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SimonMario Kassianides (born 7August 1979) is Greek actor - originally based in England - filmdirector, producer and born in London, of Greek origin, the son of Helen and MarioKassianides, both business owners. Kassianides has an older brother,Photis Kassianides, who works in finance.

Kassianideswas brought up in Clapham and educated at Dulwich College. At theUniversity of Edinburgh he was the producer and executive producer ofa sold out run of Grease at the George Square theatre. Profits weredonated to the Macmillan Cancer Trust.

In 2002soon after Kassianides graduated with honours in InternationalBusiness with Finance and while in London helping his mother openUrban Coffee, a fair trade and organic coffee shop in TootingBroadway, he was spotted by BAFTA award-winning producer a course at London's Central School of Speech and Drama buthad to leave after being offered a role in the Tennessee Williams'play Night of the Iguana.His performance as Pedro was acclaimed by critics.

Soonafter, Kassianides was noted as an actor to watch in a BBCdocumentary called Making it at Holby.

Sincethen, Kassianides has appeared in a number of television episodes inthe USA and UK, including Casualty,My Life in Film,Plane Spotting,Ultimate Force,Spooks,Recovery,Holby Blue,Suburban Shootout,The Kylie Show,Ashes to Ashes,The Passion,The Fixer,Love Soup,Hustle,Law and Order UK,Nikita andBurn Notice.

Kassianideshas also appeared in several international films such as TheEdge of Love, WutheringHeights, BetweenTwo Fires, Quantumof Solace and Smooch.

In 2010Kassianides produced, directed and starred in Geezas, a filmhe completed in record time and within budget. The film made theofficial selection of the 2012 Hollywood Film Festival, selling outThe Arclight Movie Theatre in Hollywood at its premiere. In 2012Simon Kassianides was nominated as a Discovery Director to watch atthe Hollywood Film Festival for 'Geezas' In 2013 Geezas won'Best Actor' and 'Best Supporting Actress' at the 2013 BritishIndependent Film Festival. Kassianides directed first time actors whowon against the likes of Martin Freeman (The Hobbit) and Anne-MarieDuff (Nowhere Boy)

His workrate and ethic was spotted by the administrators of MichaelCacoyannis Foundation, which was created by Michael Cacoyannis -Director of ‘Zorba the Greek’.

TheMichael Cacoyannis Foundation was created to help and promote Greekartists. In 2012 Kassianides was appointed a Global Consultant andRepresentative of the MCF.

in 2014,Kassianides produced and played the lead role in Michael Cacoyannis’English transon of Sophocles’ Oedipusthe King, in the world-famous EpidaurusTheatre in Greece, during the 2014 Epidaurus summer festival.

Year

Title

Role

Notes

2004

Casualty

Steve Lyon

2005

Ultimate Force

Juan

2006

Spooks

Mourad

2007

Holby Blue

Nico Osman

2008

The Fixer

Saban Zira

2008

The Edge of Love

Partisan

2008

Quantum of Solace

Yusef Kabira

2009

Hustle

Tracer

2010

Between Two Fires

Ali

2011

Smooch

Percy / Flynn

2011

Nikita

Ramon

2011

Geezas

Eddie

2012

Burn Notice

George Anders

2013

Desert Dancer

Sattar

2014

How to Train Your Dragon 2

No-Name

Voice

2014-2015, 2017

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Sunil Bakshi

2015

Zoo

Jean-Michel Lion

2015

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Soldiers/Extras

2017

Unforgettable

Michael

2017

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Jeffrey Khan

Quantumof Solace is the 22nd film inthe James Bond film series, releasedin 2008, directed by Marc Forster and written by Paul Haggis, NealPurvis and Robert Wade. It stars Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko,Mathieu Amalric, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright and Judi Dench. Inthe film, Bond seeks revenge for the death of his lover, Vesper Lynd,and is assisted by Camille Montes, who is plotting revenge for themurder of her family. The trail eventually leads them to wealthybusinessman Dominic Greene, a member of the Quantum organisation, whointends to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia to seize control of theirwater supply.

ProducerMichael G. Wilson developed the film's plot while the previous filmin the series, Casino Royale,was being shot. Purvis, Wade, and Haggis contributed to the script.Craig and Forster had to write some sections themselves due to theWriters' Strike, though they were not given the screenwriter creditin the final cut. The title was chosen from a 1959 short story in IanFleming's For Your Eyes Only,though the film does not contain any elements of that story. Locationfilming took place in Mexico, Panama, Chile, Italy, Austria, andWales, while interior sets were built and filmed at Pinewood Studios.Forster aimed to make a modern film that also featured classic cinemamotifs: a vintage Douglas DC-3 was used for a flight sequence, andDennis Gassner's set designs are reminiscent of Ken Adam's work onseveral early Bondfilms. Taking a course away from the usual Bond villains, Forsterrejected any grotesque appearance for the character Dominic Greene toemphasise the hidden and secret nature of the film's contemporaryvillains.

The filmwas also marked by its frequent depictions of violence, with a 2012study by the University of Otago in New Zealand finding it to be themost violent film in the franchise. Whereas Dr.No featured 109 "trivial orseverely violent" acts, Quantum ofSolace had a count of 250 – the mostdepictions of violence in any Bondfilm - even more prominent since it was also the shortest film in thefranchise. Quantum of Solacepremiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 29 October 2008, gatheringmixed reviews, which mainly praised Craig's gritty performance andthe film's action sequences, but feeling that the film was lessimpressive than its predecessor CasinoRoyale. As of September 2016, it is thefourth-highest-grossing James Bondfilm, without adjusting for inflation, earning is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the capturedMr. White (Jesper Christensen) in the boot of his car. After evadingpursuers, Bond delivers White to M, who interrogates him regardinghis organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Craig Mitchell (GlennFoster), is a double agent; he attacks M, enabling White to escape.Bond chases Mitchell and kills him. Bond and M return to London andsearch Mitchell's flat, discovering Mitchell had a contact in Haiti,Edmund Slate (Neil Jackson). Bond learns Slate is a hitman sent tokill Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko) at the behest of her lover,environmentalist entrepreneur Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric).Observing her subsequent meeting with Greene, Bond learns Greene ishelping exiled Bolivian General Medrano (Joaquín Cosío), whomurdered Camille's family, to overthrow his government and become thenew president, in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.

Afterrescuing Camille from Medrano, Bond follows Greene to a performanceof Toscain Bregenz, Austria. Meanwhile, the head of the CIA's South Americansection, Gregg Beam (David Harbour), strikes a noninterference dealwith Greene for access to putative stocks of Bolivian oil. Bondinfiltrates Quantum's meeting at the opera, identifying members ofQuantum's executive board, and a gunfight ensues. A Special Branchbodyguard working for Quantum member Guy Haines (Paul Ritter), iskilled by antagonists after Bond throws him off a roof. M assumesBond killed him, and has Bond's passports and credit cards revoked.Bond heads to Italy and convinces his old ally René Mathis(Giancarlo Giannini) to accompany him to Bolivia. They are greeted byStrawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton), a consular employee who demandsBond return to the UK immediately. Bond seduces her and they attend afundraising party Greene holds that night. At the party, Bond againrescues Camille from Greene. Leaving, Bond and Camille are pulledover by Bolivian police working for Medrano. They had earlierattacked Mathis and put him in the boot of Bond's car to frame Bond.In the ensuing struggle, Mathis and the cops are killed.

Thefollowing day, Bond and Camille survey Quantum's intended landacquisition by air; their plane is shot down by a Bolivian fighteraircraft. They skydive into a sinkhole, and discover Quantum isdamming Bolivia's supply of fresh water to create a monopoly. Back inLa Paz, Bond meets M and learns Quantum killed Fields by drowning herin crude oil (an apparent reference to Oddjob's murder of JillMasterson (Shirley Eaton) in Goldfinger).Bond meets CIA Agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), who disclosesGreene and Medrano will meet in the Atacama Desert to finalise theiragreement. Warned by Leiter, he evades the CIA's Special ActivitiesDivision when they attempt to kill him.

At aneco hotel in the desert, Greene tells Medrano that now he controlsthe majority of Bolivia's water supply, Medrano must accept a newcontract that makes Greene Planet Bolivia's sole water utilitycompany at significantly higher rates. Bond infiltrates the complex,kills the chief of police (Fernando Guillén Cuervo) for betrayingMathis, and single-handedly assaults the hotel. After killing thesecurity detail, he confronts Greene. Meanwhile, Camille killsMedrano, avenging the murders of her family. The struggle leaves thehotel destroyed by fire. Bond captures Greene and interrogates himabout Quantum, leaving him stranded in the desert with only a can ofengine oil.

Bondtravels to Kazan, Russia, where he finds Vesper Lynd's former lover,Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides), a member of Quantum who seduceswomen with valuable connections, and who is indirectly responsiblefor her death. Bond tells Kabira's latest target, Corrine Veneau(Stana Katic), a Canadian Intelligence agent, of his true intentions,thus sparing her Vesper's fate. He allows MI6 to arrest Kabira.Outside, M tells Bond that Greene was found dead in the middle of thedesert, shot twice and with engine oil in his stomach. M tells Bondshe needs him back; he responds that he never left. Walking away, hedrops Vesper's necklace in the snow.

• Daniel Craig as James Bond. Craig's physical training for his reprise of the role placed extra effort into running and boxing, to spare him the injuries he sustained on his stunts in the first film. Craig felt he was fitter, being less bulky than in the first film. He also practised speedboating and stunt driving. Craig felt Casino Royale was [physically] "a walk in the park" compared to Quantum of Solace, which required a different performance from him because Quantum of Solace is a revenge film, not a love story like Casino Royale. While filming in Pinewood, he suffered a gash when kicked in his face, which required eight stitches, and a fingertip was sliced off. He laughed these off, noting they did not delay filming, and joked his finger wound would enable him to have a criminal career (though it had grown back when he made this comment). He also had minor plastic surgery on his face. The actor advised Paul Haggis on the script and helped choose Marc Forster as the director.

• Olga Kurylenko as Camille Montes, a Bolivian agent with her own vendetta regarding Greene and Medrano. Forster chose her because out of the 400 women who auditioned, she seemed the least nervous. When she read the script, she was glad she had no love scene with Craig; she felt it would have distracted viewers from her performance. Kurylenko spent three weeks training to fight with weapons, and she learnt a form of indoor skydiving known as body flying. Kurylenko said she had to do "training non-stop from the morning to the evening" for the action scenes, overcoming her fears with the help of Craig and the stunt team. She was given a DVD box set of Bond films, since the franchise was not easily available to watch in her native Ukraine. Kurylenko found Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies inspiring "because she did the fight scenes by herself." The producers had intended to cast a South American actress in the role] Kurylenko trained with a dialect coach to perform with a Spanish accent. She said that the accent was easy for her because she has "a lot of hispanic friends, from Latin America and Spain, and it's an accent I've always heard". When reflecting on her experience as a Bond girl, she stated she was proudest of overcoming her fears in performing stunts.

• Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene, the main villain. He is a leading member of Quantum posing as a businessman working in reforestation and charity funding for environmental science. In the 2015 Bond film Spectre, he is revealed to have been a member of the titular crime syndicate, of which Quantum is a subsidiary. Amalric acknowledged taking the role was an easy decision because, "It's impossible to say to your kids that 'I could have been in a Bond film but I refused.'" Amalric wanted to wear make-up for the role, but Forster explained that he wanted Greene not to look grotesque, but to symbolise the hidden evils in society. Amalric modelled his performance on "the smile of Tony Blair [and] the craziness of Sarkozy," the latter of whom he called "the worst villain we [the French] have ever had... he walks around thinking he's in a Bond film." He later claimed this was not criticism of either politician, but rather an example of how a politician relies on performance instead of a genuine policy to win power. "Sarkozy, is just a better actor than [his presidential opponent] Ségolène Royal—that's all," he explained. Amalric and Forster reconceived the character, who was supposed to have a "special skill" in the script, to someone who uses pure animal instinct when fighting Bond in the climax. Bruno Ganz was also considered for the part, but Forster decided Amalric gave the character a "pitiful" quality.

• Judi Dench as M. Forster felt Dench was underused in the previous films and wanted to make her part bigger, having her interact with Bond more because she is "the only woman Bond doesn't see in a sexual context," which Forster finds interesting.

• Gemma Arterton as MI6 agent Strawberry Fields, who works at the British consulate in Bolivia. Fields, who is merely an office worker as described by M, takes herself seriously and tries to overpower Bond when the pair meet. She is later seduced by Bond, infiltrates Greene's fund raiser party with him and ends up paying the ultimate price. Forster found Arterton a witty actress and selected her from a reported 1,500 candidates. One of the casting directors asked her to audition for the role, having seen her portray Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Theatre. Arterton said Fields was "not so frolicsome" as other Bond girls, but is instead "fresh and young, not... a femme fatale." Arterton described Fields as a homage to the 1960s Bond girls, comparing her red wig to that of Diana Rigg, who played Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Rigg, alongside Honor Blackman, is one of her favourite Bond girls. Arterton had to film her character's death scene first day on the set, where she was completely covered head to toe in non-toxic black paint. Although she found the experience unpleasant, she believes the scene will be an iconic part of the film. The character's full name, which is a reference to the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever", is never actually uttered on screen; when Bond asks her for her name, she replies, "Just Fields." Robert A. Caplen suggests that this is a conscious effort to portray a woman "whose character attributes are neither undermined nor compromised" by her name, even though her name may have sexual overtones reminiscent of earlier Bond girls.

• Giancarlo Giannini as René Mathis, Bond's ally who was mistakenly believed to be a traitor in Casino Royale. Having been acquitted, he chooses to aid Bond again in his quest to find out who betrayed him.

• Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter, Bond's ally at the CIA. Early script drafts gave Leiter a larger role, but his screentime was restricted by on-set rewrites.

• Anatole Taubman as Elvis, Greene's second-in-command. Taubman wanted to make Elvis "as colourful, as edgy and as interesting as possible", with one of his suggestions being the bowl cut. Amalric and Taubman improvised a backstory for Elvis: he is Dominic's cousin and once lived on the streets before being inducted into Quantum. He called Elvis "a bit of a goofball. He thinks he's all that but he's not really.... He's not a comic guy. He definitely takes himself very serious, but maybe by his taking himself too serious he may become friendly."

• David Harbour as Gregg Beam, the CIA section chief for South America and a contact of Felix Leiter.

• Joaquín Cosío as General Medrano, the exiled general whom Greene is helping to get back into power, in return for support of his organisation. He murdered Camille's entire family when she was a young girl.

• Fernando Guillén Cuervo as Carlos, the Colonel of Bolivian Police, the chief of all police forces, and the contact of René Mathis in Bolivia.

• Jesper Christensen as Mr. White, whom Bond captured after he stole the money won at Casino Royale in Montenegro.

• Rory Kinnear as Bill Tanner, M's aide.

• Paul Ritter as Guy Haines

• Tim Pigott-Smith as the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

• Neil Jackson as Edmund Slate, a henchman who fights Bond in Haiti.

• Simon Kassianides as Yusef, a member of Quantum who seduces female agents and manipulates them into giving away classified information. He is indirectly responsible for Vesper Lynd's death.

• Stana Katic as Corrine Veneau, a Canadian agent and Yusef's latest target.

• Glenn Foster as Craig Mitchell, M's bodyguard and a double agent.

• Oona Chaplin as Perla de las Dunas' receptionist, a woman saved by Camille Montes in one of the last sequences.

• Lucrezia Lante della Rovere as Gemma, Mathis' girlfriend.

• Elizabeth Arciniega as Mr. White's girlfriend.

MarcForster asked his friends and fellow directors Guillermo del Toro andAlfonso Cuarón to appear in cameos. Cuarón appears as a Bolivianhelicopter pilot, while del Toro provides several other voices.

In July2006, as Casino Royaleentered post-production, Eon Productions announced that the next filmwould be based on an original idea by producer Michael G. Wilson. Itwas decided beforehand the film would be a direct sequel, to exploitBond's emotions following Vesper's death in the previous film. Justas Casino Royale'stheme was terrorism, the sequel focuses on environmentalism. The filmwas confirmed for a 2 May 2008 release date, with Craig reprising thelead role. Roger Michell, who directed Craig in EnduringLove and TheMother, was in negotiations to direct,but opted out because there was no script. Sony Entertainmentvice-chairman Jeff Blake admitted a production schedule of 18 monthswas a very short window, and the release date was pushed back to late2008. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade completed their draft of the scriptby April 2007, and Paul Haggis, who polished the CasinoRoyale script, began his rewrite thenext month.

In June2007, Marc Forster was confirmed as director. He was surprised thathe was approached for the job, stating he was not a big Bond film fanthrough the years, and that he would not have accepted the projecthad he not seen Casino Royaleprior to making his decision: he felt Bond had been humanised in thatfilm, arguing since travelling the world had become less exotic sincethe series' advent, it made sense to focus more on Bond as acharacter. Born in Germany and raised in Switzerland, Forster was thefirst Bond director not to come from the British Commonwealth ofNations, although he noted Bond's mother is Swiss, making himsomewhat appropriate to handle the British icon. The directorcollaborated strongly with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson,noting they only blocked two very expensive ideas he had. Thedirector found Casino Royale's144-minute running time too long, and wanted his follow-up to be"tight and fast... like a bullet."

Haggis,Forster and Wilson rewrote the story from scratch. Haggis said hecompleted his script two hours before the 2007–2008 Writers Guildof America strike officially began. Forster noted a running theme inhis films were emotionally repressed protagonists, and the theme ofthe picture would be Bond learning to trust after feeling betrayed byVesper. Forster said he created the Camille character as a strongfemale counterpart to Bond rather than a casual love interest: sheopenly shows emotions similar to those which Bond experiences but isunable to express. Haggis located his draft's climax in the SwissAlps, but Forster wanted the action sequences to be based around thefour classical elements of earth, water, air and fire. The decisionto homage Goldfingerin Fields's death came about as Forster wanted to show oil hadreplaced gold as the most precious material. The producers rejectedHaggis's idea that Vesper Lynd had a child, because "Bond was anorphan... Once he finds the kid, Bond can't just leave thekid." The water supply issue in Bolivia was the main theme ofthe film, with a story based on the Cochabamba Water Revolt.

MichaelG. Wilson decided on the film's title Quantumof Solace only "a few days"before its announcement on 24 January 2008. It was the name of ashort story in Ian Fleming's anthology ForYour Eyes Only (1960). The film isrelated to the title in one of its thematic elements: "when the'Quantum of Solace' drops to zero, humanity and consideration of onehuman for another is gone." Daniel Craig admitted, "I wasunsure at first. Bond is looking for his quantum of solace and that'swhat he wants, he wants his closure. Ian Fleming says that if youdon't have a quantum of solace in your relationship then therelationship is over. It's that spark of niceness in a relationshipthat if you don't have you might as well give up." He said that"Bond doesn't have that because his girlfriend [Vesper Lynd] hasbeen killed," and therefore, "[Bond is] looking forrevenge... to make himself happy with the world again."Afterwards, Quantum was made the name of the organisation introducedin Casino Royale.Craig noted the letter Q itself looks rather odd. Near the end of thefilm, the Camille Montes character and Bond have a discussion abouttheir individual quests to avenge the deaths of their loved ones.Montes asks Bond to "let me know what it feels like" whenhe succeeds, the implication of the title being that it will be asmall amount of solace compared to his despair. Bond's lack ofemotion when he does exact revenge shows this to be the case.

Accordingto a December 2011 interview with Craig, "We had the bare bonesof a script and then there was a writers' strike and there wasnothing we could do. We couldn't employ a writer to finish it. I sayto myself, 'Never again', but who knows? There was me trying torewrite scenes—and a writer I am not." He said that he andForster "were the ones allowed to do it. The rules were that youcouldn't employ anyone as a writer, but the actor and director couldwork on scenes together. We were stuffed. We got away with it, butonly just. It was never meant to be as much of a sequel as it was,but it ended up being a sequel, starting where the last onefinished."

Duringfilming, after the strike ended, Forster read a spec script by JoshuaZetumer, which he liked, and hired him to reshape scenes for thelater parts of the shoot, which the director was still unsatisfiedwith. Forster had the actors rehearse their scenes, as he liked tofilm scenes continually. Zetumer rewrote dialogue depending on theactors' ideas each day.

