But the Olympics is a hugely important event for Britain and there is nothing so ultimately British in the world as James Bond, so tieing the two together makes great commecrial sense.
I think this is the key. To most people Bond = British and we need to celebrate all the positive things that the UK has produced over the years and God knows there's enough negative.
Bond is renowned the world over so to me it makes perfect sense to have him at something as huge as the opening ceromony at the Olympics.
But the Olympics is a hugely important event for Britain and there is nothing so ultimately British in the world as James Bond, so tieing the two together makes great commecrial sense.
I think this is the key. To most people Bond = British and we need to celebrate all the positive things that the UK has produced over the years and God knows there's enough negative.
Bond is renowned the world over so to me it makes perfect sense to have him at something as huge as the opening ceromony at the Olympics.
I just see shades of Margaret Thatcher at the end of FYEO!!!
Well, tonight's the night. We will discover if Daniel Craig's Bond gets knighted by the Queen and then abseils or parachutes into the Olympic stadium. Or discover that it was an April Fools joke all along?
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Well, tonight's the night. We will discover if Daniel Craig's Bond gets knighted by the Queen and then abseils or parachutes into the Olympic stadium. Or discover that it was an April Fools joke all along?
No joke, that's for sure. The official Olympic broadcaster itself has mentioned several times that the opening ceremony will include Bond as they've trotted out the only details they're allowed to reveal, and Chris Evans this morning said there's going to be everything from "dancing nurses, sheep, punk rockers and James Bond". He's definitely going to feature, we just don't know how quite yet.
I'm excited about it though, this is our chance to showcase the best of British to the world. Looks like the weather will hold too, a shower is forecast around 6-7pm but dry after that.
Well, tonight's the night. We will discover if Daniel Craig's Bond gets knighted by the Queen and then abseils or parachutes into the Olympic stadium. Or discover that it was an April Fools joke all along?
If the Opening Ceremony is from 9pm to Midnight do we know when Bond and The Arrival film comes on.
Is it at the beginning? Or is it towards the end when everyone has marched past and the lighting of the Olympic flame
cauldron at the climax or end of the evening?
I'm out at 9pm but should get in at 10.30pm so I'd prefer later-otherwise I'll miss it !
i'm hoping that danny boyle countryside stuff all goes well, then as things die down afterwards an aston DBS roars into the stadium, burns a great 11 down the start finish straight then tears the javelin field to shreads with a huge double doughnut powerslide, then bond can jump out and pop a cap in richard branson for his daft virgin ads, then walk calmly towards the queen who's stood with the olympic torch, chin the bint and with a deft handling of the dunhill unique, spark up the flame.
but in reality we'll just get huw edwards making it up as he goes along with many pauses cos the autocue has broken again.
A new article (but old news) from the Mirror claiming that three helicopters will swoop down the Thames river and under London Bridge before heading to the Olympic Park. Then to the strains of the James Bond theme Daniel Craig will drop into the stadium on a rope ladder. This will follow a short film from Danny Boyle in which Bond visits Buckingham Palace by Royal Appointment.
MT. It looks pretty certain to me that Daniel Craig/Bond will make an appearance at the opening ceremony but whether he drops in on a rope ladder is certainly open to debate.
If this happens it could challenge for the most incredible Bond moment ever... what a way for England to showcase its greatest 'export'...
A new article (but old news) from the Mirror claiming that three helicopters will swoop down the Thames river and under London Bridge before heading to the Olympic Park. Then to the strains of the James Bond theme Daniel Craig will drop into the stadium on a rope ladder. This will follow a short film from Danny Boyle in which Bond visits Buckingham Palace by Royal Appointment.
MT. It looks pretty certain to me that Daniel Craig/Bond will make an appearance at the opening ceremony but whether he drops in on a rope ladder is certainly open to debate.
If this happens it could challenge for the most incredible Bond moment ever... what a way for England to showcase its greatest 'export'...
They should feature Thomas the Tank Engine too in the opening ceremony, many British, as well as the internationals of any generation grew up watching that show. It would reminisce their childhood years of every human beings!
