![]() ![]() The part we saw only involved the Day of the Dead parade and the rooftop, but it was easy to imagine the rest, scored by Thomas Newman's breathless music (he's another "Skyfall" alum returning to the series). Bond ends up chasing Sciarra through a Day of the Dead parade, which today was populated with nearly 1,500 extras (each extra requiring more than 90 minutes of hair, costume and makeup), follows him onto a helicopter (where the fight continues), and eventually ends up on the rooftops of the surrounding buildings. ![]() While precise details remained vague, he was after Marco Sciarra (Alessandro Cremona), who is a very bad dude. There's something going down in the square, and Bond knows it. Bond is seducing Estrella to get a better view of the square, called Zocalo, which a quick Internet search revealed to be the main plaza in Mexico City. The scene in question involves Bond and his seduction of Estrella ( Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman, who made a splash in the truly incredible "Miss Bala"). "Have you looked down there, man?" Fair enough. When asked if this would be an even bigger opening scene than last time around, production designer Dennis Gassner reacted with mock incredulity. This might seem odd given the chilly, subdued vibe of the trailer. " Spectre" reunites much of the team that made "Skyfall" such a smash including, crucially, director Sam Mendes and writers John Logan and Neal Purvis & Robert Wade, and the atmosphere from the Mexico shoot definitely gave off the feeling that the filmmakers were trying to top themselves in every way possible. BUILDING IN SPECTRE FILM MOVIESeveral members of the production, in fact, have noted that this Bond adventure is substantially larger than " Skyfall," the last Daniel Craig outing and the first Bond movie to make $1 billion globally. So far, the production has already shot sequences in London, Austria (where much of the teaser trailer unfolds), and Rome, and still has additional photography in Morocco left to go. Mexico is a location that the James Bond franchise has utilized plenty of times before, most recently in the mostly forgotten Craig entry " Quantum of Solace" and the hotel where part of this action sequence takes place, the Gran Hotel de Mexico, had already been used in a 007 movie - the even-more-forgotten Timothy Dalton joint "The Living Daylights," way back in 1987 (no, I don't remember that one either).Īs far as the production pipeline goes, Mexico is but a dot on the map. This sequence obviously didn't make it into the teaser, which was weirdly action-free, but it did give us a hint at what's to come from this spy thriller. Earlier today, as the world anxiously awaited the premiere of the teaser trailer for "Spectre," the latest James Bond adventure (once again starring Daniel Craig as 007), we were on the set of the film in Mexico City, watching them film the movie's dramatic opening sequence and chatting with various members of the crew. ![]()
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