Quantumof Solace was shot in six countries.Second unit filming began in Italy at the Palio di Siena horse raceon 16 August 2007, although at that point Forster was unsure how itwould fit into the film. Some scenes were filmed also in Maratea andCraco, two small distinctive towns in Basilicata in southern Italy.Other places used for location shooting were Madrid in August 2007;Baja California, Mexico in early 2008, for shots of the aerialbattle; Malcesine, Limone sul Garda and Tremosine in Italy duringMarch, and at Talamone during the end of April. The main unit beganon 3 January 2008 at Pinewood Studios. The 007 Stage was used for thefight in the art gallery, and an MI6 safehouse hidden within thecity's cisterns, while other stages housed Bond's Bolivian hotelsuite, and the MI6 headquarters. Interior and exterior airport sceneswere filmed at Farnborough Airfield and the snowy closing scenes werefilmed at the Bruneval Barracks in Aldershot.

Shootingin Panama City began on 7 February 2008 at Howard Air Force Base. Thecountry doubled for Haiti and Bolivia, with the National Institute ofCulture of Panama standing in for a hotel in the latter country. Asequence requiring several hundred extras was also shot at nearbyColón. Shooting in Panama was also carried out at Fort Sherman, aformer US military base on the Colón coast. Forster was disappointedhe could only shoot the boat chase in that harbour, as he had a morespectacular vision for the scene. Officials in the country workedwith the locals to "minimise inconvenience" for the castand crew, and in return hoped the city's exposure in the film wouldincrease tourism. The crew was going to move to Cusco, Peru for tendays of filming on 2 March, but the location was cancelled for budgetreasons. Twelve days of filming in Chile began on 24 March atAntofagasta. There was shooting in Cobija, the Paranal Observatory,and other locations in the Atacama Desert. Forster chose the desertand the observatory's ESO Hotel to represent Bond's rigid emotions,and being on the verge of committing a vengeful act as he confrontsGreene in the film's climax.

Whilefilming in Sierra Gorda, Chile, the local mayor, Carlos Lopez, stageda protest because he was angry at the filmmakers' portrayal of theAntofagasta region as part of Bolivia. He was arrested, detainedbriefly, and put on trial two days later. Eon dismissed his claimthat they needed his permission to film in the area. Michael G.Wilson also explained Bolivia was appropriate to the plot, because ofthe country's history of water problems, and was surprised the twocountries disliked each other a century after the War of the Pacific.In a poll by Chilean daily newspaper LaSegunda, 75% of its readers disagreedwith Lopez's actions, due to the negative image they felt itpresented of Chile, and the controversy's potential to put offproductions looking to film in the country in the future.

From4–12 April the main unit shot on Sienese rooftops. Shooting on thereal rooftops turned out to be less expensive than building them atPinewood. The next four weeks were scheduled for filming the carchase at Lake Garda and Carrara. On 19 April, an Aston Martinemployee driving a DBS to the set crashed into the lake. He survived,and was fined £400 for reckless driving. Another accident occurredon 21 April, and two days later, two stuntmen were seriously injured,with one, Greek stuntman Aris Comninos, having to be put in intensivecare. Filming of the scenes was temporarily halted so that Italianpolice could investigate the causes of the accidents. Stuntco-ordinator Gary Powell said the accidents were a testament to therealism of the action. Rumours of a "curse" spread amongtabloid media, something which deeply offended Craig, who dislikedthat they compared Comninos' accident to something like his minorfinger injury later on the shoot (also part of the "curse").Comninos recovered safely from his injury.

For therole Craig trained to be less bulky than in Casino Royale and toldMen's Fitness magazine "‘In fact, I was much fitter for thisfilm compared to Casino Royale — I really had to be — and I wasrunning a hell of a lot more in training, just so I could do thesescenes, whereas last time I spent far more time pumping heavy weightsto bulk up so I could look big."

Filmingtook place at the floating opera stage at Bregenz, Austria, from 28April – 9 May 2008. The sequence, where Bond stalks the villainsduring a performance of Tosca,required 1,500 extras. The production used a large model of an eye,which Forster felt fitted in the Bond style, and the opera itself hasparallels to the film. A short driving sequence was filmed at thenearby Feldkirch, Vorarlberg. The crew returned to Italy from 13–17May to shoot a (planned) car crash at the marble quarry in Carrara,and a recreation of the Palio di Siena at the Piazza del Campo inSiena. 1,000 extras were hired for a scene where Bond emerges fromthe Fonte Gaia.Originally, he would have emerged from the city's cisterns at SienaCathedral, but this was thought disrespectful. By June the crewreturned to Pinewood for four weeks, where new sets (including theinterior of the hotel in the climax) were built. The wrap party washeld on 21 June.

Productiondesigner Peter Lamont, a crew member on 18 previous Bond films,retired after Casino Royale.Forster hired Dennis Gassner in his stead, having admired his work onThe Truman Showand the films of the Coen brothers. Craig said the film would have "atouch of Ken Adam," while Michael G. Wilson also calledGassner's designs "a postmodern look at modernism." Forstersaid he felt the early Bond films' design "were ahead of theirtime," and enjoyed the clashing of an older style with his ownbecause it created a unique look unto itself. Gassner wanted his setsto emphasise Craig's "great angular, textured face and wonderfulblue eyes," and totally redesigned the MI6 headquarters becausehe felt Judi Dench "was a bit tired in the last film, so Ithought, let's bring her into a new world."