They should hire someone who would portray Sir Topham Hatt, bring in Ringo Starr or Michael Angelis for the narration, and the old theme song would be played in every speaker in the stadium.
The farm scene for the opening ceremony, it resembles Thomas the Tank Engine's island, that is Sodor. All they forgot is the windmill.
Well bugger me* if it was all almost all true! Fantastic stuff...although I was a bit disappointed that he didn't get knighted, but oh well...really good any way.
That just made my night ! Can't believe the Queen went along with it !!!!
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Oh that was fantastic! I was convinced "the sovereign" would be a double. I nearly dropped a steaming mug of tea in my lap to realise that really was Her Majesty The Queen! I wonder if there will be a reference in Skyfall? Amazing stuff!
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What a great moment for the British! We don't have a Queen here, but I could definitely see First Lady Michelle Obama doing something like that! Not nearly the same as seeing an actual monarch participating, but it would still be fun!
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Wow. Just wow. Our 86 year old monarch has one helluva sense of humour. Proud to be British.
Can't wait to see this. It comes on later tonight for us here in the states. Set up the TiVo to record since I'll be working. Just curious, how far into the Opening Ceremony does this take place (i.e. one hour, two hours etc...)
Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
Wow. Just wow. Our 86 year old monarch has one helluva sense of humour. Proud to be British.
Can't wait to see this. It comes on later tonight for us here in the states. Set up the TiVo to record since I'll be working. Just curious, how far into the Opening Ceremony does this take place (i.e. one hour, two hours etc...)
Would love to see it as well. If any of my Yank friends know, please tell!
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Wow. Just wow. Our 86 year old monarch has one helluva sense of humour. Proud to be British.
Can't wait to see this. It comes on later tonight for us here in the states. Set up the TiVo to record since I'll be working. Just curious, how far into the Opening Ceremony does this take place (i.e. one hour, two hours etc...)
Would love to see it as well. If any of my Yank friends know, please tell!
Here is the interesting backstory how the BBC did it
How James Bond whisked the Queen to the Olympics
By Nic Brown
BBC Director of UK Drama Production
Bond was at Her Majesty's service as the Queen joined the Olympic party
In this year of extraordinary events there was a week in late March of unseasonal glorious sunshine, when we basked in its early arrival and dreamed we might be set fair for summer.
That week, an extraordinary - surreal, even - event happened at Buckingham Palace when Her Majesty The Queen made herself available for a few short hours to appear in a film sequence alongside another British icon, James Bond, 007.
Although not a drama in the conventional sense, "Happy and Glorious", as conceived by Danny Boyle, has a gentle narrative which sets up the Queen's arrival at the stadium for the opening ceremony.
Her Majesty, Daniel Craig, our Brazilian schoolchildren (a nod to four years hence of course) and the corgis all played their parts impeccably and none of it would have happened without the extraordinary and tenacious Tracey Seaward who somehow fitted in co-executive producing these two films with her day job of producing the entire ceremony.
That was the very first element shot of two films - "Happy and Glorious" and "Isles of Wonder" which opens the entire worldwide coverage - that BBC Drama Production have contributed to the ceremony and which started with a brief phone call back in February.
Two short films for the Olympics? Directed by Danny Boyle? Sure, that didn't appear too tall an order and in fact sounded something of an alluring prospect. How difficult could it be?
Bold and exciting
The task had seemed surmountable as we sat in a small windowless room at Three Mills Studios in East London - then the base for the ceremonies team - and watched a computer generated/sketched visualisation of what Danny wanted to achieve.
It was bold, ambitious and exciting - everything one would expect from him.
Continue reading the main story
“
Start Quote
Neither of the films is long, but they are largely exterior and each is made up of myriad elements that needed a huge amount of planning and resources”
On that day in March, watching footage of the helicopter rising from the Palace lawn into an azure blue sky (even whilst noting the still thin spring foliage that would have to be improved on in post-production to become convincing summer) the auguries still looked good.
