27
Bond
hurtles along the
mountain road, a door missing from his
once pristine Aston Martin, while two Alfa
Romeos snake behind in pursuit. Daniel Craig at Pinewood Studios. He’s
may be the star but right now it’s the cars that are the man the fi lm industry – both here
commanding all the attention on screen. You can and abroad – turns to when it needs a car that
hear the audience gasp as an Alfa loses control can be pushed to its very limits.
and goes over the mountainside in a fi reball. It’s Kelly’s job to take the scripted plan for
It’s a classic cinema car chase, adhering an action sequence and work out how to turn
perfectly to the simple rule of action movies: the writer’s wildest ideas into a reality, fi rst by
exposition good, explosions better. calculating what’s actually achievable, then
But what’s it like to actually get a by creating the cars that will make it possible.
DESPITE THE FACT ASTONS RETAIL
AT £160,000, THE PRODUCTION
CREW NEEDED SEVEN OF THEM
car ready for a scene Speaking with the gruff London accent of a
like that? bloke who could probably strip an engine quicker
Well, the fi rst thing to than you can strip yourself, he continues: ‘In the
know is that a single, solitary case of the Aston Martins, they were engineering
car is nowhere near enough. cars that they’d been using for testing at the
Despite the fact that we’re factory. They are delivered to us and we start
talking of making modifications. For example, the Astons
Astons that retail use a lot of aluminium at the
at £160,000 front end, to absorb the
each to the impact of a road crash and
public, the protect the driver. That’s
production crew helpful in a real crash but »
needed seven of it was too soft for our needs
them. ‘I had a team
of 20 guys working for 10 weeks
to modify the seven DBSs for
Quantum of Solace,’ says Graham
Kelly of The Action Factory, based
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