Situated far away from the luxuries of the Atlantis Resort in a section of the island where few tourists ever venture, it’s not too far of a stretch for the section of the island to double as the remotest regions of Africa. On our first day on set, we visited two locations on Coral Harbour, where Martin Campbell ( GoldenEye) was filming, along with 2nd Unit Director Alexander Witt (“Resident Evil: Apocalypse”).

Besides the scenes in the movie that actually take place in Bahamas locations like Atlantis’ The One & Only Club, a neighboring island also doubles for Madagascar on the first leg of Bond’s mission. Atlantis, the main resort hotel on the island, is very proud of the country’s Bond resume dating back to Thunderball, with four other Bond movies having filmed there since. (The film will culminate with a sequence that Casino Royale‘s effects supervisor Chris Corbould says was his biggest challenge to date.)Ĭ and the newly launched James Bond Hype! was part of a select group of lucky journalists from across the globe flown down to the appropriately named Paradise Island in the Bahamas to get a first-hand taste of the Bond experience. Most of the interior shots of the Casino Royale, and the majority of the film, was shot in Prague, but the entire crew packed up and moved down to the Bahamas for three weeks of filming before they would return to Prague for a few more weeks and then finally finishing it all up at the famed 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios in England, where most of the previous Bond films had filmed. This Bond is more prone to be using guns, knives and more physical forms of combat. The film introduces Daniel Craig as the sixth James Bond, likely to be very different from the Bonds we’ve become accustomed to, because he’s tougher and grittier, unlikely to be using the type of high-tech gadgets given to him later in his career by Q.

(I know what it is, but I’m not telling!) Bond is then sent to Montenegro to face off against Le Chiffre in a high stakes poker game, which is where the movie picks up from Fleming’s original novel. (More on him later.) From there, Bond follows Le Chiffre’s trail to the Bahamas, where he first faces the banker in a game of poker, where he wins something that will be very familiar to long-time Bond fans. When the film begins, Bond has yet to acquire his 00 “license to kill”, but that will be introduced in a black and white sequence that opens the movie before he’s off to Madagascar on his mission to try to put a stop to a terrorist ring by finding and capturing Mollaka, played by Sebastian Foucan.

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