Not completely destroyed, it seems…but it’s going to take a while to get it back into shape, I’m sure. It was one of the world’s largest sound stages, after all. (Not sure if it was the largest.)
The fire in the corrugated metal warehouse-like stage wiped out three different sets that had been transformed into Venice for several final scenes in the new Bond film Casino Royale.
One of them was a house that tilted into the water with the help of a complicated hydraulics system, which used four specially-made valves of which there are only eight in the world.
The valves had been flown into England under armed guard from America and production bosses were yesterday waiting to get the all clear to get onto the set to see if they had survived the fierce fire that took two hours to get under control.
The Beeb, I suppose unavoidably, can’t resist adding at the end of the article:
No-one would say if they had seen a short, bald man with a scar running down the right side of his face and carrying a white cat running from the scene on Sunday.
Update: it’s going to have to be demolished and rebuilt.
[tags]Pinewood, 007, Casino Royale, Daniel Craig, 007 sound stage[/tags]
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It’s funny, the enemies James Bond has. The last time the “007 soundstage” was demolished, it was destroyed by unicorns.
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