A James Bond stunt driver crashed 007’s famous Aston Martin DBS into Italy’s Lake Garda today ahead of filming on the secret agent’s latest movie, ANSA agency reports.
The unnamed driver was taking the car on to the set of Quantum of Solace at 6am :local time when he lost control for reasons yet to be established and plunged into the picturesque northern lake.
Sky Italia TV pictures showed the car being winched from the water, with ANSA reporting that the stuntman – quickly rescued by firemen – escaped with only minor bruising.
A source said the car was the only one available for shooting.
Oops!
I’ll bet he was pretending to be Bond, James Bond, but forgot he was “making” a movie, and not “in” a movie.
So in the next movie, when Bond makes his escape in a Ford Taurus, you’ll know why.
They forgot to copy the features from an older model.
Where’s the car?
Pond… deep pond.
How utterly embarrassing.
Glad they found it since you only dive twice.
Oh well. Live and Let Dive…
What a shame
What a waste of a car
Hope that it is not a write off
mama mia!
Uh oh, he’ll be hauling Pussy Galore around in a rental car.
Well this week it going to really suck to be a certain driver.
What a cool job.
Pittey no video of the event.
Tragic, etc. When did the Aston Martin get re-named? It’ll always be the DB5 (that’s D B ‘five’) to me.
They can make more Aston Martins, but there are just a few BD-5J jets in existence, and only 1 is the “007” Acrostar. As soon as I win the lottery, I’m building one. The video is about 6 minutes.
Well, bring on the MiniCoopers !!!
Speaking of dry in Europe, the same people behind the tobacco bans are pushing for alcohol bans, with ‘second-hand drinking’ the driving force.
what movie set has one of anything? Time to get another A.M., or better yet film it and work it into the story somehow. That would be funny.
Well, it isn’t as easy as just “get another Aston Martin” the DBS is fairly new, still, production wise anyway. All the other examples belong to customers who have paid mega deposits and been on the wait list to get their cars, so the producers are scrambling for a replacement. It’s not as though you run to the dealship and pick one up out of stock on hand, and you can’t just tell a customer, sorry mate, had to take yours for Daniel Craig, it’ll be another 12-18 months for yours, would you like your $265,000 back?
Not quite the same now that Bond is back in the AM, the BMWs were a dime a dozen. Astons are a bit more limited in production and the DBS is the newest, ultimate model. Not many in the classifieds, used, know what I mean?. Hence the fact that YES, they really only had 1 for the filming. For the last movie they only had 3 DB9R prototypes, they were made to appear like the DBS which didn’t even exist at the time except on paper, all of which were destroyed during filming.