So either the guy with the yellow hat is a stunt driver, or someone who is clumsy on the ice and needs protection. I’m guessing the former, which makes me wonder if we’ll get an ice chase (perhaps a villain or henchman chasing this grown up girl?)
A solex agitator v.2 ?
Looks like the action (2nd) unit is gearing up. Remember when we were getting similar pics from Austria on SP before the snow had arrived? I suspect more of the same.
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Is it possible that the scene actually isn’t a flashback and rather Bond and Madeline have a child together?
I did think of that. To me, it’s a possibility, albeit an unlikely one. I think the scene will likely include a flashback to young Madeleine interlaced with an action scene in the present day, possibly ending with Madeline captured/dead.
Other than the B&W bathroom kill during the PTS for Casino Royale, has the Bond series ever employed flashback before? Am I just being dense at the moment? 
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The casting call explicitly said that the girl is going to play Lea Seydoux as a child…
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Leaning towards this as well at the moment.
Interesting that the location is so similar to where Bond found Mr White too. Thought they may have mixed it up slightly.
Ah, right you are! Thanks!
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We definitely did miss that one.
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That is a shame that it seems so similar. There hasn’t been a whole lot of variety in the Craig films compared with the earlier entries, unfortunately. What’s the over/under that Italy will be featured…again in Bond 25?
Tiny update from Baz…(scroll past all the Downton Abbey stuff) Looks like Jamaica IS going to be a filming location (
) and all the Norway stuff we’ve been seeing will apparently tie in with the pre-title sequence. It makes sense that a splinter unit would want to be heading to Norway as quickly as possible before the snow melts away… 
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Retired Bond lazing about Jamaica would be awesome. And I’d like to see beach/jungle in the Craigverse. I wonder if they’ll film at Goldeneye? That’s the big question.
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So, cold and heat… SPECTRE´s spectre looms wide…
But I really like the idea of CraigBond returning to DR.NO´s playground. Maybe Blofeld will not hide in Japan but on a tiny island called Crab Key.
As for the tidbit “the script´s still being rewritten” it gives credence to the whole complete rewrite rumor. A simple polish would have been achieved in time for the March start date.
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(Fingers crossed) “please no more Blofeld, please no more Blofeld…”
Jamaica is interesting. Quite tricky logistically so presumably some decent incentives being offered. I really think they must be aiming to film at Goldeneye too - would be too perfect not to.
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I agree, it would be the ultimate tipping of the hat. Would seem fitting for Craig’s last film.
I hope 25 will turn SPECTRE into an exposition…
Wow, got so excited that i’d seen Baz’s article first and posted… in the wrong thread, doh!
And of course you chaps are already well on the case…
If it’s PTS, then it’s sounding to me like they are indeed using the OHMSS coda as the pre-titles of Bond 25 (hey, i suggested it a few years back on the old forum 
).
Why? Because the location relates to Swann’s past (young Swann casting)…
Also it’s been rumoured somewhere that she’s not in the whole movie…
And finally it’s the PTS…
It all adds up in my mathematically illiterate brain to her quick demise being the story’s inciting incident, bringing Bond back to work in order to hunt down the killers.
Then again there’s significant filming in Jamaica…
Principal filming will take place in Jamaica and at studios in the UK. The latest version of the screenplay is still being written.
Again that also fits with a retirement scenario which undermines my theory above, perhaps?! Darn it!
Or maybe Malek is Dr No himself. It’d be a bold, perhaps pointless move to redo it. But maybe at last we’d see the un-filmed assault cause and giant squid. Not to mention a slightly more compelling fire breathing monster. All very doubtful, but fun to speculate!