StageCraft: How ILM Built the Virtual Stage That Changed Production, Its Limits, and the Stages That Followed
ILM’s StageCraft is the realisation of a vision George Lucas had been articulating for years — a stage of the future in which the walls…
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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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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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Over the Edge: The Making of Moonraker’s Amazon Boat Chase
John Richardson hangs beneath a helicopter over Iguaçu Falls when he hears the stitching in his harness begin to go. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Below…
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The Bondola: Slapstick Takes the Wheel in Moonraker’s Venice Gondola Chase
A Venetian Gondola that transforms into a speed boat then a hovercraft — nicknamed ‘the Bondola’ — earned its title as Bond’s most ridiculed gadget…
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Liam Neeson, Not Sean Bean, Was Pierce Brosnan’s Biggest Rival for James Bond
Sean Bean almost became James Bond. Or at least, that’s the story that has followed the actor for decades after GoldenEye reinvented 007 for the…
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The Eurocopter Tiger in GoldenEye: Disentangling Reality from Fiction
In GoldenEye, a rogue Russian general and former Soviet fighter pilot steal Eurocopter’s answer to the electronic battlefield — the Tiger helicopter. The sleek, black,…
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The DB5 Before 007: David Brown’s Legacy of High-Speed Ambition
Before it became the lethal extension of a cinematic super-spy, the Aston Martin DB5 was a masterclass in Italian-inspired British engineering produced by a company…