LouiseFrogley replaced Lindy Hemming as costume designer, though Hemmingremained as supervisor. Hemming hired Brioni for Bond's suits sinceher tenure on the series began with 1995's GoldenEye,but Lindsay Pugh, another supervisor, explained their suits were "toorelaxed." Tom Ford was hired to tailor "sharper" suitsfor Craig. Pugh said the costumes aimed towards the 1960s feel,especially for Bond and Fields. Prada provided the dresses for bothBond girls. Jasper Conran designed Camille's ginger bandeau, bronzeskirt and gold fish necklace, while Chrome Hearts designed gothicjewellery for Amalric's character, which the actor liked enough tokeep after filming. Sophie Harley, who created Vesper Lynd's earringsand Algerian loveknot necklace in CasinoRoyale, was called upon to createanother version of the necklace.

The filmreturns to the traditional gun barrel opening shot, which was alteredinto part of the story for Casino Royalewhere it was moved to the beginning of the title sequence. In thisfilm the gun barrel sequence was moved to the end of the movie, whichWilson explained was done for a surprise, and to signify theconclusion of the story begun in the previous film. The openingcredits sequence was created by MK12. Having worked on Forster'sStranger than Fictionand The Kite Runner,MK12 spontaneously began developing the sequence early on inproduction, and had a good idea of its appearance which meant it didnot have to be redone when the title singer was changed. MK12selected various twilight colours to represent Bond's mood andfocused on a dot motif based on the gunbarrel shot. MK12 also workedon scenes with graphical user interface, including the electronictable MI6 use, and the Port-au-Prince, Haiti title cards.

Quantumof Solace was the last in Ford Motor'sthree-film deal that began with 2002's DieAnother Day. Although Ford sold over90% of the Aston Martin company in 2007, the Aston Martin DBS V12returned for the film's car chase around Lake Garda; Dan Bradley washired as second unit director because of his work on the second andthird Bournefilms, so the film would continue the gritty action style begun inCasino Royale.He had intended to use Ford GTs for the opening chase, but it wasreplaced by the Alfa Romeo 159. After location filming in Italy,further close-ups of Craig, the cars and the truck were shot atPinewood against a blue screen. Originally three Alfa Romeos were inthe sequence: but Forster felt the scene was running too long andre-edited the scene so it only looked like two Romeos were chasingBond. Six Aston Martins were destroyed during filming, and one ofthem was purchased by a fan.

Fourteencameras were used to film the Palio di Siena footage, which was lateredited into the main sequence. Aerial shots using helicopters werebanned, and the crew were also forofferden from showing any violence"involving either people or animals." To shoot the footchase in Siena in April 2008 four camera cranes were built in thetown, and a cable camera was also used. Framestore worked on theSiena chase, duplicating the 1,000 extras during principalphotography to match shots of the 40,000 strong audience at the realPalio, removing wires that held Craig and the stuntmen in the rooftopsegment of the chase, and digital expansion of the floor and skylightin the art gallery Bond and Mitchell fall into. The art gallery fightwas intended to be simple, but during filming Craig's stunt doubleaccidentally fell from the construction scaffolding. Forsterpreferred the idea of Bond hanging from ropes reaching for his gun tokill Mitchell, rather than having both men run out of the building tocontinue their chase as specified in the script, and the number ofeffects shots increased.

To filmthe aerial dogfight, a "Snakehead" camera was built andplaced on the nose and tail of a Piper Aerostar 700. SolidWorks, whoprovided the software used to design the camera, stated "pilotsfor the first time can fly as aggressively as they dare withoutsacrificing the drama of the shot." The camera could turn 360degrees and was shaped like a periscope. The crew also mountedSpaceCams on helicopters, and placed cameras with 1600mm lensesunderground, to cover the action. Forster wanted to film the planefight as a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Northby Northwest, and chose planes like theDouglas DC-3 to suit that.

Thefree-fall scene involved its own set of challenges, Craig dislikedthe idea of "being hung by wires and blown by a large fan infront of a green screen" but actual sky diving coverage hasserious drawbacks. It's not only difficult, dangerous andtime-consuming, but nearly always results in problematichead-replacements for close-ups. Stunt co-ordinator Gary Powell andVFX Designer Kevin Tod Haug, presented the idea of filming the scenein a large vertical wind tunnel in Bedford to do this sequence aspractically as possible. While a great solution for the actors'performances the technique presented enormous VFX challenges:relighting shots captured in a tall white tube to match the sky overthe Bolivian desert, and the impossibility of filming medium to wideshots of the actors. An array of eight Dalsa Origin cameras(supported by seven HD cameras and a 35mm hand-held camera, allrunning in sync) was used to create a virtual camera with which toshoot the actors floating in the simulator. Ged Wright and his teamat Double Negative developed a method to use the data from thesecameras that allowed these real performances to be placed in asynthetic environment as seen by a synthetic camera. During theshooting in the wind tunnel Craig and Kurylenko wore wind-resistantcontact lenses that enabled them to open their eyes as they fell. Forsafety and comfort, they only shot for 30 seconds at a time. Forsterwished he had more time to work on the free-fall scene.

