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CASINO ROYALE (2006)
great feat of engineering; the entire thing weighed about 120 tonnes and was controlled off a laptop. “We had fun one day when producer Barbara Broccoli brought some studio execs around set. We were the only people there. She took them up to the top and we pressed the button. The water erupted and the building started sinking. I think one person didn’t find it all that amusing, but most of them liked it.”
Daniel Craig’s debut featured a dramatic climax involving Bond’s new-found love, Vesper, and a collapsing villa in Venice. “We did this in two parts,” explains Corbould, “with the third-scale model for the exterior. Then we had a full-size version, which was an interior four-storey building. “We built this on a huge gimbal and the whole building had the ability to tilt 15° on either axis, then sink 20 feet into a tank of water. It was a
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