PRODUCTION. 60 YEARS OF BOND
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987) Timothy Dalton’s first movie saw Bond use his ‘winterised’ Aston Martin to escape with Kara Milovy through the Czech mountains – and various gadgets and weapons come into play. “One of the perks of the jobs is working with these cars, and specifically the films I do, we get involved a lot with cars,” says Corbould.
with ice lakes when a film crew gets there, it wasn’t frozen. We sat there for three weeks waiting for the ice to freeze. “When we got on the lake it was quite eerie driving on ice, it creaks and groans and cracks. It’s unnerving. But once you’ve got used to it, it’s a fantastic place to drive. We were in charge of the vehicles used to take the cars to the set on the other side of the lake. We’d hare across the lake at 140mph, knowing that even if you lost it you weren’t going to crash into anything. It was a wonderful period of my life.”
“This was an interesting one, starting off doing the modifications on the car – the skis that come out, the rockets that emerge from the front. We tested it and took it out to Weissensee in Austria to an ice lake there and, as usually happens
QUARTERMASTER Corbould is the Q of SFX, but isn’t afraid of a little field work
The second Brosnan movie showcased an enormous explosion during its pre-title sequence, which unfolds at a terrorist arms bazaar. “Before Spectre , that was probably the biggest explosion I’d done,” claims Corbould. “It was the size of a football pitch. It was the first sequence we shot on the film and there was a lot involved: vehicles being blown over, the big explosion with lots of rigs, and we had to shoot it fairly quickly.” Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
MAN OF MYSTERY The 007 films have taken Corbould all over the world – from tropical to freezing climes
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