Eps 42: James Bond Just Celebrated His World Record By Blowing Something Up
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The latest James Bond movie No Time To Die also holds a Guinness World Records title for most explosives detonated in a single cinematic sequence. In addition, the latest movie in the series, No Time to Die, has also held the record for most high explosives in a single film take. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the latest James Bond film boasts the largest film-stunt explosion of all time. The James Bond film series continues to break new Guinness records with the latest movie, No Time To Die, which stars Daniel Craig.
Daniel Craigs final appearance as 007 in No Time to Die was a spectacular affair for James Bond, one that was good enough to break one particular Guinness World Records. It is difficult to know where No Time to Die, Daniel Craigs last turn as James Bond, will ultimately land among movies featuring Britains suave secret service agent. Despite its name, No Time to Die, Daniel Craig has promised No Time to Die would be his last performance as Bond, having threatened to quit on multiple occasions. No Time to Die may have failed No Time To Dies quest of crossing the billion-dollar mark on the global scale, but these box-office shortcomings did not prevent the Daniel Craig movie from breaking several records that were set by 007 himself, as seen in the video above.
If anything, the records-setting scenes proved 007 went out with a bang, requiring nothing less than the most explosive cinematic takedown of all-time to bring down 007 forever. His latest movie upended the record, which was remarkably similar to what they had established with Spectre, Bonds prior movie. It is a spectacular work, but it is not necessarily a scene that anybody will remember from perhaps the worst of the five Bond films, with Daniel Craig in the lead. The AMC Hornet X performing the jump is the only ever AMC featured in a James Bond movie , and it is the first stunt to be calculated using computer modelling.
The spectacular stunt was choreographed by the prolific Bond effects supervisor Chris Corbould and the explosives expert Charles Adcock. The title is officially held by Chris Corbould, special effects and miniature effects supervisor for the last few James Bond films. License To Kill, James Bonds sixteenth film in the franchise, and second and last film starring Timothy Dalton, is the first film in the franchise to use a title not drawn from one of writer Ian Flemings novels or short stories. For Your Eyes Only , which was based on a few Fleming stories, was the first Bond film to not feature an M; Bernard Leigh, who had played MI6s pipe-smoking head for 11 films, died during the filming.
Sean Connery, who established the 007 style, is still widely considered the definitive Bond. Roger Moore is the longest-serving Bond, by the number of films made, and there was a period where the actors time as 007 was nearly short-lived. Daniel Craig holds the record for longest Bond tenure, at 16 years from casting until final movie release, Moore is still in the running as the oldest Bond.
He opened up to Cinemablend on how the production began asking him to break records for the James Bond franchise films. At that point, Daniel Craig was primarily known for independent films, and he showed up to a news conference sporting longer, somewhat lighter hair, which made him stand out amongst the rest of the Bond cast. During production of Casino Royale, the film made history by having one sequence where Bonds Aston Martin flipped several times during the excruciating accident.
The violence of 2006s Casino Royale is more graphic than in any Bond film prior, beginning with the black-and-white prelude in which James drives the mans head into the bath tub. Stunts are the core part of every car chase, and every Bond movie, and this explosive conclusion to what was an otherwise short chase was not just a record-breaker, it was also a signature, thrilling turn of events, one viewers were surprised to see. After taking down a few of his enemies, James Bond steals one of the parachutes and leaps, leading to one of the most death-defying, spectacularly shot stunts in franchise history. Once at a circus tent, Bond disguises himself as a clown in order to evade detection, leading to one of the best scenes of this movie, in which he desperately attempts to warn everyone inside that there is about to be a bomb, killing all of them.
The scene is more than one gigantic boom; the ceaseless spiral of fireballs consuming the Ernst Stavro Blofeld Building means the explosion has to be programmed, using special computer chip detonators, timed to explode mid-discussion between Bond and Bonds newly-found friend, Dr. Madeline Swann , standing a quarter-mile from the explosion. The previous Guinness World Records holder in the category for largest movie explosion was the 1994 movie Blown Away, which stars Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones.