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Buy Bond Cars GET THE BOND LOOK • ALL ABOUT SPECTRE The name is BOND“We wanted to be better than Skyfall” freecarmag.co.uk 1 This ISSUEweek 20 / 2015 It really is all about Bond this week and what a week this will be. SPECTRE is out and Free Car Mag has seen it. The film is brilliant, not least because there are some excellent chase sequences. This is also one of the few films where you really want the baddies' car. I mean, a Jaguar C-X75 is very sexy and so incredibly rare and all those black bad boy Land Rover Defenders Just in case you don’t know the plot, a cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. Then all hell breaks loose. Gunfire, tyre squeals, snappy dialogue, stunning set pieces and beautiful people. 4 Bond News Events Celebs My copy of 007 James Bond In Focus cost 3/6 in 1964 was a big 6 Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes disappointment when I read it many years later. Sean Connery 8 JBond Girls & Bond Baddies may have been on the cover, but inside, apart from the exciting Bond Girl pictures, there wasn’t much in the way of motors. Just 10 Snow Stunts in Austria one small colour picture of a Rolls-Royce Phantom III and a tiny 12 Night Time Stunts in Rome black and white slither of an Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger. 14 Back Seat Driver Paul Bond Hollywood So this special SPECTRE issue of Free Car Mag makes up for that. 15 Used Car Direct The Quantum Ford Ka James Ruppert 18 Buy a James Bond Aston Martin DB9. 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Unless otherwise stated competitions and promotions Web Design Spectre are not open to readers outside of the UK, please The Free Car Mag is published every Monday morning and is distributed free. see terms and conditions online. freecarmag.co.uk 3 News, Events & Celebs SPOTTED OUT AND Pinewood Studios December 4th 2014 Along with Daniel Craig, Mendes presented ABOUT SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond adventure the returning cast, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie The was set to begin production. Directed Harris, Ben Whishaw and Rory Kinnear as by Sam Mendes, produced by Michael well as introducing Christoph Waltz, Léa G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and to Seydoux, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci SPECTRE star Daniel Craig as James Bond 007. and Andrew Scott. Photocalls Mendes revealed Bond’s sleek new Aston Martin, the DB10, created exclusively for SPECTRE. Bond's Austria Heroines Photocall 7th And here is the ultimate January 2015 line up of modern Bond Daniel Craig, Léa girls, Monica Bellucci, Seydoux and Dave Léa Seydoux and Bautista are enjoying Naomie Harris. the winter sun in truly stunning surroundings. 4 freecarmag.co.uk Rome Photocall Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci always look well turned out and in the historic surroundings they added even more class. So just how can we look a little bit more like the hero and one of the heroines of Spectre? Get DANIEL CRAIG 1 Kingsman navy pin strip blue suit, the £1495 Mr Porter 2 Blue shirt (pack of 3),£30 M&S look 3 Suede lace up shoes, £48 Debenhams 4 Tie navy/brown £105, Turnbull & Asser 5 Pocket square, £12 Supernova Scarves 6 Omega seamaster 300 master co-axial with nato strap, £4170 MONICA BELLUCCI 7 Red dress, £95 Dress company 8 Black shoes, £34 Debenhams 2 1 4 3 5 6 7 8 freecarmag.co.uk 5 Bond Special SPECTRE DANIEL CRAIG IS BACK AS BOND AND WANTS TO MAKE A BETTER FILM BOND “What we’ve got here is a kind of creation myth For Daniel Craig, the target for SPECTRE was simple. at play,” says Mendes. “We are not adhering to “We wanted to be better than Skyfall,” he says. “It is as any previous version of the SPECTRE story. We simple as that. We didn’t have a choice; we had to be are creating our own version. Our film is a way of bigger and better. With Skyfall, we set something in rediscovering SPECTRE and the super villain, setting motion and we wanted to go a bit further with it and him up again for the next generation.” experiment a bit more.” “There’s a school of thought in the movie that says “Having SPECTRE in the film opens up lots of when it comes to national security, everything should avenues for us to explore,” the actor says. “Having this be centralised, that we should be almost entirely organisation allows us to be both traditional while dependent on surveillance and should let drones do also bringing in something very new.” our dirty work abroad,” says Mendes. “C questions In SPECTRE, the filmmakers were able to move a whether we need to send people out into the field. MI6 little closer to the Bond films of old. “We could work is, therefore, at risk; in particular the Double-0 section.” with a slightly different style from the other Bond Mendes says that SPECTRE recalls the classic Bond films I’ve done,” says Craig. “This film is very individual films in terms of the cars, the tone, the lighting and but also harks back a little to what has gone before in even the cut of 007’s suit. “Also, I wanted to get back the Bond films of the ’60s and ’70s.” to some of that old-school glamour that you get from those fantastic, otherworldly locations. I wanted to DIRECTOR push it to extremes.” Sam Mendes takes charge of his second Bond and promises a return to old values. Sam Mendes says, “Skyfall was an entirely reactive movie as far as Bond was concerned.” He continued, “In the first sequence he was pursuing somebody with all his old focus and drive, but he gets shot before the credits even roll and for the rest of the movie he is one step behind Javier Bardem’s character, Silva. You could even argue that at the end of Skyfall he has failed. He has not kept M alive, and though Silva’s death is a victory for Bond, there are other elements that are failures. Hence, with SPECTRE, I wanted to give him a chance of redemption.” 6 freecarmag.co.uk freecarmag.co.uk 7 Bond Special BOND Girls THEY ARE NOT LIKE THEY USED TO BE, MONICA BELLUCCI IS ALL GROWN UP AND LÉA SEYDOUX IS ALL ACTION. Monica Bellucci Bond encounters the beautiful widow Lucia Sciarra, played by Italian Monica Bellucci, an actress that producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli had tried to recruit in the past, denied only for scheduling conflicts. “We’re delighted to finally get her,” says Wilson. “She is terrific in the role.” Bellucci, meanwhile, says that she was delighted to finally join the series. “I said yes right away because I was very happy to work with Sam Mendes and to be part of this project,” she explains. “I have so much respect for the James Bond films in Léa Seydoux general because I think they are such a big part of cinema history. And I respect Another woman playing a pivotal role in SPECTRE is Madeleine Swann, who is so much all the James Bond girls; I think they are beautiful actresses and talented brought to the screen by French actress Léa Seydoux. “She’s a doctor and she’s a and it was very interesting for me to be part of this history.” strong woman,” Seydoux says of her character. “She is intelligent, independent and The character she plays is a seductive Italian woman who holds a number of she doesn’t want anything to do with Bond when she meets him for the first time. secrets. “Her Mafioso husband is killed and she risks the same thing happening to She’s not impressed.” her,” Bellucci explains. “When she first meets Bond she doesn’t trust him because As the story progresses, however, events force a change in their dynamic, she comes from a world where only corrupt men have the power. and their relationship softens. “She understands Bond very well because she “But the chemistry and the attraction between them is so strong and she has an insight into the world that he lives in,” the actress continues. “For his realises her feminine power over him. Then she trusts him. He saves her and she mission he needs to understand things from his past and he needs Madeleine gives him the information he needs.” She laughs.