Wednesday 21st June 2006

Film crew wrecks three Astons

Casino Royale crew flips £165,000 car

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Aston Martin DBS

Hold on to your hat: we hear that three Aston Martin DBSs -- which aren't even on sale yet -- were smashed up in one afternoon by the film crew of Casino Royale, the 21st Bond film.

Fitted with pistons to flip them onto their roofs, the three £165,000 V12 cars were being filmed at the Millbrook Proving Ground near Bedford.

A source for the production crew said: "In the style of 007, our stunt driver walked away without a scratch."

Enough to make you weep?

[PhantomPH]

No there were not.

3 mules were flipped. Chances are they cost nowhere near £165k each.

Film budgets are high, but they are not mental. Most likely there are actually only 2 (at the most) fully finished DBS cars in the 007 'stable'. These are used for close and 'detail' shots. Every other car you see will be pared down to within an inch of it's life, before being trashed.

Think about it - you have to shoot a car rolling from a sensible distance...so why use a production-ready car? They use a mule with a DBS body on it. More often than not, they do not even have an engine in...and if they do, its not a hand-built full house production engine.

That story is total honk. I thought that when I read it in The Sun, as well.

P~

[PhantomPH]

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