TheMoving Picture Company created the climactic hotel sequence. The fireeffects were supervised by Chris Corbould, and post-production MPChad to enhance the sequence by making the smoke look closer to theactors, so it would look more dangerous. A full-scale replica of thebuilding's exterior was used for the exploding part Bond and Camilleescape from. The boat chase was another scene that required verylittle CGI. Machine FX worked on replacing a few shots of visiblestuntmen with a digital version of Craig's head, and recreated theboats Bond jumps over on his motorcycle to make it look moredangerous. Crowd creation was done for the Toscascene by Machine FX, to make the performance look like it had soldout. Forster edited the opera scene to resemble TheMan Who Knew Too Much. In total, thereare 900+ visual effects shots in Quantumof Solace.

DavidArnold, who composed the scores for the previous four Bond films,returned for Quantum of Solace.He said that Forster likes to work very closely with his composersand that, in comparison to the accelerated schedule he was tied to onCasino Royale,the intention was to spend a long time scoring the film to "reallywork it out." He also said he would be "taking a differentapproach" with the score. Arnold composed the music based onimpressions from reading the script, and Forster edited those intothe film. As with Casino Royale,Arnold kept use of the "James Bond Theme" to a minimum.Arnold collaborated with Kieran Hebden for "Crawl, End Crawl,"a remix of the score played during the end credits.

JackWhite of The White Stripes and Alicia Keys collaborated on "AnotherWay to Die," the first Bond music duet. They had wanted to worktogether for two years beforehand. The song was recorded inNashville, Tennessee; White played the drums while Keys performed onthe piano. The Memphis Horns also contributed to the track. White'sfavourite Bond theme is John Barry's instrumental piece for OnHer Majesty's Secret Service, and hewatched various opening credit sequences from the series forinspiration while mixing the track. Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse hadrecorded a demo track for the film, but Ronson explained Winehouse'swell-publicised legal issues in the preceding weeks made her "notready to record any music" at that time.

The filmpremiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 29 October 2008. PrincesWilliam and Harry attended, and proceeds from the screening weredonated to the charities Help for Heroes and the Royal BritishLegion. The film was originally scheduled to be released in the UKand North America on 7 November; however, Eon pushed forward theBritish date to 31 October during filming, while the American datewas pushed back in August to 14 November, after HarryPotter and the Half-Blood Prince hadbeen moved to 2009, thereby allowing the distributors to market thefilm over the autumn blockbuster Thanksgiving holiday weekend. InAustralia, the film was moved a week to 19 November, after 20thCentury Fox chose to release Australiaon Quantum of Solace'soriginal date of 26 placement partners from CasinoRoyale included Ford, Heineken,Smirnoff, Omega SA, Virgin Atlantic and Sony Ericsson. A reported£50million was earned in product placement, which tops theBond films' record of £44million for DieAnother Day. The 2009 Ford Ka is drivenby Camille in the film. Avon created a fragrance called Bond Girl 007with Gemma Arterton as the "face" of the product. Coca-Colabecame a promotional partner, rebranding Coke Zero as "Coke ZeroZero 7." A tie-in advert featured the orchestral element of"Another Way to Die." In the film, Coca-Cola was brieflyseen being served at Dominic Greene's party. Sony held a competition,"Mission for a Million," enabling registered players to usetheir products to complete certain tasks. Each completed "mission"gives consumers a chance to win $1million and a trip to a topsecret Limited made 5-inch action figures and gadgets (such asa voice-activated briefcase), as well as its traditional die-cast toyvehicles. It also created 7-inch figures of characters from theprevious films. Scalextric released four racing sets to coincide withthe film. Activision released its first James Bond game, also titledQuantum of Solace,which is based on both Casino Royaleand Quantum of Solace.It is the first Bond game to feature Craig's likeness and the firstseventh generation console game in the series. Swatch designed aseries of wrist watches, each of them inspired by a Bond villain.

Thoughthe screenplay did not get made into a novel despite its originalstoryline, Penguin Books published a compilation of Fleming's shortstories entitled Quantum of Solace: TheComplete James Bond Short Stories, witha UK release date of 29 May 2008 and a North American release date of26 August 2008. The book combines the contents of Fleming's two shortstory collections, For Your EyesOnly—including the original "Quantumof Solace" short story—and Octopussyand The Living Daylights.

Quantumof Solace was released on DVD andBlu-ray by MGM via 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in Australia,the UK and North America from 18 to 24 March 2009. At the DVD saleschart the film opened at No. 3, grossing $21,894,957 from 1.21m DVDunits sold. As of 1 November 2009, 2,643,250 DVD units were sold,generating $44,110,750 in sales revenue. These figures do not includeBlu-ray sales or DVD rentals. The DVDs were released in both astandard one-disc set and a deluxe two-disc special edition. Thereare no audio commentaries or deleted scenes on these editions.

Upon itsopening in the UK, the film grossed £4.9million ($8million),breaking the record for the largest Friday opening (31 October 2008)in the UK. The film then broke the UK opening weekend record, taking£15.5million ($25million) in its first weekend,surpassing the previous record of £14.9million held by HarryPotter and the Goblet of Fire. Itearned a further £14million in France and Sweden—where itopened on the same day. The weekend gross of the equivalent of$10.6million in France was a record for the series, surpassingwhat Casino Royalemade in five days by 16%. The $2.7million gross in Sweden wasthe fourth-highest opening for a film there.

Thefollowing week, the film was playing in sixty countries. It grossedthe equivalent of $39.3million in the UK, $16.5million inFrance and $7.7million in Germany on 7 November 2008. The filmbroke records in Switzerland, Finland, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria,Romania and Slovenia. Its Chinese and Indian openings were the secondlargest ever for foreign-language films.

