Daniel Craig clears up more Bond 22 rumours, confirms filming locations

Daniel Craig has cleared up yet more Bond 22 rumours on another interview on his PR tour for his latest film "The Golden Compass".

Amongst the tidbits included confirmation on the filming locations of Central America (read: Panama), Italy and perhaps Austria - which MI6 reported on a few months ago. Craig also said that action sequence rehearsals he started this week also included some weapons training, although no shots were fired!

Q: So has [Bond 22] started already?
Daniel: I started rehearsals last week.
Q: And...do we have a title for this Bond?
Daniel: Bond Twenty-two.
(Laughter)
Q: We heard last week that you got a villian with Matthieu Amalrie -
Daniel: Maybe. I'm the wrong source.

Q: And what would you say that this is going to be like in terms of the progression, six months after the last?
Daniel: It will actually follow on quite closely after the last story. That's in, sort of elements of what happened in the last movie are going to be putting over into this one, yeah.

Q: Was there a conscious attempt (on Bond) to sort of get back away from what Bond had become this sort of huge-budget. I mean, this was scaled down to be much gritter your picture than previous Bond movies.
Daniel: At two hundred million dollars it really was scaled down. Um - (laughter) the fact that the Bond movies are out, they were. They're great movies, I mean I've watched all of them they're really, they really work. But for me I wanted, my basis and what I kind of wanted is that I'm a fan of the very early Bond movies, the early Sean Connery's, Dr. No, and From Russia With Love and I wanted to put it back in that mold. And whatever you do, you know, these are Bond movies: there has to be an element of style, there has to be an element of something that's quintessentially James Bond about the movies. I could name any influence that's happened over the last thirty years that's influenced my decision and my feelings about Casino Royale, but James Bond is James Bond.

Q: Can you say anything about where you're going to be filming your Bond movie?
Daniel: We're going to start Central America, in Italy, maybe Austria. And Pinewood, obviously.

Q: Does Austria mean skiing?
Daniel: No.

Thanks to `Pierce - Daniel` for the alert.

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