Borrowed from Bond: The Abandoned Tomorrow Never Dies Stunt Used in Entrapment
In Kuala Lumpur, in mid-1996, Vic Armstrong stands beneath the Petronas Towers and looks up. He has a sequence in his head. Two figures —…
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Live and Let Die Bus Chase: A Bond Girl Turned Accidental Stuntwoman & How to Rig a Top Deck to Slide Off a Double-Decker Bus
Parked among Caribbean palms a few yards from the sea, a repainted double-decker London Transport bus — out of place on the tropical coastline of…
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Three Days at Jaws: How Laird Hamilton Brought Bond to the World’s Most Dangerous Wave
By the time Die Another Day went into production in 2002, James Bond had done almost everything. He had skied on snow — practically trademarked…
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Timothy Dalton’s Aston Martin: The Making of the V8 Chase in The Living Daylights
On 5 October 1986, in Vienna, Timothy Dalton was introduced to the world as James Bond. He stood alongside Maryam d’Abo — his Bond girl,…
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Weaponized Elegance: Engineering the Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5
“Beautiful on the outside, vicious on the inside — that was already becoming part of the formula.” — Ken Adam, production designer, Goldfinger It was…
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Burton’s Batmobile: Inside the Creation of Batman’s Iconic Supercar
When the Burton Batmobile reappeared in 2023’s The Flash, it didn’t race through Gotham or fire its afterburners. It just sat in the Bat Cave…
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GoldenEye’s Forgotten Motorbike BASE Jump Deserves More Respect
Everyone remembers GoldenEye for its bungee jump. It is the stunt that introduced Pierce Brosnan as James Bond: a sheer concrete dam, a silent fall,…
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Tom Sims, Apocalypse Snow — and the James Bond Stunt That Transformed Snowboarding
Before 1985, few people had heard of snowboarding. Then out came A View To A Kill, featuring James Bond shredding down a mountainside in Siberia….
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Bell-Textron Rocket Belt: James Bond’s Jetpack Never Quite Took Off For Military Use But Inspired The Ones That Will
In May 1964, Bill Suitor was about to become famous. Soon he’d make a legendary flight in a real-life jetpack for the latest James Bond…
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Method Studios’ ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ VFX Breakdown
Method Studios did a phenomenal mix of CGI and live-action for Terminator: Dark Fate in which the heroes are pursued by the Rev-9 Terminator while stealing a…
