Thursday, August 21, 2014

Random Movie Trivia - Casino Royale Part 2

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Casino Royale Part 2
  • Daniel Craig is the shortest actor be play Bond and the only one under 6 feet tall.  Connery (6'3), Lazenby (6'2), Moore (6'1), Dalton (6'2), Brosnan (6'2), and Craig (5'10). However, Daniel Craig is the first actor to be under the age of forty and play James Bond since George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
  • This marks the first time there is a foot chase in a Bond film.
  • For Daniel Craig's now iconic scene where he rises out of the sea in a pair of Speedos, many of the crew were out of camera range in boats fending off the paparazzi.
  • Directed by Martin Campbell who also directed Goldeneye.
  • James Bond's letter of resignation via the Mi6 intelligence intranet read: "M - I hereby tender my resignation with immediate effect. Sincerely, James Bond". This is the third James Bond movie where James Bond has resigned. The first was On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and the second was Licence to Kill (1989). In the latter, his license to kill was revoked and in Die Another Day (2002) he was temporarily decommissioned.
  • The Bodyworks exhibition in Miami was actually shot on a very cold night in Prague.
  • Daniel Criag lost the two front teeth while filming a fight scene in Prague (the first action scene to be shot), and his dentist had to fly from London to replace them.
  • Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron were strongly considered for the part of Vesper Lynd.
  • Although the password that James Bond enters on the alpha-numeric keypad at the Casino Royale was supposed to be VESPER (837737), the password Bond enters is 836547.
  • The chase around Miami airport was actually filmed at three separate airports in three different countries. They were: Nassau International Airport in Nassau, New Providence Island, The Bahamas; Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Dunsfold Park, Dunsfold, Surrey, England and Ruzyne International Airport in Ruzyne, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • The producers were worried that Eva Green (Vesper), a French actress, wouldn't be able to do a convincing English accent.  To that I say, did you even know she was French until I just told you.

"Craig was supposed to originally stand up in chest high water for this scene, but he accidentally drifted onto a sandbar and rose up much higher.  The director liked this cut better and they stuck with it."

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