Daniel Craig’s Leather Gloves Nearly Cost Skyfall’s Budget MILLIONS
2012′s ‘Skyfall’ was a landmark moment for the James Bond series, raking in over $1 billion (£800m) at the global box office, but if this new behind-the-scenes rumour is to be believed, Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes nearly squandered millions of pounds of potential profit… with a pair of leather gloves.
The story comes courtesy of documentary filmmaker Charlie Lyne who took to Twitter to share his story over two videos. Check them out below.
Here’s a story I heard about James Bond… [½] pic.twitter.com/3gtOdBeowO
— Charlie Lyne (@charlielyne) June 27, 2016
… split across two tweets because the video’s too long for Twitter. [2/2] pic.twitter.com/roJyMNxK6p
— Charlie Lyne (@charlielyne) June 27, 2016
He says he heard the rumour “at a party a little while back” from “a guy who worked on ‘Skyfall’”, so a pinch of salt might be necessary, however it does seem to bear up to scrutiny.
The story goes that Daniel Craig bought a pair of leather gloves while off duty on location one day and, bringing them to the set the next day, he suggested Bond should wear them in a scene.
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Sam Mendes agreed to keep his lead actor happy and they shot the scene. It’s the one where Bond visits the casino and fights a henchmen in a pit filled with Komodo dragons.
When they got the editing suite they realised that Bond wearing gloves ruined the entire the scene.
“Wait a minute,” an editorial assistant reportedly piped up in the editing suite, “The logic here is that the villain can’t fire Bond’s gun because it has a fingerprint scanner, but if that’s the case how was Bond ever going to fire it wearing gloves?”
He’s right, it’s a huge plot hole and one that would cost millions to reshoot.
Instead, the producers employed VFX boffins to CGI Bond’s hands so they look naked. Lyne points out a couple of close ups of Bond’s hands in the scene and he’s pretty accurate when he describes them as “ridiculously pudgy, Mr Blobby hands”.
Ultimately, they must have done a good job in painting over his hands as no-one noticed up to now, and the producers mustn’t have held a grudge with Mendes and Craig otherwise we’d never have got ‘SPECTRE’.
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