GE’s Arecibo Observatory, puerto Rico was a fantastic real location, just as outlandish and epic as any of the grand sets from the heydays of Ken Adams.
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My guess is the Norway scenes will be filmed in the late spring, early summer. Ripe climbing weather. 
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For those keeping track, Rami Malek just won the Screen Actors’ Guild award for Best Actor (still the best predictor of the Best Actor Oscar) following his Golden Globe win. The Oscars are on Sunday, February 24th, and the production start date of Bond 25 the following Monday, March 4th. The timing couldn’t be more apropos if this is the route they’re going, and this route fits with their casting as of late (Oscar winners as baddies).
Looks beautiful. Could also be a stand-in for Tunisia (but probably isn’t if the Cadiz rumours are true).
I remember that Matera was a rumored location for a Craig Bond before. Tried to find out which one it was and found some more Italian newspapers reporting this. The Bond movie for which Matera was rumored before was QoS, btw.
Funny coincidence, just the other week I did the layout for an article on Matera for the magazine I work for (Matera is one of this year’s “European Capitals of Culture”) and while doing the image research, I thought that it would have made a great location. Looking forward to this, hope they use it this time.
Has been shooting location for many a Bible movie, but also for Wonder Woman…
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Do we know about this? Apparently rehearsals start this Monday. The rest of the article is also quite juicy - regarding Jamaica.
https://www.archivo007.com/index.php/noticias/bond-25/2831-arranca-bond-25-en-pinewood
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If the rumours of Seydoux’s return are true, I can envisage an early sequence where she and Bond are honeymooning or retired at Goldeneye. Would be funny - if not quite fitting - if a retired Bond were there to write spy novels.
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Filming in Jamaica, specifically Ian’s house, would be the ultimate Bond Easter egg.
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I stayed for a week at the resort there in December 2017. It’s a cool spot. No one was staying in Ian’s villa at the time so they let me walk through it and sit at his desk which was pretty wild. It’d be cool if they filmed there.
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Matera is definitely an interesting place, however… as much as I love Italy, there are 193 other countries in the world, for God’s sake.
Anyway, rumoured countries so far: Norway, Canada, Italy, Jamaica. United Kingdom for sure. Did I miss anything?
Cadiz, Spain.
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Back in 1989, after a summer of working in New York (I’m British), I went on a week long holiday to Jamaica. Before this place became a resort, it was just Blackwell’s home. No signage, no fanfare.
In fact, it was actually quite difficult to locate, but locate we did and I just snuck in to the grounds, and went for a wander. I took photos of the house, and then went through the undergrowth to the coast to see the gazebo and little private beach.
Definitely an amazing experience.
I cant imagine what it must be like now…! The resort website images notwithstanding.
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Craig’s Bond does love himself some Italy it would seem.
It’s all getting exciting !
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A return to Jamaica would be cool. But I’m afraid Italy will return for the millionth time.
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There’s always the chance it’s standing in for another location.
Kind of like the Doctor who can travel anywhere throughout time and space and yet spends 90% of his time in present day London.
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That only happened under RTD but, hey, why let the fact he left the series over 10 years ago, and his replacement has been replaced, get in the way of a bitchy comment.
Prove me wrong. Obviously 90% is an exaggeration, but the Doctor does disproportionately spend a lot of time In present day London.
He is friendly with the BBC budget department
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