The first footage and official image from the set of James Bond’s 24th adventure, Spectre, have been released.
Daniel Craig, in his fourth outing as the British spy, is shown gadding about in the Sölden region of the Austrian Alps, firing a pistol (not a Walther!) at non-specific baddies. As is compulsory in any snowbound Bond setting, there are snowmobiles.
Associate producer Gregg Wilson promises that Austria will be the site of “one of the major action sequences of the movie, a jewel in the crown so to speak. It’s going to be spectacular.” Some of the most memorable scenes from Bond films have been alpine, from the union jack parachute jump in The Spy Who Loved Me to Blofeld’s lair in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The sleek glass exterior of the mountaintop hideaway pictured in the Spectre footage suggests a similar base.
Léa Seydoux, one of two female leads, alongside Monica Bellucci, is pictured in regulation Bond babe furs. “I’m nervous, but really excited,” she says. Dave Bautista meanwhile, whose burliness surely has him earmarked as some kind of henchman, has apparently “never been on a mountain before … it’s surreal, it looks like a painting”.
The Bond team has since moved on to new pastures, and are now filming in England, as a recent tweet from the set shows.
Bond at Blenheim. #SPECTRE pic.twitter.com/75HL5bv4cI
— James Bond (@007) February 11, 2015
Spectre will be released on 6 November. It also stars Bond newcomers Christopher Waltz and Andrew Scott alongside MI6 regulars Ralph Fiennes, Naomi Harris and Ben Whishaw. Sam Mendes is once again at the helm following his work on Skyfall, which became the most successful Bond film of the franchise.
