advantage of its status as new 'Asian Tiger' in the plot.

    And good bit of research work there, Samster, so it possibly could be South Africa or India, but probably not both? We shall see...
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    aah whatever happened to the days when Rog would go from London to L.A. to Venice to Rio to the Brazilian rainforest and into Outer Space within 2 hours and still have time to tumble a few lovelies.
    What a guy. (*)
  • LudsLuds MIA
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    Quoting NicNac: aah whatever happened to the days when Rog would go from London to L.A. to Venice to Rio to the Brazilian rainforest and into Outer Space within 2 hours and still have time to tumble a few lovelies. (*)

    What a guy.
    It usually wasn't just a few. Moore would play the field quite a lot. Well done Sir!
  • The_ReaperThe_Reaper
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    I say South Africa. Seems the baddies will be nastier for some reason. I'm not basing that assumption on anything other than Lethal Weapon 2 and District 9.
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