This was despite knowing that ahead lay the challenges of shooting aerial and marine sequences, complex coordination with action on the ground.
All of this in the centre of a city that, not easy to film in at the best of times, was heading towards a period of unprecedented sensitivity and security. Everything was possible.
Then came the weather. We all know about this summer - flooding, monsoon conditions, records broken, the jet stream that stubbornly refused to shift.
Neither of the films is long, but they are largely exterior and each is made up of myriad elements that needed a huge amount of planning and resources, as well as weather, to get right for our expected audience of over one billion people.
Permission to fly
If you are having to secure permissions to fly along the Thames, through Tower Bridge with two helicopters (never done before) or clear the river of commercial traffic you need to do so with several weeks' notice.
If you then find that over the dates you have picked the helicopter can't fly because of the low cloud or is grounded because of a bomb scare on Tottenham Court Road or the footage you do achieve is so utterly grey, damp and joyless as to be unusable, you have a big problem.
Daniel Craig with co-stars in the coming Bond film Skyfall
We had several of those days, with an immovable date in the diary that was racing towards us.
In the end we were lucky. Lucky that the cloud lifted and sun shone at the very end of the day at our second attempt at Tower Bridge (I will always remember producer Lisa Osborne sending me a sequence of stills through the day starting with a crew in wet weather gear, moving to a glimpse of blue sky and ending with glorious shots of two helicopters flying through the bridge as the sun began to set).
Lucky that there was just enough sunshine around - on the third attempt - to capture the beauty of the Thames in its early meanderings.
The look around the source itself, we have to confess, is the result of a lot generators, cabling and bulbs and lucky that there was a team who stuck with it through disappointment, frustration, the cold and the wet.
The result is the delivery of what I think are films full of warmth, joy, affection, wit, surprise and excitement and sunshine and which I hope played their part in a memorable night.
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I think this is the key. To most people Bond = British and we need to celebrate all the positive things that the UK has produced over the years and God knows there's enough negative.
Bond is renowned the world over so to me it makes perfect sense to have him at something as huge as the opening ceromony at the Olympics.
I just see shades of Margaret Thatcher at the end of FYEO!!!
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I'm excited about it though, this is our chance to showcase the best of British to the world. Looks like the weather will hold too, a shower is forecast around 6-7pm but dry after that.
If the Opening Ceremony is from 9pm to Midnight do we know when Bond and The Arrival film comes on.
Is it at the beginning? Or is it towards the end when everyone has marched past and the lighting of the Olympic flame
cauldron at the climax or end of the evening?
I'm out at 9pm but should get in at 10.30pm so I'd prefer later-otherwise I'll miss it !
Bleuville.
but in reality we'll just get huw edwards making it up as he goes along with many pauses cos the autocue has broken again.
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If this happens it could challenge for the most incredible Bond moment ever... what a way for England to showcase its greatest 'export'...
They should feature Thomas the Tank Engine too in the opening ceremony, many British, as well as the internationals of any generation grew up watching that show. It would reminisce their childhood years of every human beings!
They should hire someone who would portray Sir Topham Hatt, bring in Ringo Starr or Michael Angelis for the narration, and the old theme song would be played in every speaker in the stadium.
The farm scene for the opening ceremony, it resembles Thomas the Tank Engine's island, that is Sodor. All they forgot is the windmill.
(*not literally, thank you)
How James Bond whisked the Queen to the Olympics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19018666
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Can't wait to see this. It comes on later tonight for us here in the states. Set up the TiVo to record since I'll be working. Just curious, how far into the Opening Ceremony does this take place (i.e. one hour, two hours etc...)
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James Bond escorts The Queen to the London 2012 Olympic Games - BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW5abat5NEU&feature=share
Would love to see it as well. If any of my Yank friends know, please tell!
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"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Kick off at 21:00, Cmdr Bond appears at 21:26.
