Exclusive stills from Quantum of Solace

Bond (Daniel Craig) and Camille (Olga Kurylenko) wander in the Atacama desert in Chile. The new film is set in Italy, Austria, Haiti and south America (mainly Colombia) Photograph: PR

Director Marc Forster on the set of Quantum of Solace. The German director has turned in the shortest Bond film of all time at just over 100 minutes. He says he aimed to make an "art film with lots of action sequences" Photograph: PR

Bond risks life and limb as he races across the side of a building. Once again, Daniel Craig did all his own stunts in the new film. "The more I’m involved with it the more I can hopefully put a reality into that, into that situation," he says. "And I get a kick out of it" Photograph: PR

Ukrainian actor Olga Kurylenko plays the feisty Camille, a character Forster said was created as a "mirror image" of Bond. She too has suffered at the hands of the mysterious organisation which was involved in the death of 007's lover Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale Photograph: PR

Bond, driving a black Aston Martin DBS, is chased by identical Alpha Romeos 159 TIs in a mountaintop scene near Lake Garda in Italy. Reports suggest this will be the opening chase scene in the new film Photograph: PR