Bond Car Dives Into Italian Lake

The latest new Aston Martin commissioned for the 22nd James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, was en route through Italy to the Bond set when it veered off the twisty road and plunged into Lake Garda. The driver was able to free himself and swam to shore. The car was worth $250,000.

UPDATE: Robert Bernocchi of the Italian website badtaste is all over this and sent an English report before it happened:

Hi We just published a lot of pictures from the Garda Lake set of Quantum of Solace, currently filming in Italy (sadly it's bad weather!).

They just filmed some scenes in Siena (we linked a video where Daniel Craig climbs a gutter pipe!), and then they moved to Garda Lake where this week they filmed one of the most spectacular scenes of the
movie. It's a car chase along the Gardesana, a famous and beautiful road around the lake (which is the biggest lake in Italy), between Malcesine, Limone and Tremosine: they closed the road and mounted some cameras on some Aston Martins to do some camera car. The scenes involved 40 stuntmen (half Italian and half European stuntmen), six doubles of Daniel Craig, many Aston Martin DBS (we published a video
of the camera-car) and a Black Alfa Romeo 159 (a famous Italian Car), which was the Bad Guy's Car. The scene is described as the FIRST SEQUENCE of the movie - 15 minutes where we see a spectacular car
chase, a tremendous crash and then a gunfight. This scene is a Second Unit, directed by Dan Breadley.
They'll continue filming around Garda Lake until April 25, when production moves (with Daniel Craig) in Carrara until May 13. They'll film some important scenes in the very famous quarries of marble, with a flying camera (I think they'll use cables).

You can see many pictures from the filming (thanks to the newspaper Brescia Oggi) and some videos in this article:

We'll try to get more pictures soon!

See you
Robert

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