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heres the youtube link for our US pals and anyone else to see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0EtNLJS21o
enjoy
How James Bond whisked the Queen to the Olympics
By Nic Brown
BBC Director of UK Drama Production
Bond was at Her Majesty's service as the Queen joined the Olympic party
In this year of extraordinary events there was a week in late March of unseasonal glorious sunshine, when we basked in its early arrival and dreamed we might be set fair for summer.
That week, an extraordinary - surreal, even - event happened at Buckingham Palace when Her Majesty The Queen made herself available for a few short hours to appear in a film sequence alongside another British icon, James Bond, 007.
Although not a drama in the conventional sense, "Happy and Glorious", as conceived by Danny Boyle, has a gentle narrative which sets up the Queen's arrival at the stadium for the opening ceremony.
Her Majesty, Daniel Craig, our Brazilian schoolchildren (a nod to four years hence of course) and the corgis all played their parts impeccably and none of it would have happened without the extraordinary and tenacious Tracey Seaward who somehow fitted in co-executive producing these two films with her day job of producing the entire ceremony.
That was the very first element shot of two films - "Happy and Glorious" and "Isles of Wonder" which opens the entire worldwide coverage - that BBC Drama Production have contributed to the ceremony and which started with a brief phone call back in February.
Two short films for the Olympics? Directed by Danny Boyle? Sure, that didn't appear too tall an order and in fact sounded something of an alluring prospect. How difficult could it be?
Bold and exciting
The task had seemed surmountable as we sat in a small windowless room at Three Mills Studios in East London - then the base for the ceremonies team - and watched a computer generated/sketched visualisation of what Danny wanted to achieve.
It was bold, ambitious and exciting - everything one would expect from him.
Continue reading the main story
“
Start Quote
Neither of the films is long, but they are largely exterior and each is made up of myriad elements that needed a huge amount of planning and resources”
On that day in March, watching footage of the helicopter rising from the Palace lawn into an azure blue sky (even whilst noting the still thin spring foliage that would have to be improved on in post-production to become convincing summer) the auguries still looked good.
This was despite knowing that ahead lay the challenges of shooting aerial and marine sequences, complex coordination with action on the ground.
All of this in the centre of a city that, not easy to film in at the best of times, was heading towards a period of unprecedented sensitivity and security. Everything was possible.
Then came the weather. We all know about this summer - flooding, monsoon conditions, records broken, the jet stream that stubbornly refused to shift.
Neither of the films is long, but they are largely exterior and each is made up of myriad elements that needed a huge amount of planning and resources, as well as weather, to get right for our expected audience of over one billion people.
Permission to fly
If you are having to secure permissions to fly along the Thames, through Tower Bridge with two helicopters (never done before) or clear the river of commercial traffic you need to do so with several weeks' notice.
If you then find that over the dates you have picked the helicopter can't fly because of the low cloud or is grounded because of a bomb scare on Tottenham Court Road or the footage you do achieve is so utterly grey, damp and joyless as to be unusable, you have a big problem.
Daniel Craig with co-stars in the coming Bond film Skyfall
We had several of those days, with an immovable date in the diary that was racing towards us.
In the end we were lucky. Lucky that the cloud lifted and sun shone at the very end of the day at our second attempt at Tower Bridge (I will always remember producer Lisa Osborne sending me a sequence of stills through the day starting with a crew in wet weather gear, moving to a glimpse of blue sky and ending with glorious shots of two helicopters flying through the bridge as the sun began to set).
Lucky that there was just enough sunshine around - on the third attempt - to capture the beauty of the Thames in its early meanderings.
The look around the source itself, we have to confess, is the result of a lot generators, cabling and bulbs and lucky that there was a team who stuck with it through disappointment, frustration, the cold and the wet.
The result is the delivery of what I think are films full of warmth, joy, affection, wit, surprise and excitement and sunshine and which I hope played their part in a memorable night.
great job England! -{
There must be a few forum members with a bit of a "whoops" feeling after the cries of April Fool at the start of this thread. . . Hey Napoleon? LOL -{
This has fired me up even more for Skyfall (if that could even be possible).
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