The filmgrossed $27million on its opening day in 3,451 cinemas inCanada and the United States, where it was the number one film forthe weekend, with $67.5million and $19,568 average per cinema.It was the highest-grossing opening weekend Bondfilm in the US, and tied with TheIncredibles for the biggest Novemberopening outside of the Harry Potterseries. The film earned a B- from CinemaScore's audience surveys.From the British opening on 31 October, through to the US openingweekend on 14 November, the film had grossed a total $319,128,882worldwide. As of 10 February 2010, it had grossed the equivalent of$417,722,300 in countries other than Canada and the US, where itgrossed $168,368,427, to give a total of aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of65% based on 281 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10. Thesite's critical consensus reads, "Brutal and breathless, QuantumOf Solace delivers tender emotionsalong with frenetic action, but coming on the heels of CasinoRoyale, it's still a bit of adisappointment." On Metacritic, which assigns an average ratingto reviews, the film has a score of 58 out of 100, based on 38critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Criticsgenerally preferred Casino Royale,but continued to praise Craig's depiction of Bond, and agree that thefilm is still an enjoyable addition to the series. The actionsequences and pacing were praised, but criticism grew over therealism and serious but gritty feel that the film carried over.

RogerMoore, the third actor to play Bond in the films, said that Craig wasa "damn good Bond but the film as a whole, there was a bit toomuch flash cutting [and] it was just like a commercial of the action.There didn't seem to be any geography and you were wondering what thehell was going on." Kim Newman of Empiregave it 4/5, remarking it was not "bigger and better than CasinoRoyale, [which is] perhaps a smart movein that there's still a sense at the finish that Bond's mission hasbarely begun." However, he expressed nostalgia for the morehumorous Bond films. The Sunday Timesreview noted that "following CasinoRoyale was never going to be easy, butthe director Marc Forster has brought the brand's successful relaunchcrashing back to earth – with a yawn"; the screenplay "isat times incomprehensible" and the casting "is a mess."The review concludes that "Bond has been stripped of his iconicstatus. He no longer represents anything particularly British, oreven modern. In place of glamour, we get a spurious grit; instead ofstyle, we get product placement; in place of fantasy, we get aredundant and silly realism." TheGuardian gave a more positive review,rating it as 3/5 stars, and was particularly fond of Craig'sperformance, saying he "made the part his own, every inch thecoolly ruthless agent-killer, nursing a broken heart and coldlysuppressed rage" and calling the film "a crash-bang Bond,high on action, low on quips, long on location glamour, short onproduct placement"; it concludes "Quantumof Solace isn't as good as CasinoRoyale: the smart elegance of Craig'sBond debut has been toned down in favour of conventional action. Butthe man himself powers this movie; he carries the film: it's anindefinably difficult task for an actor. Craig measures up."

ScreenDaily says, "Notices willfocus—rightly—on Craig's magnetism as the steely, sexy, murderousMI6 agent, but two other factors weigh in and freshen up proceedings:Forster's new technical team, led by cinematographer Roberto Schaeferand production designer Dennis Gassner. And the ongoing shift of M,as played by Judi Dench, to front and centre: the Bond girls fadeinto insignificance as she becomes his moral counterpoint and theirsis the only real relationship on screen." The review continues,"Bond is, as has been previously noted, practically the MartinScorsese of the BAFTAs: 22 films later, with grosses probably closeto the GDP of one of the small nations it depicts, it's still waitingfor that Alexander Korda award. The best CasinoRoyale could achieve was a gong forsound. Will this be the year that changes its fortunes?" RogerEbert of the Chicago Sun-Times,who praised the previous film, disliked Quantumof Solace. He wrote that the plot wasmediocre, characters weak and that Bond lacked his usual personality,despite his praise for Craig's interpretation of the role. Throughouthis review, he emphasised that "James Bond is not an actionhero." Kate Muir wrote in The Timesthat "The Bondfranchise is 50 years old this year, and the scriptless mess ofQuantum of Solacemay be considered its mid-life crisis", before she went on topraise the film's successor Skyfallas a "resurrection". Some writers criticised the choice ofQuantum of Solaceas a title. "Yes, it's a bad title," wrote Marni Weisz, theeditor of Famous,a Canadian film publication distributed in cinemas in that country,in an editorial entitled "At least it's not Octopussy."

Not allthe reviews were as critical. Tim Robey of TheDaily Telegraph, in a reflective reviewof the film in 2013, was positive. He praised the film's shorterruntime, claiming that many other Bondfilms run out of steam before the end, and included CasinoRoyale in this category. Describing thefilm as having a "rock-solid dramatic idea and the intelligenceto run with it", he gave the film four stars out of five.

The filmwas nominated for Best Original Score, Best Original Song, VisualEffects, Film and Sound Editing at the 2008 Satellite Awards, winningBest Song. It was nominated for Best Action Movie at the 2009Critics' Choice Awards, and at the Empire Awards, which is voted forby the public, it was shortlisted for Best Actor, Best Actress, BestNewcomer, Best Thriller and Best Soundtrack. It was nominated for theSaturn Award for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film, while Kurylenkoand Dench were both nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award.An editorial by The Timesalso listed the film's pre-titles sequence as the tenth-greatest carchase in film history.

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